Dera Arinze

My name is Dera Arinze, and I am an English, Spanish and Japanese Translator and Localization Specialist with 7 years of experience in translation, localization, proofreading, and multilingual project coordination. I am writing to express my interest in potential freelance or professional collaboration opportunities with your team.

My experience covers a range of specialized content, including:

Technical & Automotive Translation: Technical documentation, product information, automotive terminology, and specifications.

Patent & Legal Translation: Patent-related materials, contracts, legal documentation, and terminology-sensitive content.

Website & Commercial Localization: Website content, e-commerce materials, product descriptions, and business communications.

Tourism & Hospitality Translation: Tourism-related content and materials requiring cultural and contextual accuracy.

Pharmaceutical Translation: Pharmaceutical and related technical materials.

Throughout my professional experience, I have handled translation and review assignments, maintained terminology consistency, conducted linguistic quality checks, and coordinated projects from initial briefs through final delivery. I have also contributed to automotive-related translation projects involving clients such as Toyota and Bosch.

I am proficient in industry-standard CAT and translation-support tools, including SDL Trados. Studio, Phrase, Wordfast, Smartcat, MateCat, OmegaT, and Déjà Vu. My workflow also incorporates translation memory, terminology management, and machine translation post-editing (MTPE).

My qualifications include ATA Certification, an EF SET English Certificate, DELE C2 -Instituto Cervantes and Japan Translation Association (JTA) translation examinations. I am a native English speaker with professional Japanese and Spanish proficiency.