![]() She is the only interpreter - out of approximately 30 - who passed all the tests held at the AOC in October 2010 to become certified. As a result, she is the only Tennessee certified court interpreter who resides in Murfreesboro, TN.
Itzel Neal is a Tennessee certified court interpreter, with a rating of superior and a 12/12 score for English and Spanish oral proficiency interviews. Mrs. Neal is also a Computerized Systems and Informatics Scientist (CSIS) from the Universidad Iberoamericana in Mexico City, Mexico who became an American citizen in June of 2007. With professional experience of more than 30 years translating to and from English and Spanish, Mrs. Neal offers first quality services of translation and interpretation. Before moving to Tennessee, Mrs. Neal was the personal advisor in computer science for the Attorney General of Mexico City, Dr. Samuel del Villar, leading the development of 32 major projects for criminal justice. She was a featured speaker at international conferences where she talked about the impact of criminal justice information systems. Specifically, her expertise was in reducing crime and improving prosecution through information technology. She was also a consultant for Mexico City’s government and the personal advisor in computer science for the Secretary of Public Finances and the General Director of the Public Registry of Property and Commerce, both in Mexico City as well. Mrs. Neal is a former member of the System Administration Focus Group of the International Morpho AFIS Group for Excellence (I.M.A.G.E.), whose main objective is to feedback end user information with AFIS systems throughout the world to SAGEM (now Safran Morpho), and to propose new ideas and strategies that would result in improvements to criminal identification systems. She started her bilingual training at 6 years old when she was enrolled in a bicultural institute in her native Mexico, where she fell in love with the English language. She spent the next 16 years learning English in a British Mexican institute and then in a Mexican American school. Associations Member of TAPIT (Tennessee Association of Professional Interpreters and Translators) |