Professional Experience

Name: John R. Golze

Languages:

Native speaker of German

Near-native speaker of English

Working knowledge of French, Spanish

Reading knowledge of Portuguese, Italian, Dutch

Latin (Großes Latinum at Abitur, Germany)

Reading and some speaking knowledge of Danish, Swedish

Conversational and grammatical knowledge of Turkish

Studied Tahitian, Chinese, Japanese, Russian, Syriac languages

Writing Systems: Studied Chinese, Japanese, Korean, Cyrillic, Greek, Hebrew

Certifications:

Interpretation of English to German, 1998, Translation Department, Corp. of the President (the business arm of the LDS Church), Salt Lake City

Professional Affiliations:

Institute of Linguists, (A.I.L.) London, England

Institute of Physics, (GradInstP) London, England

Scope of Qualifications/Skills:

Linguistic Consulting, Name Entity Recognition, Computational Linguistics, Knowledge Engineering, Interpretation, Translation, Diacritics, Proofreading and Editing, Voice Talent, Teaching and Training.

Education:

· M.A. in Linguistics (Focus: R. Jakobson, J.-M. Zemb, etc.), 1989: Brigham Young University, Provo, Utah, USA

· PhD studies/research in Physics, focus on Acoustics, 1980-1983: Brigham Young University, Provo, Utah, USA

· M.Sc. in Solid State Physics, 1979: University of Sheffield, England

· B.Sc. in Physics, 1978: University of Hull, England

· Abitur (humanities), 1970: Herzog-Ernst-Gymnasium, Uelzen, Germany

Awards and Honors:

‘Thesis of the Year’ award, 1989

Experience:

· Interpreter and Coordinator for Interpretation (English/German); working on a team with interpreters for 56 languages over a world-wide satellite broadcast system. 1991-present.

· English/German Translation work for various companies (business, science, software, advertising, tourism, etc.)

· Research Internship, 1985-1986: Phonological ‘fingerprints’ of 16 European languages for a large organisation.

· Research Internship, 1983-1984: Feasibility of automated Name Entity Recognition for a large organisation.

Other Professional Experience:

· Researched and developed theory and model for non-linguistic cognition (visual) in family-history, 1995, 2001-2003. Implementation in progress

· Linguistic oversight for new software, for the German, French, Spanish, Portuguese, and Japanese languages and the Japanese, Korean, Chinese, and Cyrillic writing systems, 1998-2002

· Preparation of Roman-language diacriticals preservation in a terabyte system conversion to Unicode, 2001

· Expansion of English name entity recognition for geographical names for a large system to over 20 languages, 1991; adding Japanese, Chinese, Korean, and Russian, 2000

· Research and development of automated mono/bi/multi-lingual name entity recognition (type/token-based) for several large databases (terabyte and smaller) including a billion names (token) with millions of unique names (type) globally, 1991, 1996, 1998

· Reference Books for Name Entity Recognition research: The Most Frequent Personal Names in the World, 1993; Countries and Counties globally, in 21 Languages, 1992; Months and Weekdays in 30 Languages, 1995

· Author of defining documentation about name entity recognition for personal names in very large systems, 1994

· Development of structured Global Corpus of 20 million personal names, by type, token, and origin, for Name Entity Recognition research, 1993

· Translation/localisation of software into German, 1991

· Leading theoretical work, modeling, development, and implementation of automated name entity recognition, for global personal and geographical names; 1990s

· Research and development for the identification and utilisation of linguistic (phonological and syntactic) patterns in name entity recognition, 1986-1989

Teaching Experience:

· 1984-1985: German Language Teacher – language acquisition for persons/couples over age 60, before their assignment to Germany.

· 1983: Research Assistant: Department of Physics and Astronomy, Brigham Young University, Provo, Utah, USA

· 1980-1983: Teaching Assistant – first and second year physics courses, labs, tutorial labs, grading of examinations, some lecturing; Department of Physics and Astronomy, Brigham Young University, Provo, Utah, USA

To request a free, no strings-attached quote for any of your linguistic needs, please contact me at:

E-mail: jrg@datrec.com

Telephone: 801.965.6059

John R. Golze

6276 S. Mt. Vista Dr., Taylorsville, Utah 84084-1326