Birgit Niggemann

RECENT PROJECTS INCLUDED
Translation and editing/proofreading (EN>DE, monolingual) of 
• Marketing material incl. web pages, brochures, press releases 
(travel/tourism, computers/IT, consumer products, cosmetics, food, sporting equipment, sporting events with daily updates, general financial/economic)
• Company communications 
(newsletters, codes of conduct, HR material, presentations/documentations/educational material for employees and managers)
• Websites, manuals, help files of software and software localization for different sorts of applications 
(industrial, design, accounting, call center, HR/training software, IT security)
• Marketing surveys 
(IT, consumer products)
• Subtitling of documentational videos


WORKING EXPERIENCE
• Freelance Translator and Editor (since 2006)
• SQS Software Quality Systems AG, Cologne (1999 – 2004)
Employee in the Marketing Department
• Administration of company web sites 
and production of CD ROMs in co-ordination with other 
departments and external companies
• Proofreading and translation of brochures etc.
• Teacher of ESL (VHS) (1999)
• Bernd Heuer Dialog GmbH, Düsseldorf (1997 – 1998)
Assistant to Project Manager 
• Organization of congresses with the topic real estate management
• Translation of correspondence and conference programs
• UC Davis Dateline (campus paper) (1995)
Intern


EDUCATION
• Language school and travel South America (2004 – 2005)
• Training in journalism and online editing (1999)
• Heinrich-Heine-Universität Düsseldorf (1990 – 1998)
• English/American literature, history (Magister Artium)
• Translation of literary texts
• Teaching German as a second language
• University of California, Davis (1995 – 1996)
• University of California, Berkeley (1996)


SKILLS
Computer Skills: SDL Trados, Wordfast Pro, Microsoft Office, HTML; 
basic: Across, Subtitle Workshop; Java­Script
Language Skills: English; basic: Spanish and French

• Across
• Idiom WorldServer
• PASSOLO
• SDLX Translation Suite
• Wordfast
• Microsoft Word, Excel, PowerPoint