Language Background

• Full-time Freelance Spanish Translator/Interpreter since 1988

• Areas of translation experience:  Legal, Commercial, General Technical and Computing, Human Resources, Hotel Management, Telecommunications, Accounting, Shipping, Immigration, Tourism

• Instructor for Commercial Spanish Translation Workshop at Bellevue Community College, Bellevue, WA — 1992 to 1995

• AFS Exchange Student to Costa Rica — 1977

• Twenty seven years of residence in Costa Rica — 1983-1985 and 1996 to present

• One year of residence in Mexico — 1981

• Advanced Spanish grammar and composition courses at the University of Costa Rica

• Host Interpreter for Seattle 1990 Goodwill Games