Marina Oliveira

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Contact Information

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Address: Rua Pêro Vaz de Caminha, nº 1, Caldas da Rainha,  2500-924, Portugal  (Show map )
Phone: +351 91 476 0040

Joined: Aug. 5, 2005, last update Nov. 12, 2009
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Working language pairs and rates:

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Services

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Desktop Publishing, Editing, Localization, Proofreading, Subtitling, Translation

Specialization

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Software, UI, User Manuals & Guides, Web site contents, E-learning, Health Care, MSDS, Nutrition, Training courses.

Subject Areas

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Art, Automotive, Business General, Computer and Information Sciences, Culinary Arts, Ecology, Education, Environmental Science, General, Health, Humanities and Humanistic Studies, Internet, Journalism and Mass Communication, Linguistics, Literature, Medicine - Occupational Health and Industrial Hygiene, Medicine - Pharmacology, Sport and Fitness, Telecommunications, Transportation

Background

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Since Aug 2005
European Portuguese freelance translator.

Some recent projects
2009
Press articles on Dance teaching, 15,000w
2008
Jan-Nov  UK based  for a 5-month on-site collaboration on a large enterprise management software localisation project as linguist reviewer, ongoing off-site until September (+1,000,000w)
Training course for shipping corporation (15,000w)
2007
Website on stock images, 35,000w
Website on genealogy, 80,000w
Apple OS and applications (ongoing) +150,000w
2006
Editing&proofreading: MSDS 35,000w; Education 15,000w.
Translation: Educational policies 11,000w
Anatomy & fitness 10,000w
Pharmaceutical study 4,200w
Classical dance teaching 20,000w.
DTP: 300 pp. 2 camera user guides, layout in FrameMaker provided by client.
 

Jan 2005 - Jun 2007
As a team leader (until Mar 2007) I was also involved in the project management, supervising work progress, quality assurance and schedule compliance, and performed the liaison between Portuguese and UK software companies. Additional tasks: translation and testing of UI files, manuals editing, final DTP and QA. As from Aug 2005, working off-site and accumulating with freelance activity.

Jun 2004 
Joined the Portuguese translation team (in-house) for the localization of i2 Group applications (EN > PT/PTB), involving translation, editing and proofreading of software, documentation and marketing materials, as well as image capture and final DTP using FrameMaker 7.

1998-2004
Graduated at the University of Lisbon, in Modern Languages and Literature, Portuguese and English Studies, in addition to several different part-time and full-time jobs.

2000-2002 Secretary in Pathology laboratory, Onchology Portuguese Institute (IPO).
1998-2000 Outsourcing employee for Alcatel and Vodafone.
1997-1998 Secretary in interior architects office.
1992-1996 Manager in a stationery shop.
1986-1992 Officer in shipping agency, in charge of inbound shipping cargo department.

Training:
2006 Environmental Management, ISO:14001, EMAS, Auditing - 30 hours
2006 Workshop on Medical Translation (Tradulínguas/British Council) - 6 hours
2005 Translation Theory by APT-Associação Portuguesa de Tradutores (Portuguese Association of Translators)

Software

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• Adobe Acrobat
• Adobe Illustrator
• PASSOLO
• STAR Transit
• TRADOS
• Windows XP & Vista
  MS Office 2000 + 2003
  AVG AntiVirus

Accreditations

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BA in Modern Languages and Literature - Portuguese and English Studies,
University of Lisbon
FCE + CPE, Cambridge University ESOL

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