Stephen Llevares

Male , Filipino
Location: Mandaue City, Philippines

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Credits

Year Job Title
Project Type		 Project Name
Director / Company		 Location
2022 Voice artist
Voiceover 		Various long-form voice-over assignments in English and Cebuano for a global church organization, a large pharmaceutical company, a major national Philippine media outfit, and a Philippine nongovernment organization.
2018 Voice-over talent and coordinator/producer, audio editor
Commercials & Industrials 		(Nondisclosure agreements apply in most cases); a U.S. food service training company; a Saudi petrochemical company; a Saudi gold and base metals mining company; a Philippine universal bank; ON Semiconductor; Western Union
InWhatLanguage, USA; Omni-Intercommunications, USA; Blokmedia Ltd, UK; Cosmic Global Ltd., India; ASAP Studio OG, Austria; LanguageMate, USA; MassiveProductions, USA; Matinee Multilingual, UK
2018 Translator
Commercials & Industrials 		Various translation assignments
Broadcast Media Zone, UAE; The AmeriLaw Group, LA Institute of Translation and Interpretation, USA; TheBigWord, UK; US Translation, USA; EWE Intermediairs, Piestany, Slovakia; Vertaalexperts, Netherlands; E(Q)HO, Thailand; Krishna Translations, India; etc
2016 Voice talent and coordinator, audio and background music editor
Commercials & Industrials 		VO for various commercials, promotions and infomercials
MOSS Productions for Magnolia, Orientex (U.S. companies catering to the Filipino community); Tyco Electronics, USA; Transcendent International/LanguageMate, USA; Ocean Bay Beach Resort, PH; Tanjay Serenity Garden, PH; Finland Sawo Inc.
2016 Editor, proofreader, writer
Online & Multimedia 		Editing various books, magazine articles, brochures, catalogs, flyers, Web copy
World Executive's Digest, PH -- former sister publication of Inc. and Business Month; U.S. Information Agency - Regional Service Center, PH; Construction Management, PH; Arbor Books, USA; Xlibris Corp., USA (via Phil-Am Outsourcing Solutions, Inc., PH); A
2015 Narrator
Commercials & Industrials 		Readings in English for corporate history presentation
VoiceBunny for Pasudeco
2011 Audio editor
Voiceover 		Series of teleseminars and video testimonials for Australia Business Coaching Club and the Society of Home Business Owners (USA)
DiVA Industries; etc.
2009 Voice talent, audio editor
Voiceover 		VO for video news updates and for phone IVR system
Coordinating content producer / ToutLeContenu, Switzerland for MSN Arabia; Lattice Voice Technologies, UK for TheBigWord; etc.

Education

Year Qualification Where
  State and college scholar University of Santo Tomas, Manila

About me

Voice-over provider for multimedia projects in North American English, Tagalog (also known as Filipino), and Cebuano (also known as Binisaya or Sinugbuanon). Authoritative, empathetic, friendly voice for documentaries, podcasts, newscasts, audiobooks, instructional or training material, and language dubbing.

Highlights:

Recorded long-form voice-over in Tagalog and Cebuano for clinical trials for a large pharmaceutical company.
Recorded a series of voice-overs in English and Tagalog for promotional and explainer videos for a Philippine nongovernment organization.
Served briefly as daily podcast voice-over in English for a major Philippine media outfit.
Recorded long-form voice-over in Cebuano for a global church organization.
Dubbed an e-learning video course for food workers into Tagalog (via InWhatLanguage).
Dubbed a corporate video into Tagalog for a major petrochemical company in Saudi Arabia (via Omni-Intercommunications).
Recorded voice-over in Tagalog and English for various infomercials for the Filipino community in the USA (via MOSS Productions).
Recorded voice-over for an internal AVP for a major Philippine bank.
Recorded voice-over in English for MSN Arabia weekly video news items for a Swiss company (via ToutLeContenu).
Recorded voice track in English for videos for a U.S. fitness and weight-loss website.
Recorded a company employee policies manual in Tagalog for a large semiconductor company (via Cosmic Global Inc.).
Recorded clips in Cebuano for an interactive voice response system for a UK company (via Lattice Voice Technologies).
Recorded Tagalog information campaign on various diseases for a U.S. medical services company (via Transcendent International/ LanguageMate).
Recorded and produced commercials in Cebuano and English for a memorial park company (Tanjay Serenity Garden Memorial Park).
Produced promotional DVD with my voice-over in English for a manufacturer of saunas and heaters (Finland Sawo).
Contributed to a collage of voices in English for an international TV/Web corporate promotion (Tyco Electronics).
Recorded voice-over for a video presentation for a Philippine beach resort (Ocean Bay Beach Resort).
Produced docu/promo DVD with my virtual tour narration in English for a realty outfit.
Recorded the part of a U.S. army general in an animation (machinima) project.
Recorded legislation in English into chapter and paragraph mp3s for a private individual.
Produced photo essay or AVP for a nonprofit.
Recorded voice-over for videos played over a cable TV community channel (1990s).
Edited, cleaned up and assembled audio teleconferences for Australia Business Coaching Club and the Society of Home Business Owners (USA).
Recorded and produced presentations for high school and college students; acted as voice dubbing talent for additional characters when needed.
Technical background useful in performing technical reads/assignments: Managed a small cable TV business for nine years; edited and produced videos of local events, occasionally with my voiceover, for the community channel.
Over twenty years aggregate work experience editing English-language books and magazines (various companies), including four years with the U.S. Information Agency in Manila as associate editor of Trade USA, a monthly magazine circulated by the U.S. Dept. of Commerce. Books edited for various clients (all U.S. authors) were memoirs and biographies, wartime narratives, family and corporate histories, business and management essays, scientific treatises, novels, philosophical writings, specialized healthcare dissertations, financial planning guidebooks, and books for children.
Trained and worked as an industrial engineer/process analyst for a plywood and newsprint manufacturer and later for a maker of refrigerators and air conditioners (Philippine licensee of Carrier and Kelvinator).
Published local songwriter; arranged and recorded accompaniment for graduation hymns and various songs for others.

Home Studio

Adobe Audition, Samplitude, Steinberg Wavelab, Cubase, and Cockos Reaper digital audio workstations, Behringer and Magus mic preamps and mixers, Fujifilm X-E3 mirrorless camera with various lenses, Panasonic Lumix GX8 mirrorless camera with various lenses, Canon EOS 550D DSLR with various lenses, GoPro Hero 3+ action camera, studio lights and strobes, Native Instruments Komplete Audio 6 and Line 6 digital audio recording interfaces, Numark, Sony, and Philips headphones, ORC gated compressor/limiter, Rode, Sennheiser, Shure, AudioTechnica, V-Tech, and Behringer microphones, Sony monitors, Yamaha synthesizer keyboards

Skills

Voice Style Authoritative, Concerned, Deep, Friendly, Informative, Natural, Reassuring, Soft
Voice Age Adult, Senior
Languages Spoken English, Filipino, Tagalog
Accents/Dialects American - General, Philippines (Filipino, Tagalog)