Silvia Flórez

Education

Master in Translation and Localization Technologies
Universitat Jaume I, Spain, 2008.

M.Phil in English (Linguistics)
University of Bergen, Norway, 2004.

Bachelor degree: English-French-Spanish Translation
Universidad de Antioquia, Colombia, 2001.

Other Courses and Seminars

2009. International Symposium on Interpreting Studies in Honour of Brian Harris.
Universitat Jaume I, Spain.

2009. Open Translation Tools 2009.
Aspiration Tech. Amsterdam, Netherlands.

2006. Course: Automatic Treatment of Natural Language.
Universidad de Antioquia, Medellín, Colombia.

2006. On-line Course: Localization with PASSOLO.
Instructor: Detlef Reineke (Certified Passolo Trainer).

2002. Certificate in Teaching Spanish as a Foreign Language. Universidad de Antioquia, Medellín, Colombia.

2000. Seminar: Professional Languages, Terminology and Related Disciplines. Medellín, Colombia.

1999. Translation Workshop: Translation Theory and Pragmatics. Universidad de Antioquia, Medellín, Colombia.

1995. Second Regional Translation Meeting. Universidad del Valle, Santiago de Cali, Colombia.

Computer Knowledge

General software:
Windows 98/2000/XP/Vista, OpenOffice 2.x, MSOffice 2000/2003, FireFox, Internet Explorer, Adobe Reader, Winzip, WinRAR, Audacity, voice IP, FTP and e-mail clients.

Translation software:
SDL Trados Workbench, DVX, SDLX, OmegaT (CAT tools); SDL Trados MultiTerm (terminology management); PASSOLO and CATALYST (software localization); HTML Help Workshop (localization of help files); ABBYY FineReader and OmniPage (optical character recognition); Bitext2tmx (alignment); Olifant (TM editor); AntConc (concordancer); Scribus (DTP); Subtitle Workshop and Subtitle Creator (subtitle translation); CatsCradle (web-site localization); KompoZer (web-site creation); ApSIC Xbench (QA).

Hardware and software installation, configuration and maintenance, and basic knowledge of network administration.