Laura User

Provide professional voice recordings for enterprise clients and language apps, delivering clear native Italian narration and localization assets for digital products.

Recorded Italian lessons and final edited voice content for an online language app, contributing to curriculum mapping and audio course production.

Freelance proofreading and content writing for varied clients, ensuring grammatical accuracy and style consistency across English and Italian materials.

Freelance marketing and investor relations support for a hedge fund, producing investor communications and coordinating outreach activities.

Volunteered as an English-to-Italian translator for a charity, producing accurate translations for communications and outreach materials.

Provided one-to-one Italian instruction to foreign students, tailoring lessons to proficiency levels and exam preparation needs since 2017.

Taught Italian to groups as a class teacher for an online language school, improving learner engagement and course completion rates through structured lessons.

Managed marketing and investor relations for a hedge fund, overseeing investor communications and supporting fundraising initiatives from 2013 to 2017.

Worked in investor relations at Lloyds, supporting investor communications and reporting between 2011 and 2013.

Served as an investor relations executive at HSBC, coordinating investor queries and assisting with financial communications in 2011.

Office manager and senior assistant to the CEO, supporting executive administration and office operations from 2008 to 2010.

Provided PA support to the CIO at a hedge fund, managing schedules, communications, and administrative tasks from 2004 to 2008.

Worked as a teacher assistant through London agencies, supporting classroom activities and student learning in early 2002.

Handled marketing and public relations for Imola motorsport events, supporting Formula 1 and Superbike promotion in 2000–2001.

Delivered A-level English and French instruction as an external teacher during summer sessions in 1998.

Taught and assisted in primary/secondary classrooms in Helsinki under the Socrates program, supporting language instruction in 1997–1998.

Completed the 'Exploring the world of English Language Teaching' course from Cambridge Assessment English.

Awarded a Master in Anthropology and Fundaments of Cultural Science.

Activities and societies: Private tutoring; translation work

Completed a Bachelor Honours degree in Languages and Literature of Foreign and Modern Languages focusing on English, French and Italian.

Completed secondary education at a linguistic high school in Ancona, Italy.

Attended study at Brown University in Providence, Rhode Island (language-related studies noted).

Completed a course titled 'Anthropology of Social Media' at UCL.

Activities and societies: Classroom teaching and assistant duties

One-year placement as teacher and teacher assistant in Helsinki under the Socrates program sponsored by the European Community.

Obtained D.E.L.E. diploma certifying Spanish language proficiency through Instituto Cervantes in London.

Studied English language at an international language school in San Diego, USA.

Activities and societies: Online and practical teaching components

Completed a 150-hour Advanced TEFL certification for teaching English as a foreign language.