Updated Jan 2000

    Marta B. Hochman
    Spanish A - English B
    Apartado 5946, Caracas 1010 A - Venezuela
    email: marhoch@cantv.net

           Experience: 26 years.

Representative sample of Conferences and Seminars

  • SPE conferences in Puerto La Cruz, Maracaibo, Caracas.
  • Microzonation, FUNVISIS- Cumaná
  • ICARUS 96 - Puerto La Cruz
  • Technological Seminars - Halliburton
  • IBM Seminars
  • Meeting of the Amazonian Congress
  • Turgenca, Seminar on maintenance and operational procedures for turbine operators

Consecutive interpretation (representative samples)

  • Canadian Mission to the Ministry of Foreign Affairs (discussions on bilateral agreements)
  • Canadian Mission visiting the legal and illegal gold mines
  • Working with Interpol Agents and the Venezuelan Technical Police
  • Visit to CNE with Swedish observers.

Main areas of interest

  • Oil and gas exploration, drilling (horizontal, multilaterals), production, perforation, etc.
  • Engineering in general
  • Legal matters
  • Human Rights

Clients

  • Halliburton, 20 years, translation of all technical materials and courses
  • Bīnai Bīrith - courses and materials (mostly related to Human Rights)
  • Mego Afek de Vzla - courses and materials (production of oil field equipment)
  • Latin American Ombudsman Institute (courses and related material)
  • JICA - Japanese International Cooperation Agency - Environmental matters
  • Several law firms (Court hearings)

Education

  • Berlitz School of Interpreters - Interpreter/Translator Diploma 1981
  • University of Buenos Aires - Law School - four years
  • University of Texas - Oral presentation skills/Teaching English as a second language

Certified Translator and Court Interpreter

Memberships

  • AVINC, Venezuelan Association of Conference Interpreters.
  • Human Rights Commission of BīnaiBīrith

Most interesting experience: working for the District Attorney of the State of Texas translating documents in old Spanish into English

Other languages: conversational Italian

References upon request


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