Michael D Powers

Curriculum Vitae

                                                          Michael D. Powers, Ph.D.

                                    U.S. Court Certified in Spanish and English since 1980

                    Ph.D. in Spanish, Portuguese and English  -  University of Texas at Austin

                                       7335 SW 130 Street, Pinecrest (Miami), Florida 33156

                   Telephone: (305) 252-0606  Fax: (305) 255-8212 e-mail: mdpowers@bellsouth.net

WORK EXPERIENCE:

Translations: more than ten million (10,000,000) words translated from Spanish into English, Portuguese into English, English into Spanish in several disciplines, mainly legal, technical and medical. Largest job: 300,000 words (electrical engineering, telecommunications, legal in four (4) weeks – 2002).

Interpreting: simultaneous conference interpreter since 1976, in more than 600 conferences. Since 1980 he has been a United States Certified Court Interpreter (first year of exam) and has interpreted in more than 3,400 depositions, trials, seminars.

01/01/95         TRANSLATOR / INTERPRETER

PRESENT                     Interpreter in the United States and overseas (Honduras, Trinidad and Tobago, Naples, Caracas, Venezuela, El Salvador, Puerto Rico, Mexico, Brazil): Duties include interpreting in federal court, depositions, conference interpreting, technical and non-technical translations, transcriptions and translation of tapes for DEA, United States Customs Service, ATF, etc., interpreting for Pre-Sentence Investigations for the United States Probation Office, etc

12/00 – 02/01                (COMMANDER-IN-CHIEF’S) TRANSLATOR FOR THE SOUTHERN COMMAND

02/02/92 - 12/31/94        EBON RESEARCH SYSTEMS

Senior Quality Control Supervisor of the Translation / Interpretation / Transcription Division;  duties included interpreting in federal court, grand juries, conferences, tape transcriptions and certifications for DEA, United States Customs, ATF, High Intensity Drug Trafficking Area, Internal Revenue Service, etc., written translations, interpretation for private companies, immigration, United States Probation, and the United States Attorney's Office. Supervision and correction of work done by ten other full time employees and approximately ten freelancers

1983 - 1992                   INTERPRETER / TRANSLATOR / CONSULTANT

                                    Free-lance interpreter and translator in south Florida and the Dominican Republic;  duties included interpreting in federal court, depositions, conference interpreting, technical and non-technical translations, transcriptions and translation of tapes for DEA, United States Customs Service, ATF, etc., including more than 2,000 times as an interpreter for Pre-Sentence Investigations for the United States Probation Office, etc. 

1989 - 1992                   MIAMI DADE COMMUNITY COLLEGE

Assistant Professor in ESL, Spanish and Interpreting and Translation duties included teaching English, Spanish and interpretation (both consecutive and simultaneous) and translation (general and technical) courses.

EDUCATION:

1977 - 1981                               UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT AUSTIN

Ph.D.    Ibero Romance Philology and Linguistics

and English as a Second Language

1975 - 1977                   M.A.     UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN AT MADISON

.           Spanish

1971 - 1975                   B.A.      INDIANA UNIVERSITY AT BLOOMINGTON

.           Spanish and Portuguese

UNIVERSIDADE DE SÃO PAULO (BRAZIL)

1974-1975

UNIVERSIDAD CATÓLICA (LIMA, PERU)

January, 1973 – December, 1973

ACCOLADES:

2004                             United States Attorneys Office – Southern District of Florida – requested to be the interpreter in Cuba for a court case being held in the southern district of Florida. I went to Cuba for one week with two Assistant United States Attorneys, three FBI agents, two defense attorneys, etc.

2003                             United States Attorneys Office – San Juan, Puerto Rico – requested to be the interpreter in Grand Jury proceedings in which the government is seeking the death penalty – San Juan in March, 2003.

2002                             INTERPRETER in Washington, DC for campaign managers, Democrat and Republican, of the recent presidential race on the set of Cross Fire, George Washington University.

2001                             INTERPRETER for Tom Brokaw of NBC News at Rockefeller Center for the election returns between Governor George W. Bush and Vice President Albert Gore

1998                                                          INTERPRETER FOR a law firm from New York in Lima, Peru, with the Head Pediatric Psychologist from the Psychiatry Department from Harvard University

1998                             INTERPRETER for a law firm from Washington, D.C., in Caracas, Venezuela, to correct translations done in Venezuela for FOGADE (FDIC) and to interpret in depositions including the Attorney General of Venezuela.

1998                                                          INTERPRETER FOR · EWTN · (ETERNAL WORD TELEVISION NETWORK · TO INTERPRET FOR HIS HOLINESS POPE JOHN PAUL II.  Interpreted homilies, etc. the Pope said in Spanish into English for this cable Catholic television network during his visit and four masses in Cuba in January, 1998.

1997                             INTERPRETER FOR · 60 MINUTES · FOR AN INTERVIEW WITH MORLEY SAFER AND GENERAL MANUEL ANTONIO NORIEGA.

1995                             JUDGE NESBITT AT UNITED STATES FEDERAL COURT

Commendation for excellent job of interpreting for a Spanish-speaking witness in a trial in November, 1995, and recommended to join the staff on a permanent basis based on outstanding performance and qualifications.

1987 - 1992                   LIBRARY OF CONGRESS, WASHINGTON D.C.

Contributing Editor of Latin American Languages for the Handbook of Latin American Studies initially published by Harvard University for the first two or three decades, and currently published by the University of Texas at Austin;  duties included reading the approximate one hundred articles and books dealing with Latin American languages and linguistics which were sent to me by the Library of Congress each year and writing brief annotations to be included in its biannual publication.

1980                             ADMINISTRATIVE OFFICE OF THE UNITED STATES COURTS

Certified Court Interpreter for Spanish/English proceedings

CONSULTING

1986 - 2005                   EXPERT WITNESS IN FEDERAL COURT

1985                             UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA

Invited to co-write the Spanish section of the Federal Certified Court Interpreter's Exam, the oral portion of this test (along with the former Chief Interpreter of the United Nations), and to be on an evaluation team for administering the test.