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Denver, Co, Us

Bloomington, Illinois, Us

Menlo Park, Ca, Us

Sunnyvale, Ca, Us

San Juan, Pr

I evaluated, corrected, and mapped semantic information of job titles, skills, fields of study, etc. to establish systematic taxonomical relations from Mexican and Brazilian occupational classifications and collecting online resources for improvement of employment products, Data Team knowledge bases and other dataset use cases.

Federal District, Mx

I provided consulting services on content strategy, classification and resources, localization best practices and cultural expertise for an English-language project aimed at international tourism with a Mexico City government agency for digital innovation.

Austin, Texas, Us

I provided linguistic expertise in metadata optimization, data collection and analysis, and product research in the development of Indeed’s Occupational and Attributes Taxonomies for Mexican Spanish-speaking users.• Maintained taxonomies’ metadata models performance at retrieving job postings by modifying and adding lexical auto-categorization rules• Trained an NLP model for NER by delimiting targeted concepts scope, terms and regex-based rules, as well as by labeling data outputs and evaluating their accuracy• Collected data on content quality and user behavior to model conceptual domains, categorize new content, probe ontological relations or determine best terminology in PoolParty Semantic Suite• Inspected taxonomic categories for misclassifications and redundancies via boolean queries, while weighing precision & recall scores, and KPIs like impressions over time• Established localization workflows for determining preferred/alternative labels and SKOS requirements for writing concept definitions in a semantic web management platform• Gathered feedback regarding the needs of multiple stakeholders in order to make decisions about data reusability and quality assurance

I translated HR and recruitment documents for regulatory compliance from English into Spanish and provided bilingual glossaries for a global company. I also oversaw the translation of systems engineering and semiotics research materials, and provided Spanish into English draft translations.

México, Ciudad De México, Mx

I collaborated in a research team in the transcription and evaluation of sociolinguistic materials for the Oral Corpus of Mexican Spanish led by linguists at COLMEX and UNAM.• Transcribed and annotated interviews with informants from Oaxaca, MX in an intonation-based format• Edited and organized audio recordings according to experimental tasks performed by informants• Reviewed and proofread similar transcriptions

London, England, Gb

I worked as a Mexican Spanish specialist for Apple Retail Globalization to support the launching of the first Apple Store in Mexico and its communications strategy. My activities included copy-editing translations in Trados Studio for localization and transcreation in wide array of materials, from internal communications, HR and policies. I also facilitated Spanish preferred terminologies for technology and legal teams, and supplied Spanish subtitling for audiovisual projects.

I worked as the in-house terminology expert for a translation agency. Amongst my duties I crated, updated and consolidated bilingual term databases in XTM Cloud. I also provisioned and maintained linguistic resources, customized best practices flowcharts for term database implementation and supervised specialized dictionary projects (lexicography management.)

I worked as copy-editor and editor in Spanish and editorial assistant on academic research volumes. I prepared and delivered fully copy-edited and annotated manuscripts. Also facilitated communications and feedback between authors, contractors and print shop and cataloged documentation on engineering, social sciences philosophy and research.

I translated and managed several editorial projects. I also helped and strategized with a number of consolidated and startup companies to meet their communications goals in localization, transcreation and content development.• Designed UX-oriented categorization tool for app developer• Transcreated and monitored user metrics on a cultural content website• Proofread and revised translation drafts (English into Spanish).• Localized travel and vacation-oriented content and messaging for Mexican audiences.• Translation and localization for a volume involving Mexican intellectuals and policy-makers.• Coordinated and copy-edited contents for an on-line magazine.• Drafted foreign rights catalog translations from Spanish into English for book fairs.• Consulted on localization and Mexican Spanish vocabulary.• Developed nutrition and healthy lifestyle content for imported products.

Customer service coordination, which included managing technical errors, shipping services supervision and managing a small call center for a shopping club online. Also, the coordination of typical logistics processes with suppliers, warehouses, and merchandise reception and shipping.