Toni Vigil

Experience

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  Ipsos

  Jul 2005 - Jul 2008

  ● Developing decision making skills within a busy commercial environment. ● Administrative tasks, managing and coaching an international team of interviewers. ● Performing tasks in an integrated team work environment. ● Conducting business and residential surveys both in English and Spanish dealing with top executives from Microsoft, Roche and politicians.

  • International Project Supervisor

    Jul 2006 - Jul 2008

  • Telephone Interviewer

    Jul 2005 - Jun 2006
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  AOL

  Jul 2008 - Jun 2009

  ● Create, maintain, promote and update Bebo group profiles on www.bebo.com always making sure that the company guidelines were adhered to.● Monitor user-generated content to solve issues on an ad-hoc basis, while gathering feedback regarding community development.● Building a solid community for the Spanish market welcoming new users.● Create attractive content such as music bands and successful fan groups from other platforms, as well as online-based fan groups.● Identify new trends: viral videos, increasingly popular music bands, movies and such like to create new and enticing profile groups to the Spanish audience.● Good knowledge of the Spanish popular culture Show less

  • Freelance Blogger

    Jul 2008 - Jun 2009

  • Online Community Manager

    Jul 2008 - May 2009
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  Wendy Sherwood, London South Bank University

  Nov 2009 - Dec 2014

  Freelance Translator

  ● Medical translations from Japanese into English and viceversa for Wendy Sherwood, Course Director at London South Bank University● Correspondence with Japanese doctors working at Nagasaki Prefectural Medical Centre of Psychiatry.

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  The Pokemon Company International

  May 2010 - Apr 2011

  In-house Spanish Translator

  ● Translation duties from Japanese and English into Spanish for one of the highest selling video game in the history of Nintendo, Pokémon Black & White. ● Translation of the game guide books, website VGC and TCG as well as revision and editing of the new animation (seasons 13 and 14).● Correspondence with the editors in USA to create glossary terms and follow-up queries regarding legal check, Q & A and bugs.

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  Cathay Pacific Airways

  Oct 2011 - Sept 2014

  Cabin Crew

  ● Responsible for passenger safety while delivering outstanding customer service required byCathay Pacific, a member of the One World Alliance, in all conditions.● Operating B747 and B777 covering the long haul route between LHR and HKG on a weeklybasis.● Successfully trained in safety and emergency procedures, aviation medicine, hijack/securityprocedures, conflict management, restraining and breakaway techniques, all required toconform to European statutory ‘JAROPS’ standards. Show less

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  Focus Translation

  Dec 2013 - Dec 2014

  Freelance Interpreter

  ● Freelance interpreting Spanish>English and English>Spanish for the Home Office in the UK, rendering interpreting services on areas such as immigration, passport applications, counter-terrorism and asylum applications.

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  The London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE)

  Jan 2015 - Jun 2015

  Research Assistant

  ●Collaborating in a project led by Thomas Sattler, Professor at the LSE, that seeks to investigate the credibility of macroeconomic policymaking and financial market behaviour in several countries of the Eurozone. ●Collecting and analyzing large volumes of data about parliamentary speeches in Spanish, coding it into a database and spreadsheets for further analysis.

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  The Afghanistan and Central Asian Association

  Feb 2015 - May 2015

  Researcher

  • Aiding the Volunteer Coordinator in recruiting mentees for the Lottery Funded mentoring project• Formulating strategies to attract communities to partake in this scheme• Outreach work to promote the project undertake legal/outreach/human rights research• Proof read and edit content for online materials and newsletter• Write summary reports of events and news

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  Bain & Company

  Oct 2015 - Dec 2015

  Freelance Management Consultant

  • Research on consumer purchase behaviour.• Assisting the lead consultant with insights based on research findings to make informed decisions.• Consistently exceeding client expectations from project inception through completion.

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  SITGES – International Fantastic Film Festival of Catalonia

  Oct 2016 - Oct 2016

  Freelance Interpreter

  • Successfully interpreted in a booth the film Aliens Return from EN-ES for the 30th anniversary of the film. • Liaison interpreting for film stars and directors during the 49th edition of the festival, offering the combinations EN-ES-JP.

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  Winche Redes Comerciales

  Jun 2017 - Jun 2017

  Freelance Interpreter

  • Liaison interpreting for foreign clients, offering the combinations EN-ES and viceversa.

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  King

  Apr 2018 - Apr 2018

  Freelance Interpreter

  • Liaison interpreting for senior managers at King during the analysis of a video-game panel, offering the combinations EN-ES and viceversa.

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  Www.interpretebarcelona.es

  Sept 2018 - now

  Conference Interpreter

  Some highlights: EN><ES for the webinar <<Interpreters for Peasant and Indigenous Press Forum>>EN><ES for the DGB BW International Partners’ Conference on Trade Union Education EN><ES for a COP26 webinar <<The new UN Special Rapporteur on Human Rights and Climate Change: Delivering for the most Vulnerable>> Some of panelists I interpreted for: Mr. Mohamed Nasheed, former President of the Maldives (Speaker of the Parliament and CVF Thematic Ambassador for ambition), and Mr. Zeid Ra'ad Al Hussein (former UN High Commissioner for Human Rights and President of the International Peace Institute (IPI)). EN><ES for the Webinar “Strategy Cross-Fertilisation Summit" Show less

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  Elite Business English SL

  Jan 2019 - Dec 2021

  English Language Teacher

  • Classroom management• Planning, preparing and delivering lessons to a range of classes and age groups• Preparing and setting tests, examination papers and exercises• Marking and providing appropriate feedback on oral and written work• Devising, writing and producing new materials, including audio and visual resources

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  La Via Campesina

  Sept 2020 - now

  Freelance Interpreter

  Charged with remote simultaneous interpreting ES><EN via Zoom.

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  Save the Children International

  Feb 2021 - Feb 2021

  Freelance Interpreter

  Tasked with remote simultaneous interpreting from English/French into Spanish for the online Webinar "Generations Together: Learning from young activists and adult allies"

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  World Social Forum

  Apr 2021 - Dec 2021

  Freelance Interpreter
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  Mouvement international ATD Quart Monde

  Apr 2021 - Dec 2021

  Freelance Interpreter

  Tasked with remote simultaneous interpreting from EN-FR into Spanish

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  Amnesty International

  Jun 2021 - Dec 2021

  Freelance Interpreter

  Tasked with remote simultaneous interpreting EN><ES

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  VoiceBoxer

  Jun 2021 - Jun 2021

  Freelance Interpreter

  Trained on this platform for RSI.

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  FORUM OF WOMEN’S NGOS OF KYRGYZSTAN

  Jul 2021 - Jul 2021

  Freelance Interpreter

  Virtual Global Webinar of the Feminist Group of CPDE «Development effectiveness from women's rights and gender equality perspectives» on 14th July2021. Tasked with interpreting duties EN><ES.

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  NGO Committee on Social Development

  Jul 2021 - Jul 2021

  Freelance Interpreter

  Tasked with interpreting EN<>ES on July 7th for the webinar entitled ‘’Breaking the Cycle of Poverty and Hunger: Our Asks’’ where individuals from Ecuador, Kenya, the Philippines and South America shared their insights and experiences with poverty and hunger. Tasked with interpreting EN<>ES on July 8th for the webinar "A Steeper Climb to Achieve SDG10: Grassroots Views on Resilient Recovery Post COVID-19"

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  Freelance

  Aug 2021 - Aug 2021

  Freelance Interpreter

  Tasked with simultaneous remote interpretation EN><ES for indigenous women during the SECOND WORLD CONFERENCE OF INDIGENOUS WOMEN organized by FIMI on August 12th, 19th and 26th and September 2nd.

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  Universitat Oberta de Catalunya

  Sept 2023 - now

  Profesor de japonés