PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

 

Forty years of professional experience including seven serving as an expert level translator shared between academia as a high school-level and higher education-level instructor and employed at corporate level by leading multinational entities in the fields of technology; manufacturing; engineering; and publishing in positions including designer, project manager, trainer and more.

 

LinkedIn: www.linkedin.com/in/marcoasimoes 

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EMPLOYMENT

 

LILT, 6/25/2020—present

Technical Translator

Responsibilities: Translation; content revision; glossaries and TSF elaboration; subtitling for companies such as Intel, Dashlane, Skillshare, Voximplant, BibleProject, CybSafe, Mitto, as well as POCs.

 

WINTRANSLATION, 3/30/2015—2/17/2020

Technical Translator

Responsibilities: Coordinated Portuguese language translation and revision of IDZ (Intel Developer Zone) pages for company website.

 

CENTRO UNIVERSITÁRIO SÃO JUDAS–UNIMONTE, 2/2/2015—present

Full Professor

Responsibilities: Instructing courses included in the engineering department curriculum, including mechanical physics; electrical and applied physics; differential and integral calculus; transport phenomena; and thermodynamics, among others. Serving as project advisor.

 

COLLEGES: UNIVERSITAS AND PROGRESSO, SANTOS HIGH SCHOOL, 2/2/2017—present

Professor

Responsibilities: Teach mathematics, serve as project advisor.

 

FATEC (TECHNICAL HIGH SCHOOL) RUBENS LARA, 2015 school year

Full Professor

Responsibilities: Taught system security, mobile technologies, findability, and web content creation disciplines.

 

INTEL DO BRASIL SOFTWARE LTDA., 9/2/2013—3/27/2015

Field Applications Engineer for Retail

Responsibilities: Influenced decisions of large retailers regarding adoption of new Intel technologies. Familiarized sales teams, company buyers with new tech offerings using consumer-accessible language. Instructed users on preparation of tech demonstrations. Influenced manufacturers to pursue fresh alternatives as response to market demand.

 

Achievements: Successfully completed three major sales force training cycles for major nationwide retailers with introduction of new family of processors, adoption of new machine format, and integration of two new advanced feature options: voice command interface and augmented reality upgrade.

 

FAAP–FUNDAÇÃO ARMANDO ÁLVARES PENTEADO, 2/5/2004—8/8/2014

Full Professor and Course Coordinator, Acting Director

Responsibilities: Coordinated information systems course and common classes under engineering disciplines; served as full professor of computer networks, computer architecture, differential and integral calculus, statistics, technology and society, and principles of philosophy courses. Served as graduate studies professor for management excellence course. Coordinated alliances with international educational institutions. Coordinated partnerships with technology companies. Served as professor at the FAAP College for technology and informatics subjects.                                                                                              

Achievements: During the coordination periods of two consecutive years, information systems course received institution’s best evaluation grade attributed by MEC/ENADE (4 of 5); and was the only information systems course in Brazil specifically mentioned by the federal Ciência sem Fronteiras (Science Without Borders) program, as eligible for the program. Two important international agreements were signed: University of London and Illinois College.

 

NOVELL DO BRASIL SOFTWARE LTDA., 1/4/1999—7/1/2004

Senior Instructor

Responsibilities: Planned and implemented new technology training strategies for Brazil and Latin America. Learned about new technologies, trained and evaluated instructors in both Portuguese and Spanish. Taught and evaluated new instructors. Participated in new course preparation and localization. Coordinated university partnerships.

Achievements: Training entire South American market for two major technology platform transitions (operating systems) and associated vital paradigm shift (directory services adoption as adjunct to network resource control).

 

ABCOM AUTHORIZED TRAINING CENTER, 1/2/1995—10/1/1998

Senior Instructor

Responsibilities: Provided training for computer networks certification using Novell and Microsoft platforms.

Achievements: Received approval in all certification programs; more than 120 training sessions provided for over 1,000 participants from Brazil’s largest companies—Cargill, BASF, Itaú, Abril, among others.

 

WATCHTOWER ASSOCIATION, 1983—1994

Engineering Manager

Responsibilities: Coordinated engineering project team for construction and maintenance of graphic park to produce books and magazines related to civil, electrical, and mechanical projects.

Achievements: Coordinated graphic park expansion project, expanded from 40 thousand m2 to 140 thousand m2 in ten-year period. Achieved monthly production totals of 2 million published magazines and 300,000 printed books for distribution in Brazil, other LATAM countries. Implementation of effluent treatment system.

 

EDUCATION, TRAINING, AND PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT

Post-graduation in English Translation, Univ. Estácio de Sá—São Paulo, SP

Extension: Teaching and Learning in Higher Education—University of Tampere, Finland

PhD in Social Sciences, PUC-SP—São Paulo, SP

Master’s in education, Universidade São Marcos—São Paulo, SP

Post-graduation in Computer Networks, FASP—São Paulo, SP

Post-graduation in Educational Technology, FAAP—São Paulo, SP

Post-graduation in Instructional Design, UFJF-USP—São Paulo, SP

Degree in Physics, UMC—Mogi das Cruzes, SP

Mechanical Technician, Escola SENAI Roberto Simonsen—São Paulo, SP

 

VOLUNTARY ACTIVITY

Volunteer public work for the benefit of Spanish-speaking immigrants in São Paulo, São Mateus region.

 

PUBLICATIONS

Book: Calculus is Not a Seven-Headed Animal, vol. 1 & 2. Publisher: Editora Ciência Moderna, RJ, 2015

Thesis: Jehovah's Witnesses and the Nazi Holocaust: An Analysis of the Ideological Causes of Conflict. PUC-SP, 2016

Book: Fundamentals of Calculation: Class Notes. Publisher: Terceira Margem, SP, 2011.

Book: History of Reading: From Papyrus to Digital Paper. Publisher: Terceira Margem, 2008.

Academic Work: Use of the Moodle platform to support Face-to-Face Teaching. FAAP, 2006.

 

LANGUAGES

 

Fluent English: Frequent travel to the United States for training, conferences, and meetings; functioned as translator/localizer of technical content.

Fluent Spanish: Consistent travel to multiple Latin American countries to teach courses and give lectures.