About me

My background

• Degree in translation from the University of Vienna, Austria

• Language studies at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, USA

• Great interest in languages and cultures

My expertise

• Working languages: English and German

• More than 14 years' experience copywriting, translating and localising

• More than 4 years of management experience

• Experienced in project management and quality assurance

• Exceptional creative language skills

• Remarkable cultural understanding thanks to various study- and work-related stays in the UK and the USA

• Strong technical background for technical translations

• Excellent computer and Internet skills and profound knowledge of software tools

• Multi-lingual desktop publishing and document production

My professional experience as in-house translator

• Senior Translator & Revisor in UK-based translation & localisation company

• 10 years’ experience as in-house Editor, Translator, Technical Writer and Manager of the Translation and Documentation Department at an Austrian-based international software company

My professional experience as freelance translator

• Freelance translator offering Intell!gent Tran?lations in many fields of specialisation since 2001
• More than 80 customers in all parts of the world

• Translated more than a dozen books

My publications

• Article on the perspectives of technical writers in the IT field: „Von Schnörkeln, Grenzschnichten und Blickskodes. Herausforderungen für Technische Redakteure in der EDV-Branche“ in: Berufsbilder für Übersetzer und Dolmetscher – Perspektiven nach dem Studium, Ingrid Kurz, Angela Moisl (Hg.), Universitätsverlag 2002