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Working languages:
German to English
Spanish to English
French to English

Martin Robinshaw
27 yrs' exp. at the touch of a button

United Kingdom
Local time: 18:07 BST (GMT+1)

Native in: English (Variants: British, UK) 
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Professional English Language Services, Technology & Consulting What my clients say about me... Perfect work, nice communication. I highly recommend this translator.

Katina Bergmann, Managing Director
Sprachfuchs Übersetzungsservice GmbH, Norderstedt, Hamburg, Germany)

Hi Martin,
We have just received a feedback from the client regarding this project you have translated.

They are really happy with the translation which is “admirable”, to use their words.

Vincent Peeters (Project Manager GIB consult SPRL, Brussels, Belgium)
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Congratulations! As always, your good work is highly appreciated.

Chloé Kiers (Project Manager GIB consult SPRL, Brussels, Belgium)
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Martin is a very professional translator: experienced, accurate, always in time, and a good communicator. I'm looking forward to working more with him! Highly recommended!

Thomas Carlsen (Prop. Thomas Carlsen Fachübersetzungen, Hamburg, Germany)
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Hohe Qualität, Korrektheit und Zuverlässigkeit sind Eigenschaften die heutzutage nicht selbstverständlich sind, bei Herrn Robinshaw jedoch schon.
Eine sehr angenehme und dauerhafte Zusammenarbeit!

Wiebke Renzelmann (Junior Marketing Manager, AMPEG GmbH, Bremen, Germany)
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Excellent translations. Thank you.

Robert St. George (Head of Production, Global Lingo Ltd., London)
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Very professional and responsive native English translator, delivers high-quality translations, always on time. Tnx Martin!

Thijs van Dorssen (Prop. BeTranslated, Dusseldorf, Germany)
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Personal Portrait My name is Martin Robinshaw. I am a native-speaker, British-born, professional, freelance English Language Service Provider. I am a former member of the Federal Association of German-speaking Literary and Scientific Translators e.V. (VDUe), a former member of the German Federal Association of Interpreters and Translators (BDUe), and hold a higher national diploma in business management from Manchester Metropolitan University, England, and a diploma in Computer and Marketing studies from Napier University, Edinburgh, Scotland.

Brief Overview of Services Highly motivated and experienced, independent multiple language service provider offering core

- Consulting
- Technology
- Translation
- Localisation
- Copywriting
- Research and
- Telephone Marketing

services for English speaking markets from German/Spanish/French in the following fields:

- Business
- Law
- Engineering
- Technology
- Finance

Qualified specializations:

- Telecommunications and Information Technology
- Graphics, Printing and Communications Technology
- Publishing
- Advertising, Public Relations, Mass Media and Marketing
- Internet
- Finance, Stock-Market Relations,
- Business Contracts
- Tourism, and Hotel, Catering and Institutional Management

I deploy cutting edge database-driven TEnT software technologies, such as Trados, DejaVu X, Passolo and Catalyst in a state-of-the-art hardware environment to provide premium quality translation services.

Background Educated at Repton School (est. 1557), one of Britain's foremost independent schools, where leading names from the world of business, politics, religion, sports and entertainment are educated, Martin Robinshaw went on to complete a higher national diploma in Business Management (BTEc HND) at Manchester Metropolitan University in England, and a diploma in Marketing and Computer Studies at Napier College in Edinburgh, Scotland. He then went on to work in sales and marketing on several computer titles including PC User and CadCam International at EMAP Business and Computer Publications, the B-to-B Division of EMAP PLC, one of Europe's largest publishing houses. After several years at EMAP, he subsequently moved on to take up managerial posts at Dennis Publishing Co. Ltd, where he was assistant advertisement manager on Mac User and advertisement manager on Microscope (the then market-leading PC trade weekly). In his first ad agency post before moving to Germany, his position as Key Account Manager for Electronic Technology included developing innovative projects for electronic dialogue marketing. Here, he conceived and managed several projects for Blue Chip companies such as Unilever and Shell.

He has been working as an independent marketing & advertising consultant for English language markets, language services project manager and consultant, translator, editor, proofreader, copy-writer, travel writer and journalist for English language markets since 1996. His client portfolio includes many German, British and US American Blue Chip companies, and several Global leaders in the translation services industry such as Euroscript and the bigword Group.

Martin Robinshaw has two sons, Fynn and Kjell.
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