Néstor Iriondo

Language and Media Specialist

nestoririondo@gmail.com

+49 176 3895 6936 

Professional summary
My career has consisted on making written content accesible and easy to read for a wider public. For that,
my work has been concentrated in the fields of localization, translation, proofreading, style correction, SEO
optimization and also language teaching. I have mostly worked as a freelancer in the languages Spanish,
Basque, English and German.

Fields

• Academic
• Literature
• Technology

• Finance
• Marketing
• Tourism

• Instruction manuals
• Medical
• Training courses

• Legal
• Software
• Websites


Skills

• DE/EN to ES/EU translation

• Subtitling
• Perfect balance between
• EN/EU proofreading
• Experienced with most CAT accuracy and readability

• ES/EU style correction

and project managing tools
• Communication expertise
• Localization
• SEO optimization
and research abilities


Experience
• 2012 - present: Freelance localizator, translator, proofreader, editor, style corrector and subtitler for
international translation agencies such as tolingo GmbH, Fachübersetzungsdienst GmbH, Vocabridge
Translation Services, On Global Language Marketing, among others. Recent work examples:

• Localization of a 10,000 words website for an advertising technology company

• Translation of a 33,000 words technical description of industrial food processing machinery

• Translation of a 26,000 words academic paper on the topic of complexity economics

• Proofreading of a 14,000 words journal of an international archaeology institute

• 2011 - 2012: Spanish teacher for adults in private language schools like Bridge S. A. and M.S. School,
San Sebastián, Spain.

• 2009 - 2011: Radio host and community manager for weekly radio show in Tttanttakun Irratia, San
Sebastián, Spain.

Education
• 2019: Spanish as a foreign language teaching accreditation diploma at the Instituto Cervantes, Berlin.

• 2018: Master’s Degree in Medienwissenschaft (Media Studies) at the Technische Universität Berlin.

• 2011: Master’s Degree in Contemporary Philosophy at the Universidad Complutense de Madrid.

• 2009: Bachelor’s Degree in Philosophy at the Universidad del País Vasco.

• 2004: IBO International Baccaulaureate Diploma.

• Language certificates: Cambridge Certificate in English (Advanced, 215 points), Test Deutsch als
Fremdsprache (5, 5, 4, 5), EGA Euskara Gaitasun Agiria.