Translation
I translate software, help, documentation, and Websites from English and Portuguese (European and Brazilian) into Spanish, in the IT, hardware and automotive fields.
I'm a registered user of SDL Trados 2007, SDLX, Déjà Vu X, memoQ 4.0 and dtSearch. I also use open source tools, like OmegaT and Poedit.
Professional Experience
March 1999 to date
Freelance software localizer and technical translator, working mostly on
websites and software localization (for companies like Microsoft,
Macromedia, Adobe, Sonic, Pinnacle), translation of automotive repair
manuals (for companies like Ford, Toyota, Jaguar, Yamaha, Mitsubishi and
Suzuki), and translation of hardware guides (for companies like
Hewlett-Packard) through many worldwide agencies and organizations, including
Academy Translation Services, Accent Språkservice, Action Aid, Adapt, Adaptext,
Aplomb, Auto.NET, BCN Localize,
Berlitz Spain, Bowne Global Solutions,
Caleidos, Cognibridge, Encouv, GFT Iberia Solutions, ITP Europe, ITR, Lernout & Hauspie Spain,
Linux Professional Institute, Lionbridge, LinguaGraphica, Logoscript, Jonckers,
MSS, Obeda, Oxford Diffraction, RS_Globalization, RTVE, Rubric, Softloc, TekTrans,
Treeloc, Uniscape, Universidad Rey Juan Carlos, USText, Van Holm Vertaalbureau,
and Xerox.
During the last few years I have also been Lionbridge's (freelance) SME (subject matter expert) for the localization of Visual Studio into Spanish.
1995-1999
Software localizer, engineer and project manager at Lexitrans S.A.
(later Lernout & Hauspie Spain). During this period, I worked mostly on
Microsoft projects, including
Excel 95, Schedule+ 95, Word 95,
Internet Explorer 2.0 & 2.1 for Windows 3.1, NetShow 1.0, Exchange 4.0,
Windows OSR2, Visual FoxPro 5.0, FrontPage 98, Office 97 VBA for Mac,
Windows CE, NetShow 3.0,
Visual Studio 6.0 (Visual Basic, Visual SourceSafe, Visual FoxPro),
and FrontPage 2000.
1994-1995
Freelance work for Equality Translation Services and Abba Traductores.
Open Source Translation
- Translator of Act, the Perl Conference Toolkit into Spanish
- Current maintainer of the Spanish translation of Padre, the Perl IDE
- Member of a team working on the translation of the Perl core documentation into Spanish
