ANDREA U. BRUGMAN
Translator and Interpreter for German
(ATA-accredited from English into German)
5110 S. Lucile Street
Seattle, Washington 98118, U.S.A.
(206) 722-1613
andrea_brugman@yahoo.com


WORK HISTORY
TRANSLATOR/INTERPRETER, Regensburg, Germany and Seattle, Washington, USA 1992-present
Translated legal, academic, medical, and software-related documents for Nintendo, WestTek, Siemens, Regensburg University Hospital, Northwest Immigration Rights Project, Toronto Environmental Film Festival, and many more.  Interpreted at King County Superior Court, Seattle Cancer Care Alliance/Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center, Canadian Consulate General, etc.

AMAZON.COM, Seattle, Washington 1998-May 2001
German Translation Specialist/Junior Technical Program Manager
  • Translated documents for Amazon.de customer service and other departments: policies, training material, other internal resources, website content for new product lines, preformatted customer responses, text for customer service user interfaces.  Occasionally translated Amazon.de documents into English.
  • As the first in-house translator at Amazon.com, initiated communication processes concerning translation needs, advised Amazon.com project managers on cultural differences and their implementation into various projects, and expedited Amazon.de questions/concerns within Amazon.com.
  • Supervised a team of 15 German colleagues for a 300+ document translation project and edited all documents.
  • Established Amazon-specific terminology and created glossaries to ensure terminology consistency.
  • Reviewed translations from outside translators and provided feedback.
  • Tested German versions of customer service interfaces, summarized problems/concerns, and communicated them to software developers. Informed Amazon.de customer service management on progress.
  • Interpreted seminars held at Amazon.de in Germany by Amazon.com colleagues.
Intern in International Customer Service Group
  • Supported Amazon.de, Amazon.com, and Amazon.co.uk customer service.
  • Co-managed Amazon.de's directory of preformatted customer responses.

TEACHER, Regensburg, Germany and Seattle, Washington 1992-present
  • Teaching of German to adults at Washington Academy of Languages, Seattle
  • Teaching of German to children at German Language School, Seattle
  • Taught German languages classes for Amazon.com employees, Seattle
  • Taught German and English at secondary schools as part of the teacher training at the University of Regensburg, Germany
  • Tutored children, adolescents, and adults in German, English, and French, Regensburg, Germany

UNIVERSITY OF REGENSBURG, Regensburg, Germany 1995-1997
Student Research Assistant of Professor Edgar W. Schneider, Department of British and American Linguistics
  • Collected research data.
  • Ensured bibliographical consistency of two-volume anthology.


EDUCATION
University of Regensburg, Regensburg, Germany
M.A. in German and English Linguistics and Literature
Translators Certificate (English-German/German-English), issued by the State of Bavaria
Education Degree for Secondary Schools 		1992-1998
Oxford Brookes University, Oxford, United Kingdom
ERASMUS exchange student 		1993-1994


TECHNICAL EQUIPMENT & EXPERIENCE
Macintosh PowerBook G3 with Microsoft Office 2001 (Word, Excel, PowerPoint), TRADOS, Adobe Photoshop, Pagemaker; good command of HTML, basic knowledge of UNIX.


PROFESSIONAL MEMBERSHIPS
  • American Translators Association (ATA)
  • Northwest Translators and Interpreters Society (NOTIS)
  • American Association of Teachers of German (AATG)




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   Last updated: May 29, 2003