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About me.

Vitae

Work Experience
Education
Skills and Certificates
Work Experience
Work Experience
Education
Skills and Certificates

Magister Artium (equivalent to M.A.), University of Freiburg, Germany

German Linguistics / German Studies

Sinology / China Studies

Classical Archaeology

Languages

German – native

English – full professional proficiency

Mandarin Chinese – limited working proficiency

French – limited working proficiency

Certificates

Advanced Latin Proficiency Certificate

Ancient Greek Proficiency Certificate

IT

CAT tools (CafeTran Espresso, Matecat), Aegisub, CaptionHub, Microsoft Office, Gimp, basic knowledge of Python

After working as a lecturer for German language in the International Logistics Management BA Program „LOGinCHINA“ at Hefei University from 09/2012 to 07/2014, I relocated to Shanghai, where I began lecturing in the German department at East China Normal University until 02/2022. My work fields included Translation Studies, Linguistics, German as a Foreign Language, Business German, and Intercultural Communication. In 2020, I started freelancing as a localization consultant and translator. My clients included multinational companies within the AI assistant technology environment, the culinary, automotive and renewable energy industries.

Work experience, in addition to 10 years as a German language specialist, includes:

  • Translating and localizing technical data sheets into German, as well as editing and proofreading the English originals
  • Performing MTPE (Machine Translation Post-Editing), translating, creating and testing prompts for advanced voice recognition in automotive assistant software
  • Transcreating and editing articles, marketing content, internal communication and blog posts
  • Transcribing and translating subtitles for historical, educational and environmental video content
  • Editing and proofreading academic theses, essays and articles in the fields of archaeology, education and film production

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