Experience

Highlights of Qualifications

  • STIBC (Society of Translators and Interpreters of BC) Certified Member
  • Language Combination: English to Brazilian Portuguese
  • Simultaneous interpreting.
  • Consecutive interpreting.
  • 30+ years combined experience as ESL Teacher, translator, interpreter, and MCI instructor.
  • 25+ years experience translating texts, manuals and documents.
  • Fluent English and Brazilian Portuguese. Functional Spanish.
Similtaneous Interpreting Vancouver

Career Experience

2013 - present On-line Court Interpreting Instructor with Glendon College for the MCI (Master Conference Interpreting), Toronto, ON, Canada

1997 - present Self-Employed Translator/Consecutive Interpreter, Vancouver, BC, Canada

  • Proofread/review translations for companies and translation agencies.
  • Translate documents and manuals for companies and translation agencies.
  • Translate documents for the Brazilian community living in the Greater Vancouver area.
  • IRB and Attorney General Interpreting Certification Exam Marker.
  • Simultaneous interpreting.
  • Consecutive interpreting.
  • Consecutive Court Interpreting.
  • Over-the-phone interpreting (via conference call).

1990 - 1997 Self-Employed ESL Teacher/Translator/Consecutive Interpreter, São Paulo, Brazil

  • Proofread/reviewed translations for companies.
  • Translated documents and manuals for companies.
  • Self-employed ESL Teacher.
  • Consecutive interpreting