At the starting point of every project

Roman Probst, Bachelor of Communications, has managed TRANSLATION PROBST Ltd. since it was founded. Probst was named Young Entrepreneur of the Year in 2006 and the company was awarded Handelzeitung’s SME of the Month award.

Prior to his part-time studies, Probst was a language teacher at a business school. He gathered experience in corporate and marketing communication as head of communications of the PADI Europe diving school, and as project manager for the Hotelplan travel group.

Roman Probst is the co-host of the largest Xing group in marketing and communications.

Using innovative ideas to achieve international growth

Noëmi Schöni completed her law degree at the University of Bern and has been the head of Law Consulting Schöni since the beginning of 2007. She gained her practical experience at a corporate law firm in Zurich as well as at the Aargau Cantonal Court. After overseeing various projects at the University of Zurich, she is now working on her doctorate in medical law.

Thanks to her wide range of expertise and practical experience, she is now engaged in developing and maintaining new profitable business fields for TRANSLATION-PROBST Ltd. Her particular focus is on achieving international growth in Europe.

Head of Project Management 

Certified translator Deborah Paglialunga heads up the Project Management team for TRANSLATION-PROBST Ltd. In addition to leading the four-person Project Management team, she is also responsible for our interpretation services.

She completed her degree in translation at the Fachhochschule Winterthur (University of Applied Sciences), and studied in the USA and France. She has been able to succeed in her management position thanks to her talent for coordination and her focus on customers’ needs. Before joining TRANSLATION-PROBST Ltd., she was in charge of translation, optimisation, and adaptation of subtitles at the Geneva company Titra Film.

Sonja Portmann is here to assist with the development of your corporate terminology.

Our terminologist Sonja Portmann has a Bachelor of Arts in Slavic Studies and Spanish and she is currently working part-time on a second degree in translation, specialising in technical communication. Read in FH SCHWEIZ’S INLINE magazine about why she decided to study this, and what interests her about it.

Terminology is an essential part of technical communication and is also useful in other fields. Sonja Portmann works on our free terminology service, which ensures that our business customers across all industries receive consistently translated texts.

Talented and extremely engaging

You will presently find the portrait here of our new director of marketing and communication, Denise Mändli-Heusser, who will be joining us on 1 April. We look forward to our team being strengthened by the addition of this enthusiastic, talented and extremely engaging individual!

Your friendly and professional contact person

Nadine Dschulnigg studied translation in four languages at the Zurich University of Applied Sciences Winterthur. Languages fascinate her, whether it be Spanish, English, Portuguese or German, and after a semester abroad, she now feels right at home with the "very British" Mancunian accent.

Always friendly and well-organised, Nadine Dschulnigg is happy to advise you on questions about our translation and text services. Along with Angelo Schafer, Caroline Schibler and Deborah Paglialunga, she processes and takes care of your orders

Your orders are in capable hands

Caroline Schibler enjoys answering all of your queries on the telephone or by email and works together with Deborah Paglialunga, Nadine Dschulnigg, Lisa Sturzenegger and Angelo Schafer to ensure that your orders are processed efficiently and smoothly.

The outstanding foreign language skills that Caroline Schibler acquired while studying in the French-speaking part of Switzerland and in Canada and as well during a work placement with the Youth for Understanding network in Sweden make her an ideal member of the TRANSLATION-PROBST team. In addition to her activities at TRANSLATION-PROBST Ltd., she is also studying Multilingual Communication at the University of Geneva.

Fast, efficient and resilient

Sabrina Jenni studied translation with a focus on “Multilingual Communication” at the Zurich University of Applied Sciences in Winterthur. German, English, French and Spanish are the languages in which she is most proficient, but she also understands Polish and Hungarian, thanks to her eastern European roots. After spending time as an au pair in Bournemouth and completing a semester abroad in Paris, Sabrina understands what it means to truly interact with other cultures. She displays resilience and flexibility not only at work, but also in her personal life. As an ambitious triathlete, she has no problem quickly adapting to challenging conditions.

At TRANSLATION-PROBST Ltd., Sabrina works together with Deborah Paglialunga, Caroline Schibler, Nadine Dschulnigg and Diana Tran in Project Management and ensures that your orders are processed smoothly and efficiently.

info@translation-probst.com

Ensures that the translation software from SDL Trados is put to the best use possible

Tobias Wehrli ensures that the translation software from SDL Trados is put to the best use possible at TRANSLATION-PROBST Ltd. The program recognises all the technical terms, sentence fragments and sentences in your texts that we have translated for you previously and saves them in a data bank, which is available to our translators when they work on your documents. This guarantees the highest degree of consistency in translations and texts.

Tobias Wehrli received his Master’s degree in translation in 2008 (German-French-English-Italian) and since then has been working in the Department for Language Technology at the University of Geneva as a teaching and research assistant. This provides an excellent opportunity to further expand his knowledge in the area of computer-aided translation.

Your contact person for translation and text services

Lisa Sturzenegger studied translation in German, English and French at the Zurich University of Applied Sciences in Winterthur. Thanks to her practical commercial training during secondary school and her experience in customer service, she possesses the ideal foundation for working at TRANSLATION-PROBST Ltd.

Together with the other members of the Project Management team, Lisa Sturzenegger is responsible for the smooth processing of your translation orders and is also your expert contact person for any inquiries related to accounts and billing. With the skills acquired during her studies, she is also a perfect addition and support to the Terminology team.

Versatile language skills and a flair for communication

Sarka Novak works in the Marketing and Communication department. She is responsible for managing the website, supervising the multilingual social media channels and implementing further marketing measures. She is able to expertly make use of her creative flair in our various print projects and also represents us at trade fairs.

Thanks to her versatile language skills and her flair for communication, she is a perfect match for our Marketing department. Alongside her job, Sarka Novak is studying at the Institute for Translation and Interpretation in Geneva. After spending a year abroad in Finland and Italy, she will complete her bachelor’s degree in Multilingual Communication in the summer of 2012.

Your contact partner in Ticino and Italy

After receiving his diploma at the Verkehrsschule (School of Transportation) in Olten, bilingual Ticino native Ramon Schürch began his professional career in the aviation industry at Crossair in Lugano. During his 18 years holding positions of management responsibility with airlines in Ticino and northern Italy, he became extremely adept at combining Swiss quality with Italian creativity. In order to deepen his specialised skills in sales, he left the aviation sector and completed a master’s degree in marketing and sales techniques at the Job&School Institute in Monfalcone. 

Ramon Schürch is responsible for sales at TRANSLATION-PROBST Ltd. in Ticino and northern Italy. He is very familiar with the companies, their wishes and their quirks on both sides of the border. Thanks to his linguistic skills and specialised expertise, he is exactly the right man for this job. He is always happy to give advice and enjoys discussing with you personally how to guarantee an increase in profits with suitable texts and accurate translations.

sales@translation-probst.com

Your contact in Russia

Evgenia Borovikova is our representative in Russia and looks after our customers and partners from St Petersburg. You can contact her, whether it be in Russian, German or English. Ms. Borovikova comes from Irkutsk, where she graduated from the University of Linguistics.

Do you have an exciting on-line platform, an interesting company or an international network? Get added value for your customers and organisation by contacting Ms. Borovikova for an appointment.

The financial and strategic voice of TRANSLATION-PROBST Ltd.

Prof. Dr. Roman Dörig lectures on financial management, business administration and economics at the Institute of Applied Media Sciences at Zurich’s University of Applied Sciences in Winterthur. Until 2002, he worked at the University of St. Gallen, where he also qualified as a professor in the field of business didactics.

Roman Dörig is the owner of Dörig GmbH, which provides vocational consultancy, training and coaching, and he is primarily active in vocational training and as a communications consultant for interpersonal communication (IWL). Roman Dörig is the father of two adult children and lives in Appenzell, Switzerland.