Alejandro Gonzalez Lopez

Alejandro Gonzalez Lopez

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Localization Manager
Las Palmas de Gran Canaria, Canary Islands, Spain
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  • Unite
    Localization Technology Manager ⚙️ public Remote experience
    Unite
    Jul 2022 - Current (4 years 4 months)
    • Manage internal and third-party tooling, including integrations to enable seamless and scalable translation and localization across Unite’s content.
    • In particular, support the Head of TLM in the selection, rollout, and management of the Translation Management System (currently: Phrase), and optimize its usage for the different content types, language assets, and stakeholders.
    • Partner closely with internal stakeholders, e.g. developers and content teams, as well as external partners, e.g. Candour and Phrase, to design, implement, and optimize workflows and integrations.
    • Responsible for daily troubleshooting, bug reporting and communication between the user and tech side (e.g. Candour, Phrase, robole, internal IT teams.
  • Unite
    Localization & Internationalization 🌍 | Project Coordinator 🗓 | TMS 🚀 public Remote experience
    Unite
    Jun 2021 - Jun 2022 (1 year 1 month)
    • Translate and localize a wide range of content from English and German into Spanish, including marketing, legal, UI, keywords, support, customer service content to deliver a high-quality and on-brand localized experience for Unite’s customers.
    • Perform linguistic quality assurance (LQA) as needed.
    • Review and edit content already written in Spanish to ensure language quality and brand consistency.
    • Create and maintain language-related documents for Spanish (terminology, style guides, translation memories, etc.)
    • Collaborate with local market representatives (e.g. Spanish Marketing Manager) to review translated content and incorporate feedback to ensure that content resonates with the local audience.
    • Collabor
  • DuPont
    Employee Services Advisor 🖥 📞
    DuPont
    Mar 2020 - May 2021 (1 year 3 months)
    Member of the team responsible for managing all the data of the DuPont workforce (approx. 2500 employees) in Germany, Luxembourg and Austria. Advanced use of Lotus Notes, SAP, Skype for Business, Teams, Excel, ServiceNow and Workday. Entrusted with the update of the documentation (German & English) for the processes carried out monthly, quarterly and yearly by the whole team.
  • bbo
    EN/DE > ES Audiovisual Translator & Subtitler 📽 public Remote experience
    bbo
    Jan 2017 - Feb 2017 (2 months)
    👨🏼‍💻 One hundred hours of distance internship, during which I carried out several assignments in the field of audiovisual translation: subtitling and spotting, translation and lip-sync for dubbing, adaptations into Castilian Spanish and voice-over translation with and without script/transcription.
  • Autónomo
    Translator & Proofreader 👨🏼‍💻 | Audiovisual field 🎬 public Remote experience
    Autónomo
    Mar 2016 - Current (10 years 8 months)
    🎬 Dubbing & voice-over: TakeMaker, Deluxe Spain, International Sound Studio, Best Digital, Tecnison (Ymagis Group), Media Arts Studio

    • DE > ES Translation of the films "Welcome to Germany, "Four Against the Bank", "In times of Fading Light" and "Cut Off"
    • EN > ES Translation of the films "6 Days", "Swinging Safari", "Bel Canto" and "Destination Wedding"
    • Translation of the film "Salyut-7"
    • DE > ES Translation of the series "Beat" (S1), Amazon Prime Video
    • EN > ES Translation of the westerns "Outlaws and Angels" and "Traded"
    • EN > ES Translation of the documentary "Make Us Dream", Amazon Prime Video
    • EN > ES Translation of the factual programmes "Girls Incarcerated" (S2), an
  • Autónomo
    Technical translator and proofreader 👨🏼‍💻​ | Marketing 🎯 public Remote experience
    Autónomo
    Mar 2016 - Current (10 years 8 months)
    ✎ Specialized translation companies: Kocarek, tolingo, Tetras Translations, Zesauro Traducciones, Translation Back Office, Leginda, Flix Translations, Telelingua, Kraus Media, Tradtec, Derra i Mesanza

    ✎ Online translation companies: Tolq, Unbabel, One Hour Translation, Gengo, Translated, TextMaster

    ✎ Companies from other sectors: Fitshop, raybowmedia, Phiture, Trek (Electra), Bitvavo
  • tolingo GmbH
    Project Manager 🕹 📊 public Remote experience
    tolingo GmbH
    Sep 2015 - Feb 2016 (6 months)
    👨🏼‍💻 Planning, coordination and execution of translation projects for both private companies and individual clients. Use of memoQ as the main CAT tool. Handling of different file formats, use of TMs, terminologies and glossaries. Previous budgeting (Salesforce) and final quality control before sending the finished product. Daily contact with translators and clients (Skype for Business) in German and English per email and/or telephone.
  • Lucanet
    Financial Translator 📊 📈
    Lucanet
    Mar 2015 - Aug 2015 (6 months)
    👨🏼‍💻 Translation of financial documents from German into Spanish, including the interface of a computer program called, “SmartNotes”. Use of the software Trello to efficiently organize project tasks.
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    Language Assistant: Gymnasium Essen Nord-Ost (GENO) 👨🏼‍🏫
    Ministry of Education Culture and Sport MECD Pedagogic Exchange Service PAD
    Sep 2014 - May 2015 (9 months)
    👨🏼‍🏫 Assistant teacher in a German high school. Working hand in hand with all the Spanish teachers and performing a great variety of activities during the lessons in order to increase the level of knowledge and language skills (listening comprehension, writing, reading, listening, grammar and vocabulary) of the students. Teaching pupils attending the last three years of high school: "Oberstufe".
  • b
    Website Translator 📱 public Remote experience
    brabbl eG
    May 2014 - Jul 2014 (3 months)
    👨🏼‍🏫 Intern Translator and Proofreader (German > Spanish). Localization of the entire content of both sites: and (not yet published). Use of SDL Trados Studio as the CAT tool, as well as management and exchange of TMs and terminologies with SDL Multiterm.
  • UNHCR the UN Refugee Agency
    Translator Trainee 🗺 public Remote experience
    UNHCR the UN Refugee Agency
    Mar 2014 - Aug 2014 (6 months)
    👨🏼‍💻 Translator and Proofreader (English > Spanish) in the core team. Translation of texts related to the situation of refugees in conflict areas. Creation, management and exchange of TMs and terminologies through Déjà Vu X2.
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  • thePower
    Digital Marketing, Marketing/Gestión de marketing, general
    thePower
    Jan 2019 - Dec 2022 (4 years)
  • ThePowerMBA
    Digital Marketing, Marketing/Gestión de marketing, general
    ThePowerMBA
    Jan 2019 - Dec 2022 (4 years)
  • Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona
    Master's Degree in Audiovisual Translation (MUTAV, Language and Linguistics
    Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona
    Jan 2016 - Dec 2017 (2 years)
    📖 All-round training in this field, with modules that cover the different modes of audiovisual and multimedia translation, such as dubbing, subtitling, subtitling for the deaf and hard-of-hearing, audio description for the blind and visually impaired, theatre and opera surtitling, multimedia translation, video game and website localization and respeaking.
  • Cologne University of Applied Sciences
    Translation and Interpreting, Institute of Translation and Multilingual Communication (ITMK)
    Cologne University of Applied Sciences
    Jan 2012 - Dec 2012 (1 year)
    📖 Erasmus Scholarship: Expansion of German language skills through the experience of everyday life in a German-speaking country.
  • University of Glasgow
    Translation and Interpreting, School of Modern Languages and Cultures
    University of Glasgow
    Jan 2011 - Dec 2011 (1 year)
    📖 Erasmus Scholarship: Deepening of the English language skills through the experience of everyday life in an English-speaking country.
  • Universidad de Salamanca
    Degree in Translation and Interpreting, Language and Linguistics
    Universidad de Salamanca
    Jan 2010 - Dec 2014 (5 years)
    📖 Speciality in Translation: Literature, Humanities, legal, economic, scientific-technical and audiovisual, as well as an introduction to consecutive and simultaneous interpreting. Deepening of written and oral skills in the mother tongue as well as in several foreign languages (English and German) in view of the fields of work of a professional translator and interpreter.
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    Las voces superpuestas, sus particularidades y las técnicas de traducción empleadas en el género documental - El caso de
    Sep 2017
    Trabajo de fin de máster (TFM), calificado con 10 (Matrícula de honor), en formato de estudio teórico-práctico en base a un triple eje: el género documental, las particularidades de las voces superpuestas y las técnicas de traducción en el ámbito audiovisual a partir del análisis de treinta ejemplos de traducciones del inglés al español extraídos del documental "David Lynch: The Art Life".
  • L
    La influencia de la cultura en la traducción publicitaria alemán–español: un enfoque funcionalista
    Jul 2014
    Trabajo de fin de grado (TFG) en el que se pretende dar respuesta a los cambios y a las variaciones que se han producido en las últimas décadas en el marco publicitario, centrándose especialmente en el ámbito traductológico a través de un enfoque funcionalista, teniendo en cuenta la influencia de otros parámetros variables como la cultura o la fraseología.