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About me

1957 

I was born in the beautiful city of Hamburg in northern Germany. In intervals of two years, my brothers Peter and Tim followed.
 

1963

My father was hired by a German company for an assignment in Lagos, Nigeria, and our whole family moved to Africa in November 1963. Since there was no German school in Lagos back then, I started school at the British Corona School, where I very quickly learned English.   Karsten Petersen 1963
 

1966

An army putsch took place in Nigeria that eventually led to the outbreak of the Nigerian Civil War. The country was not safe any more and we returned to Hamburg.
 

1970

My father accepted another assignment abroad, this time in Tehran, Iran, where I attended the German School Tehran.
 

1971

We returned to Hamburg, where I subsequently attended the Gymnasium in Buckhorn.
 

1972

I entered the renowned boarding school Internatsgymnasium Schloss Plön, where I stayed for two years.
 

1974

We again moved overseas, this time to Wilmington, Delaware, USA, where I attended Thomas McKean HighSchool for two years and subsequently studied electrical engineering at the University of Delaware.
 

1979

I returned to my home town of Hamburg and worked as an application programmer for the following ten years, initially as an employee, later as a freelancer.
 
  Karsten Petersen 1987
 

1990

From 1990 until 2006, I worked for the Hamburg-based software company On Time Informatik GmbH, which sells its software products world-wide. At On Time, I was responsible for marketing, sales and product documentation. On this job, I used the english language on a daily basis and utilized various Windows software packages (see Tools).
 

2001

My wife Yvonne and I got married. Early in 2002, Yvonne moved from her home town of Singapore to join me in Hamburg, where we have been living happily together ever since.
 

2004

I passed the examination as a certfied translator, see Certification. Shortly afterwards, I began working as a translator, see Books.
 
  Karsten Petersen 2006

 

 
 

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