Rachel Zayer

Native English speaker German & French to (UK & US) English translator 20+ years' experience in the language industry Keen eye for detail, honed sense of style, creative skill Translator of German children's books in Ralf Leuther's "The Castle in the Clouds" series Services: Translation / Transcreation / SEO Translation / Bilingual & monolingual proofreading / Monolingual editing / MTPE Main specialisms: Marketing / Tourism / Lifestyle / IT & Software / Trade Fairs CAT tools: memoQ / Trados Studio

Senior translator (German & French to English) Accustomed to producing high-quality work under strict conditions & deadlines Translation of a wide variety of texts from marketing texts, press releases & speeches to IT documentation to legal translations for the Home Office & Immigration Services (confidential material) Proofreading QA tasks Mentoring Time management Workload prioritisation & management CAT tool: Trados

Senior translator (German to English) Specialising in SAP translation e.g.: Defence forces & public security (sensitive material) / Business administration / IT / ERP Translating, researching & proofreading my own work Co-ordinating projects Liaising with PMs, developers & other translators Researching & defining new terminology Testing software & working through user documentation Training new employees Proofreading the work of junior translators QA tasks CAT tool: Trados

Translation of a variety of texts from German to English, e.g.: Marketing material / Technical texts / Legal documents Proofreading & editing translations in various languages Maintaining various company-specific databases in Trados MultiTerm Dealing with clients by telephone & fax Searching for freelance translators & interpreters throughout the world

French: French to English translation / Liasion interpreting German: German to English translation / Liasion interpreting Translation theory Trados Workbench translation technology Trados MultiTerm database creation MSc dissertation: "The Translation of Non-Standard Speech in the Subtitles to the French Film Les Visiteurs" Student representative for postgraduate students of German & Translation Technology

French translation / German translation / Intensive Spanish for beginners course

French for foreign students (language, literature, linguistics) / Translation modules

French: Language / Culture / Linguistics / Translation German: Language / Culture / Linguistics / Translation English linguistics: Phonetics / Syntax / Semantics / Second language acquisition Third year at university in France (Lille) and Germany (Tübingen) Spanish Level 3: Distinction Russian Level 1: Distinction Russian Level 2: Merit Initiator & editor of a year book for fourth-year students. In 2009, I organised & produced a ‘10 years on’ year book for the same group of students