Fernando Romero

Fernando Romero
English into Spanish

Calle B #13, Villa Progreso 

Santiago. Dominican Republic Tel. 809-241-5921

fernandoro@betranslated.com Mob. 809-853-9992

EDUCATION

- Universidad Tecnológica de Santiago. Dominican Republic.

Master in Business Administration – Finance

- Universidad Tecnológica de Santiago, Santiago, Dominican Republic.

BS - Industrial Engineer

- Universidad Tecnológica de Santiago

BA - Psychology

- Seminario Bíblico Cristiano del Caribe, Bonao, Dominican Republic.

Graduate Theology and Bible studies – Major in ancient Greek (Koine) and christian education.

- English as second Language. Centro Cultural Dominico Americano, Santiago

- Certificat d’Études de Français Pratique 3 (CEFP1)

- Extensive knowledge with managing and editing several files formats: html, asp, shtml, power point, word, pdf, xls, and others.

TRANSLATION EXPERIENCE

- 2 years as onsite translator and proofreader/editor for EN-SP and SP-EN translations. Also supervisor of team of translators into Spanish at iLanguage.com working with subjects such as: general news and press releases, IT, entertainment, business, banking, medicine, technology & industry, material handling, and mechanical engineering.

- 2 years as Project Manager at Ilanguage.com managing many translation projects for several Fortune 500 companies into several languages.

RATES

- Rates may vary depending on the project size and on the content difficulty, and files format, but usually are: EN>SP. US$ 0.08-0.05 per word.

- Discounts based on repetitions rate in large to medium projects.

- Translation samples and references are available upon request.

Computer Resources

*  Software: Windows XP Professional, MS-Office 2003, TRADOS freelance 7 Macromedia MX suite, Quark Express 6, Adobe Acrobat 7, Adobe Photoshop8, MS Encarta 2003

*  Hardware: Dedicated ADSL modem, P4 2.4, R-WR/CD-ROM, 1.0GB DDR400, 8X 256MB AGP GeForce Video card

* Library: continually expanding reference library with monolingual and bilingual dictionaries and enciclopedias, specialized resources and Internet access.

Teaching Experience

- Spanish as a foreign language. IEC, Santiago, Dominican Republic. (Intermediate and Advanced levels)

- English as Second Language to children, Home tutoring. (Introductory and intermediate levels).

- Introduction to library sciences. Universidad Nacional Evangélica (UNEV). Santiago

- MS Windows & MS Office training. UNEV computer’s school.

- Bible & Theology. Seminario Bíblico Cristiano del Caribe (SEBICA)

• Adobe Acrobat
• Adobe Illustrator
• Adobe InDesign
• Adobe Photoshop
• PowerPoint
• QuarkXPress
• SDLX Translation Suite
• TRADOS
• Trados Freelance 2007, Office 2003-2010, Quark Express 9.0, Adobe Acrobat CS3-CS5 Suite, PDF Extraction softwares