I was born in South-Africa, my mother is from Mozambique, my father from Curaçao, my Grandparents were from Ilha da Madeira, China and Mozambique. Before settling in Brazil, we lived in Nigeria, Denmark and Portugal as my father was transfered to those countries for professional reasons. I live in Brazil since 1964. 

The languages at home, were both English and Portuguese. During my childhood I studied in British Schools. Hence, I consider myself a native speaker of both English and Brazilian Portuguese.

I worked for companies of the automotive, electronics, aerospace and trading company business fields, in the procurement, purchasing, international sales, logistics and quality areas.

I lived and worked in several countries such as: 

Germany, Alto Volta, Angola, Argentina, Bahrein, Bolivia, Cape Vert, Colombia, Ivory Coast, Denmark, Djibouti, Spain, USA, France, Hong Kong, Japan, Kuwait, Lebanon, Liberia, Morocco, Mauritania, Mexico, Mozambique, Nigeria, Paraguay, Portugal, Rihad, Senegal, Sierra Leone, Sweden, Switzerland, Taiwan and Venezuela, for companies such as: 

Acli Int'l Commodity Services, Artex, Case (former JI Case), DuPont, Maxion, Siemens, Splice and Berlitz.

Certified in ISO and QS 9000 and ISO 14000;

Advanced Product Quality Planning & Control

Failure Mode and Effects Analysis

Measurement System Analysis

Fundamentals on Statistic Process Control

I participated in the implementation of computer systems such as COPIX, MAGNUS, DATASUL, SAP and others.

With the hands-on experience acquired during all these years, I share my experience and knowledge to meet customer needs.

I meet the needed requirements for technical translations, transcriptions, subtitling, proofreading, consecutive interpretations from Portuguese(any) to English, from English (any) to Brazilian and Continental Portuguese and for voice-overs in both languages for institutional videos and audio books.