Panyòl Entèprèt yo nan Ohio

I am a freelance translator with a master\'s degree in translation from Kent State University. As a native Spanish speaker and fluent speaker of English and Brazilian Portuguese I have been providing translation and interpretation services since 2009 with broad areas of interest and specializations in medical, commercial and legal translation. Having attended university training for more than four years in Venezuela, I can claim not only to be a native speaker of Spanish, but also that I have a college-level education in my mother tongue. Given that half of my family is of Brazilian origin, I have also spoken Portuguese since I was a child, and that is why I am fluent in that language as well. From a very young age and with Portuguese as my second language, I got myself into the tourism industry as a tour guide. The subsequent interaction with foreign visitors allowed me to learn my third language, English. The exposure I received to the English language during the seven years working in this field, pushed me to improve and started dealing with customers exclusively in that language. This was a wonderful experience that gave me a great advantage within the business. As a tour guide able to speak three languages fluently, I was not only involved in field trips but in the logistic and selling processes as well, where often an English and Portuguese speaking representative was needed. Assisting in the translation of brochures, itineraries, web sites, as well as interpreting were part of my duties while working for Ruta Salvaje Tours and several other tour operators around Venezuela.

I graduated with honors with a Bachelors Degree in Spanish Literature from The Ohio State University in Columbus, Ohio in 2004. For one semester I studied in Madrid, Spain in a full emersion studies abroad program. After graduation, I returned to live and work in Madrid for approximately one year teaching English to business professionals and fine-tuning my Spanish-speaking skills. Recently, I lived in Mendoza, Argentina for nearly one year working on freelance transcription and translation assignments. While living in New York City, I worked as a Bilingual Patient Consultant for a busy ophthalmology practice for a top Lasik surgeon. Half of the consultations I gave were entirely in Spanish. I worked as a Promotora de Salud for the Ohio Hispanic Coalition and was a full-time interpreter in the Prenatal/OBGYN clinic. I have worked on-call for medical interpreting.