Esther Gimeno-Miró

President of Catalan Chapter.

Spanish Fulbright Alumni Association

(Barcelona, Spain)

​2021 - Present

 

Organizing events and coordinating with the US Embassy, US Consulate, The American Studies Institute, and other European Fulbright Alumni Associations.

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Computational Linguist.

Apple through GlobeTech (Barcelona, Spain)

​2019 - Present

 

Siri's ASR & TTS debugging and maintenance.

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Computational Linguist.

Samsung Electronics through Randstad Technologies (Madrid, Spain)

​2017 - 2019

 

Member of Samsung's UK R&D Team through Randstad in Spain.
ASR.

 

Lead Instructor.

International Studies Foundation (Madrid, Spain)

​2017 - 2019

 

Lead Teacher at Go American English! Program (humanitarian, funded and founded by ISF in collaboration with the US Embassy in Spain.)

 

Duties: Developing a complete syllabus for the Program. Teaching subjects oriented to the academic and work inclusion of the grantees in this micro-scholarship. Such subjects improve their communicative skills in English by learning about American culture and fostering interest in Human Rights, new technologies, science, and business planning, implementing the Technovation Challenge with App Inventor as part of their curriculum.

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Jr Linguist.

Google through Adecco Outsourcing (Madrid, Spain)

​2017 - 2017

 

NLP Project: Google Assistant. Volunteering in the new Pixel Launch Event in Spain.

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English Instructor.

International Studies Foundation (Madrid, Spain)

​2016 - 2017

 

Lead Teacher at ACCESS (humanitarian, educational project which is being implemented in Spain for the first time; ACCESS depends on the US Department of State.)

 

Duties: English level assessment of the candidates. Creating the syllabus for 2 years. Responsible for the success of the program. Cambridge ESOL examinations trainer (KET, PET, and FCE). Moreover, I am fully in charge of our IT sessions, in which we learn about Artificial Intelligence, 3D Printing, 4D printing, history of computers, photo edition, some web design, HTML, and CSS.

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Corpus Linguist.

Appen (Madrid, Spain)

​2016 - 2016

 

Semantic annotation for Amazon's project.

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English Instructor.

Cambridge Institute (Madrid, Spain)

​2015 - 2017

 

One-to-one, group, and in-company lessons. From judges at the Spanish Constitutional Court, to vice-ministers Ministry of Transport and Ministry of Finance, and civil servants at Aena, Ministry of Industry, Energy and Tourism). All levels. Medical, business, general English courses, and courses for Personal Assistants. Preparing students for Cambridge examinations (FCE, CAE, and CPE ), writing lesson plans, supervising and invigilating official examination (BULATS), correcting exams, assessing English level, and translating restaurant menus among other tasks.

 

Certified oral examiner for Cambridge ESOL examinations (KEY, PET, and FCE).

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English Instructor.

TED Spain (Madrid, Spain)

​2015 - 2016

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English instruction and training for STANAG examination -test used by NATO to assess candidates- for Spanish Air Force officers who need to get 3333 in their SLP in order to get missions abroad. Training for English interview (OPI), grammar, listening, writing, and personalised tutorial sessions.

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English Instructor.

International Studies Foundation (Madrid, Spain)

​2015 - 2016

 

Teaching Assistant (TA) at ACCESS (humanitarian, educational project which is being implemented in Spain for the first time; ACCESS depends on the US Department of State.)

 

Duties: English level assessment of the candidates. Creating the syllabus for 2 years together with the program’s primary teacher and our coordinator. Active participation in the selection of candidates for their acceptance in the program. Moreover, I am fully in charge of our IT sessions, in which we learn about Artificial Intelligence, 3D Printing, the history of computers, some web design, and HTML.

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Spanish Lead Teacher and TA.

Austin College (Sherman, TX)

​2014 - 2015

 

​I was the Lead Teacher in charge of two Spanish conversation classes. The two groups are Pre-intermediate and Advanced. Moreover, I am the TA living with the students in the Language House. I make sure that the Spanish immersion program works in the house. I also take care of my students and monitor their grammatical, lexical, and fluency levels.
Apart from my agreed duties, I have created two more conversation groups: Pre-intermediate and Proficiency, and a Tandem Program between AC and UCM students through Skype.

 

 

English Teacher.

Escuela Inglesa (Madrid, Spain)

​2008 - 2014

 

​Teaching English to reduced groups of students (10 max.) I had students from 3 to 67 years old, and coped with a great range of ages and levels; from beginners (children and adults) to STARTERS, MOVERS, KET, PET, FCE, CAE, IELTS, TOEFL, Selectividad, Trinity College examinations and TOEIC.
The lessons were oriented to English for Speakers of Other Languages (ESOL) and English as a Second Language (ESL) in all their dimensions: grammar, lexical-semantics, conversation, pronunciation, and intonation. Occasionally, I also taught about poetry, gender studies, typography, and quoting and referencing according to different systems.

 

 

Spanish-English Translator.

Decorapolis S.L.

​2011 - 2012

 

​SP>EN translation of a business project presentation in the field of decoration.

 

 

Spanish as a Second Language (SSL) Teacher.

(Private Tuition)

​2011 - 2012

 

​Teaching Spanish to a British student. Level: Pre-intermediate (B1.)

 

 

 

English-Spanish Interpreter.

Global First Step (GFS)

​2012 - 2012

 

Interpreting English>Spanish and Spanish>English at business meetings related to the field of construction in Qatar and Oman.

 

 

SSL Teacher.

Escuela Inglesa (Madrid, Spain)

​2011 - 2011

 

I taught Spanish to an Italian group. Level: Elementary - Pre-intermediate (A2-B1.)

 

 

Honorific Grantee.

Universidad Complutense de Madrid (UCM)

​2011 - 2011

 

I collaborated with the Linguistics department on research projects. One of them related to epistemic modality, and the other one oriented to automatic generation of dialogues applied to ESOL teaching.

 

 

Descriptive Grammar Teacher.

Private Tuition

​2010 - 2010

 

I provided private tuition on subjects belonging to the second cycle of UNED's (Spanish distance university) English Studies and Linguistics.

 

 

Translation Reviewer.

Media Game

​2010 - 2010

 

Review of English > Spanish translation for sports videogame.

 

 

Translator.

Rio's Finest

​2010 - 2010

 

English > Spanish translation of real-estate penthouse adevertisements in Copa Cabana.

 

 

Student Ambassador.

Queen Mary University of London

​2008 - 2008

 

Queen Mary students' representative at local Primary and
Secondary schools.
Getting in touch with kids and teenagers in order to solve their doubts about next steps in their personal and academic development.
Guided visits to QMUL Campus.
Monitoring of laboratory activities with kids and teenagers.

 

 

Linguistics Instructor.

Private Tuition

​2007 - 2007

 

Subjects: English Syntax II and History of English Language I.
Student's Profile: English Studies BA candidate in her fifth trial to pass those exams. Unable to attend classes due to the fact of being working as an air hostess. She got a B on each exam.

 

 

Instructor.

Private Tutor

​1998 - 2003

 

Subjects: Philosophy (COU), Physics (Kinematics), IT (user level), English (B2), Spanish grammar (undergraduate level), Mathematics (until secondary school level), Artistics Drawing and Illustration, Studying Techniques, and teaching of basic Spanish literacy to a foreign language speaker who was illiterate in his mother-tongue.
Student's Profile: From 13 to 32 years old. From illiterate to undergraduate students.