Highly skilled Spanish and French interpreter and translator with 20 years of experience interpreting, translating and instructing in business, academic, legal, and medical environments. Expert ability to ensure both spoken and written messages are conveyed accurately despite cultural and language differences. Solid understanding of business, academic and medical terminology in diverse linguistic environments. Able to leverage academic background to understand the needs of involved parties and adapt to their communication styles. Broad international experience in university and business settings, with in-depth knowledge of cross-cultural communications. Strong talent for diplomacy and relationship building, with a focus on fostering open dialogue. Capable of coordinating interpreter/ translator teams and managing multilingual focus groups, conferences and seminars. Portuguese reader and speaker.Specialties: One of my particular specialties lies in developing new written materials in the target language based on personal or telephone and e-mail interviews. Statistics prove that a document written in the target language is 20% more comprehensible than a document translated into said language; with my multilingual skills I am able to successfully deliver content authoring and refining texts.