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:
Éditions Liber (articles for the Reader's Digest magazine, Selection)
Storytellers of Canada / Conteurs du Canada (National Arts Service Organization)
Brand Momentum (Marketing and Sales Outsourcing)
Consumer Impact Marketing Ltd (Marketing and Sales Outsourcing)
Traduction Sans Frontières/Translation Without Frontiers (Translation agency)

Transperfect Linguist Certification Program – expertise in branding/marketing and communication (general, advertising)
  • Since 2014: member of the Conseil des Arts de Montréal's Literature and storytelling committee
  • 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.
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, charcoal drawing, painting, ink and mixt techniques. Solo and Group exhibitions since 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 (member of the Association de Karaté Shotokan)
- Qi gong (weekly lessons, seminars and retreats) since 2008
- Tai Ji Quan since 2013
- Wing chun from 2012 to 2013
  • 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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