EDUCATION

BA(Hons) Journalism
Napier University
Edinburgh, UK

Modern literature and Foreign Languages (minor)
Faculty of Arts, University of Lisbon
Portugal

Translation
British Council
Lisbon, Portugal

English
British Council, Lisbon, Portugal
CPE (Certificate of Proficiency in English)

French
Alliance Française, Lisbon, Portugal
DELF, DALF, DL

Italian
University of Edinburgh, Institute of Applied Languages, Edinburgh, UK
Instituto de Cultura Italiana, Lisbon, Portugal
(Advanced Level)

Spanish
Instituto Cervantes, Lisbon, Portugal
(Intermediate level)

German
Goethe Institut, Lisbon, Portugal
University of Edinburgh, Institute of Applied Languages, UK
(Intermediate Level)

Japanese
University of Edinburgh, Institute of Applied Languages
(Basic Level)


DIPLOMAS

DipTrans, Institute of Linguists, London, UK

1st Prize in the Times Feature Writing competition, Edinburgh, UK


RELEVANT EXPERIENCE IN TRANSLATION


Industry/Technology:

INPRINTING (IT) - 2007 - present - Instruction manuals
DMAROTE (UK) - 2007 - Instruction Manuals
NOVA SOTECMA (Angola) – 2003 – present – Instruction manuals, website
GREEN CRESCENT (US) – 2004 – Instruction manuals

Health:

HALTE-SIDA (Congo) – 2003 – website
CYSTIC FIBROSIS WORLDWIDE (US) – 2003–present – features (volunteering)
NATURKINDA (Portugal) – 2005/2007 – news on health care
HENNING & BOCHERT (Germany) – 2006 – Instruction manuals for medical devices ADELPHI (UK) – 2007 – Forum on psychiatric diseases

Journalism

ÁFRICA TODAY (Portugal and Angola)– 2007-present – Reporter and translator (bilingual magazine)
EDINBURGH EVENING NEWS – 2005-2007 – Freelance reporter for sports, features
JORNAL TAL&QUAL (Portugal) – 2002 – 2005 – translation of quizzes
JORNAL PÚBLICO (Portugal) – 2004 – translation of press releases
RTP2 (Portugal) – 2005 – Translation of interviews, art reviews

Economy, Business

NEWSBASE (UK) - 2006 - present -- Freelance reporter and translator for oil&gas industry and environmental monitor
ECOLE ARGENTINA (Argentina)- 2008 -- translation of business projects
LA NOTA (Colombia) - 2007-present -- news in various languages, translation of business-related articles

Politics, Education

CROSSROADS WOMEN (US) – 2003 – letters and legal documents
RUNTIME REVOLUTION (UK) – 2006/2007 – voice over, scripts and subtitling for language-learning software (English and Portuguese)
AMERICAN PIE (UK) – 2007 – transcribing, translating and subtitling audio files from Brazilian Portuguese into English
TRADULINGUA (Poland) – 2007 – legal documents on European educations models
TOGO-FOCUS (France) – 2007 – news on the political situation in Togo

Engineering, Environment

ISA (Portugal) -- interpreting in Fire Paradox conferences, translating news articles on forestry and subtitling films
Duplo.Vê (Portugal) -- Subtitling TV series