Chris Schertler
Chris Schertler is an ATA-certified English-into-German translator (American Translators Association) with over two decades of professional experience in legal, patent, medical, technical, and business translation. He began his translation career in 1998 in Sydney, Australia, where he completed a Bachelor’s degree in History and Politics.
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Born and raised in Germany, Chris grew up bilingual and later spent more than 20 years living and working in Australia and the United States. He speaks both German and English at a native level and brings a deep, practical understanding of cross-cultural communication to every project.
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Chris translates both German into English and English into German and has completed more than 5 million words of specialized work, with a strong focus on patent applications, patent litigation, legal documentation, and technical and medical content.
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Since relocating to the United States in 2004, Chris has been based in San Diego, California and Austin, Texas, where he serves law firms, corporations, and individual clients throughout the U.S., Europe, and around the world.
Melba Schertler
Melba is an Australian, fully bilingual and bicultural between English and German, after living in Germany for 40+ years. After a successful career in international communications, language instruction, and executive language coaching for Fortune 500 companies, she now provides high-quality German to English translation and editing services for companies in a wide variety of sectors.
Her translation specializations include IT, technology, scientific and business communications, and marketing/advertising documents, with a focus on excellent writing that informs and engages English speakers.