JENNIFER S. ANINGER 28, Avenue de la Praille phone/fax (h): +41 (0)22/301 22 02 CH-1227 Carouge phone (w): +41 (0)22/338 88 26 mobile phone: +41 (0)79/578 86 58 E-mail: transaninger@earthlink.net LANGUAGES English: native German: near-native French: strong Spanish: elementary TRANSLATION EXPERIENCE * UNITED NATIONS: WORLD INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY ORGANIZATION Geneva, Switzerland, January 2001 to present: translation of International Preliminary Examination Reports pertaining to patent applications; encompasses both legal translation and a broad range of technical fields including automotive, chemistry, electronics, engineering, environmental technology, IT, machinery, materials science, medicine, pharmacology, and telecommunications * FRY & BONTHRONE PARTNERSCHAFT Mainz, Germany, 1999: financial-software localization, financial translations, terminology extraction, proofreading, editing, project management * FREELANCE TRANSLATOR, 1996-2003 Academic, literary; banking, economic, and financial; business and marketing; environment; IT and telecommunications; legal, contracts; web site localization; technology, patents TRANSLATION-RELATED EXPERIENCE * Medical: 4 years volunteer work-Century City Hospital, Los Angeles, CA * Legal: volunteer aid-Legal Advocacy for the Homeless, New York, NY * Financial: attended company seminar about the German stock market * Professional: attended computer-assisted translation, localization, project management and terminology management courses at the Monterey Institute of International Studies PROJECT MANAGEMENT EXPERIENCE MONTEREY INSTITUTE OF INTERNATIONAL STUDIES, 2000 Management tasks of multilingual Web site localization: drafting of project proposals and timelines; allocation of resources; budget and deadline management; point of contact between client, vendors, and third-party localization firm; streamlined file transfers; timely handoff COMPUTER SKILLS Translation memory (Trados, Déjà Vu), HTML, MS Office 98 & 2000, Windows 98, Macintosh, PC, Dragon NaturallySpeaking 5.0 US EDUCATION MA Monterey Institute of International Studies, Monterey, CA Translation (German/French to English), 2000 MA University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI Comparative Literature (German, French, English), 1995 BA Columbia University, New York, NY English/Anthropology, 1992 EUROPEAN EDUCATION * Albert-Ludwigs-Universität, Freiburg, Germany, 1993-94, 1996-97 German, French, English literatures * Sprachenkolleg für studierende Ausländer, Freiburg, Germany, 1992 German language * Reid Hall/Columbia University, Paris, France, 1989 French language, literature and culture AFFILIATIONS American Translators Association Accredited German to English, member AWARDS Honors for thesis, Monterey Institute of International Studies, Monterey, CA Full fellowship/teaching assistantship, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI Academic excellence in German, Columbia University, New York, NY