Vitor Hugo Alves

• Experienced Localization professional having worked for small, medium, and top ten companies.
• Experience with IBM MSS, BMC Remedy, Rational Quality Management, Lotus Note, and Lotus Symphony. OS: Linux.
• Excellent knowledge of CAT/Localization and TM Tools: Trados, Trados Server Administration, SDLX, Idiom World Server, LocStudio, Helium, Multilizer, IBM TM, Transit, Passolo, Catalyst, RCWinTrans and ResEdit.
• Experience with testing, converting and bug fixing localized software and manuals (xml based, InDesign, Framemaker, Quark formats etc)
• Knowledge of the following Software Testing Tools: Mantis, Testlink, FXCOP, Tortoise SVN, Badboy, Selenium,Webload, JMeter.
• Knowledge of writing Test Cases, and Test Automation Scripts
• Very good knowledge of Unicode and XML. Use of XMLSpy for XML well-formedness and validation.
• Experience with xliff files.
• Experience in projects with non-Western, double-byte and bi-directional languages.
• Knowledge of Java, Perl and Oriented Object Programming.
• Localization of JavaScript, VB.NET, PHP, C#, ASP, Pascal and Cobol projects.
• IT skills managing Windows Server 2003 Networks and Exchange Server.
• Worked as a Localization Engineer on all steps of a Windows Localization Project, from kick off to release at both Microsoft offices: Redmond, WA and Dublin, Ireland
• Experience with Game Localization .
• Excellent learning and logic skills.
• Extensive experience training and providing support to PMs, Linguists and Sales.
• Detail-oriented and self-motivated.
• Emphasis on being a team player.
• Native speaker of Brazilian Portuguese; proficient in English. Many years of experience as a translator/Editor (EN -> PT-BR).

Specialties: Translation Memory and CAT Tools, Software and Documentation Localization Engineering, Software Testing, Test Automation