HOW LANGUAGE AND MOVING IMAGES SHAPED MY JOURNEY

As cliché as it may sounds, moving images and languages have impacted me since I was a child. One of my earliest memories is that of watching the TV series Dallas and being capable of telling my mother everything that had happened in the previous episode, although I did not know how to read. This was actually how I learned English and, one could say, the moment I became a cinephile.

My passion for English stayed with me from that moment on, therefore I attended a bilingual English-French high-school and later on, the Faculty of Foreign Languages, University of Bucharest. I started my career in 2010 in language development and slowly making the transition towards translating.
My subtitling “break-through” was in 2015 and since then I am translating content for major VOD platforms and theatrical runs, creating and timing subtitles, quality control and contribuiting to style guides. My portofolio includes over 200 translated and QCed titles.

RESUME SUMMARY

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Audiovisual translator
2011 – Present
Freelance work for different clients:
Translation, and subtitling of movies and TV series
Translation of marketing content and corporate videos
Translation, subtitling, captioning and QA of videos
Website, app and videogame localization
Language development and linguistic data correcting


INTERNSHIP

2010
Working on a multi-word expression translating software, mainly verifying and correcting linguistic data.
Softwin, R&D Departament, Bucharest, Romania