Laura Gutierrez (translator)

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Laura gutierrez

Education:

09/2016 - 12/2016: Online Course on Literary Translation. Escritores.org

10/2015 – 10/2016: Masters in Dubbing, Subtitling and Translation. Universidad Europea de Madrid (Madrid)

Spanish, English

Dubbing (Films, Documentaries, Series)

Subtitling

Videogames localization

Website translation

Audiodescription

10/2014 – 04/2015: German course. Humboldt Institut (Berlin)

• German course in Berlin Mitte. It was a must to speak in German, that is, it was not allowed to communicate in another language. We had six hour-lectures Monday to Friday and after class we did activities, such as going to museums, cinema, sightseeing.

10/2009 – 09/2014: BA in Translation. Universidad Antonio de Nebrija (Madrid)

Spanish, English and German.

Economic and legal translation, Scientific translation, General translation (German into Spanish), Audio-

visual translation, Linguistics, TAO (Dèja Vu and Trados).

Course delegate (4th Grade).

Dissertation: El doblaje, 40 años de censura. 10

09/2011 – 06/2012: Full 3rd grade in Translation. University of Salford (Manchester)

Spanish, English, German.

Final project: legal translation (The Trial of Lenny Bruce), Reverse translation (Spanish into English),

General translation, Syntactic Theory, History, European Cinema in the 20th Century.

05/2016 – 08/2016: SDI MEDIA, Spain

Quality Control of audiovisual content as part of an internship. I supervised translated scripts in Spanish from both German and English. I also had to supervised the already processed material in Spanish (Quality control of dialogues)

01/2016 – 08/2016: Monal Group, France

Freelance subtitler German into Spanish. I translate the original script, which is in German, into Spanish and then I have to make the subtitles. The audiovisual content is often documentaries of all kinds (about drugs, animals, International Institutions, Bundesrepublik).

03/2013 – 09/2014: Pink Noise, Intern + Freelance

Worked as a freelance translator, project manager, helpdesk and trainer in a company specialized in videogames localization. Main functions:

Ø Manage multilingual projects (English, French and German), which included (among others):

Communicating with clients located all over the world, in English, both orally and by

email.

Proofreading Spanish translations from English and, sometimes, from German.

Proofreading audiovisual content in Spanish.

Some of the clients I worked with were: Microsoft, Disney, Nintendo, Sony, Riot,

Blizzard, EA Games.

Performing localization QA tests in Spanish and in English.

Managing translation memories, glossaries (both from the client and those made by me), term bases.

Improving translation project management processes:

o Elaborating on memoQ glossaries based on prohibited terms established by the client, so that translators and revisers do not use them.

o Exporting CAT Tools ( LocStudio from Microsoft and Trados) files to a compatible file in order to work on memoQ and used the already existing term bases and translation memories

Editing often translations based on bug reports from testers (both Latam and Spa Spanish).

Managing projects of at least 30.000 words.

Leading a team of at least five translators and two proof-readers.

12/2012 – 02/2013: One Digital Group, Translator.

Worked as a translator, often Spanish into English, of technical documents such as memos, user manuals, PowerPoints, product sheets (I also edited them using Adobe InDesign), projects, letters, etc.


Native language: Spanish
Translates from: English, German
Translates into: Spanish


User links: LinkedIn Proz

Books fully translated by this user:

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