PAULETTE ALEXANDRA PAGANI MASSON
Venezuela, 0058 4143028169 / MIAMI 305 408 7939

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Simultaneous English-Spanish Interpreter and Translator (both directions)

Petroleum and gas Industries:

2004 International Gas Convention, Caracas, Venezuela
Sizing, selection and installation of pressure-relieving devices in refineries
Inspection of Storage Tanks per API 653 standard
Tank design
Seminar on technological aspects for the use of production gas – participation by companies such as AVPG, PDVSA, SHELL, NALCO/EXXON, ICI, PROSERNAT, COMART, KVAERNER, PEREZ COMPANC and BOC
Preparation for PMI certification
Troubleshooting
Seismic and sequential stratigraphy
Cementing for the oil industry
Drillstring failures
Leadership on the rig
LACT unit to measure gasoline octane levels
Project Management
Naturally Fractured Reservoirs
Asset Management
Rock Mechanics
Value Engineering and Front-End Loading for Oil Industry Projects
Artificial Gas Lift
Chemical processes in refineries
Training to solve unplanned events
Labour relations
Reliability-based maintenance
Automated instrumentation for laboratories
Refinery interphase modules
Stuck pipe prevention
Gas failure problems
Devices to remove coke from header drums
Refinery inspections
Scaffolding for the oil industry
Benzene-toluene-xylene and distillation processes
Antisurge control module
Computer sciences for geophysicists
Dinoflagellate cysts
Slim hole drilling and coiled tubing operations
Formation damage control
Ammonia production
3D technique for exploring old wells
Horizontal drilling
Electronic control panels (part of the Infragas project)
AGAR technique for measuring the content of water in petroleum
Tennessee Associates quality control model for the oil industry

Technical seminars:

2005 Morgan Steel Mills Symposium, Worcester, MA, USA
2005 Billboard Latin Music Awards Pre-Show Conference, Miami, FL
2004 Billboard Latin Music Awards Pre-Show Conference, Miami, FL
2001 Latin American Carriers Convention – Miami, Fl (RAD Group)
Intel e-business forum by Tom Lacey, Intel CEO and Alfonso Luna, Director of Microsoft Venezuela
IBM Websphere Software Platform/AIM University sessions
EXCEL courses for the Venezuelan Institute of Standards
GTE´s ¨Eye on Technology¨ Seminar Series, including videoconferencing and teleconferencing
IBM Networking and e-business workshops
Telecommunications deregulation
Computer safety skills
IBM-MQ Series/services datapool
GTE price plans/MIS/UMS-usage training course, IR Training/CBSS end user balancing/Train the trainers, BCTEL Canada IMS/DLI Data Language Interface/BVT User On-Line/BVT Technical Overview
Test specifications for the acceptance of electric power distribution systems and services
Honda Motors sales and services seminar
Ultrasound measurement of tubes
Transmission system masking course
Rolls Royce and Cooper Bessemer turbines and compressors
ISO 9000 courses
Tribology of Machines
Sucker Rod Pumping for the Oil Industry
Speedtronics
Electrical conductors
Environmental dust control
Feed pumps
Turbomachinery & Compressors

Economics, Management and related areas:

2004 Fiba/Felaban Latin American Bankers´Association Annual Assembly, Miami, FL
2003 Fiba/Felaban Latin American Bankers´Association Annual Assembly, Miami, FL
2003 Patriot Act/ Check 21 Act Banking Convention, Miami, FL
2003 FTAA Presidential Rounds, Miami, FL
Applied Project management
INTEVEP-Regional hemispheric Oil meeting
Financing in international capital markets – seminar conducted by Mayer, Brown & Platt
New management and finance program for Wyeth Laboratories
Activities-based costs workshop
Economics workshop for EDS – Grupo Progreso banking consortium

Medicine, Odontology and Health:

2004 Infectious Diseases Convention, Miami, FL
2003 Infectious Diseases Convention, Miami, FL
2003 Cosmetics Convention, Miami, FL
2001 Animal Veterinary Seminar - Surgery Advances on Small Animals
Traumatology: treatment of equinus varus, proximal femoral osteotomy, reconstructive surgery in limbs with alografts, tumor postresection, new techniques in the treatment of tumor lesions in the spine, varus osteotomy, Perthes’ disease, lumbosacral arthrodesis in scoliosis, condrosarcoma, malignant fibrous hystocytoma
Presentation of a new anti-depressant drug for Wyeth Laboratories
Occupational respiratory diseases
The 1st Congress of Dentists of the Caribbean – implants
Office ergonomics
Agar gum technology for food staples
Molecular biology workshop held by a doctor from the Childrens’ Hospital New York
First aid courses for the oil industry

Other topics:

2005 Community Commons: a UNDP-sponsored convention to reduce poverty, halt the spread of HIV/AIDS and empower women and children, Fordham University, New York, USA
The Annual Meeting of the Hydrology Chapter of the World Meteorological Organization based in Geneva, Switzerland
Interpreter accompanying the Army Generals’ Postgraduate course visit by the Royal College of Defence Studies – generals from Great Britain, Pakistan, Jordan, Namibia, Bulgaria and Latvia
Preliminary meetings between representatives of the governments of Grenada and Venezuela on the delimitation of marine and submarine waters
Interpreter for the South Dakota commercial mission/US Embassy northwestern utilities companies
Discussion sessions on the Venezuelan environmental criminal law
Chrysler Neon/Pepsico/KFC/UD/Black Label market studies
Saatchi & Saatchi – Nazca publicity seminar
Quality supervision for the oil industry
Interventions in Space (artists invited by the museum of fine arts of Caracas, Venezuela)

Written translations

Translation of tender documents and socio-economic studies as well as feasibility studies and environmental studies for Statoil and Dresser Rand

Translation of manuals on control valves, indirect fired heaters and boilers for Petroleum Engineering, Inc.

Translation of 3D seismic studies for Veritas & Mosbacher

Translation of chapters of a mechanical engineering book

Translations on computer sciences for professors and students of the Simon Bolivar University, Venezuela

Translation of a Radio Shack Manual for private party

Translation of manuals, reports and machine status, labor contracts and sundry translations for Coca-Cola Venezuela

Translations for CEDICE, the Center for the Dissemination of Economic Knowledge in Caracas, Venezuela

Translation of presentations for VISA Latam, Miami, USA
Translation of the tourist guide section of the yellow pages in Venezuela

Translation of article on the origins of physical anthropology for IVIC, the Venezuelan Institute of Scientific Research

Ongoing translation contract / the web page of the Venezuelan American Chamber of Commerce and Industry (Venamcham)

Translations on banking and legal issues for the Banco del Caribe and Clyde & co., Benson Perez Matos Antakly & Watts legal firms

Translation of several quality control handbooks for Tennessee Associates

Translations of gold-related issues

Translation of articles on certificates of deposit and other aspects relating to the development of futures markets in Venezuela for the Agricultural Bourse

Transcription and translation of a seminar on international capital markets for Inverunion (Banco Union)

Translation of articles on economics and finance for Consultores Linguisticos C.A.

Translation of economic topics for the postgraduate course of the IUPFAN (Army)

Various translations on recycling paper, the design and operation of sawmills, accounting procedures, meat processing techniques, the oeuvre of a Venezuelan painter, etc.

Translation of “How to read computer tomography images” handbook for the Magnetic Resonance Dept. of Hospital de Clinicas Caracas

Translation of clinical studies for Eli Lilly Laboratories

Translation of clinical trials for a new drug for Wyeth Laboratories

Translation of publications on cardiomyopathy and translation of medical exams for patients of the island of Trinidad and Tobago, examined by doctors in Venezuela

Publications translated by myself:

Oil: Venezuela and the Persian Gulf (original title: ¨Petròleo: Venezuela y el golfo pérsico¨) by José Toro Hardy, for PDVSA, the Venezuela state-owned company (except for the cover jackets and the foreword, written directly in English by the president of that company).

El Cerebro y el Mundo Interno (original title: ¨The Brain and the Inner World¨) by Mark Solms, for private psychoanalyst in Caracas, Venezuela

EDUCATION

NELS - CentralUniversity of Venezuela (1990)
Interpreter-Translator (Spanish-English both directions)

School of Biology - Simón Bolívar University / 1978-1981
School of Law - Santa María University / 1986-1988

AFFILIATION

Venezuelan Association of Conference Interpreters (AVINC) since 1983.

References

Mr. Les Tablada, ConferenceTech, Miami, FL

Prof. Lya Feldman, Universidad Simon Bolivar

Lic. Ivette Saez, Venamcham

Ms. Rosa Jaquez, Billboard New York,

Mr. Godsuno Chela, Director, SIGOMAKA,

Ms. Yelitza Rincon, Translator Coordinator,

Mr. Rafael Morel, Lighthhouse Translations & Interpretations,

Mr. Ron Ochoa, Translator Coordinator for Wyeth Labs. Project,