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Professional Experience
Born in Havana, Cuba, 1940. Raised in the USA.
Resettled in Spain in 1993. Spanish citizen.
Higher education: City College of New York and Havana University. Psychology degree from Havana University in 1969 (validated by the Spanish Ministry of Education and Science).
Professional experience as an English<>Spanish translator and simultaneous interpreter since 1960. Evaluated with high marks by the United Nations Translation Service in 1979 (translation) and 1980 (simultaneous interpretation).
Organized and directed the official English translators’ upgrading course for the Sixth World Summit of Non-Aligned Countries, in 1979.
Have done simultaneous interpreting at hundreds of international conferences in America, Europe, Asia and Africa.
Have trained dozens of translators and simultaneous interpreters.
Main fields of expertise: Software, Marketing, Advertising, Business Management, Web Site Localization, Medicine, Pharma, General Science and Technology, Psychology, Sociology, Political Affairs, Journalism, Experimental Design, Sampling and Statistics, Help Files, Tourism, Education, Textbooks, Religion, Performing Arts.
Software capabilities: MS Office, PowerPoint, Trados, all required tools.
Some recent satisfied clients in alphabetical order: Arpino Consulting, France. Bowne Global, USA. Cusmano Communication, Canada. Excel Translations, USA. Insight Interactive, USA. Intérpretes Salamanca, Spain. Lancet Corporation, USA. Muscletech, Canada. Putumayo World Music, USA. Right-to-Left Software, Israel. Securities Trading Group, Switzerland. Technicis, France. The PC Edge, USA. Traducciones Médicas, Spain.
Some recent simultaneous interpreting jobs: Seminar on ETF and Hedge Fund Investing Madrid, Spain. International Summit on Democracy, Terrorism and Security Madrid, Spain. SODEXHO Clients for Life Villepreux, France. Monsanto Sales Conference Cancun, Mexico. Leadership Training Institute Geneva, Switzerland. 8th World Council of Prison Fellowship International Johannesburg, South Africa. 26th Congress of the International Seed Testing Association Angers, France. PriceWaterhouseCoopers Conference Madrid, Spain. Readers for Life! Paris, France. International Congress on Personality Disorders Salamanca, Spain. 52nd Congress, World Association of Newspapers Zurich, Switzerland. Alcatel's Submarine Cable Networks Lannion, France. Newspaper Advertising Conference Lisbon, Portugal. Newspaper Editors and Marketeers Conference Vienna, Austria. 51st Congress, World Association of Newspapers Kobe, Japan. Third High Level Meeting on Financial Reform in Latin America Madrid, Spain. No Freedom, No Culture Stockholm, Sweden. Publicity and Added value in Online Newspapers Barcelona, Spain. SERONO Pharmaceutical Conference Tenerife, Spain. NESTLE'S European Information Center Paris, France. Newspaper Sports Coverage Paris, France. Annual Meeting, European Union of Animal Fats Producers Biarritz, France.
Sample Texts
Specialty:
Investigations Journalism
From:
English
I regard all my work as confidential, so I'm not including any samples.
To:
Spanish
Considero que todo mi trabajo tiene carácter confidencial, de modo que no incluye ninguna muestra.