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With a long and extensive background in the corporate world (US, CY & NL companies) in leading positions, I have managed to become a well-rounded specialist with strong expertise in Customer Services, Management, Account Management, Direct Selling, Compliance (within Direct Selling) obtained in international, multicultural environments of the sectors Tourism, e-Commerce, Telecom, FMCG, Financial Trading and Crowdfunding. I have translated text throughout my entire professional career, and am fully bilingual in the language pair EN-DE, DE-EN, and EN/DE - NL. I live in the Netherlands for over 19 years now, am a native German, and work as a freelance translator here and on other platforms for more than 5 years.

Communication skills - Excellent communication skills acquired during the last 20 years as a freelancer Organisational / managerial skills - Outstanding organisational / managerial skills gained as the managing director of my own translation agency and my export company Job-related skills - Professional language skills acquired during more than 20 years as a self-employed translator/interpreter for various clients in all kinds of trades

Editor and translator for EN/DE, trained at a business school in Vienna/Austria. Founder and director of Building Bridges Translations (2021). Since 2004 I participated in numerous projects translating and editing complete websites and handbooks for the technical and electronical industry, but also hotel prose. I translated and edited subtitles for several movies and documenteries. Three years I worked as fulltime Siri Data Analyst and Software Tester at Apple European HQ in Cork/Ireland, where I took part in tasks for testing and improving localization and speech recognition coding tools for the Austrian, German, and Swiss market.

I have been working as a professional freelance translator for the language pairs EN-DE, EN-EL, DE-EL, EL-DE in several projects. Also specialized in subtitling, Desktop Publishing, Website-Development, and more... 1988 - 1997 - Cooperation with Bavaria Film - filmproduction company for synchronization 1986-2002 - Daily translations of material between the languages English-German-Greek as part of my job as a Manager of a Travel Agency in Germany - Munich. 2005 - Begin of cooperation with M.T. Kaltenmaier, German translator in the head office of the European Community in Luxemburg 2007 - Translation-Services for the Real Estate Agency Ef Zein in Chania - Crete 2013 - Cooperation with LTES Ltd, Athens 2013 - Start of cooperation with Lionbridge / Participation in several TMS-OnDemand-Projects with LTB-Check 2015 - Interpreter for the film production ZUSAMMEN Filmproduktion, Wolfgang Reinke, Berlin

I am an experienced, educated (MA Translation) translator, with experience in translation, post-editing, proof-reading and editing. I work with SDL Trados and ATMS but am always open to learning more tools.

I am a student at Tübingen University interested in languages, history, and archaeology with a passion for Japanese pre-historic archaeology (particularly the Jomon period).

A deeply experienced, well-travelled executive with a strong background in a number of sectors: Administration, Enterprise Level IT, Logistics and Project Management. Mikael moved to Hong Kong from Germany at the age of 16. After graduating he underwent an education as an “Office Management Assistant”, a typical German program that guides one through all departments within a company. Since that time he spent most of his years in Hong Kong, working in and travelling to various countries within Asia, Europe and also the US. He has especially strong knowledge of the Asian market, having spent the past 33 years in Hong Kong with international exposure. During his career he was fortunate to have worked with a fascinating range of products, services, group of companies and individuals, creating, building and leading brands and different markets; From technical consumables to hi-tech machineries.

40 years experience in translation, both in-house, free-lance, and coordinator

Highly motivated, structured and efficient professional interested in translation, proof reading, transcription or related work. Born and grown up in Germany, studied International Management (conducted in English). Moved to UK for Masters Degree in Business Management, working in translation sector for English and German companies since. Experience in translating web pages, apps, company contracts/instructions and information material. Transcribing video material. Proof reading thesis', legal documents, product instructions and a lot more. Always up for new challenges. If any questions, please let me know.

I specialize in -> article writing (Business, Marketing, Traveling and Tourism) -> blog writing -> copywriting -> translations and transcreations (English to German) -> subtitling

I have been certified as a translator in English by the Federal Republic of Germany in Karlsruhe and in my work I am dedicated to thoroughness, exactness and intelligibility. My interests cover such areas as history, politics, philosophy, science fiction, fantasy and horror literature. My favorite book is Nineteen Eighty-Four by George Orwell and my most-read authors are Stephen King, H. P. Lovecraft and Clive Barker.

I am a German translator living in The Netherlands. I have extensive knowledge in the fields of law, finance, medicine, because I also worked as a professional in these professions in Germany.