Self-Employed

Sep 2014-Sep 2017 (full time); Sep 2017-present (part time)

CA, USA

Responsibilities:

• Translate medical, pharmaceutical and veterinary texts from Spanish, Catalan and French to American and British English and edit and proofread texts redacted in English
• Documents include summaries of product characteristics and package leaflets for human and veterinary medicinal products, scientific articles and passages from textbooks on topics in human and veterinary medicine and surgery, clinical trial documents, etc.

Nova Traductors i Intèrprets S.L. (now WeLocalize)

Jun 2014-Sep 2014 (450 hours)

Barcelona, Spain

Responsibilities

1. Translated and revised translations from Spanish and Catalan to English and proofread texts redacted in English, almost always medical, pharmaceutical and veterinary texts
2. Documents included package leaflets and summaries of product characteristics for human and veterinary medical products, clinical trial documents, and pharmaceutical manufacturing procedures

Tradtec S.L.

Oct 2013-May 2014 (350 hours)

Barcelona, Spain

Responsibilities

1. Translated and revised translations from Spanish and Catalan to English and proofread texts redacted in English, particularly technical texts
2. Documents included medication administration manuals, presentations on medical disorders, physical therapy exercise manuals, laboratory brochures, scientific articles, news articles and product advertisements

Bahá’í World Centre (NGO)

Sep 2012-Jun 2013 (part time)

Haifa, Israel

Responsibilities

1. Translated communications from Spanish and French to English
2. Drafted and revised communications in English

Bahá’í World Centre (NGO)

Sep 2009-Aug 2013 (full time); Sep 2012-Jun 2013 (part time)

Haifa, Israel

Responsibilities

1. Translated communications from Spanish and French to English
2. Drafted and revised communications in English

Wisconsin Telecommunications Relay System (now Wisconsin Relay Service)

Sep 2008-Mar 2009 (full time)

WI, USA

Responsibilities

1. Relayed calls between hearing and deaf users in Spanish and English
2. Interpreted calls from Spanish to English and English to Spanish

McGill University

Montreal, Quebec, Canada

Sep 2017-Apr 2019

Courses completed: Data Mining, Database Design, Foundations of Information Studies, Information Behaviour and Resources, Information Security, Information System Design, Organization of Information, and Web System Design and Management

Online

Sep-Oct 2015

A 6-week continuing education course on business and marketing

Universitat Pompeu Fabra

Barcelona, Spain

Sep 2013-Jul 2014

University of Wisconsin–Madison

Madison, WI, USA

Sep 2004-May 2009

University of Wisconsin–Madison

Madison, WI, USA

Sep 2004-Aug 2007

3 of 4 years completed

Basic knowledge of:

• HTML5
• CSS3
• Javascript
• jQuery
• Responsive design
• Information architecture
• Usability

Basic knowledge of:

• Microsoft Access
• SQL

Basic knowledge of:

• Python for data science, including NumPy, Matplotlib, Pandas, and NLTK
• RapidMiner

Completion of DataCamp courses:

• Intro to Python for Data Science
• Intermediate Python for Data Science
• Intro to SQL for Data Science

MemoQ

Trados

Wordfast

XBench

English (native proficiency)

Spanish (full professional proficiency)

Catalan (professional working proficiency)

French (limited working proficiency)

Microsoft Office suite

Mac iWork suite

Inspired by Code & Coffee events organized by Les Pitonneux and Coffee and Code events organized by freeCodeCamp Montreal, a colleague and I co-created a weekly Coding Support Group to meet the specific needs and suit the busy, erratic schedules of McGill Information Studies (SIS) students learning to code.

I am an active member of the McGill Information Studies Technology Association. As a member, I have helped organize and attended an introductory Python workshop.

I served as a volunteer for the McGill InfoNexus Conference in 2018, aiding with registration and other event logistics.

I served as a volunteer for the World Information Architecture Day Conference in Montreal in 2018, aiding with registration and other event logistics. (I also won a great prize — the entire Rosenfeld Media user experience library! I've got a very long summer reading list now....)

I am an active member of the McGill Special Library Association Student Group. As a member, I learned about content strategy and taxonomy on a tour of Ubisoft Montreal in 2018.

I am a member of McGill Information Studies Student Association, a general student association.

I am a member of the Los Angeles Translators and Interpreters Club.

I was a member of the American Translators Association from January 2017 to December 2017.

I was a member of the Association of Translators and Interpreters in the San Diego Area from January 2016 to December 2017.

A website for my curriculum vitae (this one!)

A redesign of the website of a city in Quebec with a tourism-driven economy, in collaboration with Abhishek Agarwal, Sonner Foltran and Zack Chen

A database for operations management at an animal shelter, in collaboration with Ianna Breese

A project in data science to analyze, and understand and compare bias in English- and French-language media coverage of the 2017 Catalan independence referendum, in collaboration with Lambert Garceau

A game for English speakers to build their vocabulary in French

Orthopaedic Pathologies of the Stifle Joint

Key Concepts in Senior Cat Care