Curriculum Vitae

Personal profile

Name: Javier Herrera
Birth date and place: Logroño (Spain), 16/12/1966
Address: 5 Conflent St.
	 08410 Granollers 
         Barcelona (Spain)
Phone: +34 655 225 893
E-mail: tradtrans@tradtrans.com


Languages

Target languages: Spanish (native), Catalan
Source language: English


Education

Technical:
* Bachelor of Computer Science  - Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona (1991)
* Master's degree in Software Engineering  - Universitat politècnica de Catalunya (1996)
* Music degree (intermediate level) - Taller de Músics de Barcelona (Present)

Linguistic:
* Certificate in Advanced English (CAE)  - University of Cambridge (2002)
* English into Spanish general translation course, preparatory for the "DipTrans" exam  - International House Barcelona (2002).
* English into Spanish "Diploma in Translation" - IoL (Institute of Linguists) (2003). Letter of credit awarded: Paper 2 mark (Technology): Merit. Paper 3 mark (Science): Distinction.
* Catalan "C" level.


Work Experience

* 11 years in different Information Technologies, Software engineering, Internet and web site design and promoting related areas (programming - analysis - project leading) (1991-2001)
Companies worked for: Siemens Spain, Aplicaciones en Informática Avanzada, Grupo Grífols, Institut Català de Tecnologia, amongst others.
* 3 years as Internet project team leader at the Institut Català de Tecnologia (1998-2001)
* 2 years as an European projects development partner at the Institut Català de Tecnologia (2000-2002)
* 4 years as a freelance technical translator (since 2002).
Customers worked for: Unex (Aparellaje Eléctrico S.A.), Nissan Motor Spain, Plan Comunicación S.A., Institut Català de Tecnologia, Arancho BCN, Imprimatur, Cevher Translations, Interpretext, T4rg3t, Alpha Translations, Assertio, OneGlobalTranslators, TLS, amongst others.
* Semi-pro musician since 1982.


Specialized translation areas

* Information technologies
* Software engineering
* Web site contents
* Automotive industry
* Marketing
* General technical texts
* Music and musical instruments


Equipment

Hardware:
Pentium IV based PC, 1 Gb RAM, 140 Gb HD
CDr burner, Modem-fax
Internet cable connection
Videoconference

Software:
Windows XP
Norton Antivirus & Firewall
Office 2000
Adobe Acrobat
FrontPage
Trados 6.5 Freelance
SDLX
Transit Satellite
Dragon Naturally Speaking Spanish
QuarkXpress 5.0
FTP
Microsoft Messenger


I accept Paypal payments (tradtrans@tradtrans.com)


References

* Mrs.Emma Farreras - Arancho BCN (emma.farreras@es.arancho.com)
* Mrs. Maria Kruk– Imprimatur (maria.kruk@imprimatur.co.uk)
* Mr. Jaume Esteve – Aparellaje Eléctrico S.A. (jesteve@unex.biz)
* Mr. Ali Osman Alayoglu - Cevher Translations (ali@cevhertranslation.com)
* Mr. Jordi Simó – Plan Comunicación S.A. (jsimo@plancomunicacion.com)