Idiomas

Especialización

Additional work areas: Accounting & Auditing • Art/Crafts/Painting • Computer Systems and Networks • Computers (general) • Marketing / Market Research / Retail • Music • Real Estate

About me

•  Swedish/Spanish into English + English/Spanish into Swedish (native speaker of both English & Swedish, fluent in Spanish)

Qualifications

• Legal translations (specializing in agreements, as well as rulings, petitions, depositions, letters rogatory and other court-related documents)
• Financial/commercial translations (investment prospectuses, IPO's, annual reports and other financial/commercial documents)
• Software translations (software programs, help files, instruction manuals, localization)

Education

• New York University (New York, USA), Certificate of General Translation (Major in Spanish>English and Minor in English>Spanish)
• Uppsala University (Uppsala, Sweden), Business organization
• Madrid Chamber of Commerce (Madrid, Spain), Certificate of Commercial Translation from Spanish>English and English>Spanish
• SigtunaSkolan Humanistiska Läroverk, SSHL (Sigtuna, Sweden), High school degree majoring in business & marketing
• East Doncaster High School, EDHS (Melbourne, Australia), Junior high to high school
• Priory Park Primary School (Guelph, Ontario), Primary through middle school

Experience

• SKL Translations (Founder & Senior Translator)             Linneryd, Sweden          2007 -
  Freelance translation company, specializing in legal translations, as well as financial/commercial and software translations.
  
• Paralegal AB (Legal Translator)                                        Linneryd/Stockholm, Sweden 2006-2007
  Legal translator for a law firm in Stockholm, translating share purchase agreements, license, lease and publishing agreements, IPO's etc.
  
• Monitor Industriutveckling AB (Translation Manager)      Hudiksvall, Sweden  2000-2004
  Translating a business software for the manufacturing industry, including the corresponding instruction manuals, website, marketing & sales documents from Swedish>English. The software included modules for purchasing, manufacturing, ERS, MPS, invoicing, accounting etc.
  
• Idiomatica, Inc. (Founder & Senior Translator)                 New York, USA & Sweden 1998-2007
  Freelance translation company offering translation, editing and proofreading services between Swedish, English and Spanish to clients and translation agencies worldwide (such as Cravath, Swaine & Moore, Dale Carnegie, Disney, Gallup, H&M, JP Morgan International, Merrill Corp.).
  
• Consulate General of Sweden (Assistant to the Consul General) New York, USA 1996-2000
  Translating diplomatic documents Swedish<>English on a daily basis while simultaneously studying translation at NYU.
  
• Swedish Trade Council (Assistant Market Coordinator) Mexico City, Mexico 1991-1993
• Embassy of Sweden in Mexico (Consular/Information Assistant) Mexico City, Mexico 1990-1991
• BMG Music International (Executive Assistant to the President) Madrid, Spain 1987-1989
• Suomi Sun Spain International (Marketing & Sales Assistant) Torrevieja, Spain 1985-1987

Interests

TRIVIA

• Lived, studied and/or worked in Sweden, Canada, Australia, Spain, Mexico and USA. Began translating between Swedish, English and Spanish in 1985, turned fulltime freelance translator in 2000. Average output of 3000-3500 words/day. Published translations: PONTUS BY THE BOOK - Flavours, aromas and recipes from the Green House (an award-winning cookbook by Master Chef Pontus Frithiof, Swedish>English, published 2006).

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