Antonio Tomás Lessa do Amaral - Freelance Portuguese Linguist

[email protected]

Born: in 1948, Santos - Brazil. Portuguese mother
tongue. 

Language pairs: English/French/Spanish/Italian to Portuguese, Portuguese
to Italian, also Brazilian Portuguese <> European Portuguese
localization. 

For translations from Portuguese, the final revision
is done by a mother tongue colleague.

Specialities: Technical (mechanics, household
appliances, medical equipment), legal and commercial (contracts, tenders,
certificates, insurance), marketing, HR.

Honours BA in Economics and Management - University of
Bologna, Italy. Secondary education in Brazil and the USA. In house translator
and reviser for 9 months at Logos, Modena, Italy 1994/5.

United Nations Language Proficiency Certificates for
English, French and Spanish. I have worked for 5 years at the UN before I moved
to Milan to lecture Portuguese at the Bocconi Management University.

Since I have started working as a translator in 1993,
I have processed several million words in translations, proofreading, MTPE, classic
editing, and localization. Increasingly I have been undertaking post-editing
tasks improving the accuracy of translations generated by tools like Deepl.

My end clients include Zurich Insurance, Walt Disney,
Fiat cars, Rank Xerox, EEC/EU (as a freelance), Rotary International, Honeywell
Bull, International Development Bank, Alitalia, Breitling, Prada, Speedo
Sport Wear, Schindler, Pirelli, Barclay’s Bank, Adidas, Fendi, The Royal Mint,
Cavalli.

If you have
any questions, please write to me.