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Member since Sep '07

Working languages:
German to English
Spanish to English
French to English

Martin Robinshaw
Professional English Language Services

Germany
Local time: 09:54 WET (GMT+0)

Native in: English Native in English
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Professional English Language Services, Technology & ConsultingWhat my clients say about me...

Martin is a very professional translator: experienced, accurate, always in time, and a good communicator. I'm looking forward to working more with him! Highly recommended!

Thomas Carlsen (Prop. Thomas Carlsen Fachübersetzungen, Hamburg, Germany)

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Hohe Qualität, Korrektheit und Zuverlässigkeit sind Eigenschaften die heutzutage nicht selbstverständlich sind, bei Herrn Robinshaw jedoch schon.
Eine sehr angenehme und dauerhafte Zusammenarbeit!

Wiebke Renzelmann (Junior Marketing Manager, AMPEG GmbH, Bremen, Germany)
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Excellent translations. Thank you.

Robert St. George (Head of Production, Global Lingo Ltd., London)

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Very professional and responsive native English translator, delivers high-quality translations, always on time. Tnx Martin!

Thijs van Dorssen (Prop. BeTranslated, Dusseldorf, Germany)

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Personal Portrait

My name is Martin Robinshaw. I am a native-speaker, British-born, professional, freelance English Language Service Provider, resident in both Germany and Spain for 20 and 10 years respectively. I am a current member of the Federal Association of German-speaking Literary and Scientific Translators e.V. (VDUe), a former member of the German Federal Association of Interpreters and Translators (BDUe), with a degree in Business Management from Manchester Metropolitan University, England, and a diploma in Computer and Marketing studies from Napier University, Edinburgh, Scotland.

Brief Overview of Services

Highly motivated and experienced, independent multiple language service provider offering core

- Consulting
- Technology
- Translation
- Localisation
- Copywriting
- Research and
- Telephone Marketing

services for English speaking markets from German/Spanish/French in the following fields:

- Business
- Law
- Engineering
- Technology
- Finance

Qualified specializations:

- Telecommunications and Information Technology
- Graphics, Printing and Communications Technology
- Publishing
- Advertising, Public Relations, Mass Media and Marketing
- Internet
- Finance, Stock-Market Relations,
- Business Contracts
- Tourism, and Hotel, Catering and Institutional Management

I deploy cutting edge database-driven TEnT software technologies, such as Trados, DejaVu X, Passolo and Catalyst in a state-of-the-art hardware environment to provide premium quality translation services.

Background

Educated at Repton School (est. 1557), one of Britain's foremost independent schools, where leading names from the world of business, politics, religion, sports and entertainment, such as Sir Vincent de Ferranti, the Lady Mayoress of London, the Archbishop of Canterbury, Harold Abrahams, Roald Dahl and Grahame Garden were educated, Martin Robinshaw went on to complete a degree in Business Management (BTec) at Manchester Metropolitan University in England, and a diploma in Marketing and Computer Studies at Napier College in Edinburgh, Scotland. He then went on to work in sales and marketing on several computer titles including PC User and CadCam International at EMAP Business and Computer Publications, the B-to-B Division of EMAP PLC, one of Europe's largest publishing houses. After several years at EMAP, he subsequently moved on to take up managerial posts at Dennis Publishing Co. Ltd, where he was assistant advertisement manager on Mac User and advertisement manager on Microscope (the then market-leading PC trade weekly). In his first ad agency post before moving to Germany, his position as Key Account Manager for Electronic Technology included developing innovative projects for electronic dialogue marketing. Here, he conceived and managed several projects for Blue Chip companies such as Unilever and Shell.

In Germany and Spain, he has been working as an independent marketing & advertising consultant for English language markets, language services project manager and consultant, translator, editor, proofreader, copy-writer, travel writer and journalist for English language markets since 1996. His client portfolio includes many German, British and US American Blue Chip companies, and several Global leaders in the translation services industry such as Euroscript and the bigword Group.

Recent project developments include the planned foundation of the International Association of Literary Translators, Writers and Artists, La Gomera, initially to be based in the picturesque artists' village of El Guro in imposingly beautiful Valle Gran Rey (Valley of the Great King), on the island that is home to Silbo, the unique and fascinating Whistling Language of La Gomera. He is actively seeking sponsors for this project currently. His second planned project on La Gomera is a private European Internet-based platform for ecologically inspired property services. He was recently appointed voluntary student mentor at Manchester Metropolitan University. Martin Robinshaw has two sons, Fynn (13) and Kjell (11).

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Oct 22