About me

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 visit 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 and 2022, memoQ

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, reviewer, MTPE, data annotator, audio transcriptions

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.

Examples of some translation projects (2023-2025): multifunction printers, software instruction upgrades, instruction manuals for agriculture machinery and equipment, upgrading software for packaging machines, launch of IT products especially aimed at logistics, automotive instructions, business organization, postal processing and distribution centers, business strategy on Internet platforms to check working teams and achieved results, instruction manuals for turbines and compressors, oil & gas, patents, Military and Defense.

Reviews and proofreading:
MTPE / Post-editing: machine translation post-editor with expertise in English and Spanish to Italian translations, specialized in engineering (aeronautics, marine, automotive, electrical, mechanical, general), IT, cloud computing, telecommunications, patents, soft legal, internal and external business documents, data strategies.

MTPE / Post-editing: machine translation post-editor with expertise in English and Spanish to Italian translations, specialized in engineering (aeronautics, marine, automotive, electrical, mechanical, general), IT, cloud computing, telecommunications, patents, soft legal, internal and external business documents, data strategies.
Nov 2024/Nov 2025 - MT LQA and MTQE skills: I participated in a big translation project in the tourism field, where I conducted root cause analysis of translation errors, identifying problematic steps, and assisting the Requester in resolving issues.
I reviewed and annotated data assets, including embedding corpus management and glossary refinement. LQA and MTQE skills were to be checked and adjusted to optimize the translation processes and to generate appropriate prompts.
Year 2026: Audio transcription tasks, checking and refinement (Italian and English)

Publishing: Translations from English and Spanish publications of books on

Medicine for Women
Human body and sex life
Health and Wellness
Chinese philosophy of Yin and Yang
Feng Shui
Homeopathy
Economics (English-Italian Dictionary, some chapters)
Computers (including Power Point presentations for Dummies and Apple iMac launch)
Novels and literature in general (including The Great Wave by Walter Jon Williams; The Plot of Alexander Litvinenko KGB - Yuri Felstinskij; The Book of Beauty by The Body Shop)

Information Technology: English-to-Italian and Spanish-to-Italian translations of many computer programs and applications including:

Documented and undocumented features of Windows
FrontPage, Microsoft Chat, NetMeeting for Internet Explorer
PhotoShop
Painter 5.0
RadWorks (software specialist for medical use)
Autodesk
Advertising copy for the launch of products such as iMac computer and Internet Explorer
Learn about new technologies used in the production of cartridges for backup, CD-R, CD-RW and DVD-RW
User software and online guides for management programs and e-Procurement Enterprise Resource Planning
Software instructions and help files for multifunction printers.

INTERESTS, PASSIONS

I am interested in communication technologies and language sciences (linguistics, pragmatics, semiotics but also dialectology, semantics, orality and writing) and communication sciences in general. My studies in Communication Sciences at the University of Modena and Reggio Emilia responded to many of my interests and offered me great opportunities to in-depth knowledge on the subjects shown below.

Structural semiotics and generative path, in particular the generative trajectory of meaning and semiotics of the passions in Algirdas J. Greimas, social bodies in Gianfranco Marrone, works and prospects by Paolo Fabbri, Andrea Semprini, Ugo Volli. And more: the semiotic and linguistic point of view of Roland Barthes, Jacques Fontanille, Louis Trolle Hjelmslev and Ferdinand de Saussure.

More

In an ever-changing society, staying up-to-date is a prerogative and a major task. I keep updated by participating in translation seminars and webinars, post-editing training courses and technology-related events. I constantly read and try to learn about new technologies, linguistic aspects and whatever contributes to the realization of my human and working experience.