LUCAS GONZÁLEZ FERNÁNDEZ
LANGUAGE EMPLOYMENT HISTORY
TEACHING OF LANGUAGES
- Private tutor of English as a foreign language: Private tuitions of Spanish students in Secondary School over two years.
- World Friends, Languages Academy and Association: Teacher of advanced level of Spanish as a foreign languge for groups of up to eight students of different ages over two years.
TRANSLATION
- regular freelancer for international organizations
- Seattle Community Network: Translation of Community Empowerment documents on a regular basis.
- Ingeniería sin fronteras apd: Translation of scientific and technical abstracts about developing countries on a regular basis.
- Vivienda sin fronteras: Translation and proofreading of newspaper articles published afterwards on their website.
freelance translator of specialized texts in the private translation market
Agencies: Ofilingua, Escuela de Idiomas- Traductores e Intérpretes de Jaén, Inmobiliaria Reina Cristina, Greene King, One Document, Fareham Health Centre (Hampshire).
Type of texts translated and interpreting services: brochures and websites, letters, e-mails, resumes, contracts, articles, essays, medical abstracts and thesis, hospital discharge forms, titles and certificates, social interpreting.
INTERPRETING
- Social Interpreter in legal contexts. Ofilingua Agency, Granada (Spain).
- Health care and services interpreter. Fareham Health Centre (England).
EDUCATION
2009 University of Granada, BA in Interpreting and Translating (from English and French into Spanish)
- Training in simultaneous interpreting
- Training in consecutive interpreting and liaison interpreting
- Translation from all three languages consists of assessed weekly translation of highly specialized texts divided into three categories: Legal and financial, Scientific and Technical, Literary.
SKILLS
Knowledge of MS DOS, Microsoft Windows, Word, Excel 5, Powerpoint, Internet Explorer
Good command of CAT tools such as Trados 7, Déjà vu, Wordfast and other translation programmes such as PASSOLO for localization.
Regular internet/email user Drive for learning.
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