Dutch Translator – Pia Scheffers

CURRICULUM VITAE PIA SCHEFFERS

Full name:           Pia Scheffers

Country:              Netherlands

EDUCATIONAL BACKGROUND

1972 -1980:        Grammar School The Hague, graduated in 1980

Subjects: Dutch, English, French, German, Greek,

Latin, History, Geography

1980 -1988:        Study Translation Sciences English/Dutch (German

third language) in Amsterdam, graduated in 1988

WORKING EXPERIENCE

1988 -1994:        Working for translation Bureau WTS in Zeist:

translation of English and German texts into Dutch,

the texts covered a wide range of subjects:

financial, business, advertising, pets industry etc.

1994 -1696:        Working for PRISMA  dictionaries English/Dutch

Publisher: Het Spectrum

1994 -1998:        Working for Film Magazine Preview in Amsterdam

Editing/correcting Dutch texts about film

1998 –2010:       Working (part time) for Media Research

Company Synovate (website emsfeed.com) in

Amsterdam:

Translation of English texts (mainly questionnaires)

into Dutch; email handling and editing Dutch texts.

The texts cover subjects like marketing, mobile phone

industry, financial business, launching of new products etc.