Technical, business and editorial translator with more than 25 years of experience with a strong passion for my job. Since 2011 I have been a revisor in my working languages and fields. Together with my activity I am enthusiastically devoted to my interests towards semiotics, linguistics and communication tecniques.
EXPERIENCE - ITALY AND ABROAD
April-May 2001 and November 2004 - New York. I assisted a fellow teacher and translator in designing an original American English teaching project we called "Cultural immersion in spoken American English" consisting in using experiences in the city of New York as teaching materials. We developed the necessary strategies, methods, and solutions to ensure individually tailored approaches for different types of users interested in improving their English in the United States.
July 2000 - Salamanca (Spain). Refresher Course in Spanish (Curso Intensivo de Lengua y Civilización Española - Nivel superior) at the Colegio de España in Salamanca.
1987-1989 - Alicante (Spain). A translator at Escuela de Idiomas Extranjeros working with local professional translators (languages: English, Italian, German, Spanish).
1985-1986. Refresher Course of German Business and English at the Wall Street Institute in Ravenna (6 months).
July 1985. Diploma in Linguistics from the Ugo Foscolo Study Center, Institute "Vittorio Alfieri" in Faenza (Ravenna).
August 1984 - Folkestone (UK). English course.
August 1983 - Torquay (UK). English course.
August 1982. One-month study in the United States (East Coast, New York, Detroit, Washington, Chicago).
2009-2010 University of Modena and Reggio Emilia - Degree in Communication Sciences.
Languages
Italian (mother tongue)
Spanish (excellent, working language)
English (excellent, working language)
German (fair)
Translation tools: SDL Trados 2021, memoQ
TRAINING CURRICULUM
1989: Freelance for English and Spanish.
Translations from English and from Spanish for translation agencies and various companies in Bologna and suburbs.
Translator of Spanish and English at the "Schuhmesse" in Düsseldorf (Germany) and official translator for commercial public relations for an Italian footwear company, established at Tinglev (Denmark).
From 1990 to 1998. Founding member of a translation office in Imola. Main tasks within the agency:
• Head of the Spanish language (active and passive).
• Coordinator of software translation English- Italian and Spanish-Italian. Updating and management of glossaries for our customers, identifying and organizing internal and external translators.
• Supervising the coordination of customers, suppliers, and translators and Legal Administrator (in charge of staff supervision, contacts with lawyers and with accountants).
• Overwriting texts of Word, Excel, PowerPoint, and PageMaker, drafting and supervising all the glossaries in Spanish and part of those in English and German.
• Managing multilingual text translation processes (instructions for software, manuals of electronics, use and maintenance manuals, legal texts, tourist guides, etc..), from the customer contract stage, the distribution of the materials to the individual translators to the final delivery to the customer (fax management, the Internet, couriers ).
From 1999 to present: Freelance translator
Technical and commercial translations: mechanics, electronics / electrical engineering, mechanical engineering, civil and industrial automation and robotics, telecommunications, internet and e-commerce, information technology, hardware and software, technical marketing and commercial patents.