With a Master of Arts Degree in translation and interpretation (cand.ling.merc.) in German and a Bachelor of Arts Degree in English and German business language I have built +15 years of experience of coordinating, writing, preparing and translating technical documentation. Through my jobs as translator, documentation coordinator and technical writer for international companies within the machinery industry, I have built knowledge about optimization and management of the documentation process, writing user instructions such as operation and maintenance instructions which conform to the requirements of the Machinery Directive (2006/42/EC) and functional descriptions for control software of machinery.Besides my linguistic skills, my strengths are my ability to acquaint myself with the functionality and technical design of a machine, my ability to have an overview of and coordinate documentation for many different projects at the same time, my good communication and interpersonal skills and my drive to motivate the members of the project teams to cooperate both in-house as well as globally. Core competencies:- Documentation management- Technical writing- Translation process management- Quality assurance- Translation - Knowledge about instruction requirements of the Machinery Directive 2006/42/EC- Good interpersonal skills
Listed skills include Technical Documentation, Technical Writing, Documentation Management, User Documentation, and 16 others.