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Brussels

* Provide assistance and technical support in relation to translation technology, in particular solve technical problems faced by CAT tool users.* Organize and supervise the training of employees, subcontractors and clients in the use of CAT tools and in particular OmegaT.* Develop, test, improve and document applications that facilitate translation quality control and to test, document and improve these applications.* Develop, test, improve and document applications for the creation, maintenance, look up and recycle translation memories and glossaries.* Develop, test, improve and document applications and features that allow to automate and optimize linguists' and managers' tasks.* Contribute to all tasks related to the efficient use of translation technology in the organization.

Barcelona - Tunis

My responsibilities include:* To research ways to optimize the company's workflows and verification processes* To evaluate translation technology and QA solutions* To develop verification-oriented application prototypes

Barcelona

Language Specialist Consultant========================* Language engineering development projects* Project management tasks and R&D* Tools feature inventories in Galician* Developed bilingual lexicons for MT enginesReviewer / Proofreader / Editor / Verifier ==============================* Reviews localization strings of web applications and software GUI* Verifier of adapted/translated questionnaires and data collection instrumentsTranslator========* 124,000 words since 1997 for several direct clients* Working languages: ENG, PTG, FRA, CAT >> ESP, GLG* Specializing in software localization , IT, education, marketing, development, linguistics, farmingInterpreter========* 240 hours between 2001 and 2004 for several clients, especially local farmer unions * Language combinations: PTG<->ESP, ENG->GLG/ESP

Dublin

My ultimate function was to ensure that the final language output meet quality and customer requirements.Responsibilities:* Lead and support the language team throughout the localization project lifecycle* Design quality-control checks in Linguistic ToolBox based on customer and language requirements* Manage linguistic assets (translation memories, glossaries, style guides, etc.)* Manage quality assurance and quality control processes* Support the project team on translation technology and language issues

Barcelona Area, Spain

* Provided troubleshooting support for Transit/TermStar NXT (STAR's CAT tools) for internal project managers and translators, external vendors and clients.* Performed terminology work and dictionary management, including extractions, termbase and other language assets maintenance or computational processing of various resources.* Delivered hands-on and online trainings about Transit/TermStar NXT and Webterm, according to the client's specific workflow and requirements or internal production needs.* Was responsible for creating written and multimedia materials (such as blog entries, tutorials, webinars, etc.) addressed to users. See http://vimeo.com/transitnxt and http://transitnxt.wordpress.com* Internal quality audits

Tampere, Finland

* Linguistic and functional testing and verification of localized software * Languages: mainly Galician but also Spanish, Portuguese, French, Catalan and Arabic* Reported to the client the functional and linguistic defects found in the devices

Barcelona

Thesis project:• A Machine Learning Approach to Gender Interpretation of Referential Personal Nouns in EnglishProjects I was involved in:• Linguistic annotation • Automatic acquisition of lexical information (AAILE project) • Information retrieval (from mail lists) • Correction of gold standard texts (Technical Corpus project) • Word sense disambiguation (Ordi project)

Paris

Development of a multilingual web-based glossary: * Wrote the job specifications * Designed the term database and the web interfaces* Designed the conceptual map* Wrote definitions

Rio Grande

• Wrote the methodology for a dictionary of pre-colonial archaeology • Created the conceptual tree • Started terminographic work, i.g. filled up term records, wrote definitions, etc.

Master, Applied Linguistics

Localization

Arabic Language

Activities and Societies: preparation for the leven examination at the EOI Barcelona beginner level

Ba (Hons.), Translation And Interpreting

I learned the basics of translation, interpreting and computational terminology and reached an advanced level of Galician language.