Teacher

English & PLNM Teacher · Director de Turma · Colégio Miramar · December 2025 – present

  • • Teaching English to eight classes across 7th and 11th grade — three and five classes respectively — with 20 to 30 students per class, spanning a broad range of ages, abilities, and learning profiles.
  • • Curriculum lead for the 11th grade cohort: sole responsibility for the design, sequencing, and delivery of the full English syllabus for five exam-year classes, ensuring coherence across the year group.
  • • Teaching Portuguese as a Non-Native Language (PLNM — Português Língua Não Materna) alongside English, working across different proficiency levels and adapting materials to the specific linguistic and cultural backgrounds of individual learners.
  • • Director de Turma (Form Tutor): primary institutional point of contact between the school and families; responsible for the holistic oversight of a class group's academic progress, attendance, and welfare; coordinating across subject teachers, year leadership, and specialist support staff; and managing the sustained pastoral and administrative demands that arise at the intersection of the classroom and the home.

Teacher & Administrative Assistant · Helen Doron Torres Vedras · September 2024 – December 2025

  • • Delivering English instruction to children, pre-adolescents, and teenagers using the Helen Doron proprietary methodology, with particular attention to immersive, play-based learning in younger groups, and one-to-one private tuition for adult learners.
  • • Administrative and compliance responsibilities: management of CRM platforms (HubSpot, Salesforce); preparation and maintenance of Dossiers Técnico-Pedagógicos in full compliance with DGERT certification standards; and oversight of health, safety, and facilities documentation including insurance files, hygiene and safety records, and fire-safety equipment compliance.
  • • Completed the Helen Doron Teacher Training Course (TTC), a specialised certification focused on fun, creative, and immersive approaches to language learning for young learners.

English Teacher · Escola Agrícola Fernando Barros Leal · January 2025 – September 2025

  • • Taught English to over 100 adolescents and young adults enrolled in vocational (cursos profissionais) and CEF programmes, navigating the distinct pedagogical demands of qualification-oriented secondary education.
  • • Worked extensively with learners presenting significant learning difficulties and/or complex behavioural needs, developing differentiated approaches and maintaining productive classroom environments under sustained pressure.

Projects

活字 (Huozi) — Multilingual News Aggregator · 2026 – present

guilhermegfmachado.github.io/huozi

An independently built RSS news aggregator pulling from global press sources across multiple languages and regions. Designed around the idea that reading the news in one language means reading one version of the world.

Aleph (א) — Open-Access Literary Catalogue · 2025 – present

guilhermegfmachado.github.io/aleph

A universal literary catalogue built to index and cross-reference texts by theme across authors, traditions, and centuries. An exercise in building the tools one actually wants to exist.

Translator

See also: Translation services, rates & availability

Freelance Translator & Interpreter · Self-employed · 2020 – present

Cultural & Contemporary Arts

  • • OUT.RA — Associação Cultural (2025) — Translation of promotional and communications materials for OUT.RA Música's programming, supporting the organisation's engagement with Portuguese and international audiences.
  • • Fever (Lisboa, 2025) — Translation of materials for a large-scale live event production.
  • • Associação Zé dos Bois / ZDB (Lisboa, 2024) — Translation of programme and performance texts for ZDB, one of Lisbon's foremost centres for contemporary visual art, experimental music, and live performance, with a three-decade history of international residencies and commissions.
  • • Fundação EDP / Revista Electra (Lisboa, 2023) — Translation of philosophical essays and arts criticism for issues nº 20 and 21 of this prestigious bilingual (PT/EN) quarterly, one of Portugal's most ambitious cultural publishing projects, covering contemporary thought, literature, and the visual arts.
  • • PédeXumbo — Assoc. para a Promoção de Música e Dança (Évora, 2022–2023) — Sustained collaboration across festival communications, international partnership correspondence, grant documentation, and website translation for this organisation at the centre of Portugal's traditional music and dance culture, including the Andanças festival, the country's largest folk gathering.

Audiovisual Localisation

  • • BlueLab Produções de Audiovisuais Lda (Lisboa, 2023) — Translation and cultural adaptation of video game scripts and advertising content for dubbing, balancing register, timing, and idiomatic precision for this specialist localisation and post-production studio.
  • • Sintagma Traduções Unipessoal Lda (Oeiras, 2021–2022) — Subtitling of feature films, television series, documentaries, animation, and culinary programmes for one of Portugal's longest-established audiovisual localisation companies, working to broadcast-ready standards across multiple content genres.

Academic & Institutional

  • • Instituto Politécnico de Viseu (2024) — Research translation for a project addressing female genital mutilation, requiring sensitivity to specialist medical, legal, and advocacy registers; commissioned via formal public procurement (ECF-2024/144, Processo PA20240000313).
  • • Neves de Almeida Alves Monteiro Lda (Lisboa, 2021–2022) — Corporate and technical translation of consulting documents, handling precise terminology across management, legal, and business domains.

Interpreting

  • • Ad hoc community and legal interpreting (Portuguese ↔ English), including assignment in a domestic dispute context requiring sustained accuracy, impartiality, and composure under emotionally charged conditions.

Project Coordinator · TransPerfect Translations · May 2022 – January 2023 · Remote

  • • Daily end-to-end coordination of multiple simultaneous translation projects within one of the world's largest language services companies, managing competing deadlines and priorities across a high-volume production environment.
  • • Responsibilities spanned full project lifecycle: document intake and preparation, resource allocation, quality review of final deliverables, and all written communication in English with sales teams, senior project managers, and a distributed network of freelance translators and specialists.

Translation Intern · Sintagma Traduções Unipessoal Lda · 2019 – 2020 · Oeiras

  • • Curricular internship providing structured professional exposure to audiovisual subtitling workflows across a range of content genres, establishing the foundation of a sustained practice in screen translation.

Musician

Projects

Played guitar in the recordings below, ranging from experimental folk (Raposa Branca, Roncos) to black metal (Fórnea) and noise-rock (Finje). Click below to listen.

Gigs

  • • Slumlord (Quartet, electric guitar) @ Musicbox, Lisboa
  • • Raposa Branca (Solo, electric guitar, 12-string acoustic guitar and voice) @ Desterro, Lisboa
  • • Roncos (Duo, acoustic guitar) @ Armazém 5, Porto
  • • Roncos (Solo, 12-string acoustic guitar, prepared classical guitar and Bulgarian harp) @ Mindelo Fest, Mindelo
  • • Roncos (Solo, prepared electro-acoustic guitar) @ KOT, Coina
  • • Lodos (Quartet, electric guitar) @ Interpress, Lisboa
  • • Finje (Trio, electric bass) @ Tundra, Ginjal
  • • Finje (Quartet, electric bass) @ Disgraça, Lisboa
  • • Finje (Quartet, electric bass) @ ADAO, Barreiro
  • • Finje (Quartet, electric guitar) @ Sala Lisa, Lisboa
  • • Finje (Quartet, electric guitar) @ ZDB, Lisboa
  • • Finje (Trio, bass) @ Damas, Lisboa

Writer, Reporter & Editor

Writer & Content Producer · Available for Commission · 2025 – present

Independent writer and content producer available for commissioned event coverage, editorial documentation, and bilingual communications (PT/EN). Track record covering major international festivals and cultural events — producing critical essays, audience-facing copy, and editorial reports. Published in the national press and on QV.

Commissioned Event Coverage

The following were produced on commission or invitation from festivals and cultural organisations:

Available for: event documentation · conference and festival reporting · bilingual editorial content (PT/EN) · programme and communications copy · press writing · on-site coverage

Publications

  • • Queres Viver (QV) — Portuguese and English event coverage and commissioned editorial work, 2025 – ongoing
  • • Circe — Literary magazine, available upon request, 2025
  • • Que Rosa Dói — Zine, available upon request, 2024
  • • Queres Viver? — Manifesto, available upon request, 2021

Building, Gardening & Farmers' Market

European Solidarity Corps Volunteer · European Union · 2024 – 2025

  • • Certified gardening volunteer — two weeks, August 2025. Conservation and grounds maintenance in a legally protected nature reserve: mowing, pruning, sawing, wood-chopping, and deadwood clearance in the historic 19th-century Spa Park of Głuchołazy, located within the Landscape Park "Opava Mountains" and a designated Nature 2000 zone. Hosted by Fundacja Benevolens, which has managed the park for over a decade.
  • • Certified construction volunteer — one month, August 2024. Natural building and site development in Staro Stefanovo, an architectural and nature reserve in the Pre-Balkan foothills of Bulgaria (625m a.s.l.), a village of fewer than 30 inhabitants with Ottoman-era vernacular architecture. Work contributed to the Green Place project of Green Association: construction of a geo-dome, solar showers, dry toilets, a summer kitchen, and other ecological structures on a 100-year-old property being repurposed as a community eco-space.

Agriculture & Local Food

  • • Collaborated with Quinta do Arneiro (Azueira), a Sativa Bio-PT-03 certified organic farm, at their Saturday markets in Jardim do Príncipe Real, Parque das Nações, and Cascais — loading produce, managing the stall, and direct sales to the public across some of Lisbon's most frequented outdoor markets.