Date of birth: January 3rd, 1967

Nationality: German

since October 2003

Senior translator (English > German) in the localisation company Alpha CRC, Barcelona (Spain)

My work includes the 'language lead' for specific clients, as well as all kind of language related tasks in the localisation process, such as terminology research, translating, reviewing, translation memory maintanance, query logs, but also some more technical parts as e.g. checking the integrity of tags in translated documents or testing of localised software.

May 2003 - September 2003

Responsable for creation, migration and quality check of English, German and Chinese 'Customer Master Data' Agilent Technologies Barcelona (Spain)

February 2001 - July 2002

Linguistic software developer in the language pair development English -> Chinese for the Sail Labs machine translation system at Sail Labs (MT technology now in the hands of Lucy Software), Barcelona (Spain).

The MT system is based on the METAL technology. It is transfer based and the rules ("lingware") are written in a LISP-like programming language. My work consisted mainly in setting up (and refining) approaches to treatment of specific grammatical phenomena and implementing them in English -> Chinese transfer and Chinese generation by writing (and refining) the correspondent program code. Moreover, I participated in design and creation of the Chinese monolingual and English/Chinese bilingual lexical databases.

May 2000 - September 2000

Freelance at Sail Labs (MT technology now in the hands of Lucy Software), Munich (Germany), in a project to build up a term substitution tool for domain sensitive information extraction from Chinese text resources.

My task consisted mainly in establishing a domain specific trilingual lexicon German-English-Chinese and finding English/Chinese parallel texts in the internet as well as testing the functionality of the tool and writing test reports.

January 1998 - March 2000

Lecturer at Constance University of Applied Sciences (Fachhochschule Konstanz) "Chinese and Computing"

With this course I aimed at giving students knowledge in the following areas: A basic overview of how to find China-related information (business, language, news, etc.) and an introduction on how to install and use Chinese software in order to read and write Chinese documents. For more information, please see Chinese and Computing WS 1999/2000(in German)

January 1995 - December 2000

Research assistant in R&D projects jointly supported by the German Federal Ministry of Economics and Technology and German enterprises on Chinese language processing and terminology in the Center for international Terminology and applied Linguistics (CiTaL) at Constance University of Applied Sciences (Fachhochschule Konstanz).

The most important project consisted in creating an online database with more than 300.000 German/English/Chinese technical terms (offline at present). Some of my key tasks were: Negotiations with Chinese partners, conducting projects in the field of technical translation (German into Chinese) for German enterprises (Deutsche Telekom AG, Volkswagen AG), organising cooperation and scientific exchange with Chinese scientists (linguistics, computational linguistics) and presenting the project results on conferences in China (Beijing, Shanghai) and Germany

September 2002 - December 2002

Course "Programmer of Object Oriented Applications" (330 hours, comprising Java,some SQL, etc.) at Universitat Polytècnica de Catalunya (Barcelona)

September 1993

Graduation from Mainz University/Germany) (Johannes-Gutenberg-Universitaet Mainz) - "School of Applied Linguistics and Cultural Studies" (Fachbereich Angewandte Sprach- und Kulturwissenschaften in Germersheim)

Diploma degree (equiv. to MA) in technical translation (Chinese, French) and linguistics

Diploma thesis on "Sentence final particles in Chinese and their translation into German - in particular of the sentence final particle le2", please see Introduction (in German)

October 1986 - September 1993

Studies of Chinese, French, English and linguistics at the following Universities:

Freiburg University/Germany (Albert-Ludwigs-Universitaet Freiburg)

Mainz University/Germany (Johannes-Gutenberg-Universitaet Mainz) - "School of Applied Linguistics and Cultural Studies" (Fachbereich Angewandte Sprach- und Kulturwissenschaften in Germersheim)

Beijing Foreign Studies University (China) (see Awards)

September 1989 - August 1990

Joint scholarship by the German Academic Exchange Service DAAD and the State Commission of Education of the People's Republic of China to study Chinese language at Beijing Foreign Studies University

German (native)

Chinese (fluent, Diploma degree in translation, working language for more than five years)

English (fluent, working language for more than five years)

Spanish (fluent, Certificate "superior" of Barcelona University , permanent residence in Barcelona/Spain since February 2001)

French (Diploma degree in translation)

Programming: LISP, some Java and SQL

CAT Tools: Trados (Translators Workbench, MultiTerm, TagEditor, WinAlign, S-Tagger), Catalyst, Idiom Worldserver DVX (Déjà Vu), Passolo, Open Language Tools XLIFF (SunTrans)

MT Tools: Langenscheidt T1 (and other Sail Labs products based on METAL technology), Linguatec Power Translator (formerly IBM), Chinese MT systems on the internet (as a user)

Internet: HTML, knowledge about Chinese linguistic resources on the Internet

Office Tools: MS Office Suite, Access, Visio, Lotus Notes, Powerpoint, Corel Draw, etc.

Teaching and learning Chinese as a foreign language

Since 1996 member of the Association of Chinese Language Teaching in German Speaking Countries (Fachverband Chinesisch e.V.)

Since 2006 voluntary work (contributing and editing content) with the free Chinese-German Dictionary HanDeDict

Music

From 1995 to 2001 member of a choir called Bach Chor Konstanz and since 2006 member of a Barcelona based Catalan choir called "Cor Magister Arte"

Playing Violoncello

Playing Erhu, an ancient Chinese instrument with playing technique somewhat similar to Violoncello

Drawing (only 2 dimensions)

See the fire dog and his brothers (2006 was the year of the fire dog according to the Chinese calender.)

CHUN - Publication of the Association of Chinese Language Teaching in German Speaking Countries (CHUN - Chinesisch Unterricht)

CHUN No. 21, 2006


Vergleich zweier deutsch-chinesischer Online-Wörterbücher (Comparison of two German-Chinese Online Dictionaries)




CHUN No. 13, 1997


Bericht über das Internationale Symposium (IX. Tagung zum modernen Chinesischunterricht) "Fachsprachen des Chinesischen und ihre Didaktik", 1.-4. Oktober 1996 in Sankt Augustin bei Bonn (Report on the International Symposium on Technical Language and its Ditactics in Teaching Chinese as a Foreign Language)




CHUN No. 12, 1996


Bericht über das Rundtischgespräch "Aktuelle Aspekte bei der Erforschung der Grammatik, Semantik und Lexik der chinesischen Sprache", 17./18.11.95, Institut für Sinologie der Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin (Report on Roundtable Discussion "Current Aspects in Research on Grammar, Semantics, and Lexics of Chinese" on 17th and 18ts nov. 1995, at Institute for Sinology of Humboldt University Berlin)




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