Diego Figaredo Email & Phone Number

London, United Kingdom

• Supervision of four transcreation specialists (French and German teams).
• Management of marketing localisation projects related to Pokémon's video games, apps and animations.
• Development and implementation of new localisation workflows to improve productivity.
• Coordination between the transcreation team and marketing departments.
• Technical support and administration of memoQ, as well as other proprietary CAT tools.
• Tool development on VBA and SQL, such as task trackers, roadmaps and terminology databases.

London, United Kingdom

London, United Kingdom

• Responsible for the newly created Gaming Division within the Corporate Department.
• Supervise a team of 2 project managers assigned to video game localisation.
• Quote for translation, transcreation, subtitling and dubbing of video game projects.
• Manage existing accounts, as well as contribute to expand the client base.
• Liaise with VSI Group studios to coordinate multi-language projects.
• Lead pre-production meetings for voice over projects and distribute tasks efficiently.

London, United Kingdom

• Create quotes and schedules for translation and localisation QA projects.
• Manage high profile video game publishing and software development accounts.
• Ensure projects are staffed and decide whether internal or external resources are used.
• Produce progress projections, spend reports and data analysis to improve workflows.

London, United Kingdom

• Project set up, test plan creation and team management (up to 60 people).
• Status updates of the project to the management board and clients.
• Problem monitoring in order to solve the issues that appear during testing.

London, United Kingdom

• Task distribution to the language teams within the project.
• Creation of progress trackers, task trackers, and training material.
• Working closely with bug databases and terminology glossaries.
• Vetting of the issues logged in the bug database.

London, United Kingdom

• English>Spanish proofreading for various video game titles.
• Creation and management of terminology glossaries.
• Specialised in glossary checks and linguistic compliance.
• Covering for the translation team when needed.

London, United Kingdom

• Spanish Localisation QA testing for various video game titles.
• Detecting and reporting linguistic and functionality issues.
• Specialised in linguistic compliance testing and proofreading.
• Working within a team as well as individually to meet deadlines.

London, United Kingdom

• Spanish language teacher for adults.
• Beginners course - duration of 10 weeks.
• Communicative methodology that focuses on interaction rather than grammar.

Gijón, Spain

• News Editor in regional Spanish newspaper.
• Working areas: crime reports, local politics, economy and education.
• Specialised in interviews and client facing.
• Web management and layout design.

Madrid, Spain

• Proofreader in national Spanish newspaper.
• Linguistic checks of news, investigation articles and online stories.
• Grammatical supervision and consulting to meet high quality standards.

Oviedo, Spain

• Internship as a News Editor in local Spanish newspaper.
• Key responsibilities: news investigation and edition, proofreading of articles.
• Working areas: local politics and culture.

Licenciatura En Periodismo

Grado En Lengua Y Literatura Españolas

(unfinished)

Certificate In Spanish Language Teaching To Adults (Clta)