Member since Jan '06 Working languages: English to German | Birgit Niggemann English > German NA Local time: 14:11 CET (GMT+1)
Native in: German | |
Freelancer, Verified member | | Translation, Editing/proofreading, Website localization, Software localization, Subtitling | | Specializes in: | | IT (Information Technology) | Computers: Software | | Computers (general) | Tourism & Travel | | Media / Multimedia | History |
| Also works in: | | Computers: Hardware | Computers: Systems, Networks | | Advertising / Public Relations | Human Resources | | Internet, e-Commerce | Business/Commerce (general) | | Journalism | Marketing / Market Research | | Games / Video Games / Gaming / Casino | General / Conversation / Greetings / Letters | | Social Science, Sociology, Ethics, etc. | Sports / Fitness / Recreation | | Transport / Transportation / Shipping | Food & Dairy | | Linguistics | Other | | Real Estate | Automotive / Cars & Trucks | | Economics | Engineering: Industrial | | Finance (general) |
More Less | | PRO-level points: 141, Questions answered: 95, Questions asked: 54 | | Other | | Years of translation experience: 5. Registered at ProZ.com: Jan 2006. Became a member: Jan 2006. | | N/A | | N/A | | N/A | | Across, Idiom, Microsoft Excel, Microsoft Word, Jubler, Microsoft PowerPoint, PDF editor, Subtitle Workshop, Passolo, Powerpoint, SDL TRADOS, SDLX, Wordfast | | http://www.pircatext.de | | About me After five years in the marketing department of a software consultancy, I have started a full-time service for translation and editing/revision from English to German more than 4 years ago.
Since then I have completed multiple projects both in marketing and PR, translating and editing press releases, brochures, newsletters, manuals, ads as well as internal company communications and subtitling. I work mainly in the field of travel & tourism, HR, IT/Software and general financial texts as well as consumer products.
RECENT PROJECTS
-Translation of
EN>DE
-- articles for CAD user group magazine
-- short marketing texts on nutritional supplements and cosmetics
-- web page on Rally Dakar 2007 with daily updates during the course of the event
-- help file for industrial software
-- marketing material for new operating system, computers
-- online course on management skills
-- web pages for hotel reservation service
-- manual for language teaching/learning software, design tool for 3D and video animation
-- manuals for profile measurement tool/machine, compressor, industrial dryer
-- financial press releases, essay on globalization
-- brochures on evaporators and dryers, clinical software
-- 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)
Education:
Training in online-editing
M.A. in English/American Literature, History
Study of literary translation
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| Keywords: translation, copyediting, proofreading, localization, subtitling, subtitles, IT, information technology, software, travel, tourism, multi-media, HR, human resources, consumer products
Profile last updated Aug 17, 2011 |