Birgit Niggemann

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Joined: Feb. 11, 2006, last update Nov. 7, 2009
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Website: http://www.pircatext.de/

Working Language Pairs

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English > German

Language locales: German - Germany

Services

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Editing, Localization, Proofreading, Subtitling, Translation

Subject Areas

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Broadcast Journalism, Computer and Information Sciences, Computer Engineering, Culinary Arts, Education, History, Information Sciences and Systems, Journalism and Mass Communication, Linguistics, Literature, Music, Music History and Literature, Theatre, Tourism and Travel

Background

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RECENT PROJECTS
-Translation of
EN>DE
-- articles for CAD user group magazine
-- short marketing texts on nutritional supplements and cosmetics
-- web page on motor sport event with daily updates
-- help file for industrial software
-- marketing material for operating system, computers
-- online course on management skills
-- surveys
-- web pages for hotel reservation service
-- manual for language teaching/learning software, design tool for 3D and video animation
-- manuals for profile measurement tool, machines
-- financial press releases, essay on globalization
-- brochures on evaporators and dryers
-- financial flyers, flyers for chamber of commerce
-- booklet for Export Council for IT and Electronics

-Proofreading/Editing of
-- ad hoc articles
-- manuals and marketing materials
-- online course on management skills (EN>DE)
-- proofreading of website of language school (EN>DE)
-- IT proposal/extensive company description (EN>DE)
-- thesis (internet visibility of small and middle-sized companies)
-- court decision (ES>DE)
-- doctoral thesis (Geology)

WORKING EXPERIENCE
- Freelance Translator since 2006
- SQS Software Quality Systems AG, Cologne 2000 – 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
- UCDavis Dateline (campus paper) 1995
--Intern

EDUCATION
- 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
- Training in journalism and online editing 1999
- Language school and travel South America 2005

SKILLS
Computer Skills: Microsoft Office, HTML, knowledge of Java­Script, Corel
Language Skills: English, Spanish, French

Software

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SDL Trados 2006 Freelance; Microsoft Word, Excel, PowerPoint; Wordfast Pro; Passolo, Idiom