FREELANCE TRANSLATOR AND EDITING SERVICES

 

NATIONALITY: BRAZILIAN AND DUTCH

 

FIRST LANGUAGE: PORTUGUESE

 

Other languages: English, Spanish, Dutch and French.

 

 

 

Formal Education AND PROFESSIONAL WORK:

• 1960 - 1961: Denver, Colorado, USA: Exchange student programme AFS. cherry Creek High School diploma

• 1964 – 1968: Lima, Peru – bacHiller en ciencias sociales / SOCIOLOGía, pontificia UNIVERSIDAD CATÓLICA DEL PERU

• ​1969 - 1970: sÃO pAULO, bRASIL - License ès Lettres / ciências sociais, Universidade de São Paulo, Brasil, 1970

• 1970 – 1972: pARIS, FRANCE - mAITRISE - lA PLANIFICATION DE L'ÉDUCATION ET DE LA MAIN D'OEUVRE, UNIVESRISTÉ DE PARIS 8, VINCENNES-SAINT DENIS

• 1973 - 1974: Paris, France – dIPLÔME DE dÉMOGRAPHIE GÉNÉRALE, INSTITUT DE DÉMOGRAPHIE, UNIVERSITÉ DE PARIS I, PANTHÉON-SORBONNE

• 1975 - 1978: RIO DE JANEIRO, BRASIL - iNsTITUTO bRASILEIRO DE aDMINISTRAÇÃO MUNICIPAL, COORDENAÇÃO DE SISTEMA DE INFORMAÇÃO PARA PREFEITURAS.

• 1979 - 1985: RIO DE JANEIRO E SÃO PAULO, BRASIL - FINEP, FINANCIADORA DE ESTUDOS E PROJETOS - OFICIAL DE PROJETOS.

• 1986 – 2005: The Hague, Holland – a staff member as Project Officer, at IRC Internacional Water and Sanitation Centre

• 2006 - 2009 Ms.c CIÊNCIA AMBIENTAL, programa de pós-graduação em ciência ambiental, Universidade de São Paulo, Brasil

• 2010 - 2014 Ph.D CIÊNCIA AMBIENTAL, programa de pós-graduação em ciência ambiental, Universidade de São Paulo, Brasil

 

 

Professional Experience as a Translator:

• 1998 – 2003 Partner at LINGUANOSTRA Translations, Rijswijk, HoLLand.

• Translations done in MY fields of expertise: Sociology and environmental Sciences; Integrated water resources management; Regional, social and institutional development; Environmental development; Women empowering and gender; Water supply and sanitation; Community management and social inclusion; Monitoring of projects and Capacity building in the above fields.

 

 

Other Professional experiences using Portuguese, English, French and Spanish:

 

• Preparing, offering and coordinating capacity building programmes

• Preparing and implementing field missions

• Preparing and publishing research and other documents

 

 

Some examples of translation and editing work:

 

• English – Portuguese. Translation:  Técnicas e Práticas para dar Respostas Localmente Apropriadas ao HIV/AIDS. Parte 1: Práticas. UNAIDS / KIT, Amsterdam, 2004.

• English – Portuguese. Translation: Soluções Hídricas Inteligentes. International Water and Sanitation Centre / IRC, Delft, 2004.

• English – Portuguese. Editing French and Spanish. Training of Trainers Package on Gender Mainstreaming in Integrated Water Resources Management, GWA – Gender Water Alliance, 2003.

• English – Spanish. Translation 'Agricultura Sostenible: un modo de vivir – Alternativas Perdurables para el uso de la Tierra'. DGIS/CEBEMO, The Hague, 1994.

• English – Spanish and Portuguese. Translation and Editing many issues of Annual Abstract Journal ‘Woman, Water, Sanitation’, IRC, Delft.

• English – Spanish and Portuguese. Translation: Bernard Van Leer foundation, The Hague, Holland: various documents.

• Portuguese - spanish 'distribución política del agua', universidade de são paulo.

• Dutch - Portuguese. Translation of technical documents by Dutch  construction entreprises in Holland for a Lawyers Firm in São Paulo.