Bio – Personal Profile

Professional experience by sectors

Translation and interpreting

Freelance translator and interpreter under a business ‘EMER – Tłumaczenia i Koncerty Iweta Kulczycka’ (Poland) and EMER Iweta Kulczycka Translation Services (Ireland), cooperation with:

‘Niuans’ Translation Agency, Gliwice, www.niuans.com.pl

  • Medicine and patient care
  • Legal acts, apostilles, notarial deeds, certificates, diplomas
  • Power engineering, wind turbines, Product Data Sheets, operation and maintenance manuals
  • Product and brand names, labels, product leaflets
  • Promotional materials, publications, advertisements
  • Texts and interviews to prestigious ‘TERAZ POLSKA’ publications www.terazpolska.pl

‘Translator’ Translation Agency, Gliwice, www.translator.com.pl

  •  Medicine and patient care
  • Veterinary science
  • Legal acts, apostilles, notarial deeds, certificates, diplomas
  • Technical translations

‘Biuro Inżynierskie 2’, A. i D. Oktawiec, www.oktawiec.gliwice.pl

  • Company management, auditing, quality assurance
  • Environmental Impact Analyses
  • Terms of Reference in public procurement procedures

Metso Automation Polska sp. z o.o. /currently Valmet Automation sp. z o.o./, http://www.valmet.com/about-us/contact-us/valmet-locations/pol-gliwice/

  • Public procurement procedures, required documents, certified translations
  • Dispersed control systems

The H.M. Górecki Silesian Philharmonic in Katowice, www.filharmonia-slaska.eu

  • Newsletters, website, publications of the Philharmonic – music, conducting, public relations
  • Translation services during the Grzegorz Fitelberg International Competitions for Conductors

Saint Gobain Construction Products Polska sp. z o.o., www.saint-gobain.pl

  • Construction products, insulation products, glass
  • Promotional materials, leaflets
  • Product Data Sheets, Material Safety Data Sheets

Cracow University of Technology, Cracow, www.pk.edu.pl

  • Architecture, urban planning (Faculty of Architecture, Institute of Urban Design, Institute of History of Architecture and Monument Preservation)
  • Scientific papers, speeches
  • Papers to ‘Cracow Monograph’
  • Papers to the 11th CTV Congress ‘Back to the Sense of the City’ 

Silesian University of Technology, Gliwice, www.polsl.pl

  • Chemistry (Faculty of Chemistry, Department of Chemical Organic Technology and Petrochemistry)

Police (questionings of English- speaking suspects and victims), Registry Office (weddings), District and Regional Court in Gliwice (lawsuits – divorces, labour law)

Maguire McClafferty Solicitors, Dublin (www.prawnik.ie)

  • Interpreting services – cases of personal injury, accidents at work, plant inspections, medical consultations

Translation and interpreting services for the Polish diaspora

Teaching

BRITAM School of Foreign Languages, Gliwice www.britam.edu.pl

  • English Language Teacher –  all age groups, all levels of English, including FCE, CAE, and CPE courses
  • Preparation of internal exams  (end-of-term exams, end-of-year exams)
  • Phonetics Expert –  teaching practical phonetics to school students

MIX Singers Association

  • Lectures in English – phonetics for singers – practical skills

EMER Iweta Kulczycka

  • English lessons for students of all levels with and without technological support (face-to-face, online) – my students are based in Ireland, Poland, Germany, and Italy

Music

DUAN – Irish Traditional Music Band www.duan.pl  (2005 – 2008)

  • Singer and frontwoman
  • Organisation of corporate events

KNOT www.witekkulczycki.com/projekty/knot , BABA YARGA www.babayarga.com (2016 – to date)

  • Singer in recording projects

Public Relations, Culture

Bureau for Public Relations and Municipal Promotion, Department of Culture, Sports, and Municipal Promotion, City Hall Gliwice, Poland www.gliwice.eu

  • Foreign relations – twin cities, diplomatic relations, organisation of visits of representatives of Gliwice abroad and of representatives of other municipalities in Gliwice, tourist information for English speakers, translation and interpreting services for the city authorities
  • Organisation of events – Days of Europe, Gliwice Spring, visit of Pope John Paul II in Gliwice, concerts and exhibitions
  • Publications, calendars, promotional materials, website  – public procurement procedures, proofreading, translations, negotiations
  • Office work

Education

1993-1998 University of Silesia, Poland

 Faculty of Philology, major: English  Philology, specialisation: literature and teaching

Master’s degree in English Philology

My MA thesis ‘Motifs of Music in Irish Literature’ was published by Irish Polish Society, Poznań, Poland

University College Galway, Ireland

University College Galway – TEMPUS grant: European Life and Institutions, Irish Literature and Culture

1989 – 1993 Secondary School No. 2 in Gliwice, Poland

Leaving Certificate with honours, individual education programme in English

Other info

Skills

  • Very good practical knowledge of Microsoft Office
  • Excellent communication skills
  • Experience in public appearances both in English and Polish – interpreting, public relations, performing, teaching, and lecturing
  • Fast learner, motivated and enthusiastic
  • Diligent and result-oriented
  • Holding a B category driving license

Interests

  • Photography
  • Music
  • Literature – avid reader of prose and poetry
  • Handicraft 
  • Travelling