I graduated in Translation and Interpreting and then obtained a Master’s Degree with honors in Literary and Technical Translation (specialty fields: tourism, subtitling and computer game localization).
I also attended a Postgraduate Master’s Course in Translation of Post-Colonial Texts from English to Italian (Literature, Essays, Drama and Cinema). As part of the course program, I worked in a publishing house, translating articles and proofreading English and Italian texts. I also attended a course in Translation of Young Adult Fiction from English to Italian.
I am an AITI associate member (number 218103), a IAPTI member (number 923), a ProZ.com Certified PRO member in the English > Italian language pair, a Women in Localization (Italy Chapter & Global Community) member and a member of the ITI Beauty Fashion and Luxury Network; I am also registered as an English-language expert with the Camera di Commercio di Taranto (Taranto Chamber of Commerce, Italy), number 341.
I believe that continuing professional development is of the utmost importance, so I regularly attend conferences and webinars about specialized translation, localization, transcreation, marketing, new media, etc. I attended an online course about software and website localization, an online course about translation for the fashion industry, an online course about the transcreation of marketing & advertising texts, an online course about translating for the cosmetics industry and the advanced modules of an online course about translating fashion & luxury (make-up, jewelry, watchmaking, tourism, etc.). I also attended a creative writing course (prose, poetry, drama, comics) and some of my poems in Italian have been published in anthologies celebrating International Women’s Day in 2016, 2017, 2019 and 2021.
I think that new technologies are hugely important nowadays, so I own a Trados Studio 2017 license and I can also use some other CAT tools such as memoQ, XTM and OmegaT. I got the SDL Post-Editing Certification; however, I do not use machine translation for my work unless explicitly required by the client. I have also learned some basic notions of SEO and HTML and how to use WordPress.
I am also a member of the Words in Travel translator team, specialized in the Travel & Tourism industry.
Valentina Mellone
Professional Translator
Since 2010 I’ve been helping translation agencies and other companies translate their texts from English or French to Italian.
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