Roberto Crivello is a free-lance translator from English into Italian with almost 20 years of experience in high-tech, industrial, and technical marketing for direct clients and translation companies.

Read the interview with Roberto on technical translations from English into Italian by Luisa Carrada, author of Il mestiere di scrivere (The Craft of Writing), the first Italian web site on business writing.

Roberto’s work covers a wide range of technical documents and technical marketing materials—including ads, brochures, catalogs, hardware/software documentation, company newsletters, product guides (installation/operation manuals), press releases, slide presentations, video scripts, and web sites.

He has translated in many technical fields, including automotive, computer hardware/software, engines, gear drives, heavy machinery and vehicles, high-tech medical instruments, hydraulic systems, machine/power tools, measurement/monitoring electronic instruments, motors, networking, optical instruments, packaging, paper machines, pumps, test equipment, turbines, uninterruptible power supplies, and web offset press machines.

Born and raised in Palermo, Italy, Roberto earned a Laurea (Master’s Degree) in Electronic Engineering and certification as a Professional Engineer. His education in the US includes a Master of Engineering and a Degree of Electrical Engineer from the University of Utah. He worked as R&D engineer in Italy and the United States.

Roberto is a member of the American Translators Association (ATA), certified from English into Italian, and chair of the ATA Italian graders workgroup for the E>I certification exam. He has been a member of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE ) since 1987 and is a Senior Member of the Society for Technical Communication (STC).

He has published several articles in the ATA Chronicle on terminology and style in technical translations.

Roberto is the author of two training modules on technical translation into Italian, written for ICoN (Italian Culture on the Net) Group. In  partnership with three Italian universities, ICoN offers a Master in Translation modeled after the European Master’s in Translation. Among university professors specialized in translation and world-class professional translators, IcoN decided that Roberto was the person most suited to write about the various aspects of technical translation into Italian.

He also writes a column on translation (in Italian) for the web site of SIS (Servizio d’italiano scritto), a nonprofit association for the advancement of business writing in Italian established by the University of Venice.

From 2000 through 2006 Roberto was editor of Tradurre, the newsletter of the Italian Language Division of the ATA. He also contributes technical articles to Italian trade magazines.

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Roberto Crivello dba Italian Technical Translations
E.E., M.E., Freelancer
High-tech, Industrial, and Technical Marketing Translations into Italian
2059 East Wilmott Dr.
Salt Lake City, Utah 84109
Phone: 801-278-7757 · Fax: 801-278-4211

e-mail: mail@robertocrivello.com