Education At the University for Translators and Interpreters S. Pellico
(Milan):
2001: Degree in translation for the German language with final
mark 83/100
2000:Certificate as foreign languages’ correspondent for the
German language.
1999: Degree in translation for the English language with final
mark 82/100.
1998: Certificate as foreign languages’ correspondent for the
English language in the academic year 1997/98.
1996: Diploma from the Liceo scientifico E. Majorana in Rho
(Scientific subjects) with final mark 54/60
Work experience As freelance translator from 2000 until today:
 Translation on regular basis of various protocol and protocol
synopsis of clinical trials, informed consent forms and similar
documents for the customers (above all PPD Italy) of the
translation agency Scitech Italia Srl and Scitech AG.
 Translation of the industry magazine The Reporter and of marketing
papers for the company SIGMA Aldrich S.r.l (medical/chemical
analytical products )
 Since December 2000: translation of manuals, brochures, pamphlets
for Shimadzu International. (This company produces medical
and analytical equipment).
 Regular translation of marketing and technical texts for the agency
Prima Pagina Servizi Editoriali (Cisco Systems, Citrix, Phion,
MacAfee products).
 Routinely translation of financial, technical and marketing texts for
the agency ILT before and now for Keywords Italia (SAP products-
Continuous, large team projects).
 Translation of technical datasheet, pricelist, marketing
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brochures for the company STILL Italia (fork lift trucks).
Localization of the SAP Service system in collaboration with
STILL AG.
 Localization and updates of GDATA antivirus software for
the company B&K Projects.
 Regularly translation of various marketing texts, PR Newswire
texts and various articles for the agencies Lingo24 and Bigword
 Localisation and translation of video game scripts for the
companies Synthesis Italia and Localsoft (Sony-EA-Microsoft)
 Translation of instruction manuals for fireproof systems,
marketing documents and Web Site for the company Silvani
Antincendi (former Kidde Italia)
 Translation of instruction manuals and marketing texts for the
company TEKNA Italia (manufacturing of machining lines)
 For the company IT-WIRE, translation of books (often only some
chapters) published by Microsoft Press (in Italy Mondadori
Informatica) about various Microsoft products.
As in-house translator:
From January 2000 to January 2003 I have been working as in-house
translator for CAT Technologies (Localization and translation of Lotus
IBM and Pinnacle Solutions products and documents).
As PM:
From January 2003 to September 2004 I worked as Project Manager for
the localization and translation company CAT Technologies in Arese-Milan,
the projects I worked on were related to the translation of manuals and
books published by Microsoft Press (in Italy Mondadori Infomatica)
Other qualifications Very good PC skills with working knowledge of the Microsoft Office packet.
Excellent skills in working with CAT tools (Wordfast - Trados
Workbench 7.5 – SDL Trados Multiterm- WinAlign-Trados Studio
2009- Transit-SDLX, SAP Translation System, XTM Translation Tool
use of Robohelp) Adobe Acrobat.
I’ve attended two courses on the use of Trados 2009 Studio held by
Linguatech.