I currently work full-time in the Broward County library system. I just finished the online training as a proofreader and copy editor with universalclass.com with a grade of 99 % - more importantly, I used to work as a free-lance editor for Fischer Verlag in Germany, spent my life reading thousands of books, was a corporate trainer for American Express Travel, where I designed, implemented and improved new curricula for travel agents. I am fluent in German (my native language) and I speak enough French and Spanish to recognize names and places and - I have a talent for analyzing complicated bodies of work, presenting them in a concise, correct and comprehensive form. My plan is to keep my county job part-time and build my own free-lance editing and proofreading business from home. Since this is the beginning of my new business, I can not provide any references for previous copyediting/proofreading work -I do know that I am good at it.