Wilding Translation

Born 1948.
BA. (Engineering) from Oxford University (Christ Church), 1970 (converted to MA 1975).
Work for Marconi Radar Systems, Leicester.
Graduate Certificate in Education, Leicester University, 1974.
Work as teacher of Physics and Maths.
M.Phil., Leicester University (History and Phenomenology of Religion), 1979.
Work as Lecturer in Electronics.
Engineering Council Part II Examinations, 1988.
Work as Electronic Design & Development Engineer in Birmingham.
Move to Hamburg August 1990 – continued work as Electronic Design & Development Engineer for Schaltex GmbH, mainly concerned with image processing hardware and software. During this time I was also active as the Stellvertretender Vorsitzender (Vice President) of Kagyu Benchen Ling e.V. (a charitable trust), and for three years gave my spare time to act as the manager of the trust’s Summer Camp in Alsace.

I moved to Wales in October 1996, since when I have worked full time as a translator from German to English. In October 1998 I moved to Ireland, and at the end of October 2005 to Australia. About 75% of my work has been technical, the rest being made up from assorted business and literary pieces.

Having been an Associate Member of the Institute Translation and Interpreting since 1998, I was accepted for full membership early in 2001.

I was born in 1948 in Shrewsbury as British citizen.

Qualifications and Education:
1958-1962 Hutcheson’s Boys’ Grammar School, Glasgow
1963-1967 King Edward’s, Edgbaston, Birmingham
1967-1970 Christ Church, Oxford with college Scholarship and Exhibition from English Electric.
O-Levels: English Language, Maths, Further Maths with Mechanics, Latin, Geography, Chemistry, French (1964)
Further Maths with Statistics (1965)
A-Levels: Physics (also S-level)
Maths (also S-level)
Further Maths (1966)
Electronics (1986)

Degrees:
BA. (Engineering) from Oxford University (Christ Church), 1970 (converted to MA in 1975. In effect this is a BSc)
M.Phil., Leicester University (History and Phenomenology of Religion) for a part-time research dissertation ‘Initiation in Tibetan Buddhism’ in 1979.

Others:
Post-Graduate Certificate in Education (Physics Method), Leicester University School of Education, 1974

Engineering Council Part II Examinations, 1988 (previously known as the CEI Examinations): 

Fields and Circuits – A
Physical Electronics – A
Electronic Systems Engineering – A
Computer Systems Engineering – A
Communications Systems Engineering – B

These examinations were undertaken on the basis of a home study program devised by myself.

Associate Member of the Institute of Electrical Engineers

Member of the Institute of Translation and Interpreting

Work and other Experience
From 1970 to 1972 I worked for Marconi Radar Systems, Leicester as Test and Quality Engineer.
After the PGCE was awarded in 1974 I taught Physics and Maths for several years in Leicester, Northamptonshire and Redditch.
In 1985/6 I was head of Physics at the Abbey High School, Redditch, leaving at the end of 1986.
From January 1987 to December 1988 I was a Lecturer in Electronics at Sandwell College of Further and Higher Education, teaching courses in electronics and computing from GCSE up to BTEC HND level.
In the early part of 1989 I did some work as a freelance Design Engineer.
In the summer of 1989 I took up employment with Selcom Ltd. in Birmingham as a Development Engineer.
In August 1990 I moved to Hamburg to work (until 8th October 1996) as a Project Engineer for Schaltex GmbH, working principally on RISC systems for digital image processing.
During this time I was also active as Stellvertretender Vorsitzender (Vice-president) of Kagyu Benchen Ling e.V. (a charitable trust), and for three years was in my spare time the manager of a Summer Camp held in Alsace by that organisation.
In October 1996 I moved to Wales to work full-time as a freelance translator from German to English, since which date my output has amounted to about two million words. In the spring of 1998 I was accepted as an Associate Member of the Institute of Translation and Interpreting. In the October of that year I moved to Ireland, and became a full MITI in 2001. I have lived in Australia since the end of 2005.