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Hazel Aquino

@hazelaquino

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Oral history and editorial specialist delivering 99.9% accurate, CMOS-compliant research transcripts remotely.

Philippines

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What I'm looking for

I’m looking for a high-autonomy, remote role where I can deliver CMOS-compliant oral history and technical transcripts with 99.9% accuracy, strong QA, secure handling of sensitive data, and consistent on-time performance across global time zones.

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.

Experience

Work history, roles, and key accomplishments

Senior Editor & Transcriber

Audio Transcription Center

Aug 2017 - Dec 2025 (8 years 4 months)

Delivered 99.9% accuracy transcriptions for oral histories, medical, scientific, and legal projects, ensuring CMOS and client style-guide compliance. Led QA, proofreading, and fact-checking while optimizing post-processing to correct contextual and speaker errors and consistently delivered on time and under budget with zero-supervision autonomy.

Medical Transcription Legal Transcription Quality Assurance (QA)Fact Checking HIPAA compliance

Freelance Senior Transcriptionist

Speechpad

Dec 2014 - Aug 2017 (2 years 8 months)

Produced polished, searchable research assets from complex podcasts and webinars across premium transcription tiers (Reviewer, Rush, Verbatim, Spot-Check). Consistently achieved 100% accuracy ratings, earned performance-based pay increases and 5-star bonuses, and drove recurring business through reliable high-quality deliverables under difficult circumstances.

Audio Transcription Editorial Review Verbatim & Rush Transcription Quality Assurance Speaker Authentication Automated Speech To Text Workflow Goldwave