Felisa studied at the German school in Mexico and her father was German. She has two proficiency certificates issued by the Ministry of Culture in Bonn, Germany [Sprachdiplom Erste Stufe & Sprachdiplom Zweite Stufe.

She has a solid background in marketing with 30 years’ experience in commercial and administrative areas having worked more than 20 years in pharmaceutical marketing.

Her translations include a variety of different subjects and disciplines from medical books to historical novels, including legal, financial, commercial, advertising material and product dossiers for product registration, technical manuals, among others.

Felisa is Mexican, so her native language is Spanish. She studied English since she was 4 years old at the German School in Mexico City and finished her postgraduate studies at Ashridge Management College in UK, so English is a language in which she has full professional proficiency, which would be equivalent to C2 Cambridge ESOL CPE or IELTS 9.

Her translations include a variety of different subjects and disciplines from medical books to historical novel. From training manuals and sales brochures to legal contracts and clinical studies. During this time, she has translated different legal contracts, price changes, tenders for the oil industry, product monographs, catalogs, brochures as well as training and marketing presentations; and screenplays, operating manuals, advertising and promotional materials.

Felisa’s postgraduate studies are in marketing and she has 22 years’ experience in this field, particularly in the pharmaceutical industry.

Thanks to her 30 years’ experience in commercial and administrative areas, she has frequently been assigned to the translation of different projects from English and German to Spanish. Her Bachelor’s degree is actually in Business Administration endorsed by the Nordrhein Westfallen University in Germany.

After graduating from Ashridge Management College, Felisa started her long lasting career in pharmaceutical marketing working for renowned pharmaceutical companies such as: Bayer, Roche Pharmaceuticals, Bristol-Myers Squibb and Sanofi-Aventis.
She still continues to work for this industry translating a great number of articles, clinical studies, brochures and product monographs due to her experience of over 20 years in this field.
On the other hand she has also translated 4 books about medicine form German to Spanish.

For more than 2 years, Felisa worked as Chief International Hostess for luxury cruise liners. Her main duties on board were the written translations of the daily events and information brochures as well as the simultaneous interpretations of conferences.
Amongst her most memorable simultaneous interpretations she counts with the simultaneous interpretation for President Jimmy Carter of an onboard lecture during the CEO’s cruise. The simultaneous interpretation for Dr. Carl Sagan about his lectures of the Halley comet during a world cruise following the trajectory of this comet, as well as a fashion show presentation for Mr. Blackwell.
For the past 3 years she has been in charge of the translations for Best Western international hotels over the world.

Felisa has experience in the translation of financial and banking terminology as she has been in charge of HSBC translations for the past 2 years, as well as the compliance manuals for Magna.

Thanks to her solid background in marketing with over 30 years’ experience in commercial and administrative areas, 20 of which were in pharmaceutical marketing, she has translated a vast amount of clinical studies and medical papers for the pharmaceutical industry including publications of the New England Journal of Medicine and pharmaceutical product dossiers for their submission and approval by the FDA.

Felisa has extensively worked for different advertising agencies such as Leo Burnett, Integer Shopper Marketing, part of Terán TBWA advertising group, Leo Burnett, Oveja Negra Loewe and Richards / Lerma translating a variety of advertising materials for their clients.

Felisa has translated more than 50 brochures about hardware, appliances, cosmetics, cleaning and pharmaceutical products for companies such as Hewlett Packard, Lenovo, Samsung; Little Shop of Translations in Belgium; RedKey Translations and Prolangua in Germany; Ginsana, Zeller, Galderma, Sanofi Aventis, Sanofi Pasteur, Lundbeck and Pfizer among others.

Felisa has been in charge of the translation of several product catalogs for the automotive industry. She has worked for Chrysler, Infiniti, Mitsubishi, Tesla, Jeep and Daimler (Mercedes Benz) amongst others.

During her translation years, Felisa has translated lots of products descriptions. Some of which have been in the technical field, such as thermoforming machines, acoustical and thermodynamical solutions for the automotive and industrial markets, biogas systems, thermal oxidizers, wet electrostatic precipitators, biosolids reduction, general finishing and conveyor systems.
Due to increase of Mexico’s activity in the industrial sector these translation have been both from English to Spanish as well as from German to Spanish.

Felisa has translated a whole series of training materials for A.C. Nielsen for their implementation in all Spanish speaking countries. She was also in charge of the translation of the educational program for the Government of Ecuador.