Name: Gunther Max Roth

Address: Quellenstrasse 18, CH-8134 Adliswil, Switzerland

Telephone: +41 (0)43 300 3271 (home + office)

Mobile: +41 (0)78 737 7410

Fax: +41 (0)43 300 3272

VOIP: Skype: guntherroth

E-Mail: info@rothtrans.com

Web Page: www.rothtrans.com

 

Freelance Translator with more than 20 years of experience

Language pair: German to English.

Translation of texts, tables, slides, technical drawings and graphics

Translation of web pages and DTP texts

Proofreading

 

A selection of subjects translated:

Agricultural equipment, automobile, banks, construction and building technology, general business, computer technology (including help files and dialogue), ecology, electricity, electrical technology, electronics, energy, forestry equipment, information technology, logistics, machine tools, military and weapons, mining, nuclear energy, patents, property management, etc.

 

History:

> Freelance translator (+ 20 years)

> Translator for patent attorney

> Project leader Involved in the laying of district heating pipelines

> Project administration for large packing machine company

> "Hands-on" experience in testing of a nuclear power plant.

> Resident in USA for the design of a nuclear power plant

> Section Leader and Chief Draughtsman in various companies

> Engineering Designer

 

Countries: South Africa, England, USA, Germany, The Netherlands,

Belgium and Switzerland.

 
 

Many years experience in design of plant layouts, refrigeration, piping, pressure vessels, thermal and nuclear power plants, oil refineries, chemical plants, mining and industrial work.

 

Some larger translations: (see references)

> Textbook on the Rehabilitation of Sewers (+800 pages) including

   the translations for multimedia CD for above (also translation of

   graphics)

> Tricad Handbook – 2D and 3 D CAD (+60 Chapters) + computer

   dialogue(6 versions).

> Textbook on the Sandwich Method of Construction in Buildings

   (approx 400 pages).

> Informatics courses (+200 PowerPoint graphics)

> Textbook on trenchless pipe installation (800 Pages + graphics

   and tables)

> Textbook on piping tunnels

> Catalogue for museum exhibitions, old weapons and armour

> Various operating manuals on construction equipment, machinery,

electronic devices, hardware and software

 

Prices: Please see price list. Large jobs on request; please enquire.

 

Hardware:

> ADSL Broadband connection.

> 2 Computers: Desktop dual-core with 2 monitors; Pentium

notebook 2800 MH.

> 2 printers: HP Laser printer; HP business inkjet 1200 (double-sided printing)

> Scanner with automatic feed

> Read/write CDs & DVD

> Separate Fax

> 2 Binders: Ring binder, Thermal binder (to 12 sheets)

> Uninterruptible power supply (UPS)

> Flash memory sticks

 

Software (selection):

> Windows XP Professional operating system and Linux - Red Hat 8.0

   + Ubuntu (not loaded).

> MS Office 2003 Professional (Word; Excel; Power Point;

   Access)

   (WordPerfect); Lotus Suite (Millennium).

> Adobe Acrobat 7.0.

> Adobe Photoshop 7.0; Paint Shop Pro 8; Visio; Visio; Corel

   Draw 11

> Autocad LT 2000 + various symbol and drawing libraries;

   DesignCAD 3D; ISIS Draw (chemical); Turbocad LT; Visio;

   Intellicad.

> Mathcad 11; Mathtype 5.

> Trados 6.5 Freelance; SDLX; Transit Satellite; Wordfast.

> FrameMaker 7.1, PageMaker 7;QuarkXPress 5

> OCR Reader: OmniPage Pro 15

> Browser: Outlook Express 6

 

Many dictionaries and glossaries on hard disc; on CD; in book form and On-line

 
 
 
 
 
 
 

 

 
 
 
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