Experience

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  Utah national guard

  May 2007 - Nov 2013

  Linguist specialist - spanish

  Coordinated the timely completion of assignments including transcribing, translating, and interpreting. Reviewed and revised translated documents evaluating linguistics, technical terms, and terminology ensuring accuracy and consistency.

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  Utah valley university

  Aug 2007 - Dec 2017

  Spanish adjunct faculty

  Taught Business Spanish, SDL Trados, Translation from English to Spanish, Advanced Spanish Grammar, Phonics.

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  The church of jesus christ of latter-day saints

  Nov 2013 - Oct 2018

  Agile spanish translator & reviewer

  Responsible for overseeing a multi-cultural team of technical translators in the translation and localization of software products in core languages for a FamilySearch website. I pride myself in ensuring quality assurance through in-context review coordination, as well as analyzing translations to develop and implement support resources for crowd-sourced efforts. In collaboration with global translators, I coordinate the timely completion of projects and creation and update of glossaries.A few of my key contributions in this role are as follows: Conceptualized and produced high quality translations developing user trust and reducing negative feedback surrounding the FamilySearch.org website. Integrated in-context reviews into the translation process reducing translation issues and increasing resolution times. Established rapport with Spanish Language Services Department through the demonstration of effective communication, knowledge of software application, and consistent delivery of translation projects on-time and within requested quality specifications enhancing overall relationship with the Software application Translation Team. Show less

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  Lingotek

  Oct 2018 - May 2019

  Localization project manager

  Deliver projects according to client expectation and target profit margins.Manage external vendors and freelancers.Communicate project requirement to the project team.

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  Fluent global

  Feb 2019 - now

  Linguist & localization project manager

  Translations from English to Spanish with in-house freelance linguistics, in-country freelance translators, proofreaders, and translation quality assurance. We only use native translators to ensure accurate localization.