Pilar Oliva Pastor
Personal Information	•	Nationality: Spanish
•	Residence: Madrid
E-mail: polivap2@gmail.com	
Education	•	1989 - 1993: MBA in Translation and Interpreting Studies, Universidad de Granada, Spain
•	1991 - 1992: Erasmus Scholarship (School of Languages and European Studies, University of Wolverhampton, UK)
•	1992 - 1993: Erasmus Scholarship (Karl-Franzens-Universität, Graz, Austria)
•	1993 - 1994: C.A.P. Certificate on Teaching Skills at Secondary Schools
•	1993- 1994: ”Zentrale Mittelstufenprufüng”, Goethe Institute, Granada, Spain
•	1994: Post-Graduate Translation Course on cinematographic translation, dubbing, voice-over and subtitles (University of Granada, Spain)
•	2013: MANAGEMENT SKILLS and DECISION-MAKING Course (FENAC)
•	2013: Advanced German Course (EUROPEAN FRAMEWORK OF REFERENCE): 120 hours
	
Experience	2006 - today	Technical freelance translator, localizer, editor, proofreader, content reviewer, transcriber and interpreter (interpreting over the telephone and simultenous interpreting).
2005-2006	PM: Foreign Exchange Translations.
Feb. 2002-2005	Technical freelance translator, localizer, editor, proofreader and interpreter.
2000-2002	International L10N Specialist at Bowne Global Solutions, Madrid
1999 - 2000		Translator subtitling documentaries, films and spots for Estudios Abaira, S.A., (Madrid), as well as transcriber and Technical Translator for several companies sited in Italy, Spain, United States and UK	
1998-1999		Senior Spanish Localization Specialist and Language Team Manager at Norintal S.L., Málaga, Spain
1995-1998		Senior Spanish Localization Specialist at International Communications (Lionbridge Technologies), USA
1994 - 1995		Spanish Localization Specialist at Rank Xerox Technical Centre, Welwyn Garden City, UK
March 1994	Translator for the Institute of Nutrition and Technology (INYTA), Granada, Spain
Summer 1994	Secretary at Art Gallery Kyomo, Marbella, Spain
1993 - 1994	Interpreter, translator and Guide for the Provincial Government of Granada, Spain
April 1993	Interpreter and Guide at Club Europa, Wien, Austria
1991	Researcher at the Linguistics and Applied Languages Department, Granada, Spain
April 1991	Translator for Lekkerland-Spain, Jaén
1990-1998	Teacher: Private tutoring of the Spanish language to adults and children abroad/Private Spanish and English lessons to adults in England and Austria/English and German teacher in Spain
	
Languages	English, Spanish, French and German	
Specializing in 	Information technology (software, hardware, online help, documentation), mobile telephony, digital content, digital goods, ERP platforms, marketing, brochures and catalogues, multimedia, games, branding, packaging, advertisement, E-learning, finance, corporate business, tourism, medicine, pharmacy, research, cinema and tv, subtitling, voice overs, transcription, interpreting, as well as many other global market sectors.	
Mission	To translate over 1,000,000 words annually covering as many fields of translation as possible and using state-of-the art translation techniques, tools and software, including text-to-speech, speech-to-text, graphic design, and terminology management and translation memory technologies.  On a personal level, to keep on studying and working in search for knowledge, service opportunities and creation in language-related activities.	
Tasks	Responsible for the translation and review of documents, help systems, software, digital content and web pages related to my areas of specialization.  Extensive knowledge of the advertising and marketing world in the field of both translation and localization.  The quality of the translations is ensured by the process of thorough edition and proofreading of own work, the latter based on international guidelines, on specific style guides provided by the clients and on carefully prepared glossaries specifically related to the product being localized.  Special attention is devoted to the cultural diversities among countries (particularly those existing between Latin America and Spain).  Deep knowledge of all steps involved in the localization process of a product, awareness of the importance of maintaining formatting and coding, and of other issues imposed by engineering-related limitation.  Commonly works with files in various formats for help systems, documentation, UI and web pages.  Wide testing experience: has extensively tested help systems, focusing on consistency, cleaning indexes, checking links, being always detail oriented, and concentrating on finding typos and errors in written and online documentation.  Responsible for the training of other team members.  Experience in voice-overs.	
Tools	Office Tools (97, 2000, XP)
Translation Memory tools
SDL Trados 2007, 2009 and 2011 Freelance Version and lower,Corel Catalyst, LocStudio, Helium, Passolo, Hyperhub, LEAF, ULOC, MemoQ, OpenOffice.org.3.1, Idiom WorldServer, Accent Loc@ale, ForeignDesk, Déjà Vu, Intel´s IIDS, FileMaker Pro, Transit, Wordfast, SAP Online Translation Tool, Mneme Tool, Lotus Tools, HTML Editor, Homesite 4.0, FrontPage, DreamWeaver
FTP Client: WS_FTPro, FileZilla	
Clients	IT: Lotus, Microsoft, Novell, Oracle, Macromedia, Seagate, Ricoh, Lucent Technologies, Nikon, Canon, Kodak, Wildfire Communications, Dragon Systems, SAP, AutoDesk, Ericsson, Phillips, Rhetorical, Cisco, Nortel Networks, among others.
Design: Waskman Group: Translation work done for Ron Arad & Associates, Tomato, Greyworld, Frank Gehry, Calatrava, Sony, Philips, El último grito, among others.
Multimedia: Euro RSCG Wnek Gosper, Estudios Abaira, Ebay, PayPal, Motion Graphics, among others.
Interpreting: Motion Graphics, Guggenheim Museum Bilbao, Castilla La Mancha University, Illuminate S.L., among others.
Marketing: Euro RSCG Wnek Gosper, Agfa, Kodak, among others.
Subtitling and transcriptions: Estudios Abaira, Vitac.	
References	
Available upon request.