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About Angelo Passalacqua

Angelo is the co-founder of Zin.Global. Previously he was the CEO of BURG Translations, headquartered in Chicago, IL, USA. Prior to that, he was a management consultant for the healthcare industry, helping pharmaceutical companies price and valuate potential medication, and held a teaching positions at King’s College London and the North China Institute of Science & Technology. He is a certified John Maxwell Coach, certified ISO 9001:2015 Lead Auditor, Associate at the Higher Education Academy and holds a PhD in Biostatistics and BSc in Management. Angelo is on the board of the Chicagoland Chamber of Commerce. He speaks English and Spanish fluently and maintains basic fluency in Mandarin and French. In his free time he volunteers with Global Brigades, a charity he co-founded in London, as an Executive Board Member.

Since 1936, Chicago-based BURG Translations has been dedicated to providing superior technical translation services across multiple global industries. The company offers a wide variety of language services to Fortune 500 clients ranging from prestigious medical journals, legal firms and leaders in biotech and manufacturing to new tech startups, universities, healthcare groups and life science organizations. The key to BURG’s success lies in its more than 85 years of cultivating an elite corps of translation professionals.

Entries by Angelo Passalacqua

How to get a document translated for free

May 7, 2019/in Machine Translation, Translation Memory, Translation Quality Management/by Angelo Passalacqua

We decided to write an article about how to get a document translated for free because, sometimes, clients who are new to translations are surprised that translation costs literally more than a few dollars. The advent of Google Translate and similar services have skewed client expectations into believing that translations is all done by computers […]

How to get a document correctly translated

April 30, 2019/in Translation Memory, Translation Quality Management, Your LSP Partnership/by Angelo Passalacqua

There are essentially four ways to get a document translated by a language service provider (LSP).  There is the fast way, the cheap way, the easy way and the correct way. All these ways are ok under different circumstances.  In this article we cover how to get a document correctly translated. In brief, the things […]

Application of the principles of quality management in the translation industry: Evidence-based decision making

April 2, 2019/in ISO 9001, Translation Quality Management/by Angelo Passalacqua

BURG Translations has been certified in the ISO 9001 process since 2009. This article is part 3 of a series of articles documenting our application of the ISO 9001 to our translation company.

Application of the principles of quality management in the translation industry: Engagement of people

March 19, 2019/in Translation, Translation Quality Management, Your LSP Partnership/by Angelo Passalacqua

BURG Translations has been certified in the ISO 9001 process since 2009. This article will review the application of the principles of quality management in the translation industry and the engagement of people. It is part of a series of articles documenting our application of the ISO 9001 to our translation company.

5 step to improving your translation quality results

March 12, 2019/in Translation, Translation Quality Management, Your LSP Partnership/by Angelo Passalacqua

When you use a translation service, it’s easy to feel like you have no control over the quality of the final translation. However, it is possible to control this quality to a very high degree. Let’s go through what you need to discuss with your LSP to ensure your next translation is the quality you […]

Application of the principles of quality management to the translation industry: Client focus

March 5, 2019/in Translation, Translation Quality Management, Your LSP Partnership/by Angelo Passalacqua

This article discusses how we apply Client Focus, one of the principles of quality management, to BURG Translations. BURG Translations has been certified in the ISO 9001 process since 2009. This article is the first in a series documenting our application of the ISO 9001 to our translation company.

Project valuation without source files

October 5, 2018/in General, Translation/by Angelo Passalacqua

Providing an estimate for a translation project can be difficult without access to the original source files. However, BURG uses several heuristics to aid in determining the scope, cost, and estimated turnaround time without available source files. The goal of the estimate is to calculate a reasonable range within which the actual values of the […]

BURG Translations, Inc. granted ISO 9001:2015 standards certification

September 29, 2017/in Press Release/by Angelo Passalacqua

Chicago, IL, May 3, 2016: Chicago-based BURG Translations, Inc. – an international company specializing in technical translation services – announces they have earned the new ISO 9001:2015 standards certification. ISO 9001 is the world’s most widely recognized Quality Management System and helps organizations to meet the expectations and needs of their customers. ISO 9001 is […]

Why a 100% translation memory match is not 100% free

August 23, 2017/in Translation Memory/by Angelo Passalacqua

Computer-assisted translation (CAT) tools, particularly the translation memory (TM) feature, are one of the best technologies invented for the translation industry.  As the name implies, CAT tools assist translators, but they do not replace them. TM stores every pair of units (words, phrases or sentences) translation memory so that they can be re-used in the […]

Increased FCPA enforcement may lead to more foreign language document reviews for attorneys

June 4, 2017/in Document Review Services, Foreign Corrupt Practices Act (FCPA), Legal Translations, Translation Topics In the News/by Angelo Passalacqua

The Foreign Corrupt Practices Act (FCPA) is likely to provide more foreign language document reviews for attorneys and translators during the new presidential administration because U.S. Attorney General Jeff Sessions said during a speech this month that the Justice Department would continue to prosecute corporate fraud. He added that “one area where this is critical […]

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