Profile

Antonino Casablanca

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Experience

The Retail Practice 04/10/2018 – 01/12/2018

I have worked with The Retail Practice as a freelance copywriter to create English product descriptions for Twinset, a luxury fashion brand. Namely, I have written descriptions by using specific SEO words and call to action sentences, which have optimised both the selling and the online search of the Twinset items for the SS19.

Farfetch UK Limited 13/07/2017 - present

I am currently collaborating with Farfetch as a freelance content writer and translator. I have created editorial contents and translated product descriptions from English into Italian. Education

University of Essex 2016-2017

MA Translation, Interpreting and Subtitling

Relevant modules include: Technologies of Translation, Interpreting practice, Translation portfolio, Subtitling (Principles and Practice).

SSML - Scuola Superiore per Mediatori Linguistici (University School of Translation and Interpretation) Palermo, Italy 2013 - 2016

Bachelor Degree in Language Mediation with 98/110 marks Relevant modules include: English language and written translation, Italian language, English consecutive and simultaneous interpretation, French language and written translation, French consecutive and written translation, Computer science.

I am a hardworking and self-driven freelance Italian translator. During the last four years, I focused on the e-commerce industry by translating content from English into Italian and vice versa for several brands. As a person who always seeks to improve himself, I would like to enhance my translation skills by working with your company.

Project/dissertation title and details: Glossary on Statelessness and Migration (250 terms in French, Italian, and English with definitions).

Skills

CAT Tools

• I am interested in CAT tools such as SDL Trados studio 2017 and XTM Cloud as I think are a fundamental help for the new generation of translators.

• Indeed, I always use XTM cloud during my working day to increase my daily target of translated words. IT skills

• Very good command of Microsoft Word, Excel, and PowerPoint.

• Thanks to my translation and copywriting experience, I have a perfect command of Word and Excel. For instance, I have created and edited several Excel files containing a huge amount of data. Time management

• Time management is part of my freelance life as I need to deal with different projects at the same time.

• For instance, during my experience with The Retail Practice, I used to deal with several tasks coming from two different companies.

Proofreading

• Proofreading is a fundamental skill that I acquired during the years as I learnt how to check the accuracy in a text, consistency in usage, presentation and identifying necessary changes.

• For instance, I have been practicing my proofreading skill by revising product descriptions that sometimes did not match with the photo of the product or presented some mistakes and I had to edit them to deliver contents that were faithful to the original photo. Teamwork

• Teamwork is a fundamental skill that all employees should have to achieve better results for the company.

• I developed my teamwork skill by working together with other freelancers to create valuable content for my company website.

Interests

Teaching Italian

• One of my interests is teaching Italian as a foreign language as I think it can help me analyse the differences between languages (namely English and Italian). Indeed, I have been an Italian student mentor of the University of Essex and an online tutor on tutorhunt.com