I have been an English > Portuguese freelance translator for the last 25 years. I started translating during my graduation in Electronic Engineering, and since then I have translated more than 10 million words.

I am able to translate around 15,000 - 20,000 words a week, and to edit/proofread around 40,000 words a week.

My equipment is a Core 2 Duo 1.8GHz, with 320.0GB of hard disk, 2 GB of RAM and a cable modem. The software I normally use is MS Office XP, Windows Vista, Microsoft Internet Explorer 7, PageMaker 7, Quark X-Press 5.0, Adobe Acrobat 7, OmniPage Pro 12.0, etc.

About CAT tools, I use SDL TRADOS 2007 and DejaVu 3 or DejaVu X for almost all translation jobs performed. I also own and use Transit Satellite less frequently.

EXPERIENCE:

1983 - now: Freelance English / Portuguese translator, in the following fields:
- Finance and Banking;
- Engineering;
- Medical;
- Economics;
- Software Localization;
- Web sites;
- Business Administration;
- Computing;
- Marketing;
- Humanities;
- Social Sciences, etc.
1994 - now : Financial Analyst at Central Bank of Brazil, at the Department of Open Market Operations. Besides other financial activities, I frequently use to translate and edit/proofread manuals and papers from English to Portuguese.
1992 - 1994: Submersible engineer at Consub Submarine Engineering (Rio de Janeiro - Brazil)
1990: Submersible engineer at IUC Inc (Aberdeen - Scotland).
1991: Submersible engineer at SubSea Offshore (Aberdeen - Scotland).
1987 - 1990: Submersible engineer at Comex S.A. (Rio de Janeiro - Brazil).


EDUCATION:

1999: Executive MBA (Finance) at IBMEC (Rio de Janeiro - Brazil).
1998: Postgraduation (Theory and Operation of a Modern National Economy) at the George Washington University (Washington, DC - USA).
1987: B.S. in Electronic Engineering at UERJ (Rio de Janeiro - Brazil).


LANGUAGE CERTIFICATIONS:

English: University of Cambridge (England)


ASSOCIATIONS

Member of the Regional Engineering Council of Rio de Janeiro (Brazil).