Experience

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  de Stricker Associates

  • Translator, Editor, Text Enhancer (Danish and English)

    • Jul 2006 - Present

    "The quality of the written material bearing our names is evidence of the quality of everything else we do."I make sure my clients' websites, brochures, user manuals, product descriptions, contracts, bids, resumes, client correspondence, reports, and articles are idiomatically correct, easy to read, and elegant. Through the years, I have received innumerable compliments on my "ability to turn ho-hum and poorly written material into a work of art". I provide expert translations and quality control to translation bureaus and direct clients worldwide. Languages: Translations English-Danish and Danish-English; proofreading and editing of text already translated into English or Danish FROM German, French, Norwegian, or Swedish.

  • President

    • Dec 1992 - Present

    de Stricker Associates focuses on assignments in strategic planning for information services, knowledge management, and corporate memory. I help clients understand the implications of their current practices with respect to information and knowledge and then assist them by crafting strategies for optimal policies and operations.

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  Thomson Carswell

  • Director, Electronic Publishing Product Development

    • Apr 1991 - Dec 1992

    Designed and introduced to the marketplace an award winning new legal search system.

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  Micromedia Limited, Toronto

  • Manager of several departments

    • Sep 1979 - Apr 1991

    Director, Communications and Market Development 88-91 Coordinated communications with clients and journalists. Represented Micromedia at conferences and trade shows. Established a distribution centre for CD-based products, distributing them to Canadian libraries.Manager, Information Services Division 86-88In charge of 19 staff in three departments: Business Information Centre (for-fee research og analysis; subsidiary of Paris-based SVP); Corporate Documents (sale of corporate reports); and DIALOG (see below).Manager, Micromedia/DIALOG 79-86 In charge of DIALOG's activites in Canada (www.dialog.com). Managed a staff of 5 in client services, marketing, and customer training.

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  Graduate School of Library Science, McGill University

  • Assistant to the Director

    • Aug 1977 - Aug 1979

    In this specially-created position, assisted the Director in the day to day management of the faculty and in special projects such as accreditation documentation and relations with other faculties. Acted as the students' "ombudsman" and taught information retrieval.