1983-1987: (Radboud) University of Nijmegen: M.A. German language and literature and professional translation German-Dutch, Dutch-German and English-Dutch;

1987-1988: University of Nijmegen: Applied linguistics and Computer linguistics;

1989: Sworn in for life as a translator for both the Dutch and German language by the Court of Arnhem;

1989-1991: BIT and Fontys University for Applied Sciences: Postgraduate education program Euroconsultant business advisor in matters concerning the European internal market (White Book 1992) for small and middle-sized enterprises;

1992-1993: St. Catherine's hospital: Nurse trainee cardio surgery;

1994-1995: (Radboud) University of Nijmegen: Postgraduate teacher of foreign languages: diploma M.A.:Master of Foreign Language Education;
1995-1997: Several jobs as a substitute teacher in Terneuzen, Best, Valkenswaard and Helmond;

1997: Started my own company with an assignment Windows and Office for the German NATO troops.
From then I did mainly specialised translations in the following fields:

> technical medical and rehabilitation texts, such as:
- manuals of physiotherapy equipment, hospital beds and wheelchairs of all kinds;
- manuals of medical equipment and rehabilitation appliances; blueprints and manuals of medical gas systems for hospitals;
> confidential medical texts: medical reports for insurance companies and courts of law; foreign medical surgical reports about patients before they could safely be transferred to a Dutch hospital;

> legal texts, such as:
- legal case files for examination of witnesses on commission in Switzerland and Germany;
- business contracts;
- terms for both brick and on-line companies;
- birth and death certificates;
- Confiscation of the goods of the building contractor of the Westerscheldetunnel because of the insolvency verdict of the mother company, the Holzmann concern, the largest building contractor in Germany at that time;


> technical texts, such as:
- the façade construction software C-Moll + manual for the Dutch and Belgium market;
- building specifications;
- manuals for electric equipment;
- manuals for machine tools;
- manuals for roller coasters;
- manuals for industrial machines;

> financial texts, such as:
- annual reports for some large companies such as RWE and accountancy firms, such as Ernst & Young and Price Waterhouse Coopers;

> commercial texts, such as: brochures and several big websites such as https://checkpoint-safety.nl/   as a part of https://checkpoint-safety.com/; https://www.camperdays.nl/ as a part of SilverTours GmbH; and https://www.e-bike-vision.de/e-bike-vision/nl

2015: LOI University for Applied Sciences, Bachelor's Certificate: "Medisch vertalen voor vertalers Duits (Medical translations German-Dutch-German) Cum Laude (8/10);
2020-'21: LOI University for Applied Sciences, Bachelor's Diploma: "De praktijk van het vertalen voor vertalers Duits (among other things: learning how machine translation works (or not), how to align texts, to create translation memories and working with WordFast in a German-Dutch-German context) Summa Cum Laude (9/10);
2022, January 6th: Officially registered as a sworn translator for the language combinations German-Dutch, Dutch-German, English-German and English-Dutch, based on my old Master degree from 1987, the new legislation from 2007/2008 on sworn translators and lots and lots of experience with translations from English into Dutch.
2022, February 24th: Sworn in again by the Court of 's-Hertogenbosch as a sworn translator for the following combinations of languages:

English-Dutch
English-German
German-Dutch
Dutch-German