Alba Collado Cascales

English to Spanish translations at Pro level. Mostly product descriptions for e-commerce sites specialized in very different sectors, from fashion to technology or health, but also blog posts or business letters among other documents (over 300 jobs and 6,000 units).

Translation and proofreading of editorial content Translation to Spanish. Translation to Catalan.

• Co-translating the company website (En>Es) as well as all English content and proofreading co-workers' translations (En>Es) of the site, the CMS and e-mail templates i.a. • Conducting data research about retail and FMCG in Spain and publishing these data to a specialist audience (in English and Spanish). • Managing web content via a content management system and keeping the database up to date. • Training students and new colleagues and monitoring and revising students' work.

• Translation En>Sp of the website iGadgets.be (now coolgift.com) (over 70,000 words). • Slogan creation and the use of highly creative language were required for most products. • Proofreading the English site (over 70,000 words).

•Planning and teaching Spanish courses to students 12 to 20

• Proofreading the questionnaire Spinal Cord Independence Measure v.III • Language validation of the project (Adaptación transcultural de la escala auto administrada SCI; III-SR para la evaluación de la independencia funcional de pacientes lesionados medulares)

•Translating/proofreading magazine articles for El Temps from the German magazine der Spiegel (En>Cat, De>Cat) •Main topics (but not exclusive): politics, history , literature and culture •Variety of formats: interviews, opinion pieces, leading articles, columns, etc. •Some of the published translations are available at the magazine’s website (See 'Publications' below)

• Planning and teaching Spanish intensive courses to adults (at different levels) • Organizing and carrying extra activities and cultural events • Welcoming students • Transfer responsible: pick-ups, drop-offs, check-ins, check-outs • Building responsible: checking and processing maintenance and building issues

• Programming and implementation of cooking workshops, drama courses and educational and recreational activities for people with moderate disabilities.

• Internship as a teacher in a school for children with special needs

• Development and implementation of educational, cultural and recreational activities in a summer school for children in third grade

• 24h responsible for people with severe disabilities in several summer camps • Care and welfare work • Programming recreational activities

• Postgraduate course in poetry translation (Sp>En) • American Culture Studies • Literary translation • Tourist texts • Advertising texts • MEMO-Q • Subtitling • Localization • Interpreting (consecutive interpreting, simultaneous interpreting, bilateral interpreting, sight translation)

• Special education (learning disorders, hearing impairment, visual impairment) • Theater, legends, myths and fairy tales as a teaching resource + cooperative work as an educator in Copenhagen and Oslo)