Maria Alvarez
www.traduccion-es.net

	FREELANCE TRANSLATOR

German – French – Greek – English -------------------------------------------- Spanish	
                                                 
Spanish qualified translator, born in Spain, working independently for private clients and translation agencies, translating from English, German, French and Greek into Spanish (mother tongue) since 2003.

EDUCATIONAL BACKGROUND

2004-2005	M.A. in Human Languages Technologies
		Sorbonne Nouvelle (París)
2003		German Legal Terminology
		University of Malaga
2003		Spanish as a foreign language
		University of Málaga
2002-2003	Literary Translation Greek-Spanish
		University of Athens
1999-2003	Graduated in Translation and Interpretation
		(French, German, Greek)
		University of Malaga
1992-1997	Graduated in Business Administration
		University of Malaga

EXPERIENCE AND STRONG POINTS

I have translated & proofread about the following fields in the last few years:
•	Legal Documents, Contracts & Certificates
•	Business Reports		
•	Finance reports
•	Technical Documentation
•	Web Sites (html)		

I can handle large projects, work in teams and/or under pressure.
I have considerable experience in DTP handling of text, graphics, images & html.
I strictly respect deadlines

Maria Alvarez
www.traduccion-es.net

	FREELANCE TRANSLATOR

German – French – Greek - English ----------------------------------------------- Spanish	

TOOLS

Hardware: PC Pentium 4 1.8 GHZ 512 Mb RAM, Modem 56Kbps V92, CD-DVD Re-Writer.

Laptop Pentium Centrino 1.4 Ghz 512 Mb RAM, Modem 56Kbps V92, CD-DVD Re-Writer.

Peripherals: Lexmark Colour Scanner, ink jet printer and Brother plain paper fax machine.

Internet Connection: ADSL Broadband and Dial-up Backup.

Software: Windows XP Home and Professional, Office 2000, FrontPage, Adobe Acrobat, Adobe Acrobat Distiller,  Microsoft Works 6, Corel Draw, Winzip, Adobe Photoshop CS, Adobe PageMaker, FreeHand MX, Flash MX, Dreamweaver MX.

Computer Languages: ASP.NET, PHP, MySQL.

Trados 6.5

WORK CAPACITY

Translation:  		1000/4000 words per day.
Proof-reading:	4000/8000 words per day.