User:Richard Bartholomew

Background


Formerly employed as a software engineer specializing in scientific and engineering applications, I coded primarily C++ and Perl under Linux. On March 31, 2008, I obtained a permit to live and work in Düsseldorf as a freelance technical translator. Recently, I have been translating various types of documents using primarily the translation memory tool WordFast Pro 3 version 3.4.14.

On the natural language front, I've passed the Goethe-Institute's Zentrale Oberstufenprüfung at CEFR level C2. I've also studied French for a couple of years, but never acquired much proficiency with it. Some day I'd like to master that language.

Please also see my German Wikipedia and English WikiSource user pages.

Objectives
My objectives vis-à-vis Wikipedia are to


 * make German language articles available to anglophone readers,
 * acquire experience and exposure translating material from German into U.S. English, and
 * learn new things.

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