AZUCENA C. RIGNEY
AZUCENA PUERTA-DÍAZ
Spanish Translator / Interpreter / Educator
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6661 Wilbur Ave. #27 / Reseda, CA 91335
Tel. (818) 344-4085 Cell (818) 425-3959
Fax. (818) 344-4083 azucenapuerta@
EDUCATION Ph.D. coursework in Spanish Linguistics, 2003
University of Southern California, Los Angeles
MA in Spanish Linguistics, May 1995
University of Southern California, Los Angeles
Licenciatura (MA equivalent) in Spanish Philology, June 1992
Facultad de Filología, University of Valencia, Spain
ATA Accreditation (English>Spanish), July 1994
WORK Freelance Translator 1993 - present
EXPERIENCE Experienced Translator / Proofreader (English > Spanish and
CatalanEnglish/Spanish)
- Expertise in hardware/software and medical translations
- Subtitling
- High quality prompt turnaround
- Available for rush jobs
Freelance Interpreter 2002-present
Medical, Legal, and Conference Interpreting
Health Fairs, Public Hearings, DMV, Depositions, Social Security
Administration
Spanish Instructor 2002-2007
Cal State Northridge, Office of Extended Learning
Instructor of Spanish for Healthcare Personnel
Developed the HealthCare Interpreting program
Research Assistant 2003-2005
UCLA Center for Study of Latino Health and Culture (CESLAC)
Used Historical Linguistics knowledge to read and transcribe early birth and death records (XIX and early XX centuries) of Los Angeles Latino population
Teacher 2001-2003
Multicultural Learning Center, Canoga Park
Kindergarten teacher in a bilingual Spanish immersion program
School Translator
Interpreter for monolingual Spanish speaking families
Language and Cultural Specialist 2000-2001
Childrens Hospital Los Angeles
Translator / Interpreter / Language Instructor
Responsible for translating hospital documentation (medical,
business relations, patient information...)
Responsible for bridging the communication gap between Spanish
speakers and English health care providers
Instructor of Spanish (Conversational Spanish and Spanish for
Medical personnel)
Teacher Assistant 1993 - 2000
Department of Spanish and Portuguese
University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA 90089-0358
- Responsible for planning, organizing and teaching Spanish courses under the supervision of the Basic Language Program
Spanish Instructor Fall 1997
Citrus College, Glendora, CA 91741
- Planned, organized and taught Spanish I at the Community College setting
In-house Translator / Proofreader / Editor 1993
IDOC, Los Angeles, CA 90025
- Responsible for assuring the linguistic quality of the target product
- Coordinator of a team of Spanish proofreaders and freelancers
- Desktop Publisher (FrameMaker & Interleaf)
SAMPLE Healthcare and healthcare advocacy (MediCal, Medicare, Healthy ASSIGNMENTS Families, Healthy Kids)
Patient Services Documentation (e.g. consent forms,
OT/PT plans, IEPs, discharges, research, nutrition information...)
Medical/Legal Documentation (Legislative updates, Healthcare Fairs, RCAC meetings...)
Medical Instruments
School Accountability Reports
Documentation for Pioneer Digital Technologies
Training materials and employee handbook for CBT/Chrysler
Hardware/Software documentation (LOTUS, Kodak, Novell Netware, Goldmine, Logitech, HP, Canon, Hayes)
Movie Subtitling
Movie scripts
Website translation/editing
Software testing for Ericsson
Consecutive/Simultaneous interpreting for public hearings, DMV, Social Security, and Labor Commission Hearings
Simultaneous interpreting of marketing and healthcare focus groups
Conference interpreting in health fairs
Language Coach for Spanish speaking actors for Disney
Software testing/translation for Rosetta Stone language learning software
RESOURCES Extensive library of monolingual and bilingual general and specialized glossaries and dictionaries, as well as grammar and language use and style references.
Regularly updated library of computing magazines
Access to Internet and online references
LANGUAGES Bilingual in English, Spanish and Catalan (native language is Spanish, but can translate general documentation into English and Catalan)
Knowledge of basic Portuguese
Reading knowledge of French, Portuguese and Italian
MEMBERSHIPS ATA, CHIA
CONFERENCES/ “The Pragmatics of Question/Answer Structures in the Bilingual
PUBLICATIONS Courtroom”, NAJIT 18th Annual Meeting and Educational Conference, Seattle, Washington, May 16-18 1997
“The Use and Interpretation of Discourse Markers in a Bilingual Courtroom”, 38th Annual Conference of the ATA, San Francisco, California, November 5-9, 1997. (Reprinted in The ATA Chronicle,
Vol. XXVIII, number 3)
“Questioning through an interpreter” (1999) Forensic Linguistics 6, 83-108
“Working as a medical interpreter”, 42nd Annual Conference of the ATA, Los Angeles, California, October 31-November 3, 2001.
“Eliciting testimony through an interpreter: Questions of affirmation”, 42nd Annual Conference of the ATA, Los Angeles, California, October 31-November 3, 2001
“Just a medical interpreter”, CHIA (LA Chapter Meeting), March 16, 2002
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