Lesley Salchert – Advertising, Branding, Marketing
- Equivalent Joint Honours Degree in Law and Applied Linguistics with German, English, Russian, Universities of Heidelberg and Mainz, Germany
- Postgraduate modules in Technology Management, Open University, UK
- Bilingual in English and German, fluent French, Spanish and Russian,
- Development of advertising and marketing material for pan-European campaigns, including projects in CI and branding
- Editor/Translator of technical and legal texts and multi-lingual corporate websites in UK, Germany and Spain, including clients such as Alsthom, Lufthansa, Repsol, Vodafone, Telefónica, Inberdrola, Indra, Renfe/SNCF, Siemens Energy and Transport, Balcke-Dürr
- Topics included:
- New products for satellite/cable TV
- Services and models for mobile telephony
- New service centre with all back office functions for satellite providers
- Environmental studies for nuclear power plants
- Geological studies for a wind farm
- Construction documentation specifically for pipes and tubing as well as cabling for 2 large construction projects
- Corporate website and transportation (rail) projects
- Advertising and marketing campaigns
- Private banker, Citibank UK, Telebanking Centre, Barcelona, Spain
- Liaising with private banking customers for their daily banking needs
- Sales, new investment products
- Marketing consultant for West Midlands Region, UK
- Secured large investment commitments primarily in the automotive and engineering industries in the West Midlands
- Responsible for presentations to foreign companies interested in the UK market.
- Identified potential clients and organized briefings and seminars
- Commercial Officer, British Consulate General, Frankfurt, Germany
- Reported on the sectors telecommunications, telecommunications, railway industry, IT industry and investment goods for the UK’s Ministry of Trade and Industry
- Founder & CEO of translation/editing bureau Übersetzer-Team in Frankfurt, Germany
- Clients included German Federal Railways (Deutsche Bahn), Du Pont de Nemours, Degussa, Olivetti, Deutsche Leasing
- Technical translator at the Institute of Applied Geodesy in Frankfurt, Germany.
- Translated and interpreted German, English, French in the field of applied geodesy: photogrammetry, satellite ranging, cartography
- English language representative in the Terminology Working Group at the International Association of Cartography in Zurich
- Part-time lecturer for German-English translations at the FAS Institute of the University of Mainz, Germany
- Part-time lecturer for English at the University of Karlsruhe, Germany