
Alan Frostick
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Professional experience for Alan Frostick
- Current 20 years and 8 months, since Jul 2004
Technical/marketing translator, proofreader & editor. Übersetzung Lektorat Text
Frostick & Peters
Freelance copy writer and editor in English and translator for German to English projects. Industries served include marketing, advertising, public relations, logistics, engineering, wind power, materials research, software and hardware development, industrial testing.
- 10 months, Jun 2014 - Mar 2015
Englischlehrer
SER Solutions Deutschland GmbH
Weekly Business English language coaching to groups of managers and executives on the company's premises in Hamburg
- 8 years and 3 months, Jan 2007 - Mar 2015
Freie Übersetzer
Inspiration Press GmbH (Switzerland)
I was one of a two-man translation team for the bilingual glossy magazine "Inspiration", published in Switzerland and issued 6 times a year to subscribers, translating all articles and editorial into English from the German copy produced by its team of journalists. The magazine's focus was on visual merchandising worldwide with features about trends in fashion, store design, showcase window dressing and in-store presentation. The magazine had over 300 issues before it closed.
- 2 years and 10 months, Jun 1999 - Mar 2002
Practice Manager for Intranet Development
Icon Medialab AG
Programmer, systems architect, database designer and projects manager for web-based Intranet and Extranet development using PHP, Informix and Oracle for notable clients in the advertising industry (Lowe and Octagon of the Interpublic Group)
- 2 years, Jun 1990 - May 1992
Owner
21st Century Software & Systems Ltd, London
Continuation of Frostick Computer Systems in Limited company form. Relocated to London with offices in Gospel Oak, Hampstead and servicing mainly north London clients: Arkal (plastics), Community Foods. Development of systems under Unix and Netware in the C language.
- 3 years and 1 month, May 1987 - May 1990
IT programmer and systems architect
Frostick Computer Systems, England
Entrepreneur, IT programmer, systems architect and database designer developing software for international trading systems - mainly for clients involved in the importation and distribution of chemicals, plastics and food industries.
- 13 years, May 1974 - Apr 1987
IT programmer, systems architect and projects manager
Advanced Information Access Ltd, London (AIA)
IT programmer for office, industrial and logistics multi-user mini-computer systems (accounts, sales, warehousing, factory control). Project manager. Systems architect.
- 3 years, Jan 1972 - Dec 1974
Scientific programmer
London University Computing Services (LUCS)
Programmer for academic outreach projects on a Control Data 6500 super-computer of the university. Development of BCPL compiler (forerunner of C), porting of statistics, biomedical and time-series econometrics software in Fortran, development of early graphics for Tektronix and Calcomp plotters for military aircraft design, nuclear power station design, etc.
Educational background for Alan Frostick
- 2 years and 10 months, Sep 1968 - Jun 1971
Computer Science
Mander College Bedford, UK
Computer Science, Mathematics, Physics
Languages
German
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English
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