- São Paulo, SP, Brazil
Phone # (55-11) 5575-4563 - Cell # (55-11) 9288-2979
e-mail: heloisavelloso at gmail . com
http://geocities.yahoo.com.br/contextotraducao
Professional simultaneous and consecutive interpreter English<>Portuguese since 1994.
Professional translator English<>Portuguese mainly, but also Spanish>English, and French>Portuguese since the 1970s.
Chief interpreter during the transition period of electric energy privatization and restructuring in Brazil.
Chief interpreter for IBGC, the Brazilian Corporate Governance Institute, and other similar associations.
PROFESSIONAL BACKGROUND:
I own a translation & interpretation company named Contexto Tradução e Interpretação Ltda.
I have been an interpreter and translator, mainly in English<>Portuguese, since the late 1980s, having provided written translations and simultaneous interpreting, especially in areas such as telecoms, information technology, corporate matters, financial, energy, legal, human resources, and engineering, among others.
I have also been a teacher at Associação Alumni's Translation and Interpretation Course, since 1995.
A teacher of translation techniques for subtitling at West End Idiomas, an English school in São Paulo, 1995/97.
English teacher at two schools: Essential and West End Idiomas, 1994/95.
Assistant Editor at the International Weekly Edition of Gazeta Mercantil financial newspaper, 1989/94.
I provided translations from English, French, and Italian into Portuguese for VCR subtitles as a self-employed translator, for Audiolar home videos (now called Videolar) in 1992/93.
I translated "Business English," a collection of 30 booklets for English students, from Spanish into English, published by Editora Globo in 1990.
LANGUAGES:
Native Portuguese and fluent English from early childhood, having lived in London ages 2 to 5. In my teens, I lived for a while in the U.S. I also visited several European and Latin American countries.
Spanish, French, and Italian are my "passive" languages (good enough knowledge to translate from these languages into Portuguese and English)
COURSES/CERTIFICATES:
ATA (American Translators Association) English>Portuguese Translator Certification awarded in September, 2005.
Certificate of Achievement for having completed the Advanced Techniques of Interpretation course held at the Monterey Institute of International Studies, in 2000 in Monterey, California.
Full English/Portuguese/English Translator and Interpreter Certificate conferred by Associação Alumni, in 1989, in São Paulo.
Italian Course Certificate from Istituto Italiano di Cultura, in 1975, in São Paulo.
French, Spanish, and German courses, in Brazil and abroad.
Walter Johnson High School (sophomore year only), and Temple School Typing and Shorthand Course, both in 1962, in Bethesda, Maryland.
Secretarial Course at Mackenzie School, in São Paulo.
Junior High School equivalent at Colégio Dante Alighieri, in São Paulo.
