Hazel Aquino

I’m an Oral History and Editorial Specialist with 20+ years’ experience curating, transcribing, and refining historical narratives for premier institutions including Harvard, MIT, the Smithsonian, and Columbia Center for Oral History Research. I transform complex, multi-speaker archives into polished, high-fidelity research resources, excelling in high-autonomy, remote environments while maintaining 99.9% accuracy on highly technical medical, scientific, and legal transcription projects.

I’m highly adept at navigating The Chicago Manual of Style (CMOS) and client-specific style guides, delivering high-stakes documentation under stringent deadlines across global time zones. With a background as a Licensed Nurse and Certified Medical Transcriptionist, I combine rigorous proofreading, fact-checking, and multi-speaker authentication with quality assurance workflows, HIPAA-compliant data security, and dependable operational discipline—backed by secure FTP protocols and redundant home-office uptime.