Elizabeth Matthis
Skills
Timeline
Professional experience for Elizabeth Matthis
- Current 14 years and 5 months, since Jan 2011
Intercultural Training and Events, Teaching English and German
Elizabeth Matthis Consulting
- 7 months, Mar 2013 - Sep 2013
Lehrbeauftragte: Internet Business Models and Applications
Macromedia Hochschule für Medien und Kommunikation
- 5 months, Aug 2010 - Dec 2010
Immersion English Teacher
Leibniz Privatschule
Klassenlehrerin; aus organisatorischen Gründen beendet
- 10 years and 7 months, Dec 1999 - Jun 2010
Product Manager, User Experience Engineer, User-Interface Linguist
Sun Microsystems
My responsibilities included all German and English UI text for the OpenOffice office suite through OOo 2.0 with a major focus on text usability in the software design phase, support of globalization and localization as well as terminology management. After my maternity leave, I focused on communication with the OpenOffice UX community and on marketing world-wide, user surveys, TOI and sales support. I wrote the English style sheets for L10N and the UI Text Style Guides.
- 1995 - 1999
Assistant to Prof. Günter Radden in Cognitive Linguistics
University of Hamburg, Department of English and American Studies
Editing of journal articles and books on cognitive linguistics, providing examples and material for papers and courses, helping prepare lessons and evaluate student work, organizing and attending conferences, holding presentations.
Educational background for Elizabeth Matthis
Germanistik, Amerikanistik, Erziehungswissenschaft
Universität Hamburg
Cognitive Linguistics
German language and literature
University of Connecticut
Languages
English
First language
German
Fluent
Spanish
Basic
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