Native language : Spanish

Working languages: English into Spanish

Area: Translation/Editing/Proofreading

Daily Output: 2,000 words

Cat Tools: SDL Trados 2007 / SDL Trados Studio 2011

Bachelor´s Degree in Certified Legal Translation, School of Law, Universidad de Buenos Aires, Argentina (1997)

EFL Teacher Training (incomplete studies), I.S.P. Joaquín V. Gonzalez, Buenos Aires (1997/1999)

Proofreading and Copy Editing International Certificate in Spanish, distance learning, Fundación Litterae-Fundeu, 2007-to date.

• Full-time Freelance Translator (2003 – today) working in the following areas:

Legal : personal documents, court rules and other court documents, contracts, paralegal manuals, etc.

Environmental issues

Tourism: brochures, guides and information boards.

Medical: certificates, brochures, educational articles for Website publication, informed consent forms, etc.

Business:  communications, employee newsletters.

Human resources

Military: training manuals

Miscellaneous

Main clients include local Tourist Board, local courts, and several translation agencies. I regularly translate and edit for The BilCom Group, a Delaware based agency.

Volunteer work with DOCIP (UN agency)

•    English teacher, St Thomas School of English, Rio Grande - Tierra del Fuego (local representative of  ICANA): teaching children, adolescents and adults, TOEIC, in-company courses (local power plant, Delphi Argentina, Total Austral, etc.), and international examinations(2000 - 2003)

• Academic Coordinator, New Concept School of English, Buenos Aires, (1999 – 2000)

• Teacher/Translator in-company, Ansaldo Energía, Buenos Aires, (1998)  
• Teacher New Concept School of English, children, teens, adults, different levels (KET, PET, FCE), Buenos Aires, (1992-1998)  

CTPCBA [Association of Certified Translators of the City of Buenos Aires]

·        Universidad de Buenos Aires

·        Tierra del Fuego Court System (Expert Translator 2004-to date)

• SDLX Translation Suite
• TRADOS