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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)