FUSING ACADEMIC TRAINING, PHARMACEUTICAL INDUSTRY EXPOSURE AND UTTER COMMITMENT TO QUALITY

As an academically trained, ATA-certified German-English translator with over 20 years of cross-industrial exposure, I am ready to prove myself to you.

Language Services Offered:
Translations/Editing/Subtitling: German–English

DIRECT INDUSTRY EXPERIENCE: PHARMACEUTICALS: 7 YEARS

HIGHLIGHTS
- Freelance translator since 1999 (full time since 2009)
- ATA member since 1999
- Pharmaceutical industry experience (7 years)
- More than 3000 projects translated and delivered on time
- A meticulous researcher of terminology
- Academic credentials in three fields: linguistics, psychology and business administration

RELEVANT TRANSLATION EXPERIENCE:

FREELANCE GERMAN-ENGLISH TRANSLATOR 11/99 – present (until 2008 part-time)
Typical assignments: pharmaceutical documents (regulatory, manufacturing, quality assurance, clinical trials, marketing, medical affairs), medical journal articles, medical reports

Subtitling: translated/edited more than a dozen movies presented at film festivals, e.g., at MOMA in New York City

RELEVANT EMPLOYMENT BACKGROUND:

COVIDIEN/MALLINCKRODT PHARMACEUTICALS, St. Louis, Missouri 2002-2008
Spezialized knowledge in pain management, addiction treatment and CNS drugs
- Manager International Business Development
- International Marketing Analyst
- Demand Analyst / Market Research Analyst

EDUCATION:

Master of Business Administration, University of Texas at Dallas, Richardson, Texas (see Justifacts Credential Verification, Inc.)
• Concentration: Project Management (also earned Graduate Certificate in Project Management)
• GPA: 4.0; graduated first out of a class of 30 students in the executive project management program
• Beta Gamma Sigma International Honor Society

Bachelor of Arts, Psychology, Rollins College, Hamilton Holt School, Winter Park, Florida
• GPA 4.0, summa cum laude, college valedictorian
• Alpha Sigma Lambda National Honor Society, Presidents List
• Outstanding Graduating Senior Award for Superior Academic Success and Distinguished Service

Theoretical and Applied Linguistics, University of Leipzig, Leipzig, Germany
• Four-year full-time translator and interpreter training (German / English / Russian); national board examination; exchange programs at partner universities: one year at Linguistic University of Moscow, Russia, and one summer semester at Georgetown University, Washington, D.C.