Christina Schönfeldt Email & Phone Number

Hamburg, Germany

- Onboarding and training of multilingual in-house subtitling department, as well as experienced freelancers- Enhancing subtitling quality and consistency x vendors and clients - Investigating and testing new methods of localisation (yes, also AI…)- Streamlining internal subtitling workflows, sharing best practices with subtitlers, clients and vendors - transparency is key!- Setting up language style guides that would meet most clients’ and viewers’ expectations and train the linguists accordingly - I live for communication and the quality of the work we deliver. - On a lighter note, about me: I love everything related to the industry and being in touch with so many people from 25 years ago. We are all perfectionists at heart and know that there’s no such thing as a perfect file, but it’s something to aspire to.

Amsterdam, North Holland, Netherlands

- Manage daily customer enquiries, order processing & invoicing, sample and trial orders- Follow up on lead-time quotations, pricing quotations trials & sample deliveries- Provide internal sales support- Handle requests for call-offs in order to enable delivery, stock level maintenance and timely ordering of new stock- Contribute to the analysis and ensuring customer payments- Maintaining and improving internal stakeholder relationships (Sales, Technical Service, Production, Transport Planning) to formulate potential solutions to customer questions

Hilversum, North Holland Province, Netherlands

- Managing tasks associated with the entire employee life-cycle such as hires, moves, promotions, exits- SAP Master data maintenance and creation of documents (contracts, amendment letters, etc.). according to local and foreign legal policies ensuring accuracy and compliance- Close collaboration and communication with internal stakeholders- Defining and implementing process improvements by partnering with own and other teams/team leads and stakeholders

Hilversum, The Netherlands

Client management for Universal Pictures Germany and Benelux regarding localization of new high-end DVD and HD titles- Localization management (creating client-specific style guides, maintenance and optimization of glossaries, implementing cloud-based and local testing environments, updating translation memory, QC of assets and subtitles, finalizing budgets/invoicing, shipping)- Intern management and support- Vendor management – graphics and delivery- Managing and training the internal and external subtitling and QC teams - External vendor for Netflix Quality Control subtitling – global TM database and language management - Titles included "Heroes", the "Twilight" and "Divergent" series, "House, M.D.", "Royal Pains", "Grimm", "Covert Affairs", "30 Rock", "Psych" and many more

Gütersloh, Germany

- Managing up to 18 different DVD European-wide localization projects at one time, from initial asset reception to final shipment to warehouses - Establishing and optimizing work processes both internally and externally- Data maintenance, asset QC, budgeting, testing, invoicing, life cycle of product creation- Replicating localized versions for large film distributors which required close collaboration with the content owners all over Europe and Australia- Client management providing daily updates with regards to the project status

Beverly Hills, Greater Los Angeles Area

- First point of contact for DVD subtitling clients at SDI Media USA (Warner Bros. (Burbank), 20th Century Fox (L.A.), Warner Home Video Germany, Fox Germany) producing multilingual DVD versions- Set up closed-captioning department at SDI Media USA

London, United Kingdom

- Translator/subtitler/closed captioner for German SDH and English SDH for the BBC, Channel 4 and Warner Home Video Germany- Coordinator for multilingual DVD productions

Nottingham