Full-time Translator & Interpreter  since 1992. Worked for The British Council in Lisbon, as Administrative Office-Manager, between 1986 and 1992. 
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* LANGUAGES: Translations from English, French, German, Dutch, Italian, Russian and Spanish into Portuguese. Translations from Portuguese into English as well. * English - Portuguese * Portuguese- English * French - Portuguese * Spanish - Portuguese * German - Portuguese * Dutch - Portuguese * Portuguese-Dutch * Italian - Portuguese * Russian - Portuguese (other languages upon request).
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* JOB DESCRIPTION : Our document translation services cover a wide array of document types, including legal, pharmaceutical & medical documents/records, engineering, financial and immigration documents, research & technical papers, instruction manuals, business plans & correspondence, patents, resumes, contracts, income statements, certificates, depositions, marketing prospectuses, promotional material, insurance documents, websites, software, audio/visual, intellectual property, and others . Official translations, apostilled and notary or consular sworn upon request . Every project includes a multi-phase double check quality assurance process. 
Simultaneous trSimultaneous translation in Seminars and Congresses, and also consecutive and murmured interpretation for individual, or group, accompaniment.

Simultaneous translation in Seminars and Congresses, and also consecutive and whispered/murmured interpretation for individual, or group, accompaniment.

Translation of documents in court hearings, or hearing of defendants in criminal or civil proceedings of all kinds.

Rates : As free-lance translation professionals, we are able to achieve low overheads and pass these cost-savings on to you, which allow us to offer rather competitive and absolutely warfare rates, without comprimising on quality, whatsoever. We don't apply a blanket rate for our translation services. Instead, we quote on each of our clients' projects individually, carefully taking into account the specific parameters of the tasks at hand, such as size, nature and complexity of the source-text, the relevant language combination, the desired turnaround time and formatting requirements, among other specificities.

* SOFTWARE : CAT tools (Computer-assistance Translation tools) : SDL Trados Studio 2014 Professional , WordBee, Wordfast, OmegaT, Similis, Wordlingo, iTranslate4.eu, My Memory, MetaTexis, Alchemy CATALYST, MemoQ, Babylon, SYSTRANet, Virtaal, Poedit, Ajaxtrans, Pootle, GramTrans, STAR TS, Multiterm, Translator’s Workbench, TagEdigor, and SDLX. 
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* HARDWARE: Windows XP Professional w/sp3 ; (Desktop) Hewlett-Packard i7 Compaq 8200 Elite SFF PC, 3.2 GHz 4TB HD 16GB RAM ; (Laptop) Toshiba L650, 2.5GHz, 2TB HD ; Hi-speed Cable & Optical fiber internet connection ; Wi-Fi ; HP-Officejet-Pro-1150C & HP-Deskjet-710C scanners & printers. 
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* CONTACTS: 
Mailing Address: Apartado nº 2180, pt-1104-001 Lisboa, Portugal. 
Telephone : ( +351 ) 962-875-515 
E-mails : [email protected] (or) [email protected] 
icq messenger # 17633876 
Skype: jose_manuel_serodio 
Facebook: José Manuel Serôdio - https://facebook.com/joserodio 
Google:   https://plus.google.com/+JoseManuelSerodio 
LinkedIn:   www.linkedikedin.com/in/josé-manuel-serôdio-73474027 
Site: www.proz.com/pro/41821 
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* ACADEMIC BACKGROUND:  

1976-1979, Agronomy ( Universidade Federal de Viçosa, MG, Brazil )  

1983-1986, Agriculture Economics ( The University of Nottingham, United Kingdom )  

2010-2014, Agronomy ( Instituto Superior de Agronomia, Technical-University-of-Lisbon, Portugal ). 

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