I’m Daniela Zambrini — technical writer, certified translator, and ASD-STE100 trainer.
With over 30 years of experience in highly regulated industries, I specialize in making technical documentation clear, compliant, and multilingual-ready.
I founded eXeL8 to support companies working in technical environments subject to strict safety standards — from aerospace and defense to maritime and engineering — where clarity is not just helpful, but essential.
I help people understand complex things — clearly, precisely, and in the language they need.
My work is standards-based, terminology-aware, and always tailored to your product, your audience, and your internal workflows.
I help documentation and language teams:
of English and Italian
by global organizations, academic institutions, and international service providers
International Partner of the ASD Simplified Technical English Maintenance Group (ASD STEMG) and ASD accredited STE trainer
practical, flexible, collaborative project management
Presentation of paper (with co-author Orlando Chiarello)
Lexical Management in a Controlled Dictionary: A Diachronic Study of ASD-STE100 Entries for Letters A–C (From First Release to Issue 9)
Workshop
Clarity saves lives: reducing risks related to human factors with Simplified Technical English
Workshop (with Orlando Chiarello)
Clarity saves lives: reducing risks related to human factors with Simplified Technical English
Workshop (with Prof. Federica Vezzani)
Managing domain-specific terminology in ASD-STE100: A practical workshop for technical communicators
Presentation (with Orlando Chiarello)
ASD-STE100 What's new in Issue 9
Workshop (with Orlando Chiarello)
Clarity saves lives: reducing human-factor risks with Simplified Technical English
Presentation of paper (with co-author Orlando Chiarello)
From Specification to Standard: A Meta-Terminological Evolution in ASD-STE100 Issue 9
Workshop
ASD-STE100: How to write safety instructions in Simplified Technical English
Workshop (with Orlando Chiarello)
ASD-STE100: How to write procedures in Simplified Technical English
Zambrini, D., Chiarello, O., Lexical Management in a Controlled Dictionary: A Diachronic Study of ASD-STE100 Entries for Letters A–C (From First Release to Issue 9). In: Proceedings of the 5th International Conference on Multilingual Digital Terminology Today (MDTT 2026). CEUR Workshop Proceedings, Vol. 4219 (2026). https://ceur-ws.org/Vol-4219/paper4.pdf
Zambrini, D., Chiarello, O., From Specification to Standard: A Meta-Terminological Evolution in ASD-STE100 Issue 9. In: Proceedings of the 4th International Conference on Multilingual Digital Terminology Today (MDTT 2025). CEUR Workshop Proceedings, Vol. 3990 (2025). https://ceur-ws.org/Vol-3990/short24.pdf
Zambrini, D., Chiarello, O., Subject Fields in a Controlled Natural Language: How the Evolution of the ASD-STE100 Specification Led to a Proposal for a Global Structured Review of Term Categories (Short Paper). In: Proceedings of the 2nd International Conference on Multilingual Digital Terminology Today (MDTT 2023). CEUR Workshop Proceedings, Vol. 3427 (2023). https://ceur-ws.org/Vol-3427/short2.pdf
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I’m always happy to collaborate or contribute.