Michael Mangelsdorf
Translations & Programming
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Overview
- Full-time freelancer for 20 years
- From 2005 until 2025 I've worked for agencies in 19 countries.
- A big thank you to my clients!
Scope
- Turnaround time within hours or next day is normal.
- Typical texts are user manuals, localization strings, docs for consumer electronics and office appliances, etc.
- Related tasks offered such as proofreading, editing, and quality analysis of pre-existing documents
Experience
- Quite literally hundreds of purchase orders fulfilled, with a proven set of time-tested practices and tools in my work-flow
- Some of my clients have been regulars for almost two decades!
- And they have expressed their gratitude to me for being consistently friendly, competent and responsive.
- Reliability: Of the thousands of projects I have delivered, surely less than a handful were delivered past the agreed deadline.
Background
- Employee translator in an automotive consulting company that went from mid-size to corporate setting over the years.
- Due to changes in company structure, I got to work as client administrator and downstream technical support for electronic car auctions. I was also trained to work programmatically with a large customer database for data analysis tasks and mailing preparations.
- Earlier still, I worked as a library employee, indexing the multi-lingual books and periodicals at an art conservation school.
- CELTA certified English language teacher working in Kyoto.
Education
- Bachelor of Science in Maths (2015)
- Years spent in intercultural settings, living and working abroad in France, the US, England, and Japan.
- Undergrad studies of physics and technical translation after obtaining my German "Abitur" and 15 months of mandatory military service.
- CELTA certified English language teacher.
- Senior year of high-school in the US.
Testimonials
- Very thorough, as always [...]
- You are a Star!
- We are very happy with the work.
- Ich bedanke mich für die sehr angenehme Zusammenarbeit [...]
- Herzlichen Dank für die schnelle Bearbeitung, die Übersetzung ist wirklich sehr gut geworden!
2025
Impressum gemäß §18 MStV:
Michael Mangelsdorf
Hödlerstr. 25, 79183 Waldkirch, Germany
Tel. +49 7681 493 4704
USt-Id: DE251003900