Silvia De Bellis Profile Bentsebrugata, 16 G 0476 Oslo English/French to Italian technical translator (IT & business software and related Norway manuals, corporate material and Websites) with 10 years experience, in the past 6 years specialized in videogame localization (in-game strings, dialogs, Web & marketing Tel.: +47 22 35 22 65 material; remote linguistic testing using DevTrack) Mobile: +47 91 91 61 75 E-mail: [email protected] Work Experience
Freelance localizer (English/French into Italian) 2004 – Present Freelance localizer of multimedia materials, mainly videogames (user interface; scripts, dialogs, tutorials; manuals & documentation, box; patches & hotfixes; Web & marketing material; QA and bugfixing) for various platforms (such as Nintendo Wii, Nintendo DS, Playstation3, Playstation2, Xbox 360, PC and mobile phones) and for various indirect clients (such as Vivendi Universal Games, The Adventure Company, Micro Application, Dreamcatcher Interactive, Digital Jesters, CDV Software Entertainments, Midway Games, Nikoli, Disney, Zylom, Fluent Entertainment, TDK, Jamdat). Some titles I have worked on: King's Bounty: Armored Princess, Chronicles of Mystery: The Scorpio Ritual, Art of Murder: Hunt for the Puppeteer, Ghostbusters: The Video Game, The Bourne Conspiracy, TimeShift, World in Conflict, WiC Expansion, Scarface: The World is Yours, Scarface: Money. Power. Respect., Spyro: Shadow Legacy, The Legend of Spyro: A New Beginning, The Legend of Spyro: The Eternal Night + Website "Spyro's Lair", Crash of the Titans + Website "Crash Village", Geometry Wars, Swat 4, Voyage: Inspired by Jules Verne, ECHO: Secret of the lost cavern, Agatha Christie: And Then There Were None, Paradise, Brain Buster Puzzle Pak, Disney Fun House (DVD game), Pure, Mortimer Beckett Deluxe, Sunset Studio, The Magician Handbook, Majestic Chess, Spy Muppet, Bikini Blackjack, Kasparov, Lemonade.
In-house translator & QA engineer (English/French into Italian) 4/2003 – 5/2008: Alpha CRC (Cambridge, UK) Software, user guide & manual, online help, (Business Object, Symantec, Autodesk, Jasc, Avid, Promethean, Toshiba, DocuWare), Websites (Kodak, Logitech), videogames (Fluent, TDK, Jamdat), Web & marketing material (SAP, HP, ColorVision, Pantone, Autograph).
12/2002 – 4/2003 SDL Intl (Rome, Italy) Software manuals (Sun, Lexmark, HP, Canon, Kodak).
2/2002 – 9/2002 Rand Worldwide Technologies (Dublin, Ireland) CAD software manuals: translation, proofreading, DTP.
8/2000 – 1/2002 Eurotext (Dublin, Ireland) Head of the Italian department: translation, proofreading, database maintenance, recruitment of in-house and freelance translators, training of new employees. Websites (www.onlinetranslations.com, sections of www.ireland.travel.ie, sections of www.hp.com/it), mechanical engineering (Thermo King refrigeration systems), hardware (Maxtor backup systems, hard disks), tourism (Bord Faílte, Irish National Tourist Board), magazines (Jefferson Smurfit Group), legal (An Garda, Irish National Police Force), Slendertone products, corporate material. Italian teacher 9/2004 – 5/2005 Anglia Ruskin (Cambridge, UK) Part-time Italian lecturer, levels: Intermediate and Advanced
10/2001 – 9/2002 Aisling Ireland (Dublin, Ireland) Italian teacher, levels: Beginners to Advanced
Education 7/2000: MA (cum laude) in foreign languages and foreign literature (French and English), University of Bologna, Italy. Thesis consisting in the translation of the French essay Feuilles Volantes by Georges Hyvernaud.
12/1997: MA (cum laude) in Italian literature, University of Bologna, Italy. Thesis consisting in a linguistic and stylistic analysis of the work of the Italian author Dino Buzzati.
Languages
Italian – mother tongue English – excellent French – excellent Norwegian – read Japanese – basics German – basics
Technical Skills MS Office, CAT tools (Trados, SDLX, Passolo, Catalyst, Déjà Vu, Idiom WorldServer), DTP software (Adobe FrameMaker, Adobe InDesign, Adobe Photoshop, Illustrator), QA tools (DevTrack).
Professional Certifications 3/2001: Diploma on Desktop Publishing, IACT school, Dublin. Software studied: QuarkXpress 4.1, Adobe Photoshop 5.5, Illustrator 8, Corel Draw 10
Miscellaneous Italian nationality, married. Main interests: literature, languages, videogames.
References available on request.