Maria Jose Mancini

MARIA JOSE MANCINI
Certified Translator - Interpreter - Proofreader
E-mail: majomancini@gmail.com - majomancini@fibertel.com.ar

ACCREDITATIONS

• Member of the Public Translators Association of the City of Buenos Aires since 1983 – Professional Registration: Vol. V – Folio 250 – Professional Association Record No. 34.
• Active Member of the American Translators Association (ATA) since 2008
• Certified Translator - American Translators Association (ATA) since 2010

QUALIFICATIONS

• Certified Translator – Major: English/Spanish – National University of Buenos Aires – School of Law, Buenos Aires, Argentina
• Certified Proofreader and Copy Editor – Postgraduate Program –  Fundación Litterae, Buenos Aires, Argentina
• Postgraduate Program on Simultaneous and Consecutive Interpretation (English/Spanish) – Emilio Stevanovich at the British Council, Buenos Aires, Argentina
• Postgraduate Program on Specialized Translation in Economics for Certified Translators – Argentine University for Business Studies (UADE), Buenos Aires,  Argentina
• Areas of specialization: Patents, medical (medical reports, clinical trials), scientific ame localization, medical (medical reports, medical invoices, clinical drug trials), telecommunication, travel and tourism, entertainment (television and film), and business texts (including contracts)
• Proven quality control, high level of attention to detail
• Extremely high comfort level adapting to new applications and technologies

TEnT/CAT TOOLS AND DTP

• Trados, SDLX, Wordfast, Fortis, Idiom and Transit.
• Acrobat Writer, Dreamweaver, Illustrator, Abby Fine Reader, InDesign, QuarkXpress.

FREE-LANCE TRANSLATIONS

1983/ongoing

Free-lance scientific, technical, commercial and legal translation for overseas and domestic clients, among them:

• Acindar (Steel manufacturer)
• Argentine Air Force
• APA (Argentine Psychoanalytic Association)
• Banco Piano Argentina (Foreign Trade Bank)
• Boehringer Ingelheim Argentina (Pharmaceutical)
• Boston Scientific Argentina S.A. (Medical devices and equipment manufacturers)
• Cultures Connection, Argentina (Translation Agency – International Organizations)
• Diners Club Argentina S.A.
• Dow Chemical Argentina (Chemical Industry)
• Endotex Interventional Systems, Inc., California, U.S.A (Stent Manufacturers)
• ESSO S.A.P.A. Argentina (Oil company)
• Fundación Huésped (AIDS Research Center)
• Fundación Sales (Oncology Research Center)
• Health Secretariat of the Government of the City of Buenos Aires  
• IPA (International Psychoanalytic Association), London, UK
• JICA (Japan International Cooperation Agency at Buenos Aires, Argentina)
• Johnson Cordis, Inc., Miaimi, U.S.A. (Stent manufacturers)
• Journal of Infant, Child and Adolescent Psychotherapies, New York, U.S.A.
• Karnac Publishising Company (U.K. – U.S.A.)
• Laboratorios Microsules y Bernabó (Pharmaceutical)
• Languageline UK (Translation Agency – Medical/Official Documents/Back translation)
• MediaLuna Ltd., New York, U.S.A. (Publishers)
• Marval, O’farrell & Mairal –(Industrial Property Agents – Patents)
• Modern Languages Department - National University of Buenos Aires, Argentina.
• MultiLing, Utah, U.S.A. – (Translation Agency – Patents / Technical)
• Novartis S.A (Pharmaceutical company)
• Obligado & Cía. (Industrial Property Agents – Patents)
• Other Press, New York, N.Y., U.S.A. – (Publishers)
• Rockwell Automation Argentina
• Rubric Limited, Edinburgh, Scotland (Localization)
• Shell C.A.P.S.A. (Oil company)
• Sondeo/Jefferson Davis, U.S.A/Argentina (Agribusiness – Animal Health)
• Transperfect, New York, U.S.A. – (Translation Agency – Patents)
• Web-Lingo, Cape Town, South Africa – (Translation Agency – Business, Technical)

PUBLISHED TRANSLATIONS

2000        

Translation into Spanish of the “Psychotropic Drugs Information Handbook” (ISBN 0-916589-94-3) by Matthew A. Fuller, PharmD, and Martha Sajatovic, MD, from the American Pharmaceutical Association, for Media Luna Ltd. (Publisher), New York, NY, U.S.A. – “Manual Informativo sobre Medicamentos Psicotrópicos” ISBN 0970800908.

2004

Translation into English of “Intervenciones Psicoanalíticas con Niños Afectados por el Atentado a la AMIA en la Argentina” by Dr. Susana Toporosi, for publication by the JICAP (Journal of Infant, Child, and Adolescent Psychotherapy), New York, NY, U.S.A. – “Working Analytically with Children Affected by the Terrorist Attack in Argentina against the Argentine Jewish Mutual Aid Association (A.M.I.A.)” – (Vol 4 – No. 1, 15 January 2005 pp. 42-57).

CONTINUING EDUCATION

On a regular basis at the ATA, Colegio de Traductores Públicos de la Ciudad de Buenos Aires (CTPCBA), and ProZ (Platinum Member) among them:

• ATA Annual Conferences
• ATA Webinars: How to Make the Most of your ATA Membership, Making your Resumé Sing, A Translator’s Guide to the Drug Discovery Industry, Preparing to Take the ATA Certification Exam.
• ProZ Webinars
• Courses on CAT Tools - CTPCBA
• Updates on Spanish Grammar and Language - CTPCBA
• Updates on English Language - CTPCBA
• Conferences sponsored by CTPCBA (2001, 2003 and 2010 Latin American Conferences of Translation and Interpretation – 2006 International Conference of Specialized Translation)

• Adobe Acrobat
• Adobe InDesign
• Idiom WorldServer
• SDLX Translation Suite
• STAR Transit
• TRADOS
• Wordfast
• Microsoft Office - Fortis