Date of birth: January 3rd, 1967

Nationality: German

since October 2009

Language Manager of the German Team at Alpha CRC, Barcelona (Spain)

My role includes the following tasks:
• Assess workloads and delivery dates for the German team liaising with project management
• Control technical correctness and linguistic quality as well as timely delivery of projects according to client needs from project start until delivery
• Assign suitable team resources and provide technical and linguistic support by preparing materials and reviewing translations of team members
• Take an active part in recruitment and training of new team members
• Important clients for the German team at Barcelona are (among others): Adobe, Autodesk, Oracle, Symantec

since October 2003

Senior Translator (English > German) at Alpha CRC, Barcelona (Spain)

My work includes the 'language lead' for specific clients, as well as all kind of language related tasks in the localization 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

Data Migration Officer at Agilent Technologies, Barcelona (Spain)

Within an international team I worked on creation, migration and quality check of English, German and Chinese customer master data.

February 2001 - July 2002

Linguistic Software Developer at Sail Labs, Barcelona (Spain)

My task consisted in language pair development (English-Chinese) for the existing machine translation system (MT technology now in the hands of Lucy Software).

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 Polytecnica 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 Translation, Interpreting, Linguistics and Cultural Studies at Germersheim" (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 speaker)

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

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

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

Catalan (fluent, spoken language)

French (Diploma degree in translation)

Programming: notions of Java, LISP dialect for rule-based machine translation systems and some SQL

CAT Tools: SDL Trados (Translators Workbench, MultiTerm, TagEditor, WinAlign, S-Tagger), SDL Edit, SDL Translation Management System, SDL WorldServer (formerly SDL Edit), SDL Passolo, Catalyst

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

Internet: HTML

Office Tools: MS Office Suite, Outlook, Firefox/Internet Explorer, Lotus, 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-Woerterbuecher (Comparison of two German-Chinese Online Dictionaries)




CHUN No. 13, 1997


Bericht ueber 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 ueber das Rundtischgespraech "Aktuelle Aspekte bei der Erforschung der Grammatik, Semantik und Lexik der chinesischen Sprache", 17./18.11.95, Institut fuer Sinologie der Humboldt-Universitaet 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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