Andrea Bernard is a native German speaker who has been working as a journalist, webmaster, translator and IT consultant in Japan and Germany for 11 years. She published and co-authored two books on Internet and i-mode and published articles about the Japanese wireless market in German and English magazines and newspapers. Andrea is fluent in German, English and Japanese, as well as conversational in French.



Until 2005 Andrea worked as the General Manager of the EGIS Consulting Tokyo office, assisting international clients in their strategies for the Japanese telecommunication market. During her consulting career, her client reports were written either in English or German. She also translated various IT related sources from Japanese into English and German and conducted interviews in Japanese as part of her daily work.



From 2005 to 2006 Andrea studied oriental acupuncture, shiatsu and basics of Western medicine fulltime at the ToyoShinkyu College of Oriental Medicine in Tokyo.



Andrea now lives in Paris with her French husband and their small son. She works as a freelance translator translating from Japanese to German, Japanese to English and English to German. Andrea holds a M.A. degree from the Free University of Berlin in Japanese Studies and Media Science and graduated from a vocational school in microelectronics.



Selected translation clients (in-house or as an independent external translator):

Uniqlo (2010-2011), SDL Language Weaver (2011), EGIS Consulting Group (2001-2005), Westcyber (2000-2001), Ostasiatisches Seminar (OAS) der Freien Universität Berlin (1995-1998)


Personal References:

"Andrea is extremely dedicated to reach clients' satisfaction. She is smart. She writes efficiently and beautifully." Patrick BORD, President, EGIS K.K.


"Andrea is an excellent project manager: she paid strict attention to all client requirements, ensured that all aspects of the project were correctly completed on time and was extremely pleasant to work with through long days and late hours." Daniel Scuka, Independent Consultant at EGIS K.K.