Ricardo Falcó Bañuls
c/ Roig de Corella nº8 - 11, 46007 Valencia, SPAIN
+34 963 291829 // Cell. +34 654 914 754
skype: ricardofalco77
[email protected]
VAT: 461039626236
LANGUAGES
• Spanish: mother tongue
• English: advanced
• French: advanced
• German: intermediate
IT KNOWLEDGE
• Office software
• Transit XV
• SDL Trados Studio
• Across
• Wordfast
• QuarkXpress
• Photoshop
• XTM
EDUCATIONAL BACKGROUND
Sep. 2000 - Jul. 200 Graduated in Translation and Interpretation
(English, French, German) Centro Universitario Estema, Valencia.
Sep. 2004 - Feb. 2005 Erasmus Stage in Erlangen, Germany.
Sep. 1995 - Jul. 2000 Business Administration at the Universidad de Valencia.
Elementary, Middle and High School at the Lycée Français de Valence, including
one year at the Lycée Français of Los Angeles
OTHER TRAINING
Feb. 2001. Translation and Interpretation Congress at Universidad Carlos III. Madrid
AREAS OF EXPERTISE
Translation of a large variety of texts, including:
- User and technical manuals and brochures: training equipment, medical equipment,
industrial machinery
- Online gaming: online games and apps
- Questionnaires: client satisfaction, e-commerce
- Web content
- Online translation of mainstream comics
- Cosmetic catalogues and brochures
- General documents
PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE
Apr. 2003 - Jul. 2003 Translating Practice: AIMPLAS (Technological Institute of Plastics
in Paterna (Valencia). Translation of projects, mails and interpretation.
Jul. 2004 - Aug. 2004 Tourism Information Agent: Tourism Information Office
Dénia (Alicante). Translation and revision of leaflets, brochures and mails.
Sept. 2005 - Dec. 2005 Translator: L&H Marketing in Nuremberg (Germany).
Translation of satisfaction questionnaires, different documents and mails.
May 2006 - Oct. 2006 Sea Freight forwarder: Import Department of Transnatur
Freight Forwarder, Paterna (Valencia).
Oct. 2006 - Mar. 2007 Export Area Manager: ARYA Arabian y Asociados, Castellón.
Translation of mails, interpreting.
May 2007 - Feb. 2009 Export Sales Department at Bancolor S.L.,
Parque Tecnológico, Paterna (Valencia).
Mar. 2009 - Mar. 2010 Export Sales Department at Molder Disnova S.L.,
Quart de Poblet (Valencia).
Since 2010 I have been working fulltime as a freelance translator/interpreter.