Andrei Gerasimov

Translator from English to Russian and vice versa 
 

Memberships: the Union of Translators of Russia; the Association of Moscow Writers, Dpt. of Translation; the Literary Fund of Russia; the American Translators Association; the Institute of Translation and Interpreting (UK).
 

Bs.&Ms. Physics, Ph.D. Technical Sciences
 

SPECIALTIES: advertising, PR, marketing, electronics, communications, automotive, IT, software, legal, business, media, technical manuals.
 

EXPERIENCE:
Freelance translation/proofreading of advertising, technical and legal documents of TOYOTA, ORION, CASIO, KYOSERA, PHILIPS, ERICSSON, JVC, CANON, TOSHIBA, VARIAN and other companies via ONEWORLD Inc. (Japan), SURREY TRANSLATION BUREAU (UK), MOTHER TONGUE Ltd. (UK), ACCESS TRANSLATIONS (Ireland), ALPHA TRANSLATIONS (Canada), LANGUAGES INTERNATIONAL Inc. (Canada), GLOBAL LANGUAGE SOLUTIONS (USA), WORLDWIDE TRANSLATION CENTER (USA), WORLD TRANSLATION INC. (Korea), G-AGENCY (Czech republic), ANDO PUBLISHING (Czech republic), ITP-EUROPE (Belgium), VERTAALBUREAU VAN HOORN (Netherlands), INTERDIALECT (Russia), LIONBRIDGE, major direct clients - VOLVO CARS, HONDA, FORD MOTOR, PHILIPS, UNESCO (1999-2002).
Linguistic software localization jobs for HP, Canon, Amdocs, Protek Flagship, Babylon.com. (2000-2002).
Free-lance translation of literary and scientific works of N.Lewis, I.Shaw, D.H.Chase, M.Spillaine, H.Robbins, J.Susann, J.Collins, S.Howatch, V.Holt, H.Denker, W.Woolfolk, M.Ford, S.Rann, J.Finder, L.Hightower, J.Sandford, T.Hoag, K.Martin, Fabio, M.Hix, R.Rogers, J.Woolfolk, W.Woolfolk, P&J Vaughan, T.Cabot, J.Elbert, J.Irving. These translations were published by dozens of major Russian and CIS publishers, such as “Terra”, “AST Ltd.”, “Eksmo”, “Raduga”, “Progress”, “Izvestia”, “Pravda”, “Pressa”, “Olma-press”, “Centrpolygraph”, “Russich”, “Interbook”, “Intergraphservice”, “Interdigest” etc (1989-1999).
Total number of translated titles – 56, total number of editions – over 150, total print-run – over 10 million copies.
As a literary agent made about 300 contracts and business letters in English.
Translator since 1981 (full-time - since 1989), literary agent since 1996.
Engineering and scientific research work at the Scientific Research Institute of Radio Engineering, Moscow, from 1980 until 1989.
 

EDUCATION:
The Moscow State University, BSc&MSc in Physics, 1974-1980
Post-graduate courses at the Scientific Research Institute of Radio Engineering, 1982-1986, Ph.D. in Technical Sciences.
Scientific translation courses at the Moscow State University, 1979-1980
Literary translation courses from the Writers Association of the USSR, 1980-1982
Courses in DTP (QuarkXPRESS 4.04), 1999
Courses in conversational American English language, 1999
Courses in "C" programming language, 2000
 

RECOMMENDATIONS from:
VOLVO CARS, HONDA, FORD, PHILIPS, MOBITEX (ERICSSON), UNESCO, Lionbridge, top Russian publishers – “TERRA”, “AST Ltd.”, “EKSMO”, American authors – Joanna Woolfolk, P&J Vaughans, Tracy Cabot, numerous translation agencies.

HARDWARE&SOFTWARE: PC Pentium 4 3GHz/1024 MB RAM/80GB HDD/48xCD ROM, HP Deskjet 610, fax, modem 56kB/sec, UMAX scanner, UPS, answering machine, e-mail, MS Internet Explorer 6.0, MS Office 2000, Adobe Acrobat 7.0, SDL TRADOS 2007 FL, Wordfast 4.
 

• Adobe Acrobat
• Adobe Photoshop
• PowerPoint
• SDLX Translation Suite
• TRADOS
• Wordfast
• MS Office 2000