Jose J.

Your audience should never feel like they're reading a translation. 26+ years of experience | 100% Job Success | 570+ Upwork projects I help law firms, healthcare organizations, marketing and content agencies, businesses, authors, and publishers communicate naturally with Spanish-speaking audiences in the U.S., Latin America, and Europe. Clients usually come to me when accuracy matters and the Spanish needs to sound like it was written for their audience. Over the years, I’ve translated everything from contracts and medical records to websites, legal content, marketing campaigns, technical documentation, and full-length books. But translation is rarely just about replacing English words with Spanish ones. A law firm may need to explain a complicated legal issue to a Spanish-speaking client. A marketing agency may need a reliable Spanish-language partner for ongoing content across multiple clients. An author may need to preserve a voice developed over years. Those are the kinds of problems I help solve. LEGAL TRANSLATION Contracts, agreements, HR documentation, immigration materials, insurance content, legal websites, practice-area pages, and other legal materials. Having completed three years of law school, I bring additional legal context to my translation work. In legal content, a seemingly small choice matters: translating shall as a recommendation rather than an obligation can change the meaning of a provision. I pay close attention to those distinctions. WEBSITE, CONTENT & SEO LOCALIZATION Websites, legal blogs, location and practice-area pages, landing pages, marketing content, apps, and multilingual digital experiences. I work with both businesses and agencies managing Spanish content for multiple clients, including high-volume and ongoing localization programs. I localize for U.S. Hispanic, Latin American, and European Spanish audiences and can work directly with HTML, JSON, CMS exports, and other source files. MEDICAL & HEALTHCARE Clinical reports, patient records, consent forms, questionnaires, insurance communications, and provider-facing materials. My background in psychology gives me additional context when working with medical and behavioral-health content. A term describing a diagnosis, symptom, frequency, or patient instruction can carry very different implications when translated imprecisely. I pay attention to those distinctions. BOOKS & LONG-FORM CONTENT Novels, memoirs, educational content, and non-fiction. I work to preserve voice, rhythm, humor, emotion, and pacing so the Spanish reads like a book—not a translation. TECHNICAL & BUSINESS CONTENT SOPs, training materials, product documentation, presentations, UX/UI content, and internal communications, with particular attention to terminology and consistency across large projects. I also provide MTPE and linguistic QA for clients using machine translation or AI-generated Spanish, while original translation and transcreation projects receive a fully human linguistic approach. I also work with Trados, MemoQ, Wordfast, Smartcat, and other translation platforms. Whether you need one critical document, hundreds of website pages, an AI translation reviewed, or an entire book brought into Spanish, my approach is the same: understand what the original is trying to accomplish, understand who will read the Spanish, and make sure those two things meet. Send me a message or let's schedule a quick video call. I'm easy to reach and happy to discuss your needs.