I am a strategic consultant, economist, and business owner at Milan Language Services with more than 25 years of experience founding, operating, and assisting dozens of organizations. I specialize in optimizing finances, developing strategies, and restructuring internal operations. Throughout my career, I’ve helped owners and executives across sectors identify challenges and create practical solutions to . My approach is data-driven, cost-effective, and results-oriented, always focused on delivering tangible outcomes and improving the bottom line.
I have worked on hundreds of projects in multiple countries, working in Portuguese, Spanish, and English, for more than 60 clients, including international law firms, global banks, major corporations, government offices, nonprofit organizations, universities, multilateral agencies, and everything in between.
In a typical month, my assignments range from analyzing quarterly financial reports to assisting with arbitration proceedings, translating a law firm’s audit to developing a non-profit’s marketing strategy or helping a local business with its internal operations. My solutions have included optimizing business processes, restructuring internal operations, developing a medium-term growth strategy, rethinking pricing options, publishing articles in academic journals, lecturing at conferences, and even helping to translate the online edition of the Oxford University Press Portuguese-English Dictionary.
At the institutional level, I have served on the Board of Directors of the American Translators Association (atanet.org) as Treasurer (2017-2023), chairing the Finance and Audit Committee during that time. I’m currently the founding chair of the association’s Strategy Committee.
From 2009-2016, I was a member of the Board of Directors of the Carolina Association of Translators and Interpreters (www.catiweb.org), a nonprofit organization that represents language-service professionals in North and South Carolina. I served as president of CATI from 2013 to 2016.
From 1996 to 2005, I lived in São Paulo, Brazil, where I was an Adjunct Professor of Economics at a university (www.faap.br). I lectured on Microeconomic Theory, Game Theory, Strategic Planning and advised students on research projects and papers. Concomitantly, I co-founded and ran a small business, working as a freelance business consultant and translator/editor for a number of major banks, law firms, and corporations.
My educational background includes a Master of Science in Applied Microeconomics from the Ohio State University (www.osu.edu), where I was a Foreign Language and Area Studies (FLAS) fellow. While at OSU, I also studied graduate-level linguistics, Portuguese, and translation and was a member of the Honor Society. I hold two Bachelor degrees from Indiana University (www.iu.edu), completing my second major, in Spanish, while studying abroad in Madrid, Spain.