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• Professional qualifications & experience
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Professional qualifications & experience

Diplom-Übersetzerin Elisabeth John

University education and experience

since 1990	Freelance translator working for a range of clients, including: European Investment Bank (EIB), Luxemburg German Engineering Federation VDMA, Frankfurt, Germany Übersetzungsbüro Mendez Deutschland, Cologne, Germany Gretag Imaging Deutschland, Wiesbaden (formerly Erkrath – now IPS Imaging Postprocessing Solutions GmbH, Issum), Germany Denise Sommerfeld Relocation, Wermelskirchen, Germany
2003–2010	Wordfast training sessions (as Certified Trainer) – for further details see Wordfast-Schulungen or www.wissenschadetnicht.eu.
1987–1990	Staff translator for a Düsseldorf-based translation agency
1987	Degree in Translation Studies at the University of the Saarland, Germany Subjects: English and Spanish with Engineering subsidiary Graduated ‘with Distinction’

Special fields:

• Banking and finance
• Economics and business
• Renewable energy
• Water management
• Agriculture and agricultural machinery
• Biodiversity
• Tourism (around the Eifel National Park)
• Education and training
• Corporate responsibility, transparency and corporate governance

Private interests

• Participation in the butterfly monitoring programme Tagfalter-Monitoring in Nordrhein-Westfalen:
  recording butterflies, Zygaenidae and other selected moths on the Dreiborn plateau in the Eifel National Park
• Web design:
  www.webjohn.de
  www.dreiborner-hochflaeche.de
  www.steuerberater-peter-john.de
  www.fuhrhalterei-stertenbrink.de