Ivan Malatesta

Professional translator/interpreter with 18 years of experience working with the language pairs English ↔ Brazilian Portuguese and Spanish → Brazilian Portuguese/English. Specialized in legal, financial/accounting, corporate/business, medical/pharmaceutical, patent/intellectual property, compliance/regulatory, software localization, technical, and engineering translation projects. Extensive experience supporting multinational companies, translation agencies, institutions, and government-related projects requiring terminology consistency, linguistic precision, confidentiality, and high-quality deliverables. Experienced in translation, editing, proofreading, MTPE (Machine Translation Post-Editing), linguistic QA/review, localization, terminology management, and AI-assisted workflows with full human validation. Regularly work with CAT tools and terminology-management environments including SDL Trados Studio, memoQ, Phrase (Memsource), and Wordfast. Clients and sectors supported throughout my career include legal, financial/accounting, corporate/business, medical/pharmaceutical, research, marketing, government/institutional, compliance/regulatory, software localization, IT/technology, technical/engineering, automotive, industrial/manufacturing, and multilingual content adaptation projects. Known for accuracy, reliability, attention to detail, strong linguistic judgment, and the ability to maintain consistency across terminology-sensitive and high-volume projects.