Career / Experience

Summary

Native speaker of Spanish, with fourteen years of residence in the United States.
Sixteen-year experience in freelance technical and journalistic translation, localization and editing from English, French and German into Spanish.
My fields of specialization are information technology (hardware and software), engineering, medicine, chemistry, business and journalism.

Translation, Localization, Edition and Interpretation Experience (1991-2007)

MAIN CUSTOMERS: My indirect clients include companies and organizations such as Intel Corporation (Denmark and U.S.A. offices), Hewlett-Packard, McAfee, Nike (Denmark), DuPont, Dell, McAfee, FIFA, Chrysler, Isuzu, JVC, Panasonic, Sony, Sharp, Aiwa, Sanyo, Hitachi and others.

MAIN PROJECTS: These are some of my most important translation projects to date:

• IT translations for Intel Corporation
• Regular translations for McAfee
• Monthly web pages for Nike
• Daily news translation for FIFA official website
• Automotive technical manuals for Chrysler and Isuzu
• Business administration handbooks and job safety CD-ROMs for DuPont
• XBox PowerPad Pro manual for InterAct
• Web pages for Hewlett-Packard
• Technical manuals for Sharp, Aiwa, Panasonic, Sony, Sanyo, JVC, and Hitachi
• Various Job Safety CD-ROMs for Coastal Training Technologies
• Translation of movies for Warner, Sony, Universal and Fox Euro Studios (example: “The Simpson’s”)

Other Experience

SPANISH INSTRUCTOR: Ohio Northern University. Spanish Instructor. Fall and winter quarters, 1996.
EDITOR: Bowling Green State University. Graduate Research Assistant, Romance Languages Department. Worked as editor, desktop publisher, proofreader, and translator for Reden, a Spanish Journal of North American Studies coedited biannually in collaboration with the Universidad de Alcalá de Henares in Madrid. 1994-1995.
MATH INSTRUCTOR, for the Math Department at Bowling Green State University, January 1991-December 1991. Spring semester: taught introductory algebra. Fall semester: in charge of teaching calculus.
CHEMISTRY RESEARCH ASSISTANT for the Chemistry Department at Bowling Green State University. Studied the reactive properties of norbornane. 1988-1989.

   Certification / Accreditation

English > Spanish

BOWLING GREEN STATE UNIVERSITY, Bowling Green, Ohio. Master of Arts, Spanish (Latin American) Literature, 1997.

BOWLING GREEN STATE UNIVERSITY, Bowling Green, Ohio. Bachelor of Science, Mathematics. Minor in Chemistry. December 1990.