Resume

• With the BYU Living Legends

  I lead a section of 12 dancers with various backgrounds of dance experience into performing about 30 minutes of Latin American folk dance. I participated in planning and coordinating auditions

  performances

  cultural outreaches

  open houses

  and group publicity events. I was also a performer in which we presented a 90 minute cultural show to a variety of audiences from Arizona

  Utah

  Idaho

  New Mexico

  California

  Illinois

  Iowa

  Guatemala

  Nicaragua and Honduras.

  BYU Living Legends

  Workshop Instructor

  As a workshop instructor in Chile

  I worked with a team to advice groups of 5-20 aspiring entrepreneurs the fundamentals of creating a business plan. I also coached individuals on how to build distinguished micro businesses. Lastly we qualified future trainers with knowledge of the workshop and basic teaching skills.

  LDS Employment Resource Services

  Interpretation Coordinator

  I lead a team of native and non-native Papiamento speakers for special conferences broadcasted across the world. I also conduct special training meetings to help new interpreters ease into the skill of interpreting. I adjust translated scripts to better fit the live interpretation. Apart from being the team coordinator

  I also interpret for the General worldwide broadcasted conferences and special devotionals available to about 250

  000 Papiamento speaking individuals.

  The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints

  Full-time volunteer

  While volunteering on the Caribbean islands of Puerto Rico

  Aruba

  Bonaire

  and Curacao

  I planned and executed group and individual training meetings. I also had the opportunity to train new representatives in effective working strategy and problem solving skills in a 12 week period.

  The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints

  Building Relationships

  University Teaching

  Team Leadership

  Adult Education

  ESL

  Coaching

  Foreign Languages

  Training

  Higher Education

  Teaching

  Language Teaching

  Research

  Interviews

  Talent Management

  Spanish

  Workshop Facilitation

  Lesson Planning

  Leadership

  Public Speaking

  Tutoring

  Escobar

  Allan

  Escobar

  Brigham Young University

  Provo School District

  Missionary Training Center

  BYU English Language Center

  TestOut Corporation

  BYU Broadcasting

  Provo

  Utah Area

  As a Spanish instructor

  I taught beginning and intermediate Spanish to classes of 18-20 students from various backgrounds and prepared them to be competent with conversational Spanish within four months. I also helped tutor student

  s one-on-one to their specific needs including speaking

  listening

  writing and reading skills. I planned effective lessons to make the most of 50 minute daily shifts.

  Spanish Instructor

  Brigham Young University

  Provo

  UT

  While working for BYU Broadcasting I worked for the channel BYUTV International and coached professional and volunteer talents through voice-over projects from English into Spanish. I also maintained talent retention through excellent customer service and conducted quality control of voiced-over shows to assure the quality of the end project.\n

  Spanish Voice-over Coach

  BYU Broadcasting

  Pleasant Grove

  Utah

  As a Spanish localization specialist I have been able to work on a team in charge of the localization of the Desktop Pro Plus course (a course that teaches computer fundamentals and Microsoft Office products) from English into Spanish. I coordinated with the language service provider for the translation of course content while maintaining within budget allotted. I oversaw scheduling and supervising recording sessions for Spanish language talents by making script assignments and working against deadlines. I performed quality assurance checks on video scripts

  text lessons

  and simulated lab content; and logged bugs on discovered issues into issue tracking software. I also coordinated with support

  marketing

  and sales teams to meet and implement the needs of clients.\n

  Spanish Localization Specialist

  TestOut Corporation

  Provo

  Utah Area

  I educated multi-national non-native English speakers with survival communicative skills for the workforce and everyday life. I also prepared lessons and activities for a diverse group of students ranging from 18- 65 years of age.

  ESL Instructor

  Provo School District

  Provo

  Utah Area

  As a research assistant

  I utilized Davies’ Corpus de español to examine the variance within common pseudo clefts. I surveyed a 1700’s Spanish document for orthographic variance

  grammar

  and word histories. I analyzed and photocopied monthly Puerto Rican club minutes dating back from the early 1900’s up until the 1980’s. I transcribed five interviews of two hours length given to children of the 1901 Puerto Rican immigrants to Hawaii.

  Research Assistant

  Brigham Young University

  Provo

  Utah Area

  At the Missionary Training Center

  I primarily taught Spanish to 19-25 year old students and prepared them to be proficient in conversational Spanish within two months of training. I planned effective lessons with a co-teacher to make most of three hour daily shifts. I was assessed by students

  as a teacher

  above all other Spanish and language teachers with a rating of 4.8 of 5. I also conducted thorough Spanish language evaluations to perspective missionaries and employees.

  Spanish Teacher/Language Evaluator

  Missionary Training Center

  Provo

  Utah

  I prepared a group of 12 students for advancing to higher and more competitive language levels while teaching the preparatory English course. I also proctored 64 hours of testing sessions in a center holding about 50 students each one hour period.

  Intern

  BYU English Language Center

  English

  Spanish

  Papiamento

  Portuguese

  Brigham Young University

  Bachelor's degree

  Linguistics

  BYU Living Legends

  Master's degree

  Hispanic Linguistics

  TESOL Certificate