Candidates About

PORTUGUESE – ENGLISH

Scientific and technical translations
Native language Portuguese

EDUCATION
B.Sc. in Physics and Applied Mathematics (Astronomy branch)
from Universidade do Porto

TRANSLATION EXPERIENCE
I have translated 30 books for one of the major publishing houses in Portugal.
Subjects include: Medicine, IT, History and travel, botany, zoology, biology and
astronomy. I have a wide grasp of several Sciences along with everything related.
Over the last 15 years I have worked with dozens of agencies and clients
from every continent.

SELECTED PROJECTS
VistaTEC (Localization for one the world’s largest search engine) ;
gengo (more than 3 years serving as the Senior translator. Reviewed more
than 700 translation tests) ;
ZOHO Apps (localization of the ZOHO web applications) ;
ProInternational (courses, webinars, a magazine and other projects for an
adhesives multinational) ;
Pearl Linguistics (EU, NHS and uk.gov documents) ;
Protranslating: (editor during 3 years working on assorted technical projects) ;
OLAND (dozens of manuals for appliances, electronics, medical devices for
top Japanese corporations. I have also screened several translation tests.) ;
Xlated (spent one week in Rome working on an IT project for Anacom and
Hewllet-Packard) ;
JPD Systems (World banking) ;
Corporate Translations (IT) ;
Applied Language (Mechanical Engineering) ;
Voluntary work
TED (talks) ;
Amnesty International (urgent letters) ;
Celestia (space simulator) ;
Relevant experience in nonlinguistic
areas
IT consultant;

Programming skills in QBasic, XHTML, CSS, and PHP. Experience with CMSs
(Wordpress and Drupal).