Work Languages:

• Mother tongue: Italian
• Languages of habitual use: Italian and English
• Target language: Italian
• Secondary target: English
• Source languages: English, Spanish

Countries of Residence:

• United Kingdom - Italy

Formal Education:

• Industrial Institute of Electrotechnics (Italy), 1976.
• Postgraduate-level Course on Translation (Italy), 1982.
• Several specialisation courses/seminars on computer hardware/software (London, Vienna, Madrid).
• Constant specialist update/refresher courses and seminars.

Experience:

• Translation
• Manuals and documentation (computer software, hardware, office equipment, consumer appliances/electronics, magnetic resonance, measuring equipment, graphic arts, publishing, rotogravure, criogenics, PLC, numerical controls, energy, transportation, automation, plant engineering).
• Documentation
• SW Localization (industrial, custom, and commercial)
• Web Pages
• Brochures
• Training Sources
• Proof-reading.
• Interpreting: (informal, visits, etc.)
• Graphic Arts: Design and Lay-Out of Manuals, Books, etc.
  Basic Desktop Publishing
• Language Teaching, Personnel Training, Work organisation and co-ordination.

In-depth knowledge of the main Word Processing Programs (Microsoft Word, WordPerfect, FrameMaker, etc.), HTML, database and spreadsheets.

In-depth knowledge of the WINDOWS environments. Software and Hardware installation.

Knowledge of main communication SW. Basic Desktop Publishing skills. Operating Systems, Internet.

Training and Experience

• From 1991 to date
• Italy and U.K.: full-time translator. Collaboration and contract work with several important ISO 9001 international translation firms (I, UK, USA, CH, BE, AUS, J) for the translation of technical documentation in the computer, plant engineering, automation, technology, graphic arts, and industrial sectors.
• Teaching assignments in the framework of EEC and locally sponsored personnel training programmes.
• Interpreting (commercial negotiations, visits to plants).
• Italian lecturer at Herefordshire College of Technology
• Partner of important Italian Translation firm (until 1997).
• Software and Hardware installation.
• Basic computer consultancy.
• Prior to 1991
• Italy, Spain, Peru, Austria, UK: Full-time staff translator
• Supervision, coordination and organisation of in-house and outsourced translation and localization.
• Localization of audiovisual materials
• Supervision of Printing / Translation / Technical Resources for Eastern European Languages Dept.
• Research.
• Troubleshooting