PATRICIA PALROZ
Oeiras,Portugal
Summary
Highly qualified Language Specialist, focused on ensuring that European Portuguese users have an excellent experience with the localized UI and UA products.
Single Language Specialist in-country for all product lines.
Proven track record of delivering precise localizations of a wide range of products, such as Financials, Procurement, Health, or Hospitality.
Proactive in ensuring that the translation teams have the best reference material available at all times.
Highly skilled in terminology management, glossary, and style guide creation, quality control, and linguistic testing.
Dedicated team member that successfully facilitates communication between worldwide, multicultural teams, such as Development, and Support.
Independent professional, with the ability to handle multiple projects simultaneously, and with a high degree of accuracy.
Very skilled translator with a background in delivering accurate translations from English and French to European Portuguese.
Overview
26
26
years of professional experience
Work History
Senior Language Specialist
Oracle Corporation
Porto Salvo, Oeiras
06.2002 - Current
Senior Language Specialist in International Product Solutions Group
- Responsible for ensuring that European Portuguese users have an excellent experience with the localized UI and UA products, by replicating style and overall meaning of original text whilst taking into account cultural differences.
- Terminology management, glossary, and style guide creation.
- Linguistic and technical support of translation vendors.
- Quality control, and linguistic testing of localized products.
- Work with worldwide, multicultural teams, such as Development, and eCommerce to improve source material and translatability.
- Work with SMEs to ensure the accuracy of the terminology used.
- Neural Machine Translation projects.
- Maintenance of Language Dashboard and market priority data to identify products that require higher investment and corrective actions.
- Removal of translation inconsistencies from the translation repositories.
- Implementation of the spelling changes across all translation repositories, as per the Portuguese Orthographic Agreement of 1990.
- Definition of language rules/exceptions for the development of Portuguese voice apps.
- Proofreading and edition of translations to ensure optimal quality and adherence to company standards.
Freelance Legal Translator
N/A
Lisbon
- Legal documents translation
Technical Translator and Reviewer
Bowne Global Solutions
Lisbon, Lisbon
12.1999 - 05.2002
Translator and reviewer: Microsoft, SAP, IBM, and Oracle projects
- Technical translator
- Reviewer
Freelance Translator
N/A
Lisbon
07.1999 - 12.1999
- Children's books translator
Internship: Editing Department
Centralivros
Lisboa, Lisboa
07.1999 - 11.1999
- Book proofreading, and edition
Internship: Legal Translator
Legal Firm Dr. Artur Rego
Praia da Luz, Lagos
07.1997 - 07.1997
- Legal translation and interpretation
Education
Master of Arts - Translation And Compared Cultures
Universidade Católica Portuguesa De Lisboa
Lisbon, Portugal09.2002
Degree - English and French Translation
Universidade Católica Portuguesa De Lisboa
Lisbon, Portugal06.1999
Certificate of attendance of third year - French Language
Alliance Française De Lisbonne
Lisbon, Portugal08.1996
First Certificate in English - English Language
University of Cambridge
Lisbon, Portugal06.1996
A2.2 - German Language
Goethe Institut
Lisbon, Portugal06.2013
Online And On-site Courses Attended
Lisbon, PortugalSkills
- Technical translation
- Proofreading
- European Portuguese localization
- Legal translation
- Medical translation
- Linguistic testing
- Terminology management
- Style guide creation
- Glossary creation
- Post-editing
- Translation memory, and terminology management software
- Cultural expertise
- Literary translation
Additional Information
- Publications: Translation of Edward W. Said's work Representations of the Intellectual, The 1993 Reith Lectures. Published in 2000.
- Awards: Awarded with a Distinction at the French-Speaking International Competition "Le Mot d'Or" (in 1997 and in 1998)
Languages
Portuguese
Native
English
Fluent
French
Advanced
Spanish
Elementary
German
Beginner
Work Availability
monday
tuesday
wednesday
thursday
friday
saturday
sunday
morning
afternoon
evening
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Timeline
Senior Language Specialist
Oracle Corporation
06.2002 - Current
Technical Translator and Reviewer
Bowne Global Solutions
12.1999 - 05.2002
Internship: Editing Department
Centralivros
07.1999 - 11.1999
Freelance Translator
N/A
07.1999 - 12.1999
Internship: Legal Translator
Legal Firm Dr. Artur Rego
07.1997 - 07.1997
Freelance Legal Translator
N/A
Master of Arts - Translation And Compared Cultures
Universidade Católica Portuguesa De Lisboa
Degree - English and French Translation
Universidade Católica Portuguesa De Lisboa
Certificate of attendance of third year - French Language
Alliance Française De Lisbonne
First Certificate in English - English Language
University of Cambridge
A2.2 - German Language
Goethe Institut
Online And On-site Courses Attended
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