Although my career has been almost exclusively that of a software engineer, my unique bicultural abilities as a native speaker in both English and Spanish have made me the obvious choice for the translation of every kind of company document, from letters to employee handbooks to contracts to process forms to project documentation, etc. I would dare to say that almost 30% of my career-related product over the past 15 years has been the translation of documents of every conceivable kind.

Statistics - Last 12 Months Total Word Count: 707,515 On-time Delivery: 99.9%

Services:

Spanish to English Translations
English to Spanish Translations
Audio Transcriptions
Translated Transcriptions
Text Extractions (Conversions)
Localizations (Puerto Rico & USA)
Executive Summaries
Copywriting
Editing

Experience:

Healthcare
Insurance
Manufacturing
Transportation
Human Resources
Safety and Security
Legal and Law Enforcement
Conservation & Environment
Information Technologies
Industrial Procedures
Nuclear Energy
Social Sciences
Education

Capacity:

3,000 to 4,000 words per day
40 to 60 minutes audio per day
Audio filtering and enhancement
Expert document formatting
Technical on-line expertise
SDL Trados

As a professional freelancer I frequently translate websites, (either designed by me or by a third party), articles, short stories and other such, relatively light-weight projects. Although, on occasion, I have taken on the challenge of translating contract agreements between parties in separate countries, a task that I was mostly called upon to perform during the years in which I lived in Mexico City.

I was raised in a bicultural, bilingual home. My mother is a native Puerto Rican and my father a native of Arkansas, USA. Neither was fluent in the other’s language, so my brother and I had to be, in both. I grew up in San Juan, Puerto Rico where my schoolmates and personal friends were of equally mixed backgrounds and heritage. Although the island is predominantly a Spanish-speaking culture, the hotel-dominated beaches on which I was privileged to grow up and develop, provided a constantly changing mélange of visiting ephemeral friends whose language and dialects continuously enriched my vocabulary and comprehension.

As a consummate bibliophile, my personal library boasts a wide assortment of classical and contemporary, fiction and non-fiction works which have, (over the years and beyond my youthful, serendipitous linguistic excursions with foreign friends), further expanded my linguistic versatility.

As a free-thinker, my other passions are, of course, the sciences, in a great number of which I am well versed. My special favorites are Physics, Astronomy, Biology, Philosophy, Psychology, Technology, Anthropology, Geology, Paleontology, and Sociology, among others. The order of preference is in constant flux and changes without prior notice.

Translations have proved to be a unique way to challenge and expand my language prowess. It has enhanced my appreciation of the special perceptions that make us all so different and yet so much alike at the same time. A peculiar appreciation that was first glimpsed within my own multi-cultural upbringing, and has been continuously growing ever since. In many ways translations have not only been professionally rewarding and lucrative for me, but also, personally, intensely satisfying.