Karina Velazquez

Current

• Internet Assessor at Lionbridge

Past

• Coeditor at A.M.
• Web Coeditor in Chief (Web Producer) at Reforma
• Quality Control Assessor at Reforma

• Handbook Editor at Computación en Acción

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Education

• Instituto Tecnológico y de Estudios Superiores de Monterrey

Connections

18 connections

Industry

Newspapers

Websites

• My Visual CV
• My blogs and Twitter account

Karina Velazquez’s Summary

Journalist with advanced writing skills in Spanish.
Organized, task driven, proactive.
Experienced as reporter too, covered local news in my last newspaper.
Was in charge of a suplement in the newspaper A.M.
Worked as Chief Web Editor for the Entertainment section in a newspaper site (Reforma.com/gente).
Planned high quality content to keep readers interested in the section
Updated frecuently the news in the section in order to make it relevant and opportune
Coordinated people to make this section stand out and have more readers

Karina Velazquez’s Specialties:

Planning, coordinating people, writing news and information, reviewing other people information to improve its quality and make it more accurate, using new technologies to make my work more efficient.

Karina Velazquez’s Experience

• Internet Assessor

  Lionbridge

  (Public Company; 1001-5000 employees; LIOX; Translation and Localization industry)

  June 2008 — Present (1 year 7 months)

  The main aim of the work of an Internet assessor is to improve a search engine’s results for all web users worldwide. The work involves evaluating results of a web search, for their appropriateness to the search query input and to provide feedback i.e. my opinion of the result displayed.
  Note: The search engine I am working for is confidential due to a Non Disclosure Agreement. This is a freelance, part time job. Lionbridge Technologies has 50 solution centers in 25 countries. More info: www.lionbridge.com

• Coeditor

  A.M.

  (Newspapers industry)

  July 2004 — March 2007 (2 years 9 months)

  * Edited pages from the Local section of the newspaper.
  * Read news stories, corrected them, added items to make them more attractive
  * Outlined pages to make them with designers
  * As Editor of a suplement of the newspaper, made the front page and at least 3 interior pages (besides the ones from the Local section asigned to me).

• Web Coeditor in Chief (Web Producer)

  Reforma

  (Privately Held; Newspapers industry)

  July 2001 — September 2003 (2 years 3 months)

  * As responsible of the web section of Entertainment, I established objectives for the section
  * Planned and implementing actions to accomplish this objectives
  * Organized daily content for the section, like news, photo galleries, multimedia, among others.
  * Coordinated content, in synergy with the printed section and other web sites of the Reforma Group, to have a rich content in the site at real time.
  * Managed staff under my supervision (2 to 3 employees) to accomplish the section objectives.
  
  Note: The dates includes a month of training (July 2001).

• Quality Control Assessor

  Reforma

  (Privately Held; 1001-5000 employees; Newspapers industry)

  September 2000 — July 2001 (11 months)

  * Reviewed the web site Reforma.com, supervising orthography, grammar, multimedia and style.
  * Corrected mistakes, with the help of Senior Web Coeditors of each section of the newspaper site.
  * Kept the site updated, working as Web Editor of the front page of the site.
  * Helped in the organization of chats, news edition and special events like Vicente Fox assumption of the Presidency.

• Handbook Editor

  Computación en Acción

  (Computer Software industry)

  May 1998 — February 2000 (1 year 10 months)

  * Edited software manuals
  * Planned information and documentation
  * Designed and updated the corporate web site
  * Managed information for the distributors
  * Created information tools using Director, Acrobat and Web Design

Karina Velazquez’s Education

• Instituto Tecnológico y de Estudios Superiores de Monterrey

  B.A. , Communication , 1993 — 1997

  Activities and Societies:

  Singer at musicals, writer at the university newspaper, participated in the organization of congress and other communication activities

Additional Information

Karina Velazquez’s Websites:

• My Visual CV
• My blogs and Twitter account

Karina Velazquez’s Interests:

New technology, journalism, reading books and newspapers, watching movies, blogging.

Karina Velazquez’s Groups:

ITESM (Monterrey Institute of Technology) in Mexico

•    ITESM Alumni Association
•    Periodistas Latinos
•    Google Wave México
•    Social Media Jobs in Montreal

Karina Velazquez’s Honors:

I have three letters or recommendation, one for each of my bosses in past jobs (in Computación en Acción, Reforma and A.M).
I do not have online recommendations because my previous bosses are really too busy to fill online résumés and recommend me online.
If you are looking for someone with my profile I can provide this letters in the interview process.

Karina Velazquez’s Contact Settings

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