Languages Spanish (A) English (B) German (C)
Interpreting Experience
Interpretation Assistant
Inter-American Development Bank, Washington, D.C., USA
· Interpreted 50+ hours in dummy booth
· Prepared glossaries and briefings for in-house and freelance interpreters
· Organized and prepared documents August - July 2009
Liaison Interpreter
Womad Foundation, Womad Canarias Festival, Las Palmas de Gran Canaria, Spain
· Interpreted at the adult and children workshops (EN>ES, ES>EN) November 2003
Project Management Experience
Full-Time Project Manager and Editor
Traducciones y Tratamiento de la Documentación, S.L., Barcelona, Spain
· Vendor management
· Technical, political, and environmental translations
· QA of the translations into Spanish and Basque August 2005 - September 2006
Translation Experience
Full-Time Independent Translator and Editor
Self-Employed
· Translation of IT, environmental, political/government, and marketing texts
· Editing of translations and originals in Spanish
June 2010 - Present
Full-Time Freelance Translator and Editor
Traducciones y Tratamiento de la Documentación, S.L., Barcelona, Spain
· Political/government, environmental, and marketing translations
· Edited translations and originals in Spanish October 2006 - June 2008
Full-Time Freelance Translator
Tramontana Translations GmbH, Munich, Germany
· Marketing, legal, and educational translations June 2007 - June 2008
Translation and Interpreting Education
MA Conference Interpreting, May 2010
Monterey Institute of International Studies, CA, USA
BA Translation and Interpreting, June 2004
University of the Basque Country, Vitoria-Gasteiz, Spain
Linguistics Education
Cognitive Science and Language Program, 2004-2005
Pompeu Fabra University, Barcelona, Spain
· Completed several courses on Linguistics, Psychology and Philosophy
Computer Skills
CAT tools SDL Trados, Déjà Vu, Wordfast
OS Windows XP, Mac OS X Leopard
Office suite Word, Excel, PowerPoint, FrontPage
Additional languages
Basque native
Catalan high-intermediate
Russian low-intermediate
French intermediate
Portuguese beginner
International Experience
Erasmus Program
Free University, Berlin, Germany
· English Department exchange student September 2002 - July 2003
Wait Staff
Hotel Seebrücke, Lubmin, Germany Summer 2001
Au-Pair
O’Connor family, Limerick, Ireland
· Took care of 3 children October 1999 - May 2000
Awards
Fulbright Scholarship, Fulbright Commission, 2008-2010
Merit Scholarship, Monterey Institute of International Studies, 2008-2010