Atalaya Global was founded in 2002 by Angela Smith Kirkman, a veteran of the translation industry. Kirkman began her career in freelance translation in 1993 and graduated cum laude from the Colorado College in 1995. She began her undergraduate studies focusing on chemistry and life sciences (pre-med) and graduated with a degree in Romance Languages.
With a base in life sciences, Kirkman served for six years as a medical interpreter and translator for the State of California, private hospitals, medical offices, and localization companies specializing in medicine and life sciences.
In 1999, Angela joined one of the industry’s premier life science translation and localization companies. For four years she served the company as a Translator, Project Manager, IVD Regulatory Trainer, Recruiting Coordinator, and ISO Quality Management Representative.
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As a project manager responsible for over a half million dollars in annual revenue, Kirkman recognized the challenge faced by localization companies in building a support team of reliable, quality-focused people with an expert knowledge of the localization industry. Kirkman’s vision in founding Atalaya Global was to create a reliable team of localization industry veterans offering excellence in project management paired with professional, highly-specialized translations.
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Based on this original vision, Atalaya Global provides first-class project management and specialized translations. Atalaya Global translates over three million words annually and has become the essential translation vendor that many of the world’s largest localization companies depend on with their most vital accounts.
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