CV in English

This is a short version that does not include all my personal data. If you are an employer and want to know more about me, please contact me at: israel [ at ] sweetsweden .  com

Personal data

Name: Israel Úbeda
Birthday: 1980-XX-XX
Citizenship: Spanish
E-Mail: israel [ at ] sweetsweden .  com

Education

Escola Goya (Terrassa),  – 1994

• Educación General Básica

IB Blanxart (Terrassa), 1994-1997

• Bachillerato Unificado Polivalente

IES Terrassa (Terrassa), 1997 – 1999

• Formación Profesional II en Informática

Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona (Barcelona), 1999 – 2004

• Bachelor in Technical Engineering in Computer Science
• Course in advanced website design

Jobs

Programmer, Metrofísica Aplicada, 1999-2004

• Programming a new SCADA to control machines
• Solve daily problems with computers in the office
• Translate help files for the software from Spanish into English

Delivery driver, family business, 2005 – 2009

• Pick up and deliver computers, printers, plotters and laptops in Barcelona and surrounding areas

Internet Communication Manager, VisitSweden España, 04/2009 -

• Marketing Sweden in Spain as a tourist destination through different digital media
• Update VisitSweden’s site in Spanish
• Create monthly newsletters to our suscribers
• Analize statistics to improve quality and traffic
• Report on a daily basis of bugs, problems and new ideas
• Copywrite articles in Spanish for the site
• Translate articles from Swedish/English into Spanish for VisitSweden
• Translate different texts from English into Spanish/Catalan to our partners  i.e. Västsvenska TuristrÃ¥det
• Social Media manager for VisitSweden’s Facebook account in Spanish
• Responsible for VisitSweden’s blog in Spanish: suecializados.com
• Supervisor of Instagr.am, Youtube, last.fm, flickr, etc, VisitSweden’s accounts

Languages

• Spanish (native)
• Catalan (native)
• English (very good skills in both writing and speaking)
• Swedish (very good skills in both writing and speaking – Certificate ”Intyg Svenska som andra sprÃ¥k grundläggande nivÃ¥”, 2004 from Komvux Eskilstuna)
• German (good skills but I have to improve again due to lack of use – Certificate “Zertifikat Deutsch Goethe Institut Barcelona”, 2002 )
• Hungarian (basic skills – currently learning)
• Japanese (basic skills – currently learning)
• Russian (used to learn the language and will return to it some day)
• Other languages I took a look at: Esperanto, Arabic

Courses

• Social Media & Community Management (feb 2012) at Seeway Barcelona

Knowledge in Computer Science

• Programming: Delphi, Pascal, HTML, PHP, JavaScript, CSS
• Graphical design: Photoshop, Corel, LightRoom
• Other knowledge: Word, Excel, PowerPoint, WordPress, Epi Server, Google Analytics, Google Trends, Google Insight for Search, Headlight (tracking links), CarmaMail (newsletter delivery & analysis tool), improving & mantaining my own domain (http://www.sweetsweden.com) with the blog (http://blog.sweetsweden.com), the forum (http://forum.sweetsweden.com) and the picture gallery (http://gallery.sweetsweden.com) since 2008

Favourite work categories

• Translator: Swedish/English > Spanish/Catalan
• Editor, content creator, copywriter, webmanager, proofreader
• Community management, social media management, SEO optimizer
• Software localization
• Telework, telecommute

Other information

I love to learn new things like new languages or new cultures. Because of this, I have lived in Eskilstuna, Sweden for three months in the end of 2004 and in Budapest, Hungary from september 2009 until june 2011. I am currently living in Barcelona.

I like traveling, reading about physics, translations, science, playing football, and enjoying long days at the beach on summer.

I have driving license for B and C classes.