Summary
Overview
Work History
Education
Skills
Languages
Timeline
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Jennifer Contreras

Jennifer Contreras

HAGERSTOWN,Maryland

Summary

Accomplished Spanish Medical Interpreter and Manager with a proven track record at Ictm and Rancho Azteca, enhancing patient-provider communication and team performance. Expert in bilingual communication and conflict resolution, I significantly improved customer satisfaction and operational efficiency. Skilled in medical terminology and cultural sensitivity, I excel in fast-paced environments, ensuring confidentiality and professionalism.

Overview

2025
2025
years of professional experience

Work History

Spanish Medical Interpreter

Ictm
  • Streamlined patient and provider interaction by providing channel of effective communication.
  • Followed ethical codes to protect confidentiality of patient medical information.
  • Translated procedural information to facilitate understanding between doctors and patients.
  • Verified understood medical information for patients by simplifying any jargon.
  • Equipped healthcare providers with cultural information to promote appropriate provision of health services.
  • Interpreted services to families during process of scheduling initial visit and coordination of ongoing treatment.
  • Served as medical interpreter for patients and staff clinical encounters by delivering accurate, skilled interpretations to facilitate effective communications.
  • Translated documents about treatment directions and helped non-English speaking patients fill out medical forms.
  • Stayed current on new expressions and cultural changes impacting language translation.
  • Maintained message content, tone, and emotion as closely as possible.
  • Interpreted conversations between foreign language-speaking clients and others.
  • Developed and maintained glossary of technical terms.
  • Attended training programs to improve professional knowledge and interpretation skills.
  • Developed strategies to perform accurate and consistent translations.
  • Interpreted conversations simultaneously to help both parties conduct business, handle medical needs or manage personal concerns.
  • Assisted foreign language-speaking clients with inquiries.

Spanish Medical Interpreter

Stratus

Manager

Rancho Azteca
12.2021 - Current
  • Resolved staff member conflicts, actively listening to concerns and finding appropriate middle ground.
  • Developed and maintained relationships with customers and suppliers through account development.
  • Cross-trained existing employees to maximize team agility and performance.
  • Maintained professional, organized, and safe environment for employees and patrons.
  • Accomplished multiple tasks within established timeframes.
  • Managed and motivated employees to be productive and engaged in work.
  • Improved marketing to attract new customers and promote business.
  • Maintained positive customer relations by addressing problems head-on and implementing successful corrective actions.
  • Used industry expertise, customer service skills and analytical nature to resolve customer concerns and promote loyalty.
  • Maintained professional demeanor by staying calm when addressing unhappy or angry customers.
  • Identified and communicated customer needs to supply chain capacity and quality teams.

Manager

La Tolteca Mexican Foods
01.2010 - 12.2017

Manager duties

  • Cross-trained existing employees to maximize team agility and performance.
  • Accomplished multiple tasks within established timeframes.
  • Maintained professional, organized, and safe environment for employees and patrons.
  • Resolved staff member conflicts, actively listening to concerns and finding appropriate middle ground.
  • Improved marketing to attract new customers and promote business.
  • Managed and motivated employees to be productive and engaged in work.

Education

Phlebotomy

Hcc
Hagerstown, MD

JMB
Salisbury Md

Online Program
Online

Skills

  • Patient confidentiality
  • Simultaneous interpretation
  • Consecutive interpretation
  • Cultural insight
  • Bilingual communication
  • Physician communication
  • Medical terminology proficiency
  • Procedural information translation
  • FLUENT IN LANGUAGE
  • Video remote services
  • Language proficiency
  • Professionalism
  • Problem-solving abilities
  • Cultural understanding
  • Time management abilities
  • Professional ethics
  • Cross-cultural communication
  • Problem-solving aptitude
  • Multitasking Abilities
  • Conflict Resolution
  • Reading Comprehension
  • Medical Translation
  • Cultural Sensitivity
  • Interpret language
  • Microsoft Access
  • Team building
  • Live interpretations
  • Reliability
  • Confidentiality understanding
  • Multitasking

Languages

Spanish
Full Professional

Timeline

Manager

Rancho Azteca
12.2021 - Current

Manager

La Tolteca Mexican Foods
01.2010 - 12.2017

Spanish Medical Interpreter

Ictm

Spanish Medical Interpreter

Stratus

Phlebotomy

Hcc

JMB

Online Program
Jennifer Contreras