Matthew T. Corey

Matthew T. Corey

50 Henry St.

Apt. 11B

New York, NY 10002

Phone: (646) 483-5698

Employment History

July 2002-present	Localization Manager
New York, NY	National Technologies, Inc.

Maintained http://espanol.hud.gov, the Spanish-language version of the U.S. Dept. of Housing and Urban Development website, including all quality control over linguistic content and all engineering of HTML, graphic, and Cold Fusion content.
Supervised negotiations, deadlines, and editing for team of freelance Spanish translators.
Conducted competitive budget quotes for NTI pitches to prospective clients throughout federal and local government.
Trained colleagues at NTI and subcontractors on QA processes.
Served as liaison to client’s engineers to troubleshoot and resolve issues of website functionality.

Jan. 2002-April 2002	Senior Web Producer
New York, NY	translations.com

Maintained all duties listed under previous job title, plus took on primary responsibility for all target-Russian and Spanish-into-English translation projects.
Trained new producers in Computer-Aided Translation (CAT) software and basics of document production and web QA, including manipulation of character languages, non-Roman alphabets, and various Windows, ISO, and Unicode encodings.
As one of three multi-language supervisory producers, planned and executed projects of up to nine target languages, including assignment of producers to individual languages, timeframe/delivery strategy, coordination with web and desktop publishing producers, and final signoff edit before delivery to client.

Sept. 2000-Jan. 2002	Associate Web Producer
New York, NY	translations.com

Recruited and evaluated Luso-Portuguese translators from industry databases and word-of-mouth recommendations. Frequent contact, feedback, and budget negotiations with vendors in Portugal and Brazil.
Hired external translators and proofreaders for Portuguese translations serving clients including Philip Morris, Nortel Networks, and Blockbuster Video. Edited resulting translations for client within SDLX or Trados CAT software. Other CAT tools mastered included RC WinTrans, SDL Help QA, and Robohelp.
Performed code-matching QA of HTML and other development platforms, including Perl, JSP, ASP, XML. The goal: identical code to the client's English-language files with only the changes necessary to cleanly display visible or printed (i.e. translatable) text.
Using font-matching, layering, and text effects, redesigned existing flat graphics in target languages with Adobe Photoshop and ACDeeSee.
Quoted upcoming projects for sales staff, predicting word count, external budget, hours of internal work, and overall turnaround.
Collected billing information for all vendors and in-house resources used.

March 1999-Sept. 2000	Assistant Bibliography Editor
New York, NY	Modern Language Association

Indexed entire Latin American, Spanish, and Portuguese literatures sections of field-standard MLA International Bibliography. This entailed reading and composing abstracts for books and journals of literary criticism, with the goal of covering the year's scholarly production.
Constructed bibliography section using MLA's proprietary system of data entry into Lotus Notes.
Edited indexing work of field bibliographers.
Through the present day, continued indexer status as an hourly freelancer.

Jan. 1998-March 1999	Reporter and Deputy Editor
The Bronx, NY	Norwood News

Devised story ideas, reported, wrote, and edited stories for weekly newspaper covering activism, culture, crime, and education in the Northwest Bronx.
Wrote La Página Latina, weekly Spanish-language news digest to better serve community information needs of non-English-speaking Bronxites.
Performed both paste-up layout and Quark page design on Mac. With Photoshop, prepared B&W photos for publication, including scanning, cropping, adjustment of levels. Helped troubleshoot problems at print shop after delivery of Zip disk.

Education

1995-97	MA Latin American Studies
Austin	University of Texas

Major areas: history, Spanish American literature, and Portuguese language.
Awarded federal FLAS fellowship for the study of Portuguese, also served as teaching assistant for undergraduate Mexican history course.
Awarded Institute of Latin American Studies Research Paper of the Year for master's thesis.

1994	Fulbright Fellowship
Montevideo	University of the Republic of Uruguay

Independent research into 20th-century Uruguayan political and intellectual history.

1989-1993	BA Latin American Studies
Williamsburg	College of William and Mary in Virginia

Skills and Qualifications

Writing and Publishing

Fluent written and spoken Spanish and Portuguese. Experience interviewing and providing simultaneous interpretation in these languages.
Reading knowledge of German, Russian, Catalan, and Galician.
Writing and editing beat stories, corporate proofreads, English-target translations to deadline.

Office Technologies

Translation tools: SDLX Align, Edit, and TM Maintain, and Help QA; Trados Translator's Workbench and T-Window for Power Point, RC WinTrans, SDL Help QA, and Robohelp.
Experience in Quark, Pagemaker, and Photoshop (including manipulation of both photographs and web graphics), QA using HomeSite, EMEditor. Elegant Web design through hard coding (not WYSIWYG software).
MS Office: upper level (macros, styles, formulae, document design) competency in MS Word, PowerPoint and Excel; query and DB design for Microsoft Access.

Community Involvement

The Writers Room: nonprofit writing space for writers of fiction, nonfiction, and poetry in New York City.
Transportation Alternatives: volunteering, letter-writing, and other awareness activities for cycling, mass transit and other non-polluting, non-congestion alternatives to the single-occupancy car.
Independent Press Association: translating articles from New York's foreign-language ethnic press to spread local news beyond monolingual immigrant communities.