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About Thomas

Biography:

I was born in Hüls, Northrhine Westphalia, West Germany and completed by primary and secondary schooling in Moers, Northrhine Westphalia. After a year-long exchange program and graduation from Forest Grove High School, Forest Grove, Oregon in 1986, I completed my German high school degree (Abitur) in 1989 at the Aufbaugymnasium Moers, in Moers, West Germany. Subsequently, I served in the West German Air Force as a medic for one year. I then entered the Universität Duisburg Gesamthochschule, Duisburg, Germany, and continued my studies at the University of Oregon, Eugene, Oregon, during Spring Quarter 1991. I graduated with a B.A. in Secondary Education and International Studies from Western Oregon State College, Monmouth, Oregon, in December 1992. After working at South Salem High School in Salem, Oregon, as a high school English teacher, I entered graduate school at Portland State University, where I earned an M.A. in English and an M.A. in German in 1995. During the summers of 1995 and 1998, I worked as Lecturer and Activities Director at Die deutsche Sommerschule am Pazifik at Portland State University in Oregon. In September 1995, I entered the Graduate School of The University of Texas at Austin, where I taught as an Assistant Instructor in the Department of Germanic Studies. During this time, I also worked as an in-house and freelance translator for two years. In September 1999, I joined the faculty of Berea College, Berea, Kentucky, as a full-time Assistant Professor of German in the Department of Foreign Languages and finished my dissertation in the summer of 2000. After a successful and rewarding 7-year college teaching career, I continued my translator career and founded Bosch Translation Services, LLC.

Attendance at Professional Workshops and Conferences:

• Two-week stay in Germany, Moers, Germany, June 23-July 8, 2008

• Forty-Eighth Annual Conference of the ATA, San Francisco, California, Oct. 31 — Nov. 3, 2007

• How to Do Business with Germany, Cincinnati, Ohio, April 16, 2007

• Forty-Seventh Annual Conference of the ATA, New Orleans, Louisiana, Nov. 1-4, 2006

• Forty-Sixth Annual Conference of the ATA, Seattle, Washington, Nov. 9-12, 2005

• Increasing Productivity and Maintaining Quality Without Pricing Yourself out of the Market, Chicago, Illinois, July 10, 2005

• Translation Software Tools Seminar, Chicago, Illinois, July 9, 2005

• ATA Skill-Building Workshop for Mentors and Mentees, Chicago, Illinois, July 10, 20

• Online Course Management Strategies with WebCT training workshop

• co-presenter of Trust is Good, Control is Better: A Media-Facilitated Approach to Foreign Language Learning

• three-day EDUCAUSE Conference

• Teaching with Style and Technology, Too! workshop on teaching and learning styles

Specialized Skills:

• ability to conceptualize, design, and equip a digital language lab; extensive training and working knowledge of CAN8 language lab course management software, SoundForge audio editing software and Netsupport class management software

• interpretation services for study abroad group excursions in Austria (i.e., brewery, cheese factory, regional newspaper, and city museum tour)

• familiarity with various multi-media German instruction CD-ROM titles

• website design and creation

• certified administrator of Goethe-Institut ZDfB, ZMP and ZDaF proficiency exams

Work Experience:

9/2006-present Freelance Translator • specializing in technical, business, and medical technology translations • Berea, KY and Eugene, OR

8/1999 – 8/2006 Assistant Professor of German • Department of Foreign Languages, Berea College, Berea, KY

Summers 2003/05 Summer Faculty • KIIS Bregenz, Murray State University, Bregenz, Austria

6/1996-8/1998 Freelance and Part-time In-house Translator • Origin, Austin, TX

8/1995 – 5/1999 Assistant Instructor • Department of Germanic Studies, The University of Texas at Austin, Austin, TX

Summers 1995/98 Lecturer/Residence Hall Director/Activities Coordinator/Graduate Teaching, Research and Planning Assistant • Die deutsche Sommerschule am Pazifik – Portland State University, Portland, OR

8/1993-7/1995 Graduate Teaching Assistant • Department of Foreign Languages and Literatures, Portland State University, Portland, OR

2/1993 - 6/1993 High School Teacher – English • South Salem High School, Salem, OR

Education:

Ph.D. German Lit. of the 20^th Century – The Univ. of Texas at Austin, Austin, TX – August 2000

Dissertation: From Ruins to Rock’n’Roll: Images of Male Youths and Constructions of Masculinity in West German Cultural Production, 1945-1961

M.A. German – Portland State University, Portland, OR – December 1995

M.A. Thesis: Erich Kästners Der 35. Mai — Ein sozialkritisches Erwachsenenbuch für Kinder

M.A. English – Portland State University, Portland, OR – June 1995

M.A. Specialization: Contemporary Critical Theory; Medieval Literature; American Literature 1798-1890

B.A. Sec. Education and Language Arts – Western Oregon State College, Monmouth, OR – June 1993

Univ. Duisburg Gesamthochschule, Duisburg, Germany – April 1990 - March 1991

Abitur – Städtisches Aufbaugymnasium Moers, Moers, Germany – 1989

High School Diploma – Forest Grove HS, Forest Grove, OR – 1986

Professional/Business Memberships:

• American Translators Association, 2005-present

• Associated Linguists of Oregon (ALO), 2007-present

• Eugene Area Chamber of Commerce, 2007-present

• Portland U.S. Export Assistance Center, 2007-present

• German Studies Association, 2000-2004

• American Association of Teachers of German, 1993-2004