Maria

Spanish Language Quality Assurance (LQA) | Spanish Copy Editor

Hello Heart • Fulltime

Jun 2019 - Present • 7 yrs 5 mos

🔹 Proofread texts translated into Spanish, ensuring friendly, informal, and easy-to-understand language for Spanish-speaking users in the United States across all grade levels for the Hello Heart app, website, newsletter, technical manuals, and physical and digital brochures. 🔹 Develop a style guide to monitor and verify the linguistic quality of Spanish-language text, following technical parameters specific to UX and Hello Heart’s communicative intent.

Spanish Copy Editor, Proofreader | SPA Post-Editor (MTPE) | Editorial & Publishing Consultant

Fiverr • Fulltime

Jan 2018 - Present • 8 yrs 10 mos

🔹 Provided consulting services to +600 authors as a content editor and editorial reader, offering detailed feedback and practical guidance on creative writing, storytelling, tone, and narrative structure to support them throughout their creative process and subsequent publishing journey. 🔹 Proofreading and evaluation of +150 manuscripts in Spanish, improving their clarity, fluency, grammar, and readability without altering the author’s style or the tone appropriate for the audience. 🔹 Reviewed +50 English-to-Spanish translations, line by line, correcting grammatical errors, translation mistakes, and linguistic inconsistencies to produce a Spanish text ready for publication (MTPE/post-editing).

Freelance Spanish Copy Editor, Penguin Young Readers Spanish-language Editions

Penguin Random House • Freelance

Nov 2022 - Nov 2024 • 2 yrs

🔹 Copy-edited +10 unpublished Spanish manuscripts, improving grammar, syntax, punctuation, and consistency to meet house standards. 🔹 Post-edited English-to-Spanish translations, correcting mistranslations, meaning shifts, and register mismatches for natural, accurate Spanish.