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| Working languages: German to SpanishSpanish to GermanEnglish to Spanish English to GermanSpanish to EnglishGerman to English | | Hans Preisendanz ->Technical Translations<- Engineering Expertise and Experience NA
Native in: German  , Spanish | |
| Freelancer | | Specializes in: | | Economics | Engineering (general) | | Mechanics / Mech Engineering | Transport / Transportation / Shipping | | Manufacturing |
| Also works in: | | IT (Information Technology) | Construction / Civil Engineering | | Engineering (general) | Electronics / Elect Eng | | Materials (Plastics, Ceramics, etc.) | Energy / Power Generation | | Engineering: Industrial | Manufacturing | | Business/Commerce (general) | Aerospace / Aviation / Space | | Science (general) | Management | | Telecom(munications) | Metallurgy / Casting |
More Less | German to Spanish - Standard rate: 0.14 USD per word / 50 USD per hour Spanish to German - Standard rate: 0.15 USD per word / 50 USD per hour English to Spanish - Standard rate: 0.12 USD per word / 50 USD per hour English to German - Standard rate: 0.15 USD per word / 50 USD per hour Spanish to English - Standard rate: 0.13 USD per word / 50 USD per hour German to English - Standard rate: 0.14 USD per word / 50 USD per hour More Less | | Questions answered: 353, Questions asked: 0 Easy / 2 PRO, PRO-level points: 595 | | General, Machine Tools | | Years of translation experience: 5. Registered at ProZ.com: May 2003. | | N/A | | N/A | | N/A | | Acrobat Distiller 5.0, Adobe Acrobat 5.0, Auto CAD 2000, MS Office 2000 Professional, Power Point 2000, WinZip | CV/Resume (DOC) | | About me
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Specialty Fields:
Automotive and Transportation, Aerospace, Pharmaceutical and Chemical, Telecommunications, Industrial Engineering, Machine Tools, Manufacturing, Plastics Industry, Product Development, Software, Telecommunications, IT, Networks, Economics, Business, International Trade, Marketing, Airline Industry, Civil Engineering, Architecture, Art, and more.
Type of Work:
Operation and Maintenance Manuals, Technical Documentation, Product Descriptions, Research and Economic Reports, Web Sites, Catalogs, Magazine Articles, and others.
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Translation Experience:
-Over 25 years of translation experience, doing countless translations for individuals in various technical and commercial fields, from instruction manuals to specialized magazine articles, among others.
-18 years of part-time, in-house technical translations in Germany for the major German airline.
-Translation of aircraft and component maintenance manuals and airworthiness directives, maintenance practices, and documentation for aircraft and aircraft systems modification programs.
-Translation of technical training manuals and job cards for customer airlines.
-In 1999, translation of software user manuals in Mexico City for Microsoft.
-Since 1999, I work in Mexico City as a full time freelance technical translator, doing jobs for large corporations, as well as for translation agencies and individuals.
Education, Language and Job Experience:
-Raised fully bilingual and bicultural in Mexico City, having German parents.
-Attended the German School in Mexico, learning English as a third language, including intensive courses of American English.
-Attended La Grange Junior High School in Poughkeepsie, NY, for two years, gaining a native-like knowledge of American English.
-Studied mechanical engineering in Stuttgart, Germany, specializing in manufacturing processes.
-Worked four years for an American industrial sewing machine company in Stuttgart, Germany, as a production and assembly line engineer, at the same time translating their technical issues.
-Worked 23 years for the major German airline as a maintenance engineer, having to deal also with engineers from many foreign customer airlines and aircraft and components manufacturers, which involved a lot of travel and required the translation of countless documents.
-Wide experience in training maintenance engineers of customer airlines in Germany and abroad.
-Since 1999, I work as a full time freelance technical translator for large corporations, agencies and individuals.
-From 2001 until 2003, I also worked as a freelance sales rep in Mexico for a representation firm of German CNC machining centers, which required the translation of many technical documents.
-Altogether I lived almost 19 years in Germany, 18 years in Mexico, 6 years in the United States and 2 years in Indonesia, and I relocated to Mexico again in 1999.
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