Rodrigo Martin Avellar

Objective
Rendering of services as freelance translator, from Italian, French, Spanish or English into Brazilian Portuguese; or, as alternative, from Brazilian Portuguese into English.
Services must be professionally and timely delivered, always keeping both visual and linguistic identity built by client.

Academic Background
BA in English by State University of Londrina
BA in Law by State University of Londrina (in progress)
Professional Background
Technical translator since 1994, mainly in the fields: IT, Telecommunications, Energy, Oil & Gas, Automotive, Electrical Engineering, Mechanical Engineering, Civil Engineering, Mechatronics, Electronics, Hydraulics, General Machines.

Latest projects: HDTV Systems; Polvo Project for Petrobras; several manuals and booklets for Volvo; several articles for Microsoft; Portuguese version of How Stuff Works, hosted by UOL; several medical articles; Portuguese version of Rixler Software site (www.rixler.com).

Direct clients (agencies): A.BPS Traduções, Brazbiz Traduções, Global Translations (USA), Graphpress, JMG Translations (Canada), Mark-in Marketing Internacional, Martinelli Translations, Pro Page Serviços de Tradução, Smart Alliances, Terralíngua Traduções, The Mill Language Engineering (Argentina), Viva Translations (Portugal).

Indirect clients: Alunorte, Andrew, Andritz, Avocent, Bettis, Bombardier, Caterpillar, Crane, DuPont, Gambro, General Electric, Halliburton, How Stuff Works, Impulso Gás, John Deere, JVC, Leggett & Platt, Microsoft, Motorola, Network Appliances, New Holland, Pelco, Petrobras, Rede Globo, Shimano, Sun Microsystems, SunGard, Thermadyne, Trip Wire, Valspar, Volvo, VuTek, Xerox.

Daily translation output
Minimum daily output: 6,000 (six thousand) words.

Equipment & Communication
1 PC Intel Core 2 Duo, 2 GB RAM, 160 GB HD, ADSL, Windows Vista, CD-RW, DVD-RW, Windows Live Messenger, Skype. 2 PC Pentium IV, 512 MB RAM, 80 GB HD.

Software
 

• Across
• Adobe Acrobat
• Adobe Illustrator
• Adobe InDesign
• Adobe Photoshop
• Déjà Vu
• IBM TranslationManager
• Idiom WorldServer
• MemoQ
• OmegaT
• PageMaker
• PASSOLO
• PowerPoint
• QuarkXPress
• SDLX Translation Suite
• TRADOS
• Wordfast
• Office XP, WordFast, PageMaker, FrameMaker, Acrobat, Illustrator, CorelDraw, InDesign