Giovanna Comollo

• Work with customers to understand needs and provide excellent service always with energy and enthusiasm in a very competitive, fast-paced environment within the required delivery time.
• Use Microsoft Office programs, Adobe PDF, Visio, Q-Xpress and other software tools to create documents and other communications.
• Have been using Trados Studio 2022 and many online tools such as MemoQ, Memosource, Polyglot, Wordbee, XTM, and other proprietary programs.
• Conducted research, gathered information from multiple sources and presented results in accurate translations.
• Translation, localization, MTPE (full), annotation, language marketing support.
• Subtitling on different programs such as Agorà, Subtitle Edit, Subtitling Workshop, especially for documentaries, training courses.
• Proofreading with strict specific time frames and according to the client's style guide.
• Work towards my mother tongue, Italian, from English (both UK and US), French, German and Spanish (Spain).
• Keep myself up to date with constant learning through webinars, Techforword courses and Insider training, Proz webinars and courses, Trados webinars.
• Till today over 40 years' in translation.
• Full time technical and medical translator, former specialized interpreter (consecutive, simultaneous, negotiations), subtitler, MTPE, machine-learning, proofreading and annotation. I still work as a freelancer, but started back in 1981 and even reached a portfolio of 300 clients in the nineties.
• I translate and post.-edit approx. 20,000 words per week.
• Reviewed news and current events in international publications, translating relevant information for leaders.
• Translated documents for research departments, books, supporting data collection and reporting.
• Translate business websites to support international expansions.
  Update existing translations to meet contemporary trends in communication.
  Use translation software to verify complex terms and expedite communication process.
• Provide marketing localization support
  
• TRANSLATION:
  General: tourism, cooking, food and wine, revenue and hotel management
  Marketing: a few giants in marketing and logistics rely on my services daily.
  Technical: user's manuals, packaging, food-processing, technical fabric spinning, weaving, paper manufacturing, printing and inks, wine production technology, automotive and airbags, plastics and resins, automotive, metalworking, environmental science and waste treatment, railways, carbon footprint and carbon literacy (certificate) , ALCOTRA EU projects.
  Medical: test equipment, biotech, wearble devices, aesthetic and medical laser treatments, dentistry, cardiology, HIV, COVID
  Standards: QC, HACCP, ergonomy, safety and security, inclusivity and gender, employee training and SAP systems, ISO and EU regulations and publications
  Sworn and legal: personal documents, deeds, bids, contracts, reports, certificates, judicial verdicts, among others.
  Books and theses: mainly in the field of earth education and environmental education, interregional parks, education programs, consecutive interpreter in the field from 1983 to 2000 (Parco del Po e dell'Orba, Parco dell'Argentera e del Mercantour). Many University theses: albergo diffuso presentations, medical and physiotherapist works and a lot more. Poems.
  
• SUBTITLING EXPERIENCE:
  Films, documentaries, website texts, advertisements, training courses. I started 3 years ago from Netflix and went through Ar.Te. and EU documentaries and also work for an advertising agency in Turin. Now approx. 1 film per month.

I no longer offer interpretation services.

• Consult specialized dictionaries, thesauruses and reference books to identify closest equivalents for nuanced terminology, words and phrases
• Member of Proz.com and TranslatorsCafé. Member of Insiders Techforword.

• Customer relations and sales all over the world
• Company interface with warehousing and production of technical textiles for the printing and safety industry all over the world (cotton, polyester, airbags, plastic materials, PVC and more)
• Evaluated consumer preferences and behaviors, combined with market trends and historical data, to adjust and enhance campaigns.
• Mentored local personnel on best practices and protocols to maximize productivity.
• Considered business demands and customer preferences when developing pricing structures and marketing plans.
• Generated 200% more sales through effective networking and marketing strategies to grow new business and increase productivity.
• Developed insights on marketing campaigns to assess performance against goals.
• Supervised marketing and planning activities to exceed printing segment sales and margin goals.
• Created printed marketing materials designed to drive campaigns.
• Captured new customers by optimizing business strategies and launching products to diversify offerings.
• Enhanced profitability to achieve marketing objectives and drive productivity and growth from concept to implementation.
• I used to travel a lot and enjoyed being host at meetings and dinners, and chef there sometimes as well, thus allowing the company to grow from 300 000 t0 3 billion lire sales.
• Expanded cross-functional organizational capacity by collaborating across departments on priorities, functions and common goals.
• Maximized performance by monitoring daily activities and mentoring team members.
• Resolved staff member conflicts, actively listening to concerns and finding appropriate middle ground.
• Applied customer feedback to develop process improvements and support long-term business needs.
• Met deadlines, exceeding expectations and effectively rolling out delivery programs.
• Developed insights on marketing campaigns to assess performance against goals
• Captured new customers by optimizing business strategies and launching products to diversify offerings
• Oversaw preparation of marketing copy, images, videos, emails and other collateral

• Managed day-to-day operations starting as a b& b (Il rifugio degli elfi) and then developing into a scattered mountain hotel, an Albergo diffuso member of the Associazione Alberghi diffusi Internaizonale ADI.
• Turnover went up over 200,000 euros for the summer/winter season.
• Organize the kitchen,prepare menus in all different languages, cost control, first-aid, safety, HACCP, COVID control.
• Organize and pay employees.
• Contact with clients.
• Purchases and accounting activities.