I'm Judith Pattinson, certified German to English translator and a native speaker of British English. My business goes by the name of Signal Translations.

Qualifications

I hold NAATI professional certification as a German to English translator, and also the well-respected Diploma in Translation from the Chartered Institute of Linguists (UK). I am a member of AUSIT and the BDÜ. My academic qualifications include a BA (Hons) and MA (both first-class honours) from the University of Melbourne, and the Graduate Diploma in Editing and Publishing (GradDipEdit&Publ) from RMIT University.

My CV contains details of my career and German language achievements.

Experience

My translation and editing experience includes high volumes of:

• legal, financial and corporate documents
• marketing texts, press clippings and press releases
• certificates
• literary translation, including best-seller Erebos, by Ursula Poznanski and Jan Bauer's graphic novel, The Salty River, published by Twelve Panels Press in August 2015.

and more. See my Working Areas & Rates for further details.

My editing experience includes

• Many years’ experience as a publications editor, both in-house and freelance, with a wide range of government and other organisations
• a number of years as production editor for a magazine with a major Melbourne metropolitan newspaper
• localisation and proofreading work
• desk-top publishing and web design

Please do check out my website, and stop by my blog ...