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Alejandro Solares

Alejandro Solares

LATAM Game Localization

Tecnología / Internet

Mexico City, Ciudad de México

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Servicios ofrecidos

Quick facts
• Have translated and proofread over 9 million words for AAA video game companies
• Project examples: Street Fighter V LATAM proofreader, Final Fantasy VII Remake translator
• Supervised localization from UI to marketing, from trailers and teasers to dialogues and scripts, and even from support to legal documentation for AAA video games

Skills
• Translation, Localization, Proofreading, Editing and MTPE
• Translation and Localization Project Management, set-up, tracking and assignment (TMS)
• Game Localization Tester
• Audiovisual translation and subtitling
• English (C1 certified), native Spanish speaker, Japanese conversational level (普通会話)
• Teaching English as a Second Language (ESL) certified teacher

Software
Xloc, Jira, TestRail, Perforce (p4v), Aegisub, Crowdin, XTRF, memoQ, RWS Trados, Verifika

Tarifa aproximada: MXN$ 1 por hora

Experiencia

LATAM Spanish Lead

Tencent | Apr 2022 – Present
 

Ensuring top quality for AAA game and software localization projects through linguistic checking, game testing and project assignment to translators.

Overseeing the complete process of game loc, managing translation memories, glossaries, and query logs

Final approval on marketing material to ensure it is suitable for the LATAM market

Assignment to vendors, deadline negotiations, budgeting, and translator feedback

Localization bug squashing and proactive mitigation


Videogame LQA, tester & localization (English - Spanish)

Epic Games & EPAM Systems | May 2021 – February 2022


Quality Assurance Engineer and functional tester for the LATAM Spanish team for Epic Games.

Performed manual game LQA testing through TestRail, and subsequent reporting through JIRA

Approved game and marketing localization assets

Supervised voice dubbing and voiceover for dialogues and scripts

Approved and performed LQA for IP collaborations with high-profile companies

Managed the project’s translation memories (TM) and term bases (TB) through Xloc

Environment: Xloc - Jira - TestRail - Trello - Outlook - Slack - Epic Games Store app - Fortnite (game) Perforce (p4v) - Aegisub and Subtitle Edit


Freelance Video Game Localization Specialist - Translator (English – Spanish) 

Mar 2015 - May 2021 (6 years 3 months)

Provided localization services to the largest game localization companies in LATAM, including:

Keywords Studios

Pink Noise SL

SoundMap

 

Educación

Universidad Intercontinental

Bachelor of Arts (B.A.), Translation (English – Spanish)
2011 – 2015

 

Licenses & Certifications

TOEIC English level C2 (score: 960)

J.TEST level E Japanese language certificate (N4)

IELTS English certificate (C1)

Teaching English as a Foreign Language (TEFL) - The TEFL, ID: 144150

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