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Academic Qualifications/Achievements
- University degree in Sociology from U.B.I. University (1998).
- University degree in Historical Sciences from Portucalense Infante D. Henrique University (1994).
Languages
- English: 7 years at school and British Institute of Oporto (2 years);
- French: 7 years at school
- Spanish, Italian (3 years)
- Arabic (married with an Arab bilingual – Arabic (native language) and French (second official language)
Domain of Specializations
- Management of Human Resources (2004);
- Enterprise Innovation and Work Organisation (2003);
- Strategical Public Management (2001;
- Course "Enterprise Innovation and Work Organisation"
- Course "Management of Human Resources";
- Course "Strategical Public Management"
Education and Training
- (1997) Teacher of History, Portuguese and Geography at Escola Secundária de Sever do Vouga (public high school);
- (1996) Teacher of English for Tourism Employees (private enterprise);
- (1996)Teacher of History at Escola Secundária Manuel da Fonseca (public high school);
- (1990) Teacher of Commercial French, Public Relations, Marketing and Secretaryship(private school);
- (1989) Teacher of Portuguese and History at Externato D. Filipa de Lencastre (private high school).
Work Experience
at present:
- freelance translator for European Commission (Project DAPHNE II)
- freelance translator for Bond & Lader (medical research – UK)
- freelance translator for IBM (e-learning)
- Personal Assistant of the Administrator of Consolida, SGPS
- (Mars 2004-2007) Research and edition of cultural contents (monographs, tourist guides,instruction manuals);
- (April 2004-August 2005) Executive and Personal Assistant of daily newspaper’s Director "O Comércio do Porto" which included:
• external public relations
• feature writing
• copy-editing
• newsletters
• press releases
• bibliographies
• research and writing a weekly cultural magazine
• research and writing books
- (April 2002) Translator Portuguese/English and English/Portuguese of tourist guides published by Infoportugal, S.A.
- (2002) Translator of bilingual tourist flyers (Portuguese/French, Portuguese/English,English/Portuguese, French/Portuguese) published by a Government Department;
- (1997-2001) Personal Assistant, Secretary and Public Relations at Culturporto, the Government Commission for the European Capital of Culture, which included:
• Managing Executive Director of Rivoli Municipal Theatre;
• Translation and processing of texts (letters, memoranda, mails) in accordance with instructions and the demanded degree of confidentiality.
In addition, I provide below a brief overview of my ability as translator:
• feature writing (Portugal)
• copy-editing (Portugal)
• newsletters (Canada)
• press releases (Canada)
• touristy guides (Canada)
• sociological studies (EU Comission)
• legal documents (Portugal)
• bibliographies (Portugal)
• research and writing a weekly cultural magazine (Portugal)
• research and writing books (Portugal)
• manuals: tech/ engineering (China); H&M (Sweden); architecture (Italy);
• e-learning (IBM)
• human resources: Labour Code (Inditex Group)
• websites (UK)
• medical studies (UK)
• bank products (Luxembourg)
• general documents, questionnaires and notices (EU)
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