Jelena Dimitrijevic

Curriculum Vitae PERSONAL INFORMATION Jelena Dimitrijevic Jelena Dimitrijevic Belgrade, Serbia ***-jelenaconsult.com Skype jelena.dimitrijevic.cpg LinkedIn https://www.linkedin.com/in/jelena-dimitrijevic-/ Sex female | Date of birth 09/04/1978 | Nationality Serbian (non-EU) PREFERRED JOB Computer linguist; NLP; Copywriting; Linguistic Analysis WORK EXPERIENCE March 2018–present Copywriter eSky Poland (Katowice, Poland, https://www.esky.com/) ▪ Writing quality SEO content in Serbian language ▪ Translation, generalisation and localisation of travel-related content (English to Serbian) Travel industry September 2016–March 2018 Language Editor United Nations Office for Project Services (Belgrade, Serbia, https://www.unops.org/serbia) ▪ Language editing of all the official communication in Serbian and English (website, projects, services, publications) for Communications Department International organisation November 2016–January 2017 Language Consultant (on a short project) *under NDA ▪ Data mining ▪ Semantic and morphological analysis of pieces of corpora ▪ Manual POS tagging and parsing ▪ Exploration of computational complexity of Serbian language Big tech January 2016–June 2017 Language Instructor Ilija M. Kolarac Endowment (Belgrade, Serbia, http://www.kolarac.rs/?lang=en) ▪ Teaching Serbian language courses to foreigners (A1 to C2 levels) Language teaching, cultural activities January 2014–present Editor, Journalist; Copywriter (part-time) Reci da d.o.o. (Belgrade, Serbia, http://recida.rs/) ▪ Editor and journalist for wedding magazine Reci da (all content) ▪ Copywriter for recida.rs (all content) Publishing industry June 2010–September 2015 Language Editor Adria Media Group (Belgrade, Serbia, http://www.elle.rs/) ▪ Editing and proof-reading for magazine ELLE Serbia (in Serbian language) Publishing industry July 2006–December 2009 Translator, Interpreter Vivid Marketing Studio (Belgrade, Serbia, http://www.vividresearch.co.rs/) © European Union,- | europass.cedefop.europa.eu Page 1 / 3 Curriculum Vitae Jelena Dimitrijevic ▪ Translation of reports and marketing analyses from Serbian into English language ▪ Interpreting (focus groups, meetings) Marketing research October 2004–June 2005 English Language Teacher Commercial High School (Belgrade, Serbia, https://www.trgovackaskola.edu.rs/ ) ▪ Substitute teacher (teaching General English to high-school students) Education (public) July 1999–present Language Editing, Proof-Reading (for projects, or full time) Numerous publishing houses, corporations, individuals, educational institutions (among them Megatrend University, Jefferson Institute, Klett, Bazar, Svet kompjutera, Banca Intesa, Holiday Travel Magazine, Intermex, Leo Commerce, Čarobna knjiga, Rubikon, Mladinska knjiga, Kurir-info, Press, Mobilni magazin, e magazin) ▪ Solely accountable Serbian language editor of textbooks (law, management, economy, public relations), newspapers and periodicals, corporate materials, poetry, fiction, reference books Publishing / education / corporate sector / NGO EDUCATION AND TRAINING October 2017–January 2018 Computer Linguistics University of Zagreb, Croatia ▪ One-semester course in Computer Linguistics with NooJ (prof. Kristina Kocijan) October 2008–June 2010 Master (General Linguistics) University of Belgrade, Serbia ▪ Two-semester courses during bachelor studies: Phonetics and Phonology, Morphology, Syntax, Semantics, Pragmatics, Computer Linguistics, Sociolinguistics, Psycholinguistics, Applied Linguistics, Cultural Studies, Social Ecology etc. ▪ Four-semester courses: Latin, English, German and Serbian languages ▪ Master studies courses: Language in Media, Discourse Analysis, Academic Writing etc. ▪ Additional courses taken: two-semester Japanese Language; Recent Developments in Syntactic Theory ▪ Average mark (MA): 8,67 (on 5 to 10 scale) June 2007; June 2008 Forensic Linguistics University of Novi Pazar, Pancevo, Serbia ▪ Two summer schools held by top experts in the field: John Olsson, Kate Story-White, Richard Taylor, as well as linguists Vesna Polovina, Zorka Kasic March 2008–May 2008 Serbian Language and Culture Course (for Language Editors) Serbian Language Standardisation Centre, Belgrade, Serbia ▪ Summer schools held by top experts in the field: John Olsson, Kate Story-White, Richard Taylor, as well as domestic linguists Vesna Polovina, Zorka Kasic PERSONAL SKILLS Mother tongue(s) Serbian/Croatian/Bosnian (/Montenegrin) Other language(s) UNDERSTANDING SPEAKING WRITING Listening Reading Spoken interaction Spoken production English C1 C1 C1 C1 C1 German B1 B1 B1 B1 B1 © European Union,- | europass.cedefop.europa.eu Page 2 / 3 Curriculum Vitae Jelena Dimitrijevic Macedonian B1 B1 B1 B1 B1 Italian B1 B1 B1 B1 B1 Spanish A2 A2 A2 A2 A2 Romanian A2 A2 A1 A1 A1 Turkish A1 A1 A1 A1 A1 Japanese A1 A1 A1 A1 A1 Communication skills ▪ good communication skills gained through years of cooperation with various companies and individuals Organisational / managerial skills ▪ leadership courses and trainings ▪ organisational experience: – organised informal Serbian language courses (for students of Nottingham University in Belgrade) – currently organising an informal Python learning group for linguists Job-related skills ▪ good command of social networks ▪ solid command of linguistic development environment software and corpus processor NooJ ▪ able to write basic programmes in Python 3 ▪ knowledge of SEO principles, techniques and tools Digital skills SELF-ASSESSMENT Information processing Communication Content creation Safety Problem solving Proficient user Proficient user Proficient user Independent user Independent user ▪ good command of MS Office (Word and other text processors such as OpenOffice and Solaris; Excel, PowerPoint) ▪ experience in translation programmes Trados and MemoQ ▪ familiar with content management systems JIRA and Wordpress ▪ familiar with photo editing software and graphic design programmes Driving licence B, clear ADDITIONAL INFORMATION Projects Certification Currently developing a transcription software for Serbian (a private project in Python 3) 1. 2. Professional interests Voluntary work Systems Psychodynamic Organizational Consultant and Executive Coach (Belgrade Society for Group Analysis) Analytic-Network Coach (dr Simon Western, president elected at International Society for Psychoanalytic Studies of Organizations)  Language and computers: computer linguistics, machine learning, speech recognition, AI  Sociolinguistics: language change, language and the Internet, language on social networks  Social networks, organisational analysis, leadership in networks As former president of NGO People to People Serbia (from January 2013 to September 2015) engaged in different areas of youth work; volunteered at Holiday Magazine during studies © European Union,- | europass.cedefop.europa.eu Page 3 / 3