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Hello, I'm Melina. Currently I live with my British boyfriend and our cat Mosey in beautiful Dusseldorf. I'm available for translation jobs on a Freelance basis (English-German/German-English). Preferred translation topics listed above. Looking forward to hearing from you!

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.

I specialize in -> article writing (Business, Marketing, Traveling and Tourism) -> blog writing -> copywriting -> translations and transcreations (English to German) -> subtitling

Experienced German Translator with a demonstrated history of working in the translation and localization industry. Skilled in English, Linguistics, Localization, Translation, and Foreign Languages. Strong information technology professional graduated from the University of Sarajevo.

I was born in the beautiful Tauber valley on April 13th, 1983, and moved to Germersheim in 2002, where I studied Translation at FTSK Germersheim, the department for Applied Linguistics and Cultural Studies of the Johannes Gutenberg University of Mainz. Towards the end of my studies, I accepted an internship with IBM Germany in Frankfurt/Main in the winter term 2009, where I did translations for the „European Consolidating Project“ from April to September 2009 on site as well as from home. Already during this internship and afterwards I have been working as a freelance translator and established my business in January 2010 in Germersheim, where I still live now. From September 2010 to September 2011, I also worked as a customer care agent with Ricambi Weiss, a motorcycle pieces and accessories reseller who has customer all over Europe, whereas I was on the hand responsible for all French-speaking customers mainly located in France, Belgium and Switzerland as well as for Spanish-speaking customers. I kept up with my freelance translations during that time, though, as translating has been my passion since I started to study and always have taken a great interest in foreign languages and cultures. This passion also led me to doing a one-month internship with the “Mémorial de Caen“ in Normandy in 2004 as well as to spending 6 months in Salamanca, Spain, within the frame of the Erasmus program. Apart from my work, I use also my spare time to get into touch with other cultures that you can find galore even in a small place like Germersheim, but I also enjoy, whenever possible, traveling to learn more about other people and their way of living.

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.

I translate a wide range of subjects for a similar broad range of clients, mostly into my native language German.

I have been working as a professional freelance translator for the language pairs EN-DE, EN-EL, DE-EL, EL-DE in several projects. Also specialized in subtitling, Desktop Publishing, Website-Development, and more... 1988 - 1997 - Cooperation with Bavaria Film - filmproduction company for synchronization 1986-2002 - Daily translations of material between the languages English-German-Greek as part of my job as a Manager of a Travel Agency in Germany - Munich. 2005 - Begin of cooperation with M.T. Kaltenmaier, German translator in the head office of the European Community in Luxemburg 2007 - Translation-Services for the Real Estate Agency Ef Zein in Chania - Crete 2013 - Cooperation with LTES Ltd, Athens 2013 - Start of cooperation with Lionbridge / Participation in several TMS-OnDemand-Projects with LTB-Check 2015 - Interpreter for the film production ZUSAMMEN Filmproduktion, Wolfgang Reinke, Berlin

I am an experienced, educated (MA Translation) translator, with experience in translation, post-editing, proof-reading and editing. I work with SDL Trados and ATMS but am always open to learning more tools.

Translations EN-DE/DE-EN and mechanical / chemical engineering since 2010

It is my passion to translate other languages and to make them understandable to the reader in a meaningful way.