Yilda Amparo Ruiz Monroy

ATA certified

Certified Florida Court Interpreter Certified by the Colombian Government

During 16 years I developed POLILINGUAE, which offered the following services: simultaneous interpretation and written translation in Spanish, English, French and Portuguese, rental of headsets, Spanish editing, seminars on the proper use of the Spanish language, masters of ceremonies and voiceover. Interpreted hundreds of seminars and meetings (accumulated over twenty thousand hours of experience), and translated thousands of documents on a wide variety of subjects, including, but not limited to, legal topics, Agriculture, Medicine, Engineering, Biology, Sociology, Marketing, Anthropology, History, Psychology, Family Business, Environment, Microbiology, Veterinary, Human Rights, Accountancy, Politics, Computers, Chemistry and many others.

• These are some of the celebrities I have been an interpreter for: President Obama – Governor Romney (three presidential debates that were broadcasted to all Latin American countries and 16 states in the US). Colombian former President Alvaro Uribe (both during and after his presidential term), Colombian former Vice-president Francisco Santos, Michael Porter (world famous specialist in competitiveness), Ken Blanchard (author of One- minute Manager) Chris Lowney (author of Heroic Leadership), Robin Sharma (author of The Monk who Sold his Ferrari), B.J. Gallagher Hateley (author of A Peacock in the Land of Penguins),John Walters, US Drugs Czar.

• USA – Andean Countries Free Trade Agreement. Member of the Colombian team of simultaneous interpreters in four rounds of negotiations held in Cartagena de Indias, Colombia, and one in Guayaquil, Ecuador.

• American Embassy – DEA. Member of the team of interpreters for several seminars held in Bogota and Cartagena de Indias.

• ArthroMiami – Chief Interpreter in charge of providing and coordinating multilingual interpretation logistics for this summit of the main arthroscopic surgeons from many parts of the world.