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Hello and welcome to my profile!

My name is Álvaro and I am a 30-year-old Spanish native Industrial Engineer and Freelance Translator/Proofreader/Editor/Transcreator, bilingual in English as proved by my English Cambridge Proficiency.

I have 11 years of translation experience, and currently work for many prestigious agencies such as Onehourtranslation, Gengo, mytranslation, Translated and Hogarth.

My areas of translation specialization are technical, marketing, legal/certificates, medical, software/hardware, financial and website localization.

My current translation capacity is approx. 6,000 words per day with the use of CAT tools such as Trados 2015 (certified user), Wordfast, MemoQ, Across and Matecat.

I am a Proz PRO Certified member, SDL Trados certified member and also have the ISO 9001:2008 certification which I obtained in Onehourtranslation.


I believe my main advantage compared to other translators is the fact I studied at a British school (King's College Madrid) since I was 3, and therefore was able to obtain my Proficiency title (the most prestigious and difficult English title) at the age of just 16. This enabled me to start working as a freelance translator immediately, and therefore I could study my Industrial Engineering degree at the same time, rather than investing 4 years of my life in the Translation degree.

Last but not least, my translation rates depend on the nature of the text, the urgency and the format of the source document,

Where I live

Have lived all my life in Madrid but also worked during one year in Alabama, US.

Accreditations

Proz

SDL Trados

ISO

Areas of Specialization

Technical Manuals

Medical/Pharmaceutical

Legal

Advertising/Marketing

Accounting/Finance

Apps/Software

Apps/Software

Gaming

Education

Universidad de Comillas

Faculty/Department: ETSI - ICAI: Engineering School

Years Attended: 2003 to 2010

Degree Obtained: Advanced Industrial Engineering

University of Cambridge

Faculty/Department: CPE

Years Attended: 2001 to 2002

Degree Obtained: Certificate of Proficiency in English