FIELDS OF SPECIALIZATION:
- Computer, software, hardware, Internet, multimedia
- Games (PC, mobile, ITV, online games, MMO/MMORPG, console games for PlayStation, PSP, Xbox, Xbox 360, GameCube, Game Boy, Nintendo DS, DSi, Wii: manuals, in-game text, back of box text, EULAs)
- Travel & tourism
- Websites (company, hotel, gaming websites, search engines, etc.)
- Marketing, surveys
- Literature (fiction and non-fiction, children’s books, blurbs)
- Commercial and private correspondence

SERVICES OFFERED:
- Translations from English and Spanish into German (native language)
- Translations from French into German (tourism only)
- Proofreading, editing
- Localization
- Authoring of website content and articles on translation and localization
- Linguistic and functional testing of videogames and websites
- Linguistic direction and quality assurance during audio recording sessions
- Freelance project management

EQUIPMENT:
- ASUS P5Q DELUXE, KINGSTON HYPER-X DDR2-2 GB RAM, ATI SAPPHIRE HD 4870 PCX DDR5, INTEL QUAD Q8200 2.33 GHZ 1333 MHZ 4 MB
- Windows XP Professional
- Microsoft Office 2003
- Translation memory system: Trados Freelance 7.0, TagEditor
- Macromedia Fireworks, Flash, Dreamweaver, FreeHand, QuarkXpress 6.1 for PC
- Adobe Acrobat 7.0 Professional, Adobe InDesign CS2, Adobe Photoshop CS2
- Search & Replace
- Internet connection: DSL 10 MB
- Backup PC and laptop

CONTACT DETAILS:
Andrea Brumma
C/ Amor de Dios nº 1, portal 2, ático C
28330 San Martín de la Vega (Madrid), Spain

Phone/Fax: +34 91 8093288
Mobile phone: +34 635844354
Email: A.Brumma@gmx.de

References upon request.

STUDIES
10/96-03/02
Applied Linguistics and Cultural Studies (Translation) at the Johannes Gutenberg-Universität, School of Applied Linguistics and Cultural Studies in Germersheim, Germany

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE
Sept/05-today
Full-time freelance translator

Oct/02-July/05
Project Manager, Localsoft, S.L., Madrid (translation and localization agency)

Main responsibilities: multilingual project management for international companies, linguistic support of translators and proofreaders, creation and maintenance of glossaries, guidelines and databases, selection of freelance translators, translations from English, Spanish and French into German, translations into English and Spanish, review of translations from external translators, editing, linguistic testing, supervision of audio recording sessions

May/02-Sep/02
Sales department employee and technical translator at Schmiedetechnik & Service GmbH in Hückeswagen, Germany

11/00-04/01
Computational assistant at the Johannes Gutenberg University

Feb/00-aprox. Jan/02
Freelance translator for Reader's Digest, Stuttgart: translations from English and French into German

COURSES
Oct/04-March/05
Web Design (HTML, Fireworks, Flash, Dreamweaver),
90 hours, ADAMS, Madrid

STAYS ABROAD
02/99-06/99
Translation studies at the Université Charles-de-Gaulle Lille 3, France

09/98-01/99
Translation studies at the University of Nottingham, England


Standard rates:
Translation: 0.08 EUR (agencies)-0.13 EUR / source word
Proofreading/editing: 25 EUR / hour

Rates are negotiable and depend on subject and text difficulty. No low-budget offers, please.