Employment

Game translator (October 2007-present)

Video game translator and proofreader, mainly jobs for Nintendo DS and XBox systems. By now, mostly RPG and platform software have been my jobs.

Spanish Instructor  (June 2006 - October 2007)

Multimedia Teacher of Spanish at Nova Group, working at the Multimedia Centre in Osaka. Work consisting of teaching groups of 1 to 3 students of all ages, via Internet and a system of videoconference developed by the company.
 

Spanish Language Assistant (Sept 2005 - June 2006)

Employed by the City of Sunderland (England) as a Spanish Language Assistant, working at two secondary schools: Castle View School in Sunderland and Houghton Kepier School in Houghton-Le-Spring (City of Sunderland)
 

Audiovisual in-house translator (May 2005 - Aug. 2005)

In-house translator for the European Captioning Institute, a DVD subtitling company based in London. I was trained and worked in subtitling, captioning, translation managing, production assistance and translation for subtitling.
 

Spanish Language Assistant (Oct. 2004 - May 2005)

Employed by the Academy of Dijon (France) as a Spanish Language Assistant Teacher at two secondary schools: Lycée Marey and Lycée Clos-Maire. 

Import / export Assistant (July 2004 – Aug. 2004)

I worked as a secretary for C. S. Delage S.L., an import-export company of agricultural chemicals based in Cadiz (Spain), job consisting of telephone interpreting between my manager and foreign customers and writing documents in English and French for foreign customers.
 

Medical translator (Nov. 2003- July 2004)

Freelance translator for NOVA Traductors I Interprets and Midori, both translation companies based in Barcelona.

Community interpreter (Oct. 2003 - July 2004)

From/to English/Spanish at the Courts of Justice in the Province of Cadiz (Spain), by means of Ofilingua, a Translation & Interpreting Company in Granada contracted by the Regional Administration of Andalusia.
 

 Writer (2000-2002)

Précis writer and columnist for national magazine Minami, about Japanese culture, comics and video games.  Barcelona (Spain)

Education

BA in translation and interpreting  (1998-2003)

University of Malaga Malaga (Spain)
I also spent one year of my degree at the University of Surrey (UK), studying Translation & Interpreting in the year 2000-01. I am specialized in English and French translation into Spanish and English interpreting.

C.A.P Certificate of pedagogic competence / Qualified Teacher Status

(2003-2004) Universidad Complutense of Madrid
C.A.P. is the Spanish Equivalent for PGCE. I hold also a Qualified Teacher Status awarded on 16th July 2004. 
 

Teaching spanish as a foreign language / Didáctica del español como lengua extranjera  University of Malaga- Spanish Courses (june 2003)

Illustration and Design (Sept. 2005 – June 2006) 

University of Sunderland. First year of part-time BA Illustration & Design course. Modules: Life Drawing and Digital Image Making.

Basic degree of Japanese (1999-2003)

Official School of Languages Malaga (Spain)
3 years out of 5 and 3kyu at JLPT

Skills 

• Languages: Spanish (native), English (TOEFL scored 637), French (advanced), Japanese (３級JLPT), Italian (basic).
•  Translation specialization: film subtitling, medical, pharmacological, chemical and internet security.
•  Software tools: Windows 95, 98, XP, Trados, Office 2003 (Word, Access, PowerPoint), WordPerfect, WinCaps subtitling software, Photoshop, Illustrator, In Design.
•  Basic hardware, modems, routers, etc.

• Adobe Illustrator
• Adobe InDesign
• Adobe Photoshop
• PowerPoint
• TRADOS
• Wordfast