Sandra Niemann Bird Phone: +1 646 326 3060 170 West End Avenue, Apt. 29C Fax: +1212 248 4354 New York, NY 10023 E-mail:[email protected] [email protected]

Freelance translating, editing, proofreading and interpretation services English, Swedish, Norwegian>Danish Danish, Swedish, Norwegian

Current skills profile Freelance translator of legal, banking, promotional as well as non-specialist texts from English into Danish and Danish-Swedish-Norwegian into English. I also proofread and edit translations from and into these languages. I have served as an interpreter at numerous occasions. I also do voice recordings in Danish for US-based translation companies on a regular basis. I have used English as my primary language within a professional and academic context since 1992.

Highest Degree BA in French literature and linguistics, Bar-Ilan University, Israel. Niels Brock Business School, Denmark.

Personal Data  Danish citizen  Have worked and lived in New York since September 1999.  Raised in Copenhagen, Denmark, for 19 years. Lived in Israel from 1992-1997.

Native Language  Danish, using the ATA definition of “native language” as the dominant target language.  Fluent at a near-native level in both languages. My proficiency in English may also be inferred from my jobs with two multi-national companies in Copenhagen, UPS and Ansaldo, where I worked as an in-house translator, before relocating to the US.

Translating Experience  Full-time translator since 1998. Other  Can read and translate general texts from French, Hebrew, Dutch and German into Danish and English.

Past Projects  Legal documents (business contracts, tax codes, court orders and wills)  Patents  Business documents (correspondence, meeting memoranda, research results and training notes)  Journal articles and speeches on business and management  Sales publications and advertising brochures  Press releases and news letters  Web-sites  Financial manuals for bank employees  It-related manuals and web-sites

Current clients include  Multi-national accounting firms  Conference centers  Biotech companies  Knowledge banks  Software vendors  Global financial institutions  Manufacturers  Law firms  Investment banks  Wealth-management firms  Global Media Firms

Client references furnished upon request.

Equipment  Pentium, Windows XP,  MS Word 2000 and WordPerfect 9, both with Danish, Swedish, Norwegian, Hebrew spelling module.  Trados, SDLX