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SOURCE AND
TARGET LANGUAGES/ QUALIFICATIONS
Native
fluency in English and German. I
translate German<>English at the professional level;
Professional
Translation Certificate German > English awarded by New York University
(2003). Certification by the
Institute of Linguists, London, UK.
Translation
experience: 20+ years. I provide
top quality work, on time and on budget.
Professional
references and/ or sample translations will be provided on request.
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Technical
especially: Aeronautics,
Manufacturing and Quality Assurance Telecommunications;
Standard Operating Procedures |
Medical
having work experience in the fields of: Clinical
trials and alternative medicine Patients’
records; pets’ records |
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Business
and Legal including: Civil
litigation & corporate legal Human
Resources and corporate training Technology
transfer, venture capital industry Business
plans; contracts; economic development |
Marketing
with emphasis on: Promotional
publications, Tourism, Sports Company
newsletters, Press Releases, Regional
promotion & development Educational
documents; Genealogy |
Other
skills: authoring; copy editing and proofreading;
desktop publishing; Internet research
CLIENTS
include:
Lufthansa German Airlines, CargoLifter AG, NASA, Siemens AG, Volkswagen AG,
Pratt & Whitney, TecCom, the Government of the German State of
Rhineland-Palatinate, the City of Heilbronn (Germany); Texas Instruments, the
Texas Department of Commerce TÜV Süddeutschland, Kerr-McGhee Oil (via
agencies); Langenscheidt KG, the Texas Attorney General’s San Antonio Office,
the local US Navy Recruiting Office, the VA Hospital in San Antonio, TX, GPM
Life Insurance, Inc.; autoelectric of America, Inc., and many others.
Equipment
and Resources
Hardware:
Gateway Pentium IV 2.4 GHz PC, 256
MB RAM, 60 GB HD;
16x/48x
DVD-ROM and 48x/24x/48x CD-RW, with IOMEGA Zip Drive 250 MB;
HP
LaserJet 1200; HP OfficeJet (= fax machine).
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Dell Inspiron 3800 Notebook 650 MHz PC, 64 MB RAM, 6.5 GB HD (= backup PC), HP
6p Laser printer.
Software:
Windows XP Professional, MS Office XP Professional with Multilingual
Proofing Tools, MS Works 2000; COREL WP Office 2000; Quicken deluxe 2002.
MS Internet
Explorer 6.0, Opera 6.0; COREL Draw 8; Adobe Acrobat 5.0; WinZip 8.1.
TRADOS
(CAT) Freelance Edition 5.5 (2002).
Reference
Library:
Standard and specialized mono- and bilingual dictionaries; extensive
reference material (as hard copy and in electronic format). I have access to the
academic libraries of the University of Texas Health Sciences Center at San
Antonio, St. Mary's University School of Law and Trinity University.
Professional
Affiliations
Member
of the American Translators Association (ATA) since 1990, the Austin
Area Translators and Interpreters Association (AATIA) and the New Mexico
Translators and Interpreters Associations; I attended the majority of the
National ATA Conventions and seminars during the past ten years as well as two
2-week translators’ workshops at the Erlangen University in Germany (May
2001and May 2003); member of the Alamo PC Organization (APCO), the
second largest PC User Group in the US.
Volunteer Translator for the Prof. Dr. Teschler-University of
Giessen (Germany) Genealogy Team, the US Olympic Festival 1993 as well as for
the San Antonio Chapter of the Club Ciudad de México (from Spanish).
German Proofreader for the Austin Community College (ACC) faculty
for Translation Studies.
Born
in Southern Germany; educated in Germany, Switzerland, France, Italy, the United
Kingdom, Mexico and here in the US. I
graduated from Our Lady of the Lake University of San Antonio (OLLUSA) in 1986
as non-traditional student with a BBA and from the UNAM San Antonio in 1999 with
a degree in Spanish. I worked in
several European countries as well as ten years in Africa, and since 1975, in
the US. I routinely spend several weeks each year in Europe to
improve my skills and update my knowledge base.
I have good skills in Spanish, French and Italian; but my objective is to
be the best German>English and English>German Translator I
can be, in the fields of my specialization.