Raquel Costa
Data annotation Specialist | PT (Portugal)
- Role
- Localization Specialist at Blueprint
- Location
- Seattle, WA, US
- LinkedIn followers
- 500 followers
About Raquel Costa
Portuguese (Portugal) Localization/Translation specialist from English into European Portuguese (Portugal) since 2012 in the software, videogaming industry and most recently, AI tools. I am an experienced localization and review specialist of a triple A game platform experienced in localization of content such UI, e-commerce, videogame materials (legal, technical, marketing, in-game). Within the e-commerce scope, I am responsible for the localization of UI such as web pages, web store and clients’ accounts including payment instruments and cart experience, and dev support platforms experience. I also worked as a Language Model Red Teamer for Google Bard in the identification of potential weaknesses and vulnerabilities to improve accuracy while increasing trust and safety of the model. In Expedia I worked with the Paid Marketing team to help improve the SEO by finding the Portuguese terms and phrases (keywords) that would generate qualified traffic to Expedia’s website.Stakeholders: Microsoft, Expedia, triple A video game industry, Apple.
Experience
Localization Specialist
Dec 2019 — Present · Bellevue, WA, US
Methodical product research, translated and edited video game UI strings, webpages, e-commerce content, marketing materials, news releases, knowledge base articles, developer-facing technical documentation, and subtitles for video assets from English to European Portuguese for a leading PC gaming and VR technology company. Authored and maintained style guides, step-by-step instructional content, curriculum learning objectives, and training assessments in English, while delivering on multiple, daily localization requests. Play tested and maintained translation consistency across websites and video games.
Education
Universidade do Minho
Master's degree, Human Resources Management
Instituto Superior de Contabilidade e Administração do Porto
Postgraduate Degree, Translation
2021 — 2022
Bellevue College
Certificate Program, Translation and Interpretation Certificate Program
2014 — 2019
Universidade do Minho
Bachelor of Arts - BA, Clinical Psychology
Bellevue College
Certificate Program, Human Resources Management
University of Washington
Certificate, Localization: customizing software for the world
2020 — 2021
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