VERONICA

Veronica lives in Maricopa Arizona and provides Spanish to English translation services to LA Translation and Interpretation, Inc.

EDUCATION

– Master of Business Administration, University of Texas Pan-American. Edinburg, Texas. – B.S. Chemical Engineering, University of Coahuila. Saltillo, Coahuila. Mexico.

– Certificate for Overseas Teachers of English, University of Cambridge.

– Passed the Spanish written section for the California Court Interpreter Examination (complete certification in process).

-Active Member of ATA (American Translators Association)

-Active Member of ACIA (Arizona Court Interpreters Association)

-Toastmasters Active Member. Harrah’s Ak-Chin Chapter., Maricopa, Arizona

Currently, I work as a contract interpreter for the Executive Office for Immigration Review (EOIR) from the U.S. Department of Justice in the courts in Eloy, Florence, Phoenix, and Tucson, Arizona; in addition, I also work as a contract interpreter proving services for Superior Court Pinal County. In between assignments I work as a freelance translator providing translation, transcription, proofreading, and localization services to companies, agencies, and individuals in the U.S., Latin America, Europe, Asia, and Australia. My translation and interpretation experience falls into the fields described below:

Legal: Wide experience in translation /interpretation of Immigration Federal Court from initial appearances, master calendars, prove ups and Final Merit or Individual Hearing as well as translation of all the documents related with these procedures. Former Staff Interpreter for the Superior Court of Maricopa County in Phoenix, Arizona in Family, Civil, Probate, and Criminal Courts. Translation of Divorce Settlements, Decrees, and Default Divorces; Civil Trials; Family Trials; Settlement Conferences; Orders of Protection, backgrounds checks, translation of Birth, Marriage and Death certificates; Stockholders Agreements, Testaments, Police reports, legal forms, Website legal terms and conditions, Court orders, Affidavits, Acquittals, Depositions, Non-disclosure Agreements, Employment Applications, Asset Purchase Agreement, Lease/Rent Contracts, Business Confidentiality Agreement, Promissory Notes, Power of Attorney, Arraignments, Sentencing, Plea Agreements.

Marketing/Advertising: Brochures, publicity ads, questionnaires, product description for packaging printing as well as for advertising. Advertising and service documents for different Countries, press releases for a newspaper regarding community activities and school issues (once per month). Copywriting, translation and localization projects for different Advertising Campaigns targeting the Mexican, Latin-American, and US Hispanic population. Currently working with the Executive Office of the President translating press releases aimed to the US and International media.

Business/ Financial: Business letters, general balances and financial statements, articles of incorporation, cash flow statements, bank letters, proposals, franchise contracts and description. Telephone interpretation services for U.S. Business venturing into Latin-American markets.