ABOUT ME

EDUCATION

College / University:

English-Spanish interpreter (Bachelor’s degree). Associate’s degree: "Literary-Technical Translator". Universidad del Museo Social Argentino (UMSA).

Proofreading translator (postgraduate course) – CTPBA and Fundación Litterae

Member of the Argentine Association of Translators and Interpreters (AATI)

Argentinean Sign Language (LSA) interpreter - Instituto Superior Villasoles.

Bachelor’s degree in Biology (currently attending the 2nd year) – Universidad de Buenos Aires (UBA).

Secondary education:

Chemistry Technician --- Technical School Nº 27 “Hipólito Yirigoyen”

LANGUAGES

English: Advanced level. Good command, both spoken and written. Technical and literary vocabulary. Cambridge Certificate of Proficiency in English (CPE).

Italian: Advanced level. Good command, both spoken and written. Certificate issued by the Italian Consulate in Buenos Aires. In addition, a Conversation course. “Italian language and culture” course – Università di Perugia (Italia) – Level of the course: C2 (CEFR)

French: Intermediate level. Institute: CLEF (Capacitación en Lengua Francesa) – French language course at the École de Français por l’International, Paris, France (Level of the course: B1)

Portuguese: Elementary level. Atended: O mundo fala

COMPUTER SKILLS

MS Office tools (Word, Excel, Access, Power Point): Good command.

Trados 7 Freelance. Intermediate level. Basic level course at the Colegio de Traductores Públicos de la Ciudad de Buenos Aires.

PROFESSIONAL TRAINING AND ACTIVITIES (In the area of Science)

“Oil and gas industry” training workshop for teachers – Instituto Argentino del Petróleo y del Gas.
“Good Laboratory Practices (GLPs)” course – Asociación Química Argentina (AQA)
“Liquid Chromatography Fundamentals” course – Agilent Technologies
“Using the Varian Workstation Software” course – Varian Argentina
“Introduction to High Performance Liquid Chromatography (HPLC)” course - AQA
"Introduction to Gas Chromatography (GC)" course - Asociación Química Argentina
Attended (as a student) the “IV International Student Summit on Ecology and Environmentalism" - Foz do Iguaçu, Paraná, Brazil.
Attended (as a student) the 7th Congress of Student Scientific Activities for teachers and students “Prociencia” - City of Chivilcoy, Buenos Aires.
“First Aids” course – Universidad de Buenos Aires.

PROFESSIONAL TRAINING AND ACTIVITIES (In the area of Languages)

Course “Subtitling techniques” – Colegio de Traductores Públicos de la Ciudad de Buenos Aires
Currently working on a research project on Sociolinguistics. Topic: Habits in the use of Taboo words.
"Italian-Spanish translation” course - Argentine Association of Translators and Interpreters (AATI)
Seminar: “Does the principle of affability really hold on?” – Universidad Católica Argentina
Seminar: “Prepositions in general and their specific use in legal language" (English) - UMSA
Attended the 5th Latin American Congress on Translation and Interpreting - Organized by the "Colegio de Traductores Públicos de la Ciudad de Buenos Aires" - May 12th to 16th, 2010

WORK EXPERIENCE (SCIENCE)

IPA Argentina SA (Reverse Osmosis) – Purchase Dept. In charge of both local and foreign purchases (USA). – January-2001 / April-2001

Química Montpellier SA (Pharmaceutical company) - Position: Quality Control Analyst.

Main tasks: Checker; HPLC analysis; packaging materials analysis; water analysis (chemical); cleaning validation protocols writing; translation of techniques and specifications from the USP, EP, BP, etc (English into Spanish); general tasks in the Quality Control section. (November 2001 / January 2007)

Biology Teacher – Technical School Nº 14 “Libertad” – April-2005 / September-2006

Teacher of Organic Chemistry I, General Chemistry (laboratory) and Industrial Chemistry (laboratory) – Technical School Nº 1 “Otto Krause” – April 2009 / Current.

Teacher of Applied Industrial Chemistry – Technical School Nº 27 “Hipólito Yirigoyen” – April 2010 / Current.

Laboratory assistant - Technical School Nº 27 “Hipólito Yirigoyen” – June 2015 / Current.

WORK EXPERIENCE (LANGUAGES)

Translation into English of paper abstracts on Biochemistry research (on phenylketonuria detection).
English subtitling of episodes of the soap opera “Para aprender a amar”, of the Mexican TV network Televisa.
Interpreter of a dredging course in Uruguay, issued by Royal IHC (Netherlands). Both theoretical course (interpreter's booth) and on-the-job training (onboard), onboard for 4 weeks.
Interpreter for two technicians of the company “Royal IHC” (Netherlands) while they were installing dredging equipment, for the company SABAVISA, in San Miguel del Monte, Buenos Aires, Argentina. 3 weeks.
Translation of the Constitutions of the congregation of the “Suore Francescane dell’Immacolata” (Italian-Spanish)
Translation of the programme of the opera “L’elisir d’amore” (Italian-Spanish)
Translation of the website of a meat processing plant (Italian-Spanish)
Translation of the franchise contract of a gaming company (Italian-Spanish)
General and technical translations (memos, patient information leaflets, etc.) – English-Spanish
Translation from English into Spanish of scientific papers (University of Buenos Aires, school of Natural Sciences).
English-Spanish simultaneous interpreter of the “9th World Congress for People who Stutter (ISA) – 2nd Latin American Congress on Stuttering (AAT)” – From May 18th to 21st, 2011.
English-Spanish interpreter for a marketing research project (Coffee) – University of Amsterdam
Teacher of English – “La Anunciata” high-school – Students from the 1st to the 5th year. (October 2007 / Current)
Teacher of English for doctors and engineers. Teaching both reading comprehension of technical papers and language improvement. Face-to-face and e-learning courses.