CURRICULUM VITAE   Miguel Garcia Lopez

Personal Details:  

Name:   Miguel Garcia Lopez

Date of birth:  06/07/74 (34 years old)

Place of birth:  Brussels, Belgium

Nationality:  Spanish and Belgian

Marital Status:  Married 
 

Address:   Campoamor, 103-1-B

                  08204 Sabadell (Barcelona), Spain

Home / Mobile Ph.:  +34 625216469

E-mail:   miguelgarcialop@yahoo.es 
 

Education:  
 
1991  Ecole Secondaire Bockstael (Brussels) 
* Secondary Level Education (French speaking region) 
 
1993  Instituto Ruiz de Alda (Murcia) 
* Secondary Level Education

 
1994 - 1997 CCIS (Sabadell, Barcelona) 
* Diploma in International and Foreign Trade:  
- Characteristics of the foreign trade markets: (EEC, Africa, America, Asia)

- International Marketing

- Financiation. Payments terms in International Trade: Documentary Credits. Export and Import Financiation

- Shipping: Incoterms. Shipping by seafreight, airfreight, rail, road, and multimodal. Usual documents in international transport. Export Packing. Shipping Insurance.

- International Contrats

- Administrative and commercial standards in International Trade: Customs Laws, TARIC, Origin of the goods, Customs value, Import and Export rules. Customs warehouses. EEC Transits.

- International Trade Organisations: FMI, GATT, UNCTAD, ICEX. 
 

* Specialization “Documentary Credits”: 
Detailed and practical study of the different types of Documentary Credits and their use.

 
* Specialization “International Transportation, Insurance and Packaging” : 
Detailed study of the Incoterms, various types of international transport and the related freight documents. Packaging types and descriptions. Different types of transport insurance for sea, and airfreight.

 
* Specialization “Participations in International Fairs”

* Specialization “Intrastat and VAT in Intra-EEC goods transactions” 

2002  Institut Català de Tecnologia (Barcelona) 
* Optimization of Purchasing Operations:  
Organization of a Purchasing Department. How to analyse the efficency of a Purchasing Department. Selection and Homologation of providers. Purchasing strategies and policies. Strategic Outsourcing. Negociation commands. 
 

2003  In-company training: 
* Regulations in Hazardous or dangerous goods operations by air-, seafreight or truck 
 

2004  Barcelona Seaport (Barcelona) 
* Customs Inspections in International and Foreign Trade 
 

2005  Asociación Exportadores Canarios (Tenerife, Canarias) 
* Foreign Trade Incentive 

      Barcelona Seaport (Barcelona) 
* Hazardous or dangerous goods shipping 
 

2007  San Pablo-CEU University (Madrid) 
* Course in Biodiversity “Wind Power Energy”

* Course in Biodiversity “Geothermic, Ocean wave and Hydraulic Energies” 
 

      IEEE (Barcelona) 
* Diploma Risk management, Health and Security at work technical (Building industry) 
 

      CCNB  (Barcelona) 
* Diploma in “Documentary Credits UCP600 new regulations” in International and Foreign Trade. 
 

Languages:  
 
Spanish:  Native. Born in Belgium from Spanish parents.

French:   Native. Born in Belgium and resident for 17 years. 
English:   High Level Diploma of the “Escuela Oficial de Idiomas”, Spain

Catalan:  High command written, oral and in reading.

 
Computer Command:  
 
Advanced user level of : 
Operative Systems:  Windows XP, Intel Centrino Dual-Core, Fiber Optic DSL Internet Connection 12 Mb 
Office Suites:   Microsoft Office (Word, Excel, Access & Powerpoint)

CAT Software:  Wordfast 5.53, SDL Trados 2007 Freelance 
 

 
Professional Profile: 

-Member No. 708 of ASETRAD, Asociación Española de Traductores, Correctores e Intérpretes (Spanish Association of Translators, Proofreaders and Interpreters)

-Screened Professional by Proz.com Certified Program 
 

14 Years of experience in translation and proofreading:

- Healthcare, Laboratory Science 
- Chemistry, (Micro)Biology 
- Wood industry, Forestry 
- Tourism, Hotels 
- International Development, Import-Export 
- Transportation, Shipping 
- Medicine, Pharmaceuticals 
- and... less technical areas, such as Business, Sport