CV

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Freelance Translator and Proofreader

September 2014 – Currently

  • Localization (software, apps, operating systems, web pages and social networks)
  • Marketing translation and transcreation (customer decks, product and service sales pages, reports, ads, press releases, video subtitling, infographics and more)
  • Audiovisual translation (dubbing and subtitling of films, series, shows and business videos)
  • Technical translation (user and instruction manuals, documentation related to software, apps, operating systems and virtual reality)
  • Financial translation (bank documents, guides and articles, client decks, ads, marketing campaigns and reports)
  • Proofreading and QA (content related to my areas of expertise)
  • Testing (software, apps, operating systems and web pages)
  • ICR/LSO (checking the final design of reports, infographics and other documents)
  • Creation of Xbench checklists (terminology, errors, preferences and more) with regular expressions to reduce as much as possible the appearance of false positives

+85 projects
+6,500,000 translated words
+4200 audiovisual minutes
+4600 proofreading hours

ASSOCIATIONS

Taught activities

AWARDS

computer tools

  • Trados Studio 2022
  • Phrase (Memsource)
  • ApSIC Xbench 3.0
  • Subtitle Edit
  • Caption Hub
  • XTM
  • Passolo
  • Adobe InDesign CC

EDUCATION

German C1.2 (Lugo Official School of Languages)
September 2022 – June 2023

German C1.1 (Lugo Official School of Languages)
September 2018 – September 2019

Master’s Degree in Multimedia Translation (University of Vigo)
September 2013 – September 2014

Bachelor’s Degree in Translation and Interpreting EN/DE > GL (University of Vigo)
September 2009 – May 2013

complementary training

Copywriting for businesses
20 hours
Escuela de Copywriting

Galician transcreation workshop: train your creativity
3 hours
AGPTI

Series of Galician courses for professional translators (grammar, neologisms and standardization of terminology, orthotypography and punctuation)
16 hours
AGPTI

Transcreation course for restless minds
4 hours
Nieves Gamonal (ATRAE)

Fundamentals of digital marketing
40 hours
Google

User experience (UX) – Essentials
2 hours
LinkedIn Learning

User experience (UX) – Advanced
2 hours
LinkedIn Learning

Technical WordPress SEO
1.5 hours
LinkedIn Learning

Webinar about the use of commas “Para, piensa, sigue. Que ni falten ni sobren comas”
4 hours
Pilar Comín (UniCo)

AutoHotkey course with Jesús Prieto
8 hours
AGPTI

Advanced Word with Antonio Martín
8 hours
AGPTI

Marketing Translation
40 hours
AulaSIC

Translating WordPress websites
40 hours
AulaSIC

Managing Terminology with ApSIC Xbench
30 hours
AulaSIC

Professional Proofreading
79 hours
Cálamo & Cran

Advanced Excel
30 hours
Cálamo & Cran

DTP with Adobe InDesign
60 hours
Cálamo & Cran

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