MARINA MONICA STEINBACH – Translator / Proprietor
Mrs. Steinbach was born in Rendsburg, Germany, and lived the first 4 years of her life near Frankfurt am Main in Germany. Since her mother is German and her father is American, she is a US citizen by birth.
From age 5 to 6 she went to the kindergarten at Clover Park School in Fort Lewis, USA, from age 6 to 7 to the Klaus-Groth-Schule in Büdelsdorf, Germany, from age 7 to 10 to the German-American John F. Kennedy School in Berlin, Germany, and from age 10 to 11 to the Fairfax County Public School in Virginia, USA.
She attended the Bertold-Brecht-Realschule (German, English, and French) in Büdelsdorf, Germany, from age 11 to 16 and was awarded the Realschussabschluss.
She obtained the Zeugnis der Allgemeinen Hochschulreife (certificate of general qualification for university entrance) at the age of 20 at the Wirtschaftsgymnasium Am Lämmermarkt (German, English, and French) in Hamburg, Germany.
Then she graduated from the Foreign Language School SFS (English, French, and Spanish) in Hamburg, Germany.
After she got married, she moved to a town near Frankfurt am Main, Germany. There she gained more than 20 years of international experience in the fields of smoke extraction, fire protection, and air diffusion at a manufacturing company and translated technical documents in connection with European standardization.
She moved to the United States of America with her husband in 2010 and has been working as a translator since 2011. She founded Green Heron Translations LLC in 2012.
She works mainly in the fields of tourism, engineering, business, and IT. Depending on the difficulty of the text and the research required, she is able to translate around 2,500 words a day. She works with SDL Trados Studio 2021.
Memberships
Mrs. Steinbach was born in Rendsburg, Germany, and lived the first 4 years of her life near Frankfurt am Main in Germany. Since her mother is German and her father is American, she is a US citizen by birth.
From age 5 to 6 she went to the kindergarten at Clover Park School in Fort Lewis, USA, from age 6 to 7 to the Klaus-Groth-Schule in Büdelsdorf, Germany, from age 7 to 10 to the German-American John F. Kennedy School in Berlin, Germany, and from age 10 to 11 to the Fairfax County Public School in Virginia, USA.
She attended the Bertold-Brecht-Realschule (German, English, and French) in Büdelsdorf, Germany, from age 11 to 16 and was awarded the Realschussabschluss.
She obtained the Zeugnis der Allgemeinen Hochschulreife (certificate of general qualification for university entrance) at the age of 20 at the Wirtschaftsgymnasium Am Lämmermarkt (German, English, and French) in Hamburg, Germany.
Then she graduated from the Foreign Language School SFS (English, French, and Spanish) in Hamburg, Germany.
After she got married, she moved to a town near Frankfurt am Main, Germany. There she gained more than 20 years of international experience in the fields of smoke extraction, fire protection, and air diffusion at a manufacturing company and translated technical documents in connection with European standardization.
She moved to the United States of America with her husband in 2010 and has been working as a translator since 2011. She founded Green Heron Translations LLC in 2012.
She works mainly in the fields of tourism, engineering, business, and IT. Depending on the difficulty of the text and the research required, she is able to translate around 2,500 words a day. She works with SDL Trados Studio 2021.
Memberships
- Since 2011 – ProZ.com
- Since 2013 – ProZ.com Certified Pro Network
- Since 2020 – Translators without Borders (TWB)
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GÜNTER RAINER STEINBACH – Freelance Proofreader / German Instructor
Mr. Steinbach is a German citizen and lives in the United States since December 2010. He studied Applied Physics at the Johann Wolfgang Goethe University in Frankfurt, Germany and earned a Master's Degree in Meteorology. He acquired knowledge in IT and programming (Basic, Clipper, dBase, Pascal, and Delphi) at the C-BIT Computer Institute in Wiesbaden, Germany. He has more than twenty years of international experience as a computer programmer and system administrator at a manufacturer in Germany with subsidiaries in France and Hungary. He is currently working as a German instructor for the ACE Adult & Community Enrichment Center at Suncoast Technical College in Sarasota, Florida.
Memberships
- Since 2020 – ProZ.com
