Usuario:Palatnik
Traductora especializada en economía, finanzas, negocios y textos legales. Varios años de experiencia en periodismo financiero.
Specialization : Over the past 14 years I have worked in the fields of business, legal and financial translation and journalism, in English and Spanish, including:
In-house translation
- The Wall Street Journal Americas
- Servicio Dow Jones Americas
- Patagon
Free-lance translation
- Translation Agencies
- Investment banks
- Commercial banks
- Multilateral organizations
- Microlending Financial Institutions (MFIs)
- Law firms
- Consulting firms
- Government agencies
- News/trade publications
Market research Full range of bilingual services includes:
- Translation of survey questionnaires into Spanish
for Latin American or U.S. Hispanic market
- Back-translation of survey responses into English
- Drafting of qualitative analysis report in English
Business writing
- Drafting and editing business plans, grant applications, tender documents, bios, speeches, presentations etc., both in English and Spanish
Editing translations and news copy
Writing articles and columns for publication in
- Dow Jones Newswires,
- Patagon
- GDA – Grupo Diarios Americas
Training translators and reporters, Spanish and English
Teaching Financial Translation at a university level (NYU)
After 10 years living in New York, I moved to Sao Paulo, Brazil, where I worked as a correspondent for Dow Jones Newswires, and later headed the Brazil content operations of Patagon, an online financial company that dealt with market news and personal finance throughout Latin America. My duties at Patagon included:
Translating all combinations of English, Spanish & Portuguese Editing original news stories and translations, Writing original articles and columns on markets, business and personal finance that would appeal to a Brazilian or a general Latin American audience (in English and Spanish, which I translated into Portuguese).
My free-lance experience is heavily focused on business and legal work, with a growing practice related to government and international organizations (OAS, IADB, WTO, etc), dealing with issues such as:
· Money-laundering · International trade · Public-health initiatives (tobacco, AIDS, drugs)
My experience in financial journalism has given me a leg up in truly understanding business and its language. It has also provided me with strong research skills, and with hundreds of industry contacts to turn to when researching a term.
Other relevant experience: Court-interpreting, 2 years' practice (1992-93) in several New Jersey courts, after passing the test of the NJ Administrative Office of the Courts in sight, consecutive, and simultaneous interpreting.
Beyond my web-based research of original copy of contracts, business literature, etc., in order to keep up with the language of business and with good writing in general, I am subscribed to (and regularly read)
The Wall Street Journal The Economist The New Yorker The New York Times
Background :
Bilingual English-Spanish. Born and raised in Uruguay, attending a British school from kindergarden through high-school.
Lived for one year in Madrid, followed by ten years in New York and three in Sao Paulo. For the past two years I have split my residence between Uruguay and Turkey. I still travel at least twice a year to New York.
Certificate in Translation Studies from New York University was in the Spanish > English combination. I later taught Financial Translation into Spanish when NYU added the Spanish program.