Working languages:
Portuguese to English
English to Portuguese
Spanish to English
Benjamin Blocksom
Accurate high-profile translations

Brazil
Local time: 14:00 -03 (GMT-3)

Native in: English 
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Services Translation, Interpreting, Editing/proofreading, Software localization, Voiceover (dubbing), Subtitling, Transcription, Training, Project management, Operations management, Copywriting
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Specializes in:
Finance (general)Investment / Securities
Medical: PharmaceuticalsCertificates, Diplomas, Licenses, CVs
Marketing / Market ResearchAdvertising / Public Relations
IT (Information Technology)Food & Drink
AnthropologyMusic

KudoZ activity (PRO) PRO-level points: 20, Questions answered: 12, Questions asked: 6
Glossaries PT<>EN
Translation education Bachelor's degree - Georgetown University
Experience Years of experience: 10. Registered at ProZ.com: Nov 2014.
ProZ.com Certified PRO certificate(s) N/A
Credentials Portuguese (Georgetown University, verified)
Portuguese to English (Arizona State University Spanish Translation Certificate Program)
Memberships ATA
Software Adobe Acrobat, Adobe Illustrator, Adobe Photoshop, Indesign, memoQ, Microsoft Excel, Microsoft Word, Powerpoint, Trados Studio
Professional practices Benjamin Blocksom endorses ProZ.com's Professional Guidelines (v1.1).
Bio

Premium Portuguese and Spanish to English interpretation and translation from a Georgetown University trained linguist with high-quality document production values. Native English speaker.

Recent projects include work for HBO (subtitling for VICE News), Cleary Gottleib (legal documents and reports for VALE S.A. case), Hewlett-Packard (conference interpretation), MasterCard (website localization), Bechtel (civil construction manuals), and Johnson Controls Inc. (financial statements).

For this editorial translation on the Munduruku and their plight against the Tapajos hydro-power plant project, the emphasis was on producing good flow rather than a word-for-word rendering:

[Target] http://amazonwatch.org/news/2016/0208-munduruku-building-new-alliances-to-fight-tapajos-basin-dams-in-amazon
[Source] http://reporterbrasil.org.br/2015/12/a-politica-munduruku/

For my MA thesis in Ethnomusicology at the University of Maryland I collected, transcribed, and translated field interviews in Rio Branco (AC), Brazil. The full thesis can be read online (http://www.neip.info/downloads/Blocksom_2015.pdf) and an example of audio translation can be found here: https://soundcloud.com/daime_amor_daime_amor/cruzeiro-de-tres-bracos

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May 24, 2019