Ari C.

Xavier Curriculum Vitae

Email: AriXavier@gmail.com Tel: (1) 805-201-0598

Professional Profile:
• Native Languages: English and Portuguese, fluent in Spanish
• Language Combination: Portuguese to English and vice versa.
• Qualified to translate technical documents and edit at professional level from Portuguese to
English and vice versa
• Familiarity with a wide range of language registers and styles as a result of extensive academic
and professional studies;
• 5 years professional freelance experience of translating texts from diverse Portuguese sources
into English and vice versa (Professional Referees: Available on request)
• Business (general, financial, corporate literature, employee communications, invoices, e-mails,
contracts), Tourism and Leisure, Web-page Translation / Editing, Marketing Official Documents
(birth certificates, life certificates, university degrees / diplomas, equivalences), CVs / Journalism
(specialized, semi- specialized, general)
• Translation and/or editing work of a more general, multidisciplinary, or semi-specialized nature is
also undertaken: Web-page Translation / Editing; technical and Semi-technical and/or Scientific
material (pharmaceutical, agroindustrial, journalistic)

Highlights of Professional Skills and Accomplishments (between 2003 and 2009):

• Translation of technical documents such as: Engineering Specifications, Instruction and
Operating Manuals, Patents and Patent Applications, Data Sheets, Instruction and Operating
Manuals, Electronic Manuals and Guides. The most recent technical work been commissioned
by A & A Language Services, Bellevue (Seattle), Washington - USA for Fuji Ace Robotics Robotic
Palletizers.
• Translation of degrees, diplomas and a masters equivalence for Brazilian-speaking clients
seeking to enter foreign universities;
• Translation of a pharmaceutical monograph concerning the testing under laboratory conditions of
a newly developed, three-ply packaging material designed to prevent pharmaceutically pure sodium
chloride from absorbing moisture from the air and consequently caking;
• Translation of business texts (correspondence concerning cooperation between companies and
employee communications pertaining to company takeover);
• Attained training in public relations writing, communications, and media relations.
• Opened a Web Hosting company IntWebHosting.com (Year 2008)
• Self learned Databases (MySql), PHP programming and Web-site Creation.
• Designed and changed Web sites; created interactive Web demos for product launches.
• Created/designed these websites: Dns-Mx.com, IntWebHosting.com, Swissgb.com,
Conectateac.com and Fun-TasticCreations.com
• 6 Years as a Manager for Dns-Mx.Com (Quality Control Services for the Auto Industry, Mexico)

0 Qualifications:
• Proficiency Certificate in Oral and Written Translations and Teaching English as a Second
Language from CVC Institute Dallas, TX – USA – 1996
• Proficiency Certificate in Business Management from CVC Institute Dallas, TX – USA – 2000

1 Professional Referees:
• Available on request