Motivated translator with a background in technical translation from English into Brazilian Portuguese. Excellent command of these languages and outstanding proofreading, editing and translation work. Highly skilled in formatting documents for CAT tools and for academic purposes.
Experience
Eurologos-Lisboa
Jan 2021 – Present
Lisbon, Portugal
Document Formatting Specialist and Translator - Freelancer
-Translated documents from English (EN) & from European Portuguese (PT-PT) to Brazilian Portuguese (PT-BR), using the CAT tool memoQ and specialised dictionaries;
-Formatted files to be translated on CAT tools, far in advance of the deadline, while improving my skills on MS Word and using combined OCR methods on Adobe Acrobat;
-Edited translated CAD files on Microsoft Word and Adobe Acrobat to mirror the source layout;
-Formatted the layout of a 400-page PhD thesis and edited the citation style on Microsoft Word.
Eurologos-Lisboa
Sep 2020 – Nov 2020
Lisbon, Portugal
Translator - Internship
-Worked on a home-office basis due to the lockdown, using AWS WorkSpaces, and Slack to communicate with my co-workers, and mentor new interns;
-Translated files from English (EN) to Brazilian Portuguese (PT-BR), using memoQ and specialised dictionaries;
-Proofread for tone, grammar, spelling, and punctuation accuracy on MS Word, using FLIP and Word's spellcheckers;
-Formatted documents to be translated on CAT tools, while improving the quality and efficiency of it, with creative use of MS Word tools to mirror the layout of the source document, reducing the number of tags, and increasing the translators' efficacy and speed.
Education
NOVA FCSH, Universidade Nova de Lisboa
Sep 2019 – Jan 2022
Master's Degree, Translation: Portuguese and English