SPANISH LANGUAGE SPECIALIST

TRANSLATOR (EN / FR / PT > SP)

Personal details

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Name: PAYO - PEÑA (Ms)

Surname: Leire

Phone: + 34 91 402 68 63; + 34 61 777 09 64
Address: C/ Alcántara, 33 - 2.º D, 28006 - Madrid (SPAIN)
E-mail: [email protected]; [email protected]
Date of birth: 27 June, 1974
Nationality: Spanish

Professional experience

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• In-house Spanish Localization Project Manager for Hermes Traducciones y Servicios Lingüísticos (June 2004 - December 2007)
• In-house Spanish translator for Hermes Traducciones y Servicios Lingüísticos (June '03 - June '04)
• On-line English>Spanish translator of the Verbatim Report of Proceedings of the European Parliament for Celer-Pawlowsky, S.L. (Sept. '02 - June '03)
• On-line English-French>Spanish translator experience in translation and localisation, mainly videogames (software, manuals and scripts), telecommunication and technical manuals; cultural texts such as enclyclopaedia articles, tourist outlets and menus (Sept., '00 - June '03)
• On-line English-Spanish translator of the European Women's Thesaurus for the Instituto de la Mujer, Granada, Spain (June - October, '02)
• French - Spanish translator at the Enciclopaedia de las Humanidades for Editorial Planeta, a Spanish publishing company (February '02 - April '02)
• Spanish translator, editor and social interpreter at the Euro-Arab Management School. Granada, Spain (March '99 - December '00)
• French sworn translator appointed by the Spanish Foreign Affairs Minister (since 8th March, 2000)

Qualifications

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Post-graduate in Migrations, Refuge and Intercultural Studies at Universidad Autónoma de Madrid (December 2007)

Research PhD project at Université Laval, Québec, Canada, on Translation and Ideology (2001-2002)

Applied Languages Europe (ALE), Facultad de Traducción e Interpretación, Universidad de Granada, Spain (1998-1993)

Skills

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Language Skills

• Spanish: Mother tongue;
• French and English: Very good level of both (fluent in speaking, reading and writing)
• Portuguese: Medium knowledge

Computer Skills

• Hands-on knowledge of processing packages (Microsoft)
• Good command of several Computer Assisted Translation tools (Trados, SDL Trados, etc.)

Voluntary experience

• Voluntary Spanish Teacher in Nouâdhibou (Mauritania). (April - May 2008)
• Voluntary Spanish Teacher in Mbour (Senegal), (February - March 2008)
• English, French and Portuguese > Spanish voluntary on-line translator for Gloobal, portal on Co-operation and Development, published by IEPALA (Institute of Politics Research in Latin America and Africa). Experience in press releases and reports (November 2007 - January 2008)
• Voluntary on-line translator for UNICEF and Ecos. Experience in press releases and reports (1997 - 1999)