Dylan Carter, BA
Founder and Manager of
CARTERCOMMUNICATION
Nationality and residence: American-Australian citizen, currently in Austin, Texas with a permanent-residence and work permit (Niederlassungserlaubnis) for Germany (lived in Berlin from 2004–2016)
Contact: dylan@carter-communication.com
Particular Strengths
- Years of international business experience and working with people from multiple cultures:
- Corporate language training
- Communication consulting and multilingual marketing
- Translation, editing, and proofreading (German, English, and Spanish)
- Interpretation (simultaneous and consecutive)
- Data-analysis
- Customer service
- Sales
- Excellent interpersonal communication and language skills: trilingual (German, English, and Spanish)
- English native speaker: highly trained in rhetoric, composition, grammar, and style
- German: advanced spoken and written proficiency (CEF C1–C2; ILR S-4–S-5, “Advanced Professional–Bilingual Proficiency”)
- Spanish: near-native written and spoken proficiency (CEF: C1–C2; ILR S-4–S-5, “Advanced Professional–Bilingual Proficiency”); Formal education and experience in the Spanish language and Latin culture since the age of 16
- Strong team spirit, motivational and organizational skills
- Open, communicative, and friendly demeanor
- Skills and experience required to develop and streamline clients’ international operations/sales, internal and external multilingual corporate communication media and on-site corporate language training
Professional Experience in Europe
October 2004–December 2016: CARTERCOMMUNICATION, Berlin, Germany
Owner and project manager: Multilingual Digital Marketing, Corporate Communication Consultant & Business-English/Spanish Coach
- On-site corporate language training for employees and managers from multiple industries as well as entrepreneurs and students
- Creation of specifically-tailored Business-English, Spanish, and communication-consulting courses with optimal training groups for clients’ respective core competencies and language needs
- Foreign language proficiency-level assessments according to the “Common European Framework of Reference for Languages (CEFR)”
- Revision and optimization of internal and external corporate publications, multilingual marketing material and presentations based on client-specific German-English glossaries and style guides
- Coaching in rhetoric, sales, presenting, and negotiating
- Motivating clients to overcome speaking inhibitions via improving their business English/Spanish and general communication skills as well as providing them with the required translation, pronunciation, and accent training
- Increasing intercultural and interpersonal understanding via analyzing the causes and conditions of conflict in general as well as preconceived (often erroneous) views and stereotypes
- Introducing new perspectives, opportunities, and mental freedom into subjective experience
- Extensive travel in Asia, Australia, and Europe
2005–Present: CARTERCOMMUNICATION, Berlin, Germany
Copywriter, Translator, Interpreter, and Editor (German, English, and Spanish)
- Copywriting, translation, interpretation, editing, and proofreading (German, English, and Spanish) for numerous companies in various industries, political and nonprofit organizations as well as professors and students at several universities
- Concurrent composition of client-specific word-choice documents and “style and usage guides” in order to proof various options for ambiguous and recurrent terms/formulations prior to publication and to distinguish the subtle differences and meanings of the respective industry-specific terms or expressions
- Orders have consisted of all types of internal and external publications, marketing and advertising materials as well as micro-and macro market analyses, sales brochures, contracts/quotes, portfolios, resumes, technical, and legal as well as personal documents.
Professional Experience and Education in the Americas
2001–2004: Continental Airlines, Houston, TX USA
Certified Spanish-English Interpreter & Operational Performance Coordinator
- Experience both in management and as a front-line employee throughout the U.S. and Latin America in translation/interpretation, customer service, internal and external corporate communication in various media, and data analysis
- Liaison between employees in 16 departments and their respective management
- Responsible for analyzing data and reporting on operations at over 320 airports worldwide
- Author and editor of articles for the Monthly Operational Update magazine
- Extensive travel in the Americas, Australia, and Europe
December 2000: Cum Laude Graduate from the University of Texas at Austin
- BA in the Spanish language; minor in English (3.74 GPA: comparable to the German 1.3)
- Six-month exchange program at the University of Costa Rica
- General studies included: linguistics, phonetics, rhetoric, philosophy of mind, psychology, international politics and commerce