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Lisbon Area, Portugal

Lisbon Area, Portugal

- Working closely with the R&D teams (Engineering and Software) to deliver technical documentation for various audiences from general users to operators and specialized maintenance technicians.- Producing quality hardware and software technical documentation for Vision-Box products and projects such as work instructions, maintenance manuals and software manuals in Word and XML.- Editing technical drawings and images.- Providing inputs and usability insights to the product development teams, especially to the Software team in order to improve workflows, instructions and translations.- Text revision and organisation are my strongest assets. I created procedures, a style guide and technical glossaries to keep the consistency in all documentation.

Lisbon

Assistance to two directors of the Board, preparation and management of meeting agendas; translation of documents from Portuguese into English and from German into Portuguese and English; dealing with confidential information, clients, suppliers and collaborators; checking invoices and other administrative tasks.

Chiado, Lisbon, Portugal

I have worked as Translators' Coordinator at Strawberry World, where I managed website contents in 14 languages. My main responsibilities were:- Project management, budgeting, price negotiation and cost control - Coordination of translation projects in 14 languages; hiring, training and monitoring a team of 25 internal and freelance native translators- Content management, translation and revision of multilingual websites, from travel guides to hotels and apartments located in the UK, Portugal and Spain, such as www.portugal-live.net/ www.spain-grancanaria.com and www.spain-tenerife.com- Liaison with the CEO and General Manager, the Contents Department (Travel Writers) and the IT Department (Programmers, Database, SEO, Web Designers, Web Editors)- Achievements: reduction in the cost of translations by 30%; great improvement to the content of websites; rankings on Google’s first page in various countries.

- Project scheduling, cost control, liaison with clients, suppliers and collaborators- Team coordination (translators, designers and typesetters) and supervision of quality - DTP, text editing, translation (EN>PT, PT>EN, DE>PT), proofreading and typesetting- Editorial coordination and translation of books about Travel and Tourism, Health, Social Sciences, Art and Architecture for Dorling Kindersley – Civilização Editores; production of scientific works for the Oporto University’s Publishing House and coordination of exhibition catalogues for the Serralves Museum in Oporto- Negotiation of publishing rights in International Book Fairs: Frankfurt Book Fair and Bologna Children’s Book Fair in 2001.

Http://Www.Portoeditora.Pt/

At Porto Editora – one of the leading Portuguese publishers –, I managed the entire prepress process of English, German and Philosophy school books, as well as more than 50 children's books co-editions. I also produced contents for multimedia products.My main skills involved writing articles, picture research, text editing, proofreading and coordinating several teams of external and internal collaborators (authors, designers, illustrators, typesetters, etc.)

German And English Studies, German And English Studies

Erasmus Exchange Program at Justus Liebig Universität Gießen, Germany

Modern Languages And Literatures - English & German Studies, English & German Studies

Post-Graduate Studies, Psichotherapy And Dance Movement Therapy, Post-Graduate Studies

Activities and Societies: Psychology, Psycotherapy, Psychoanalysis, Movement Observation and Analysis, Somatic Experience, Dance.