Piet Hoogerhuis

Specialization:

·Computer hardware
·Software, ERP-related
·Localization
·Marketing
·General texts


Background:
Bilingual Dutch(native)/Norwegian
Secondary modern school (The Netherlands)
Marketing & IT education (Norway)

In addition to a 3-years' stay in the UK, English has been the second language during most of my career in the travel trade and ICT-business.

Residency:
until 1967 : The Netherlands
1967-1970 : UK
1970 -1992: Norway
1992-2001: The Netherlands
2001-present: Norway (again...)

Professional experience:
1970-1986:
·Managerial positions in the traveltrade (travel agency & touroperator)
·Boardmember of various local and regional touristcouncils and tradeboards.
·Marketing manager for 2 larger shopping-centres.

Lecturer/Instructor:
·Traveltrade & Marketing (Friundervisningen)
·IT-subjects (EDB-Skolen & NP-Skolen)
·Instructor IT-subjects(advanced level):
·PC operating systems
·Network Operating Systems (Novell 3.x and 4.x)
·Network-installation, configuration and implementation
·Networksupervisors/administrators

1986-2000 :
(Project-)Management, Consultancy ERP-software in both Norway and the Netherlands.

1992-present/Translation projects:
Part-time manager IT-company (Retail/POS-software).
Freelance translation & localization of ERP-related software.

Realized Translation and localization projects:
15+ add-on applications including manuals based upon the ERP-System Concorde XAL/AXAPTA (now: Navision), such as:

·Fixed Assets (DK> NL and DK > UK)
·CRM - Customer Relations Management (DK > NL and DK> GE)
·Productconfigurator (DK > NL)
·EDI communication program (DK > NL and DK > UK)
·Service Management System (DK > NL)
·Document management( DK >NL)

1999-2001:
3 larger vertical solutions :

·Wholesalers/POS/Retail (UK > NL)
·Integrated administrative and production management system for printing-shops (DK > NL)
·Lawyer’s office/time-management and financial administration (NO > NL)

2003-2004 :

Current ongoing projects

·Translation ERP system including manuals and marketing documents NO > NL)
·EU-Commission projectDocuments( UK >NL)

• Adobe Acrobat
• Adobe InDesign
• Adobe Photoshop
• PowerPoint
• SDLX Translation Suite
• TRADOS
• Windows XP Pro /Office 2003 Pro( NO & NL), Trados Workbench