Lorena Ortiz Schneider
Founder, Interpreter & Translator, Advocate at Ortiz Schneider
- Role
- Founder, Interpreter & Translator at Ortiz Schneider Interpreting & Translation
- Location
- Santa Barbara County, CA, US
- LinkedIn followers
- 500 followers
Experience
Founder, Interpreter & Translator
Ortiz Schneider Interpreting & Translation
Jun 1992 — Present · Santa Barbara, CA, US
25+ years experience as an interpreter and translator servicing the private sector, community entities and government agencies throughout California• 25+ years experience growing an in-house team and network of language service professionals, and establishing a culture of professionalism and respect • Specializations in conference, legal (depositions, administrative hearings, civil and immigration cases, bankruptcy) med/legal, medical, business (finance, marketing, high stakes meetings) community outreach language access programs and more• Over cases litigated to obtain withheld payments for services in our workers\' compensation practice via court orders, liens filed and trials• 7+ years experience as an Interpreter Trainer. Taught courses under OSIT\'s training branch to qualified bilingual staff at the the oldest and largest non-profit, outpatient healthcare provider on the California Central Coast
Education
Middlebury Institute of International Studies at Monterey
MA Conference Interpretation and Translation
Cross Cultural Communications
Training of Trainers- The Community Interpreter International, Workforce Development and Interpreter Training
2015 — 2015
Middlebury Institute of International Studies at Monterey
Training of Trainers - Medical Interpreting Course, Education
2012 — 2012
UC Santa Barbara
MA/PhD Spanish Linguistics
1989 — 1990
UC Santa Barbara
BA, Liberal Arts
1981 — 1985
Middlebury Institute of International Studies at Monterey
MA, Translation & Interpretation
1990 — 1992
Skills
- Legal Translation
- Localization
- Terminology
- Spanish
- Manuals
- Proofreading
- Multilingual
- English
- Teaching
- Globalization
- Language Teaching
- Language Services
- Linguistics
- Conference Interpreting
- Public Speaking
- Spanish-English
- Internationalization
- Website Localization
- Editing
- Intercultural Communication
- Literature
- French
- Financial Translation
- Language Development
- Foreign Languages
- Interpreter Training
- Technical Translation
- Translation
- Simultaneous Interpretation
- Consecutive Interpretation
- Transcription
- Interpreting
- Medical Translation
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