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Paula Arispe

Mansfield,TX

Summary

Highly motivated steno writer with the desire to take on new challenges. Strong worth ethic, adaptability and exceptional interpersonal skills. Adept at working effectively unsupervised and quickly mastering new skills.

Overview

23
23
years of professional experience
1
1
Certification

Work History

Owner/Captioner

Central Captioning, LLC.
Mansfield, TX
08.2023 - Current
  • Broadcast Captioner. Providing captioning on various networks. Work ranging from all sports to news programming.
  • CART Captioner. Captioning a wide range of meetings, webinars, city council meetings, board of supervisor meetings, and school classes.
  • Court Reporting. Makes a verbatim record of oral court proceedings for Dallas and Tarrant County Courts.

Real-Time Steno Captioner

National Captioning Institute
REMOTE Mansfield, TX
07.2002 - 08.2023

Captioned the following:

U.S. House of Representatives floor proceedings

  • Scheduling of the House captioners when supervisor was unavailable
  • Maintained discrepancy reports
  • Responsible for inputting House captioner team into company's main scheduling software when on regular staff
  • Maintaining an accuracy rate of over 99%

All sports, including the Super Bowl, Olympics, a variety of ESPN Network, MLB Network, NHL Network, NBA Network

FCC meetings, company webinars, county meetings

Local news programming

Fox News, MSNBC

Talk shows

High school and university classes

Worked closely with production staff to ensure smooth integration of captioning services into their workflow processes.

Court Reporter

Allied Court Reporters
Fort Worth, TX
01.2002 - 07.2002
  • Created accurate records of depositions, hearings, and other legal proceedings.
  • Participated in continuing education courses to maintain certification requirements as set forth by state law.

Education

Certificate of Court Reporting - Court Reporting

Arlington Career Institute
Grand Prairie, TX
08.2000

High School Diploma -

James Bowie High School
Arlington, TX
05.1998

Skills

  • Broadcast Captioning
  • Court Reporting
  • Communications Access Realtime Reporting (CART)

Certification

  • NCRA Certified Realtime Captioner (CRC)
  • TX Certified Shorthand Reporter (CSR)
  • NCRA Registered Professional Reporter (RPR)

Timeline

Owner/Captioner

Central Captioning, LLC.
08.2023 - Current

Real-Time Steno Captioner

National Captioning Institute
07.2002 - 08.2023

Court Reporter

Allied Court Reporters
01.2002 - 07.2002

Certificate of Court Reporting - Court Reporting

Arlington Career Institute

High School Diploma -

James Bowie High School
Paula Arispe