Matej Škaro

MA T E J Š K A R O FREELANCER PERSONAL PROFILE An experienced English teacher and translator with lots of transferable educational, interpersonal and digital skills. I am a quick learner, as well as a successful mediator and problem-solver, who is looking for a career change and is not afraid to dive into a new field and fully commit himself. INTERESTS creative writing, copywriting and editing digital marketing and SEO computational linguistics racket sports, martial arts, traveling, reading and pub quizzes WORK EXPERIENCE ENGLISH TEACHER Ksaver Šandor Đalski elementary school, Donja Zelina, 2015 - Present I have more than 5 years of teaching experience in various elementary schools, a high school and a foreign language school. I also hold individual and group English tutoring lessons, both for conversational and business needs. TRANSLATOR Translation Experts Ltd., Zagreb, 2011. machine translations, translating software salesman and developer I have also done various freelance translations from English to Croatian and vice versa, as well as proofreading and editing. OTHER OSF Undergraduate Exchange Program, Istanbul - internship and conference coordinator, guidance counselor for future scholarship fellows front desk clerk at a dormitory in Eau Claire, WI, USA EDUCATION Online learning The Complete Digital Marketing Course - 12 courses in 1 (Daragh Brown) CAPM - Certified Assistant for Project Management (Joseph Phillips) The Complete Web Developer in 2019: Zero to Mastery (Andrei Neagoie) Learn Python 3 The Hard Way (Zed A. Shaw) Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences, University of Zagreb CONTACT Stara Peščenica I. 45, 10 000 Zagreb Croatia-- mag. edu. of English language / Masters degree in linguistics thesis: Diachronic studies in conceptual metaphor: Human emotion in language areas of interest: cognitive and computational linguistics, translating and language teaching University of Wisconsin - Eau Claire, USA one-year scholarship funded by the Open Society Foundations majors: political science, international relations; additional courses in communicology community service component - volunteering at a local soup kitchen and YMCA Sesvete gymnasium SKILLS LANGUAGES Croatian - native level English - fluent level German - basic level DIGITAL Microsoft Office - intermediate level online corpus databases - experience from college thesis research, linguistic research projects and classes in computational linguistics digital marketing - Facebook advertising, Google Ads - basic level Google Analytics, Wordpress - basic level copywriting, SEO, social media marketing - basic level Python, HTML, CSS, JavaScript - beginner level ORGANIZATIONAL AND COMMUNICATIVE SKILLS experience in managing and coordinating variously-sized groups of people created and hosted various workshops for the academic advancement of young adults, as well as for the Red Cross Youth DRIVER'S LICENCE AM, B, F and G categories pleasure craft operator