I began my translation career as an added value that I offered my employers during my career as a software engineer. In addition to copywriting the documents themselves as part of the software development cycle, I could provide copies of the same in either or both English and Spanish—the two main languages of concern in the software industry at the time. So by and large translating technical specifications, software documentation, troubleshooting guides, standard operating procedures and user manuals was where it all began. Word got around and other departments started noticing. Quite soon thereafter, I found myself translating human resource manuals and contractor agreements as well—(of course, it did not stop there!) So although I did not become a full-time professional translator until my retirement from the software industry in 2007, I had already been privately translating volumes of texts in different fields across various industries whose influence spans the globe, at comparably professional throughput and quality levels for close to 15 years.

Average Yearly Performance Words Translated: 700,000 Throughput: 3,000 Words/Day. (Transcripts: 30 Minutes/Day) On-time Delivery: 99.9%

Services:

Spanish to English Translations
English to Spanish Translations
Audio Transcriptions
Translated Transcriptions
Text Extractions (Conversions)
Localizations

México
Puerto Rico
Great Britain
United States of America

Executive Summaries
Copywriting

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

Performance:

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

As a professional freelance translator, I am most frequently called upon to translate technical specifications and documentation, operational manuals, legal documents, contracts and agreements, corporate, government, public and private documents from various industries including construction, power, water, nuclear, oil production, national and international commerce and law, medicine, research and development, transportation, insurance, banking, trade law, hazard management, environmental and resource management and conservation, waste disposal and processing, safety procedures and standards, industrial operations and maintenance procedures, law enforcement, forensics and many, many more also including a large volume of confidential and highly sensitive material for which I have developed a trusted reputation of impeccable reliability over the years of dealing on a one-to-one basis with each client, and each assignment. I became a full member of ProZ in 2010 and I have been busier than a one-armed juggler ever since, the list continues to grow almost daily!

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 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 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.