Name: César Ayala Pérez



César Ayala

Edinburgh

Phone: +447921815407

E-mail: traducesar@

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• English – Spanish translator based in Edinburgh since 2010

• 15 years of experience as a professional translator

• Translated IT content for HP, Apple, Microsoft, etc.

• Translated some of the biggest names in the video games industry: World of Warcraft, Halo, God of War, Call of Duty

• Experience designing marketing campaigns, writing contents, copywriting and journalism

• Experience translating T&Cs, Finance, Cryptocurrency and FinTech contents

• Member of the IGDA

• Member of Developing the Young Worforce, a program to help young people

• More than 200 games translated

• Experience with subtitles and voice overs

• Experience as Team Leader of translators / editors / writers

• Fully flexible, available for immediate start

PROFILE

I’m a Spanish native speaking excellent English based in Edinburgh. I’ve been a professional translator for more than 15 years, always having to manage huge databases, tight deadlines and needing to learn new software and dealing with Customers and Clients. I’ve translated more than 200 video games and also I have Customer Service experience as a Translator/Customer Service Agent for , as an IT Technician for IT Solutions back in Spain.

I also have experience with subtitles and voice overs, designing and creating contents and as journalist.

I’ve been translating finance and cryptocurrency contents for the last few years, and I know very well the world of FinTechs.

I’m part of Developing the Young Workforce, a Scottish Government program to help young people. I talk to high school and college students about video games, gaming, IT, languages and how they develop careers in those industries and the ways to do it, always engaging them to study, follow their path even if it’s not a standard one and feel passion about what they do.

EDUCATION

1983 – 1996: Calasanz School in Santander.

1996 – 1999: IT Management at Ceinmark.

LOCALIZATION EXPERIENCE (IT, FINANCE, VIDEO GAMES AND GAMING)

January 2015 – (still working as freelance): Freelance translator of Seprotec. Mainly doing technical translations of IT contentes for clients as HP, HP Business, Apple and Cepsa. Also contents for Finance, FinTech and cryptocurrency

December 2014 – (still working as freelance): Freelance translator with Flowlanguages, an Edinburgh-based translation company. With them I’ve done translations about economy, engineering, software, mobile applications, etc.

August 2011 (still working as freelance): Freelance translator for All-in Translations, translating the texts for the Spanish gambling licenses of one of the biggest gambling companies in the world. I’m still doing translations for this company, all of them related with the gambling world.



October 2016 (still working as freelance): translator for All Correct, focusing mainly in mobile games and casual gaming.



March 2008 - (still working as freelance): I started working for Wordlab () and at the moment I’m one of their freelance translators. With them I translated the board game “The Battle of the Sexes” and the videogames Night at the Museum 2, Batman: The Brave and the Bold, Star Trek DAC and A Game of Thrones: The Roleplaying Game, Dark Souls 3, the Assasin’s Creed Series (a few of them) and Watchdogs 2.

May 2006 - 2015: Freelance translator for DL Multimedia, . Some of the games I’ve translated are: God of War 2, God of War: Chains of Olympus, World of Warcraft: Wrath of the Lich King, Desperate Housewives, Rogue Galaxy, Two Worlds, SOCOM, Warhammer: Age of Reckoning and Resistance 2 . I have also translated three game guides for World of Warcraft and part of the web

This is a full list of all the games/projects I’ve worked in for this company:

Aladdin, All Star Cheer Squad, Amazing, AMOH, Anno 1701, AoM, AoM2, ATV, Bad Boys, Baja, Brain Tester 24, Book of Unwritten Tales 2, BTO, Charlotte’s Web, Classic Car Racing, Code Lyoko, Cookie Shop, Cyanide, Death Track, Decathletes, Delicious Winder, Dementium, Desperate Housewives, Echochrome, Fart-o-Matic, Feeding Frenzy 2, Ferrari Supercars, Final Crash Bandicoot, FP PCM 2006, Game Crash Commando, Gilde Universe, God of War 3, God of War: Chains of Olympus, God of War 2, Gothic 3, Gumblers, Hammer 4x4, Hardy Boys, Hawaiian Explorer, Heavy Weapon, Helldorado, Hello Kitty, Hunting Unlimited, Inca Quest, Infamous, Insecticide, Juiced 2, KaO 3, Legia 2, LEGO Star Wars 2, Lifesigns, Lumines+, Men of War, MK8, MTB, Mushroom Men, Music Monstar, OJOM, PaRappa The Rapper, PEA Gold, Penumbra, Pictoplay, Poker Tour, Pony Ranch, Prediction, Project Anderson, Puzzler, Red Faction Gerrilla, Resistance, Resistance 2, Resistance Retribution, Rogue Galaxy, Runaway, Rush Hour, Safecracker, Sam & Max, Shadowzone, Shinobido, Silverfall, Smash Up Derby, Socom, Spectrobes, Spellforce Platinum, Spongebob, Starship Troopers, Supercollapse3, SWAT, Tales From Endoria, Tendo Dokuta2, The Witcher, TWH, Two Worlds, V5, Vector Daemon, Virtual Skipper 5, Wacky Races, Warhammer: Age of Reckoning, Water Horse, Wings of Honour, World of Warcraft and Xyanide.

November 2009 - October 2014: Main translator, editor, content writer, copywriter and proofreader of the Spanish division of ,

the biggest poker school of the world with more than 6.000.000 members. I translated all the poker articles and writing most of the news, dubbed instructional videos about poker and proofread the other translators and editors. In total, I’ve translated more than 4.000.000 words for and was also responsible of the QA process related with the website, usually having to work with HTML. I also had the coordinate different teams of translators, editors and journalists. I also had to design marketing campaigns, write contents like download guides, articles, online help pages, etc.

February 2007 - April 2008: Freelance translator for Synthesis Iberia, translating titles like Halo 3, Call of Duty 4, Alone in the Dark 5, Star Wars: Force Unleashed and the Super Mario Galaxy Game Guide. This is the full list:

Alone in the Dark, Asterix, Bee Movie, Biathlon, Blazing Angels 2, Brainbenders, Bug Island, Call of Duty 4, Calling all Cars, Carcassonne, Championship Manager, Eternal Sonata, Flatout 360, Football Manager 2008, Golden Compass, GRAW2, Guitar Hero, Halo 3, HSM, Kid Guided Tour, Lair, Linearis, Mantel, Miami Nights, My Horse, Orbs of Doom, NBA 08, PES8, Piñata Party, Quake Enemy Territory, R-Tupe, SolaRola, Star Wars Force Unleashed, Super Mario Galaxy Guide, Table Tennis, Thrillville 2, Tomb Raider Anniversary, Tony Hawk, Warhawk, Winter Sports 2008 and Word Search.

June 2006 – 2007: Freelance translator for GameLoc .

For them, I worked in the following projects:

6 Nations Rugby, 50 cent, Amped, Blade Dancer, Caesars IV, Cookie Maker, Crash 2008, Dairy Dash, Diamond Drop, Edwin Gold Rush, Eragon, Gamefiesta, Gold Rush Treasure Hunt Deluxe, Golf, Hulk, King of Fighters 2006, Magadascar 2, Medieval 2, Phil the Power, Puzzle the Quest, Rally Master Pro, Ribiba, Rush for Berlin, Saturday Night Fever, Scarface, Sprill The Mystery of the Bermuda Triangle, Spyro 2008, Tenchu, Timeshift, Total War Alexander, Townsmen 5, Virtual Villagers, World Championship Pool 2008, World in Conflict, Zoo Break Out and Zylom.

IT EXPERIENCE

From September 1999 to December 2001 I worked as IT technician in IT Solutions, an IT company based in Santander. My job there was fixing computers, developing software and setting up networks and other computer systems.

LOCALIZATION EXPERIENCE (GENERAL)

October – December 2010: Translation of the book “Secrets of non-standard Sit&Gos” for Alea Publicaciones,





December 2009: Translation of the book “How to play and win at poker” for Larousse



April 2005 - July of 2006: Freelance translator for Devir Iberia, for them I translated the campaign setting book of Midnight and the World of Warcraft board game.

In 2008 I work for them again to translate another World of Warcraft game.





January 2001 - February 2006: Freelance translator for La Factoría de Ideas, a Spanish publisher of pen and paper RPG games and novels. For them I translated the gaming line of Elric, and some books of Vampire: The Masquerade.















CREATIVE WRITING

Since 2011 I’ve been also working as journalist and writer, about interesting historic characters like Titanic Thompson, the mental aspects of poker, and also made many interviews to poker players or people related to that world.

OTHER SKILLS

- I have a the Spanish equivalent of a degree in IT Management

- I have my own license of Trados SDLX, I’ve been using it for 10 years now.

- Extensive knowledge of Microsoft Office and Windows.

- Knowledge of Camtasia, experience dubbing videos.

- In 1998 I was the Events Director of Esencia ’98, a gaming convention with more than 2.000 visitors and the first one ever in Spain to offer free accommodation.

REFERENCE LETTERS

From Synthesis Iberia:

This letter is my personal recommendation for César Ayala. While working at Synthesis Iberia S.L., I have been César supervisor and I found him to be consistently pleasant, tackling all assignments with dedication and a smile.

Besides the good relationships working with, Cesar is a take-charge person who is able to present ideas and communicate any issues that could arise. He has successfully developed several translation projects for our company that have resulted in good critics in the localization sector as CoD4, Halo 3 and Alone in the Dark 5. During her tenure, César was also helpful in other areas of the company as QA department.

I highly recommend César for employment. He is a team player and would make a great asset to any organization.

Sincerely,

Hugo Wifredo

Localization Manager

Tel +34 913 112 882

E-mail hugo@

Spanish Offices: c/ Castilla 18, 1ºB - 28039 Madrid

From DL Multimedia:

This letter is my personal recommendation for César Ayala. I have been César’s supervisor for the last four years and I consider him a devoted and committed worker with a very pro-active attitude.

Not only he is a very professional translator who masters both the Spanish and English linguistic skills, but he is also capable of proofreading any kind of text, giving them his particular public-oriented style. As a translator, he has taken part in projects of great success such as Resistance 2, the God of War series, World of Warcraft and Warhammer, among others, always receiving a very positive feedback from our clients.

Therefore, I highly recommend César for employment. He is a very qualified translator; he can work in teams and it would definitely be of great benefit having him in any organization.

Sincerely,

Ainhoa Trecet

Senior Project Manager

DL  MULTIMEDIA

Carlos Latorre, 13

28039 Madrid (Spain)

Tel. +34 91 554 78 60

Ainhoa.trecet@dl-

From :

To Whom it May Concern:

I highly recommend Cesar Ayala as a candidate for employment. Cesar was employed by as the main English - Spanish translator and proofreade. Cesar is responsible for: translation of news, strategy articles and quizzes, proofreading our original contents, dubbing our instructional videos and answering doubts and comments of our users.

Cesar has excellent communication skills; he is extremely well-organized, 100% reliable and computer literate, with an exceptional knowledge of poker and its terminology, both in English and Spanish. Cesar can work independently and is able to follow through to ensure that the job gets done, but is also a great team player. He is flexible and willing to work on any project that is assigned to him, and is always the first to volunteer to assist in other areas of company operations.

Cesar would be a tremendous asset for your company and has my highest recommendation. If you have any further questions with regard to his background or qualifications, please do not hesitate to contact me.

Sincerely,

Sara del Rosal

Spanish Lead Community Manager



Swerford Holdings Lmt.

Waterport Place – 3rd floor

sara.delrosal@

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