Omar Contreras was born in Mexico. He graduated from a private University in Mexico
City where he majored in Marketing and Advertising on a scholarship. Omar has always been an outstanding student both from an early age in his native country as well as in the United States. Languages, reading, and writing have always been his passion in life.

Thanks to his bicultural background he has developed a great command of both English and Spanish. He graduated from Golden West College in Huntington Beach on a scholarship award.

Later on, he decided to attend the Southern California School of Interpretation to become a Spanish Certified Court Interpreter. 

Omar passed the Oral Examination at the first attempt. Although he is a certified court interpreter State law deems Certified Court Interpreters qualified as Administrative Hearing Interpreters and Medical interpreters.