David Meléndez Tormen Email & Phone Number

I am a Spanish-language professional based in Santiago de Chile. I have lived previously in Amsterdam (The Netherlands), San Francisco (USA) and Barcelona (Spain). I work as a freelance translator and project manager on an on-going basis for a select number of translation agencies and final clients. I enjoy establishing long-term professional relationships based on trust and the highest expectation of quality. Currently I´m one of the editors of the Chilean office of the international news agency Pressenza, which aims to pieces focused of social and personal change through non-violence.In 2013 my team and I have managed, translated and edited over 1,000,000 words from English to Spanish, with congratulations from our clients.I have worked for 2 years at the Chilean offices of a major international translation services company as a senior in-house editor and linguistic coordinator for English to Spanish projects. I have extensive experience translating, editing and proofreading texts into Spanish on topics such as IT/networking, GPS devices and related software, software/courseware localization, newspaper articles/columns on social sciences and current affairs (more than 900 pieces so far, published in many newspapers of Spain and Latin America), and corporate training materials for the travel & hospitality industry, among others.I am an active member of the Chilean Association of Translators and Interpreters (COTICH, www.cotich.cl) and the Spanish Association of Translators (ASETRAD)

Listed skills include Spanish, Translation, Sdl Trados, Quality Assurance, and 16 others.