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More than 15 years of games industry experience in product management, producing, publishing and localization, combined with a solid academic background in both business administration and computer science. Project experience on publisher and developer side, ranging from AAA console & PC titles to MMOs and browser/social/mobile games. Expert knowledge in agile (Scrum) & data-driven game development, localization and monetization. Trained communication skills in big international teams with proven leadership abilities in teams of up to a dozen people. International mindset due to having lived and worked in Germany, the UK, the US, Canada and Japan.

Established in July 2019 providing translations and related services between Dutch - English - German. Thorsten, the owner/consultant, has over 25 years experience working in Purchasing, Supply Chain, Logistics, Procurement, Contract Management and Customer Services for large and small (multi)national/multi-site private and public organisations; such as Philips Electronics NV, Dow Chemicals Ltd, Johnson Matthey Catalysts Plc, Local Government, NHS, Ubisoft, CEVA Logistics, Caterpillar, NSK Europe, Avaya and Teleperformance UK. Born and raised in The Netherlands to a Dutch mother and a German father, languages have always been a part of his life. At secondary school also studied French and Spanish, but these are not strong enough to provide translation services for. Moved to the UK in 2000 where his language skills were in great demand by purchasing/supply chain management/procurement/contract management/logistics and customer service departments.

Professional Linguist, Translator, Interpreter, PhD in Philology, Professional Guide

Editing and translation of software manuals (in particular IT/Software) (German-English and also English-German) Maintenance of web pages as well as product documents (constuction industry, travel enterprises) Editing and translation of marketing documents (IT/Software, travel businesses)

Proudly providing you with additional services such as project management, content moderating services as well as translation, editing, typing, subtitling, transcription and proofreading services in English, German and Spanish.

Editor and translator for EN/DE, trained at a business school in Vienna/Austria. Founder and director of Building Bridges Translations (2021). Since 2004 I participated in numerous projects translating and editing complete websites and handbooks for the technical and electronical industry, but also hotel prose. I translated and edited subtitles for several movies and documenteries. Three years I worked as fulltime Siri Data Analyst and Software Tester at Apple European HQ in Cork/Ireland, where I took part in tasks for testing and improving localization and speech recognition coding tools for the Austrian, German, and Swiss market.

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Welcome to my profile. I am a German native speaker from Austria and fluent in English. I like to translate and improve my language skills. I can translate from English to German and vice versa. I give a lot of attention to my translations and the given deadlines. You can contact me at any time.

Starting as interpreter and translator during the balkan war, while studying German language in Zagreb, I moved 1995 to Austria, where I live ever since. I am Croatian and German native with profund knowledge of English language. In the meanwhile I was working in big international companies like European Telecom International, a company of Telefonica, and DHL. Since 2012 I am self-employed and work as translator and writer.

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Freelance translator and localization consultant, full member of the New Zealand Society of Translators and Interpreters (NZSTI) since 2002

With a long and extensive background in the corporate world (US, CY & NL companies) in leading positions, I have managed to become a well-rounded specialist with strong expertise in Customer Services, Management, Account Management, Direct Selling, Compliance (within Direct Selling) obtained in international, multicultural environments of the sectors Tourism, e-Commerce, Telecom, FMCG, Financial Trading and Crowdfunding. I have translated text throughout my entire professional career, and am fully bilingual in the language pair EN-DE, DE-EN, and EN/DE - NL. I live in the Netherlands for over 19 years now, am a native German, and work as a freelance translator here and on other platforms for more than 5 years.