High-quality German-to-US English business, financial and legal translations

Professional Experience	• Doing business as Mozaika Language Services, Inc. since 2005 with a specialization in business and financial translation along with some basic legal translation – I do all translation work myself with rare exceptions for large projects for direct clients • Freelance business/financial translator (2001-2005) • 3.5 years at translation company near Frankfurt specializing in business and financial translations as a translator, team leader and project manager (1997-2001) • 1 year teaching English conversation in Austria (1994-1995). • Internship with a Chicago-based software company in the localization dept. (1996) • Total of 6.5 years spent working and studying in German-speaking countries.
Specialization	GERMAN TO ENGLISH: Types of texts: • IPO prospectuses • Annual/quarterly reports and other types of investor relations material (including sustainability reports) • Business correspondence and internal company documentation • Press releases, journal and newspaper articles • Employee and customer newsletters/magazines • Contracts, terms and conditions of business (AGBs) • PowerPoint presentations • Web content Subject areas: • Banking • Real estate • Management consulting • Renewable energies • E-commerce/software • and more LATVIAN TO ENGLISH: general, literary, journalism; correspondence
Languages	German - English (native) Latvian - English
Education	MA Translation (German/English), 1997 Monterey Institute of International Studies, Monterey, CA, USA BA German, 1993 Macalester College, St. Paul, MN, USA
Equipment	Windows XP + Office 2003 - Word, PowerPoint, Excel WordFast ABBYY PDF Transformer/Creator Workshare Compare