PROFILE David Caswell has been a teacher, public speaker and
linguist for thirty years. Born and raised in the London area in a bi-lingual
household, David grew up with a fascination for languages, foreign cultures and
communication. In England, David enjoyed a sixteen-year career in accounting
and human resources while satisfying his love of teaching and languages with
three decades of experience in voluntary Bible education - delivering public
lectures, conducting group sessions and instructing one to one in English, Japanese and Portuguese. David now lives in São Paulo, Brazil with his Brazilian wife, where
he utilises his extensive business knowledge, teaching experience and a
facility for languages in his teaching and translation work. He specialises in
business and legal translation of texts from Portuguese into English and vice versa.

Project History

PROJECT HISTORY - PORTUGUESE TO ENGLISH TRANSLATION

Client – Job – Size – Reference
Net2phone - IDT (Brazil) Telecoms technical manuals and service contracts - 100,000+ words (from 2019-2024) - [email protected]

Associação Torre de Vigia (Brazil) Legal actions, opinions - over 1 million words - 200+ projects (from 2011 to 2022)

Esporte Clube Pinheiros (Brazil) Athlete employment contracts –
4000 words

Lingualconsultancy.com (India) European Portuguese financial
reports - 12,000 words

Castletrans.com (US) Brazilian medical exam results and
doctors' ID documents - 9.000 words

Montesinotranslation.com (US) Brazilian tax returns - 22,000 words

Translationaz.com (US) Brazilian government website
"eSocial" user guide - 70,400 words

Naturalle Agro Mercantil (Brazil)
4 years of financial statements and audit reports - 38,000 words -
naturalle.com

TV Globo (Brazil) Technical Project Description - 1,744 words -
tvglobo.com.br

Dores Folque (Portugal) Partnership agreement - 3,014 words - [email protected]

Lingo2Lingo (USA) Property lease contract - 826 words - [email protected]

Eurideas (Belgium) Commercial property leasing contract - 1,900
words - eurideastranslation.com RuddyRubric, Inc (USA) Service contract - 3,000
words - [email protected]

RuddyRubric, Inc (USA) Insurance policy - 1,800 words - [email protected]

Aktuel Translation Group (UK) Letter from the Brazilian health
ministry to the British ambassador to Brazil - 2,460 words -
aktueltranslations.com

Aba Textos (Brazil) Inmetro legal decree re pump regulations -
8,000 words - [email protected]

Aba Textos (Brazil) Security company material - 4,000 words

Aba Textos (Brazil) Brazilian legal decree - 20,000 words

Agile
Solutions (Brazil) Documents - 2600 words - agilesolutions.com

Agile Solutions (Brazil) Agribusiness documents and web-pages –
2,500 words - agilesolutions.com

Castle Assocs. (USA) Human resources and legal documents from
Portugal – 24,200 words

Rita Schmit. (Luxembourg) Brazilian banking documents – 6,200
words

Castle Assocs. (USA) Editorial about airline industry in Cape
Verde - 1150 words

Castle Assocs. (USA) Angolan editorial & reader comments -
7700 words - http://proz.com/job/185696

Fasttranslator (Netherlands) Outsourcing Contract (legal) - 29
pages – http://proz.com/job/177586

Renault Distribution Box and Water Pump
Assembly Manual - 17,000 words on Excel, Word & pdf (Spanish &
Portuguese to English)

PROJECT HISTORY - ENGLISH TRANSCRIPTION

Client – Job – Size – Reference

Axis Translations (UK) EFSA (EU) forum - 150 minutes -
proz.com/job/230872 - http://www.axistranslations.com

Traduc'tik (France) Fashion designer interviews – 40 & 30
minutes - Jocelyne Breslau ([email protected])

PROJECT HISTORY - ENGLISH PROOFREADING & REVISION

Client – Job – Size – Reference

Rodrigo Petrola - Proofreading of MBA thesis - 10,700 words (2023)

RTM Traducao (Brazil) Revision of pork products manufacturing
material - 100,000 words - rtmtraducao.com.br

RTM Traducao (Brazil) Revision of translated lease contract and
construction quotation - 4,000 words - rtmtraducao.com.br

Aba Textos (Brazil) Translation of website (micropower.com.br)
from American to British English – 10,800 words -
agilesolutions.com/bizservices

Agile Solutions (Brazil) Revision of website - 12 pages - agilesolutions.com/bizservices

Agile Solutions (Brazil) Revision of English language website - 20
pages - agilesolutions.com

Castle Assocs. (USA) Testing and proofing courseware from American
to British English – 33 hours - http://proz.com/job/172722

AskMaxim (Russia) Editing a general finance text - 5775 words - http://proz.com/job/165582

PROJECT HISTORY - DANISH TO ENGLISH TRANSLATION

Client – Job – Size – Reference

Multilingo (UK) Witness statements from a maritime legal case –
4118 words - [email protected]

Stonebridge Ltd (UK) Business/legal documents - 6510 words –
s-c-s-uk.com

New Market Translations (USA) Newspaper editorials on the
financial news press - 4 pages - www.nmtrans.com

Aadake Worldwide (Australia) Foreword to book on wine - 2 pages -
http://www.proz.com/job/188185 - www.aadake.com

Compass Latin America (Brazil) Director's contract - 4 pages -
www.compassgroupamericas.com New Market Translations (USA) Financial agreement
- 8 pages - http://www.proz.com/job/173018

Akhil & Co (India) Software description - 13 pages - http://www.proz.com/job/175040

Skills • Teaching, training and supervising • Portuguese>English
translation • Accounting  • Administration • IT Proficiencies • MS: Word,
Excel, Access, Outlook, Powerpoint • NJ Star Japanese • eEnterprise Dynamics
(formerly Great Plains Dynamics) • SAP Finance • Lotus Notes 6 • internet Work
History May 2006 – present. Private teacher of English (self-employed in
Sorocaba, SP) and translator of Portuguese to English. September 2004 – October
2005. HR Administrator (Pitney Bowes Ltd: Human Resources Department) April –
August 2004. Reconciliations & HR Oracle Co-ordinator (Pitney Bowes Ltd:
Human Resources Department) Maintaining payroll/balance sheet reconciliations
and co-ordinating data entry on Oracle HR database. November 2003 – April 2004.
Reconciliations Accountant (Pitney Bowes Ltd: Human Resources Department)
Liaising with the payroll provider, finance department and others to reconcile
historical items in the payroll/balance sheet accounts. 1992 – 2003. Accountant
(International Bible Students Association) A developing role in accounting and
administration for a medium-sized, London based US organisation, including: •
cash book • bank reconciliation • purchase ledger data entry and payment runs •
electronic payments on dedicated banking systems • wide range of banking
procedures • advising personnel on personal financial/legal issues • petty cash
management, data entry and reconciliation • fixed assets management, data entry
and reconciliation • management of ‘Gift Aid’ tax-effective donations database
– data entry, accounting, resolving tax issues and queries with donors and
banks by telephone and letter, preparing claims to Inland Revenue. Personal: An
Englishman born in London, married to a Brazilian and holding a permanent visa to work in Brazil. Travelled extensively
worldwide, with a strong interest in languages and people.