Julie Turconi
Freelance Translator

Based in Montreal (Quebec)
Phone: 514-257-6162
Email: unicjuly*gmail.com (where * = @)

Direct links to CV sections:
Experience, Skills, Academic Background,
Energy healing and Artistic activites

Experience

Proficient in French and English, deadline-oriented, accountable, professional

  • Since 2006: Self-employed worker – Translation and copyediting (Montreal)

Key clients over the years:
Storytellers of Canada / Conteurs du Canada
Brand Momentum
Consumer Impact Marketing Ltd
Traduction Sans Frontières/Translation Without Frontiers

Transperfect Linguist Certification Program – expertise in branding/marketing and communication (general, advertising)
  • 2006 and 2011: Advisory committee member for the Conseil des Arts et des Lettres du Québec (Montreal)
    Assessment of grant applications – Literature and storytelling
  • 2005: Client Operation Coordinator – Consumer Impact Marketing Ltd (Montreal)
    In charge of the translation in situ: marketing and advertising documents, training binders, presentations, etc.
  • 2004: Copywriting, translation and copyediting (Montreal)

Key clients:
Softitler Canada – movie subtitling (DVDs and videos)
Station Marketing, communication agency – copywriting and copyediting (English)
Sobeys – Advertising proofreader (temporary contract)
  • 2003/2004: Tourism industry (Montreal)

Olympic Installation Board – Group guide
Quebec Ski Area Association – "Expérience Maneige" Tour
Old Port of Montreal Inc.– Bilingual tour guide
Canadian Karate Championships – Voluntary work (Laval)
  • 2002: Tourism (Australia) – work experience with a report on "Aboriginal cultural tourism in Australia"

Dreamtime Safaris/Bodeidei Camp, Arnhem Land, Northern Territory
Kimberley Wilderness Adventures, Western Australia
  • 2001: Voluntary work (Quebec)

Youth Hostel in Tadoussac
Agence de guide faunique en éco-tourisme d'aventure Alain Landry (Sainte-Rose-du-Nord)
  • Before 2001: Various jobs in France: sales, tutoring, voluntary work (press box team in Bordeaux during the soccer World Cup), summer job at Mc Donald's
Skills
  • Languages:

Bilingual – French (native language) and English (fluent)
Basic knowledge in Spanish and Italian
  • Computer knowledge:

Word, Excel, PowerPoint
Internet, Dreamweaver (site management), Illustrator, Paint Shop Pro
Academic Background
  • 2002: Tourism school E.F.H.T.: "Certificat Supérieur de Tourisme" – Paris, France
  • 1998: University of Bordeaux III: Master's degree in foreign languages (Trade and business option) – Bordeaux, France
  • 1993: Jean Moulin High Scool: French equivalent to G.C.E. A-level (Sciences) – Langon, France
Energy healing
  • 2011 & 2012 - Jianshen Qi Gong workshops:
    Ba Duan Jin (The 8 Section Brocade) under the guidance of professors Ma Yongzhi and Zeng Weihong, from China (Jianshen Qigong Association - Sports Bureau of China);
    Wu Xin Qi (The 5 Animals) under the guidance of Olivier Meunier from the Institut de Qigong du Québec;
    Yi Jin Jing (Muscle and Tendon Change Classic) under the guidance of professors Cui Jian Laoshi, from China (Jianshen Qigong Association - Sports Bureau of China).
  • Spring 2011: Quantum Touch energy healing workshop - second level (Toronto)
    Under the guidance of Mr Richard Gordon, founder of Quantum Touch.
  • Spring 2010: Love Energetics training (Montreal)
    Under the guidance of Mr Yvon Dubé, certified Naturotherapist and Quantum Touch instructor.
  • Autumn 2009: Biopratique training - first level (Montreal)
    Under the guidance of Sylvain Alarie, Chiropractor, and Rachelle Paquette, Naturotherapist and Biopractitioner.
  • Summer 2009: Qi gong retreat (in St-Calixte, Lanaudière): qi gong (golden ball), taijiquan and meditation
    Under the guidance of Céline Gagné, Chinese medicine therapist and qi gong teacher.
  • 2009: Quantum Touch energy healing workshop - first level (Sherbrooke) : breathing techniques and qi amplification
    Under the guidance of Mr Yvon Dubé, certified Naturotherapist and Quantum Touch instructor.
  • 2009: Seasonal Therapeutic Qi Gong workshops, based on the five seasons of the traditional Chinese medecine (Montreal)
    Under the guidance of Céline Gagné, Chinese medicine therapist and qi gong teacher.
  • Since 2008: qi gong classes (Montreal), as a complement to martial arts (karate) training (since 2002)
    2008-2009 : Qi gong and Taijiquan (Yang style) with Nicolas Pelletier, Ac.
    2009-2010 : Zhineng Qigong with Olivier Meunier, Ac.
Artistic activities
  • Storytelling and poetry:

- Storyteller: festivals en France and Quebec, coporate storytelling, private and public events, etc. since 2002
- Poetess: participation in a short film directed by Robert Lepage and Pedro Pires in April 2010, with the reading of two of my poems (Catharsis and Petite mort - © Julie Turconi).
- Involvment: vice-president of the Productions Cormoran since 2004 (organization of storytelling events in Montreal), ex-Quebec French representative for the national association Storytellers of Canada / Conteurs du Canada, ex-president of the Regroupement du Conte au Québec, member of the Regroupement Arts et Culture Rosemont-Petite-Patrie.

- Photography: solo exhibition, « Fractales - Visual Haïkus », in gallery, bars/restaurants throughout Quebec since Spring 2010
- Drawing: solo exhibition of my charcoal drawings, "Sens et essence", since January 2011 in Quebec, and publication of my Intimacy collection of charcoal drawings to illustrate « Histoires chaudes pour nuits froides » (Quebecor and Québec Loisirs editions) in 2009
- Painting: group exhibitions since February 2010
  • Literature:

- Quebecor editions: short story collections "À deux" in 2006 and "Histoires chaudes pour nuits froides" in 2009, with my own charcoal drawings.
- Writer of short stories and poems, some of them awarded (Arts et Lettres de France 2004 and other awards), and published in various literary magazines (both in France and Canada)
- One text in the anthology of short stories "Femmes amoureuses" (éditions Blanche, Paris – 2004), then in "Ooh La La!" (Thunder’s Mouth Press, New York – 2005)
  • Martial arts :

- Karate since 2002 (shitoryu and shotokan styles – member of the Association de Karaté Shotokan); Qi gong (weekly lessons, seminars and retreats) and Taï chi chuan introduction (Yang style); wing chun (Chinese martial art).

  • Travels:

- Long stays (or living) in Australia, Canada and France
- Short stays: Scotland, Italia, Croatia, Iceland, USA, La Réunion, Kenya, Morocco, Egypt, Seychelles, Ireland, etc.

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