Contact Data
Education & Qualifications
Skills
- Translation,
editing and original content writing
- Software
localisation, internationalisation and testing
- Source
languages: English and Spanish
- Target
language: Brazilian Portuguese
Specialisations
- Football
(soccer)
- Business/finance
- Economics
- Education
- Marketing/tourism
- Videogames
- Information
technology
- Game localisation
- Politics/world
affairs
Recent Work Experience
- Brazilian
Portuguese lead translator, editor and team coordinator for arguably the
world's most popular football website. Since August 2009, more than 100,000
words either translated or edited per month. Current responsibilities also
include selecting professionals suited for the job, as well as monitoring their
work and dismissing any translators who do not perform according to the
standards desired.
- Transcreation
and consultancy for a major software house as part of adapting and rewriting
the whole in-game commentary for a football videogame. The title was released
in Brazil in late 2010 and received critical acclaim.
- Localisation of a hugely popular strategy game aimed at social networks, followed by testing
and troubleshooting.
- Localisation
of a major football portal comprising the official websites of several
top-class football players. The job also involved interviews, editing and
writing of original material such as match reports and analyses.
- Translation
of a bimonthly volleyball magazine produced by the game's international
governing body.
- Hundreds
of time-sensitive press releases translated for a media agency in over three years, in industries
as diverse as IT, tourism, finance and the media.
- Countless
other translation jobs have been delivered for dozens of clients from numerous
countries around the world over the past decade. Details can be provided upon
request. Documents and subject matters have included agreements, formal
correspondence, petitions, appeals and other documents related to sports law
and resolution of disputes between football clubs, as well as resumes of football
players and football-related websites; linguistic consultancy and written
translations for leading football clubs, football players, and player agents;
specification sheets, marketing material, correspondence, HR presentations, and
institutional documents for a leading US-based computer manufacturer; financial
statements and annual reports for different companies of varied sizes and
industries; instruction manuals; documents concerning politics and social
sciences; press releases in general; translations for a major betting website,
most of them football match previews; Microsoft-related manuals and help files;
marketing brochures for a large Swedish-based car manufacturer; a critical care
nursing book; mechanical engineering instructions; a website devoted to the
acquisition of a major European bank; technical manuals involving mechanical
and electrical engineering; marketing material for a sportswear company;
questionnaire answers given by Brazilian Portuguese respondents; a construction
industry magazine; human resources documents; valve usage instructions;
SAP-related training modules; brochures, websites and product specifications
for a producer of language learning solutions, as well as many follow-up PR
articles; transcription and subtitling of videos; a technology architecture
management project; a monthly corporate news brochure; banking scripts,
templates, correspondence and marketing texts; interface messages; diverse
material related to a major football competition, including travel hints and
player profiles; the official website of a major football competition;
marketing brochures for a major global travel distribution system; healthcare
questionnaires aimed at patients suffering from HIV/AIDS, erectile dysfunction
and compulsive eating disorder; marketing copy assignments for a major cruise
line; an online payments system; re-creation work involving adapting almost 100
tag lines for one of the world’s biggest sport apparel manufacturers; Excel
files containing strings for a billing/banking software program; a weekly
newsletter for a major multinational fund management company; reports for a
multinational pharmaceutical company; documentation for an account management
provider; a banking software program; monthly assessment reports for a US-based
investment consulting firm; a marketing brochure for a suite of biometric
technology products; and lengthy pharmaceutics study protocols.
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