Recent translation jobs 2014-2017: Two and a half years doing weekly English-Spanish proofreading and localization jobs for an important European agency. Main subject: Text & messages deployed into mobile phone user interfaces: Manuals, instructions, social networking, App's instructions and manuals, etc. for Android and iOS platforms. JOSE LOBOS, ENGLISH-SPANISH FREELANCE TRANSLATOR PRESENTATION. I am a native speaker of Spanish, also a life-long reader of English and an English-Spanish translator. I went to graduate school in the USA under a Hubert H. Humphrey North-South Fellowship. Since 2013 I have been working as an English-Spanish translator using Computer-Assisted Translation (CAT) particularly the FLUENCY® Translation Suite from the Western Standard Co. (https://www.westernstandard.com) that supports file formats .doc, .docx, .rtf, .txt, PowerPoint files, Excel files, PDF files, Publisher files, .html, .xml, .ttx, .inx, .idml, .hmxp, .mif, .xliff, .sdlxliff and text in general. I also have a career in Information Technology, especially Ontology and Semantics as applied to database design and analysis of technical documents. Office software: Microsoft Office (MS Word, Excel, PowerPoint, etc.). I have also a career in Information Systems, especially database design from the analysis on technical (text) documents. My translation services are offered but not restricted to the following areas: IT (Information Technology) Practical Ontology & Semantics applied to C&A (Certification and Accreditation Processes) Telecom & Mobile Devices e-Commerce Computer Hardware / Software Computer Networks Electronics / Electrical Eng Science news Education / Pedagogy Engineering (general) Communications (general) Management Banking/Finance/e-Banking Credit & Debit card systems VISA & MasterCard ISO-8583 financial messaging PCI Data Security Standards Letters and conversation Literature News and reports PLEASE SEE MY TRANSLATOR'S PROFILE ON THE WEB: * At ProZ.com http://www.proz.com/translator/1866647 TRANSLATION AND LINGUISTIC JOBS PERFORMED 2013-2016 ⬢2014-2016: English to Spanish; proofreading and localization (160,000+ words to date) for mobile smart phone user interface (user instructions, and social networking) on platforms iOS and Android for an important European translation agency. ⬢ Jose Lobos is one of the translators who helped translate the translation-industry oriented portal TTMEM.com into Spanish: Translation into Spanish of the "Paid Translation Memory section" for the TTMEM.com Translator's portal. Oct. 2014: Ref: http://www.ttmem.com/job/?19 Pages translated in the section SJob Posting Rules⬝ of TTMEM.com, Oct. 2014: Ref. http://www.ttmem.com//job-system/about/ Ref. http://www.ttmem.com//job-system/posting-rules/ Ref. http://www.ttmem.com/post-job/ Pages translated for the TTMEM.com site´s kick-off, convoked by the Kardas Traduzioni Agency www.kardastraduzioni.com May 2014. See credits at http://www.ttmem.com/credits/ See the SWillingness to Work Again⬝ Certificate issued by the Kardas Traduzioni Agency at http://www.proz.com/wwa/1866647 ⬢ Translation of Christian Church Educational Documents, for Rev. Daniel McIntyre who lives and works as a missionary in Guatemala, Central America. June 2014. ⬢ Linguistic and cultural screening of about 50+ candidate brands aimed at an Spanish-speaking market in Latin America, Ref. http://www.labbrand.com. 2013. EXPERIENCE AS PROFESSOR OF LINGUISTICS AS KEY ELEMENT TO INFORMATION SYSTEMS ⬢ October 2009 - August 2010. Crafter and Professor of the following Free Courses at the School of Engineering, USAC: 1. "The Philosophical, Psychological and Linguistic Foundations of Computer Science: The key knowledge that won't go obsolete as technology changes⬝. 2. SThe Systems Engineer: His/Her Role as a Communicator". 3. "Linguistics: The Stable Foundation of the Dynamic and Evolving Digital World". ⬢ 2009-2010: Professor in the Master of Arts Program on Information and Communication Technologies. Graduate School of Engineering, USAC. POETRY AND LITERATURE ⬢ Three poetry prizes awarded: Two at national-level contests in Guatemala and one at tri-national level (Guatemala, El Salvador & Honduras writers). CONSULTING AND PROFESSIONAL PRACTICE IN INFORMATION SYSTEMS ⬢ October - December 2013 Consulting for the company MA-BPO Inc., a Business Process Outsourcing company that performs copy-writing for catalog stores like Amazon and such, with operations in India, Sri Lanka, and Guatemala, C.A. Work included analysis and documentation of their web-based system and the database. October - December 2013. ⬢ October 2012 - April 2013 Consultant for Money Access International, Inc. a co-issuer of TIGO VISA Debit Cards. Consulting included document analysis and synthesis aimed at obtain its PCI DSS certification. Ref. www.pcisecuritystandards.org ⬢ 1983-2000 Manager of Information Systems of Banco de la Construction, S.A. (now merged-in to another bank) and its IT spin-off company Transtel, S.A. Work included developing retail banking applications and Visa and MasterCard debit and credit cards both as issuer and acquirer. ⬢ 1982-1983 Director of Computing Services Project INDE, Guatemala, C.A. ⬢ 1979-1981 Director of the Computer Center, Master Plan for National Electrification, INDE, Guatemala, C.A. GRADUATE STUDIES ⬢ University of San Carlos of Guatemala, C.A. (USAC), Central America. Diploma in Philosophy. Program for University Professors, School of The Humanities. January 2010-January 2011. ⬢ The University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, Minnesota USA. Seminar for Hubert H. Humphrey North-South Fellows on economic and social development. June 1982. ⬢ The Pennsylvania State University, University Park, Pennsylvania, USA. One academic year of graduate study at The Institute of Public Administration, for Hubert H. Humphrey North- South Fellows, College of Liberal Arts. Fall 1981 Spring 1982. ⬢ The University of Texas at Austin, Texas USA: English Language and Pre-academic Study Program for Hubert H. Humphrey North-South Fellows, Summer 1981 (July -September). UNDERGRADUATE STUDIES ⬢ University of San Carlos of Guatemala, C.A. (USAC), Central America. B.S. In Electrical Engineering, 1983. OTHER STUDIES ⬢ Courses in the XIII National Congress of Mathematics in Education: a) Active and meaningful learning of functions; b) Hierarchy of operations and their applications; c) Mathematics and the development of critical thinking. USAC November 2010. ⬢ Workshop in Creative Writing (in Spanish), taught by the Guatemala's National-Prize of Literature Marco Antonio Flores, University´s Cultural Center. USAC Oct. 2009. ⬢ Tayasal Business School, Guatemala, C.A. Diploma in Business Administration, 1997. ⬢ Design and Management of Relational Databases. Training at Sysdeco Mimer A.B. Uppsala, Sweden, April 1994.