Didi Cardoso

Current

• Interpreter / Translator at SISO - Settlement and Integration Services Organization
• Content Manager at Blue Agate
• Managing Editor / PR Coordinator at Grrlgamer.com

• Staff Writer at Grrlgamer.com

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Education

• Mohawk College
• Mohawk College
• ISLA Lisbon

• Centro de Linguas Estrangeiras de Cascais

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Recommended

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Connections

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Industry

Publishing

Websites

• Grrlgamer
• Simgrrl
• Restaurante Pereira

Didi Cardoso’s Experience

• Interpreter / Translator

  SISO - Settlement and Integration Services Organization

  (Privately Held; 201-500 employees; Individual & Family Services industry)

  May 2008 — Present (8 months)

  Portuguese - English interpretation and document translation

• Content Manager

  Blue Agate

  (Internet industry)

  June 2007 — Present (1 year 7 months)

• Managing Editor / PR Coordinator

  Grrlgamer.com

  (Publishing industry)

  June 2005 — Present (3 years 7 months)

  - Reviews writer
  - Game guides author
  - Content manager
  - Recruiting of new writers
  - Maintain relations with several game developers and publishers

• Staff Writer

  Grrlgamer.com

  (Publishing industry)

  September 2000 — Present (8 years 4 months)

  - Videogames reviewer
  - Fan fiction writer
  - Game guides author

Didi Cardoso’s Education

• Mohawk College

  Interpreter, Interpreting (Portuguese/English), 2006 — 2008

  Introduction to Language Interpreting: 84%
  Consecutive Interpreting: 99%
  Setting Specific Interpreting: 95.8%
  Sight Translation: 95%
  
  CILISAT
  Information score: 90.75%
  Language score: 88.25%

• Mohawk College

  Certificate of Competence in the French Language, French, 2000 — 2001

  Honors Graduate
  
  Certificate scan:
  http://www.geocities.com/sania_eq/certificado_CCFLmohawk.jpg

• ISLA Lisbon

  Translation - Year I, English/Portuguese, French/Portuguese Translation, 1998 — 1999

  Certificate:
  http://www.geocities.com/sania_eq/certificado_isla.jpg
  
  Letter of recommendation:
  http://www.geocities.com/sania_eq/letter_islaING.jpg
  
  First Year Program:
  
  For each French and English:
  General Translation, Composition and Debate, Study of Texts, Grammatical Structure and Lexicon, Introduction to Linguistics, Contrastive Analysis of Texts
  
  French Life and Institutions
  British Life and Institutions
  Portuguese Language and Literature
  Theory and Methodology of Translation
  Word Processing
  History

• Centro de Linguas Estrangeiras de Cascais

  Cambridge University First Certificate in English, English, 1996 — 1997

  Certificate scan:
  http://www.geocities.com/sania_eq/certificado_FCEcambridge.jpg
  
  Teacher's letter of recommendation:
  http://www.geocities.com/sania_eq/letter_clec.jpg

Additional Information

Didi Cardoso’s Websites:

• Grrlgamer
• Simgrrl
• Restaurante Pereira

Didi Cardoso’s Interests:

Games, movies, cats, husband, languages, baking, crafts

Didi Cardoso’s Contact Settings

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