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Lisbon, Portugal

In my current role as a Project Coordinator at Farfetch, I have the opportunity to lead end-to-end coordination for localisation projects across 16 languages.Utilizing industry tools like XTM and monday.com, I aim to ensure smooth and efficient workflows. Emphasizing data-driven strategies, I champion initiatives to enhance processes and workflows, optimizing efficiency across departments.Additionally, I work to ensure financial compliance and timely completion within… Show more In my current role as a Project Coordinator at Farfetch, I have the opportunity to lead end-to-end coordination for localisation projects across 16 languages.Utilizing industry tools like XTM and monday.com, I aim to ensure smooth and efficient workflows. Emphasizing data-driven strategies, I champion initiatives to enhance processes and workflows, optimizing efficiency across departments.Additionally, I work to ensure financial compliance and timely completion within allocated frames. Show less

Polônia

A full-time position at Huawei, in which I served as the European Portuguese Language Lead within the Multilingual team.In this role, I had the chance to spearhead the localisation and quality assurance for Marketing and Legal texts at Huawei, ensuring both precision and cultural relevance.This involved establishing linguistic quality assurance processes for all services and products, while also defining the brand's language identity in the European Portuguese market through the… Show more A full-time position at Huawei, in which I served as the European Portuguese Language Lead within the Multilingual team.In this role, I had the chance to spearhead the localisation and quality assurance for Marketing and Legal texts at Huawei, ensuring both precision and cultural relevance.This involved establishing linguistic quality assurance processes for all services and products, while also defining the brand's language identity in the European Portuguese market through the official Style Guide and Translation Strategy, ensuring consistent communication.Main achievements:• Localisation and quality assurance of all Marketing and Legal texts;• Creation, implementation and supervision of the linguistic quality assurance process for all localised Huawei services and products;• Definition and establishment of the language identity for the brand in the European Portuguese market. Show less

Mexico City, Mexico

An internship with the Ministry of Foreign Affairs at the Portuguese Embassy in Mexico City, where I was charged with a multitude of tasked that ranged from the translation and proofreading of internal and external official documents, Social Media and on-line platform management, to the drafting of the Embassy's official linguistic style guide.Main achievements:• Translation and proofreading of official documents;• Writing and editing of new content and social media… Show more An internship with the Ministry of Foreign Affairs at the Portuguese Embassy in Mexico City, where I was charged with a multitude of tasked that ranged from the translation and proofreading of internal and external official documents, Social Media and on-line platform management, to the drafting of the Embassy's official linguistic style guide.Main achievements:• Translation and proofreading of official documents;• Writing and editing of new content and social media posts;• Creation of the Embassy´s official Linguistic Style Guide. Show less

Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain

A full-time translation position within the Portuguese Language Department of Datawords.During my time at Datawords, I translated and localised luxury products for the European Portuguese market from English, Spanish and French.Main Achievements:• Localisation and marketing of luxury products;• Social media and on-line platform mediation;• Terminological research and in-depth TM usage.

Luxembourg, Luxembourg

A Robert Schuman Traineeship at the Portuguese Translation Unit of the European Parliament, where I translated all sorts of parliamentary texts, from English into Portuguese, and carried out terminology projects in coordination with TermCoord, the Terminology Unit. These terms were later inducted into the IATE database.The documents translated during this traineeship also served as the base for my MSc thesis, which focuses on shining a light on the idiosyncrasies of every type of… Show more A Robert Schuman Traineeship at the Portuguese Translation Unit of the European Parliament, where I translated all sorts of parliamentary texts, from English into Portuguese, and carried out terminology projects in coordination with TermCoord, the Terminology Unit. These terms were later inducted into the IATE database.The documents translated during this traineeship also served as the base for my MSc thesis, which focuses on shining a light on the idiosyncrasies of every type of document translated. Main Achievements:• Translation of a wide range of parliamentary texts;• Inside knowledge of EU institutions;• Knowledge of European Parliament's software (SDL Trados, EUR-Lex, IATE, QUEST, EURAMIS, SIRIUS) Show less

Lisbon, Portugal

Translation internship where I translated legal, marketing and economic texts, from English and Spanish into Portuguese, and obtained a great understanding of project management.Main Achievements:• Technical translation of Legal, Economical and Marketing texts;• Knowledge of project management skills;• Experience in working with MemoQ translation software.

Master Of Arts - Ma, Language Interpretation And Translation, 17/20

Thesis: "A traineeship experienceat the European Parliament: genres and specific features of thetranslated documents." My thesis focuses.

Bachelor´S Degree, Translation,, English Language And Spanish, 16/20

Activities and Societies: Some of the subjects: Advance CAT Tools, Translation of Technical Texts EN-PT, Translation of Business Texts.