Industrial machinery
Operator manuals, chiller systems, compressors, control units, sensors, and operation and maintenance documentation.
Technical translator · EN/DE → ES (US)
Manuals your operators can trust at the machine.
I translate operator, operation and maintenance manuals for industrial machinery into consistent US Spanish, with the terminology controlled from the first page to the last.
Specializations
What I translate
Seventeen years in technical translation, working with international agencies and direct clients.
Medical
Patient records and clinical documentation, written to the precision and register clinical content requires.
Financial
Annual reports and corporate financial communications.
MTPE and LQA
Machine translation post-editing and linguistic quality assurance, with terminology checks before delivery.
17+years of experience
600,000+words in machinery and industrial
300+projects delivered
15+countries served
Terminology
One term, one concept
A sample from a termbase for chiller and compressor documentation. Each decision is made once, recorded with a usage note, and enforced in the CAT tool.
Source termUS Spanish
Chiller→enfriadora✓
Compressor→compresor✓
Expansion valve→válvula de expansión✓
Pressure relief valve→válvula de alivio de presión✓
Setpoint→punto de ajuste✓
Control unit→unidad de control✓
Interlock→enclavamiento✓
Lockout/tagout→bloqueo y etiquetado✓
US Spanish readers come from many countries, so I choose terms that are widely understood and confirm them against the client's glossary whenever there is one.
Process
How I keep a manual consistent
Read first
I scan the source for repeated nouns, acronyms and message levels before translating a word.
Build the termbase
Every approved term goes into Trados Studio with a usage note, or I load the client's own glossary.
Translate and check
Automated QA flags deviations. A final read-through catches the same concept under two names.
Reuse it
The termbase stays with the client's product line, so the next manual starts consistent.
Tools
Software and languages
CAT tools
SDL Trados StudiomemoQWordfast
MateCatSmartcatPhraseWordbee
QA and other
XBenchQA DistillerTerminology management
ProofreadingLocalization
Languages
Spanish (native)English (professional)German (professional)
Contact
Send me a project, or ask for my CV
Agencies and direct clients are welcome. I reply with my CV, rates and availability.
osmany@oortizgonzalez.com
Open email
- Based in
- Charlotte, North Carolina, USA
- Works
- Remotely, in US Spanish
- Profile
- proz.com/profile/1627861
- Education
- M.A. Intercultural Communication · B.A. Translation and Linguistics, Universidad Central de Las Villas