Freelance Translator German



Freelance Translator German > English Antoinette-M. Sixt Ruth3407 Butterleigh Drive, San Antonio, TX 78247-3180 USACell: (210) 355-3848 e-Mail: HYPERLINK "mailto:antoinette@sixt-" antoinette@sixt-SOURCE AND TARGET LANGUAGES - QUALIFICATIONSFluent in English and German. I translate German > English at the professional level. Active Member ATA () since 1994. Translator Certification German > English New York University, School of Continuing and Professional Studies 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 letters of recommendation as well as rates will be provided on request.Areas of Expertise and Experience Technical especially:Aeronautics, Manufacturing (SOPs) and Quality AssuranceTelecommunications; Standard Operating Procedures Environmental Protection & SustainabilityMedical have hands-on experience in the fields of: Clinical trials, SOPs pharmaceutical production and alternative medicine; patients’ records; pets’ recordsBusiness and Legal including:Civil litigation & corporate legal Human Resources and corporate trainingTechnology transfer, venture capital industry/ start-upsBusiness plans; contracts; economic developmentGeneral Management Marketing with emphasis on:Business development, tourism, sports Company newsletters, Press Releases, Regional promotion & developmentCommunication & Public RelationsEducational docs; genealogyOther skills: authoring; copy editing and proofreading; Internet research; non-current German and old German handwriting. CLIENTS include: Gutenberg Project, Lufthansa German Airlines, NASA, Siemens AG, Volkswagen AG, Pratt & Whitney, TecCom, CargoLifter AG, JSWD Architekten, Cologne, Germany, the City of Heilbronn (Germany); Texas Instruments, the Texas Department of Commerce, T?V Süddeutschland, Continental (France), Baxter UK (via agencies); Deutsche Presse Agentur (dpa), Langenscheidt KG, the Texas Attorney General’s San Antonio Office, the San Antonio US Navy Recruiting Office, the San Antonio VA Hospital, GPM Life Insurance, Inc.; nexans/ autoelectric of America, Inc., UT Austin, UNIVERSUM Boxing Promotions GmbH, German News, the Hamburg-based Hans-Bredow-Institute, InduSoft, Inc., Austin, Texas; mt-g medical translations GmbH, Transparent Language, Inc., Mayo Clinic, GeoCultural Translations, Bay Area International Translation Services, FS Language Services, KERN Global Language Services.Equipment and ResourcesHardware: HP Pavilion p6250t PC, 4 GB DDR2 RAM, 500 GB SATA HD; with backup to external HD.Toshiba Satellite C5ST-A5247 Touchscreen Laptop PC; HP LaserJet M 1212 MFP. Cyber Power 425 VA UPS (Power Protection). EPSON Perfection Scanner. I-Phone 3G Software: Windows 10 Professional 64-bit, MS Office 2010; AnyCount 3D Enterprise, Practicount & Invoice (Business) 3.1; Quicken 2017H&B; Roxio CD Creator 10; Adobe Acrobat XI Pro; WinZip 16.5; Karen’s Replicator Back-Up; ABBYY FineReader Pro 12.0 and IRIS Pro 16.0 OCR; Code Zapper 2.8 and TransTool as well as Olifant 3.0.8.CAT: Kilgray memo 2017 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 (UTHSCSA), St. Mary's University School of Law and Trinity University, all in San Antonio, TX. Professional Affiliations Active Member of the American Translators Association (ATA) since 1994. I attended a number of National ATA conventions and seminars during the past twenty years as well as four 2-week translator workshops at Erlangen-Nurnberg University, Germany, and multi-day technical and translation workshops and regional conferences as well as many pertinent webinars. Volunteer Translator for the US Olympic Festival 1993, German News and others as well as for the San Antonio Chapter of the Club Ciudad de México (from Spanish). Volunteer at the ATA Translation Companies Division Conference in San Antonio (2007). German Proofreader for the Austin Community College (ACC) Department for Translation Studies. INTERNATIONAL EXPOSURE Born in Southern Germany; educated in Germany, Switzerland, France, Italy, England, Mexico, and here in the US. I graduated from Our Lady of the Lake University of San Antonio (OLLUSA) in 1986 as a non-traditional student with a BBA and from UNAM San Antonio in 1999 with a degree in Spanish. I worked in several European countries as well as ten years in Africa (Oil & Gas/ Civil Engineering) as the corporate translator of an international construction corporation. I have been in the US since 1975. 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 Translator I can be, in the fields of my interests. I take pride in my work and derive a lot of pleasure from it. ................
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