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San Francisco, Ca, Us

Washington, Dc, Us

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San Francisco, Us

Court Qualified Tagalog Interpreter and Translator, highly trained and experienced, available for legal, medical, corporate, government and educational interpretation & translation. Interpreting and translating experience in Legal, Criminology, Technology, Healthcare, Entertainment, Education, Community Affairs, and Public Policy fields.• Simultaneous Interpretation in the courtroom environment at the Federal (US District Courts) and Superior Court levels, all over California and Nevada. (Arraignments, Pre-trials, Preliminary Hearings, Civil and Criminal Jury Trials, Progress Reports, and Sentencing Hearings).• Legal Interpretation for Federal clients (Department of Justice, US Attorney’s Office, US Coast Guard, Federal Public Defender’s Office, United States Postal Service, Federal Bureau of Investigation, Citizenship and Immigration Services, and US Social Security Administration.• Legal Interpretation for depositions, attorney/client meetings, recorded statements, mediations, arbitrations, Workers’ Compensation Appeals Board Hearings and Unemployment Insurance Appeals Board Hearings.• Medical Evaluation and Examination interpretation (QME, AME, Psychiatric Evaluations).• Document (Sight and Written) Translation. English toTagalog and Tagalog to English.

San Francisco, Ca, Us

• Working cross functionally to develop, communicate and maintain a schedule for localization efforts.• Defining strategy/resource needs for assigned projects.• Coordinating with product, design and production teams and vendors to sync documentation efforts and localization schedules and ensure high quality documentation.• Communicating project requirements and status to stakeholders.• Identifying and managing schedule risks.• Reconciling schedule conflicts by working with project stakeholders to establish priorities.• Following up on all internationalization and localization issues.• Maintaining workload and vendor estimated and actual spend data for assigned projects.• Identify gaps or inefficiencies in project management tools and process within and between teams and suggest improvements.• Preparing and conducting presentations to clients and project stakeholders.• Hiring and managing translation staff, trainees and vendors.• Research, compiling and organizing of design-related information in support of projects.

Cupertino, California, Us

• Confirm localization requests and prepare source files received from internal business teams.• Provide support and troubleshoot technical issues (such as corrupt or non-compatible file types).• Create projects in WorldServer and manage work through all stages of the localization workflow.• Correspond with business owners and provide status on active projects.• Able to pull project data from multiple sources and provide weekly report of work completed,• Works closely with Localization producers, translations vendors, reviewers, technical editors,• Provide system support to both business teams as well as internal localization teams,• Evaluate priority and project scope while communicating schedules and setting expectations with the business owners.

Sunnyvale, Ca, Us

• Approved and edited localization of new features and products, as well as marketing collateral, customer support and press materials.• Created and resolved linguistic and functional bugs, using JIRA bug management software.• Provided expertise for various teams, including Engineering, Marketing, Design, Sales, and Customer Support to create a site with consistent and culturally appropriate terminology, tone and graphic display.• Managed and trained a team of external translators, including creating and assigning tasks in WorldServer, reviewing and editing translations, managing budgeting and tracking cost, and resolving issues.• Administered and evaluated testing for selection of external translators.• Managed translation memories in WorldServer for consistency and translation unification.• Created and maintained glossaries and style guides for main site, mobile, marketing and customer support.• QA testing of any and all outgoing communications for linguistic and functional consistency and accuracy, including screenshots, Stork emails, and HTML pages.• Proficiency in using multiple CAT tools, including SDL WorldServer 10 and Trados.

Waltham, Massachusetts, Us

• Software localization: translation, editing, QA reviews, glossary compilation and review, software testing: web sites, UI strings, on line help, software and hardware installation manuals and user guides, multimedia computer games.• Technical translation: translation, editing, QA review, glossary compilation and review: datasheets, telecommunication manuals, financial documents and business correspondence, marketing collateral, press releases, general medicine, product brochures, health care, medical insurance.

• Carried construction projects from approval through design, estimating, bidding, execution, and closeout.• Responsible for the creation of all construction reports in Excel and MS Project for the tracking of construction projects.• Communicated with the Accounting Department to assure vendor payment. • Coordinated with all relevant departments in regards to construction related changes, shutoffs, and schedules. • Generated and maintained all required paperwork to maintain and keep up to date project status. • Created proper paper work for payment of construction project invoices for weekly payment. • Responsible for issuing and tracking purchase orders assigned to vendors for every cost associated with a construction project. • Communicated and coordinated payment details and arrangements with vendors. • Responsible for attending and preparing minutes/agenda at the following meetings: Space Planning Meeting, Weekly Project meeting with the Engineering Manager and various other internal departments to update them on progress of construction • Responsible for all project communication to all personnel and vendors. • Scheduled construction meetings as necessary • Identified, clarified, and resolved issues generating delays in project schedule. • Reviewed daily logs and communicated with the inspector of record and construction management team on outstanding inspection items that need to be addressed in order ensure compliance with state policies and procedures. • Worked with subcontractors in generating estimates and executing projects to completion. • Assisted in generating bid documents, reviewing bids, and execution of construction contracts. • Reviewed monthly account cost analysis reports to monitor and ensure project stays within budget.

- Designed and programmed standards based websites for small to medium sized businesses utilizing various programming languages including xhtml, css, javascript, php, mysql.- Implemented CMS systems and ecommerce shopping carts through open source platforms Wordpress, Drupal, and Magento Ecommerce.- Regularly met with clients to review project goals and to create proposals for future developments, researching their fields for ux/ui design.- Photographed commercial products for ecommerce as well as business personnel and buildings for both web and print mediums.- Administered Google Adwords campaigns on clients’ behalf, set measurable goals, and tracked trends and metrics in Google Analytics.

Master'S Degree (In Progress), Computer And Information Sciences

Certification, Innovation And Strategy

Social Justice Residency, Social Justice Activism

Certification, Fullstack Web Development

Bachelor Of Arts - Ba, Business Administration And Communications

Professional Specialization Certification, Entrepreneurship/Entrepreneurial Studies

Advanced Professional Certification, Project Management

Professional Sequence, Agile Management

Specialization Certification, Software Product Management

Continuing Studies

Certification, Scrum Master & Scrum Product Owner

Leadership And Communication Development

Associate'S Degree, Web Page, Digital/Multimedia And Information Resources Design

Associate'S Degree, Business, Marketing Communications

Associate'S Degree, Broadcasting And Electronic Media