EXPERTISE

10+ years overall experience of in-house and freelance translation.

Industrial and technical translations for the largest Russian car maker AVTOVAZ, which include:

translation/DTP of technical manuals (including many officially published AVTOVAZ manuals), brochures, bulletins, and specification sheets with strong emphasis on automotive engineering. Also business mail, legal documents, contracts, presentations, etc.

Interpreting at negotiations and business meetings held between AVTOVAZ senior executives and representatives of GM, Opel, JSC GM-AVTOVAZ, Ford, Renault, Porsche, Fiat, FGP (FIAT-GM Powertrain), Bosch, Delphi, Johnson Controls, General Electric Plastics, Continental, TNO Automotive, Tenneco Automotive, Saab Ericsson Space, Siemens VDO, AVL, Carcerano, ThyssenKrupp, Haden, SCS/Frigette, York Refrigeration, Schaffner, Comau, Komatsu, Itochu Group and many others.

WORK HISTORY

2008 – present:

Extramile Translations: translator and project manager 

1999 – 2008:

JSC AVTOVAZ, Foreign Relations Department, Translations Bureau

Translator/Interpreter

Togliatti, Russia

- Translating technical documentation, financial, commercial and legal documents

- Interpreting at technical and business meetings, presentations and conferences

1998 TACIS program, Interpreter

Samara, Russia

- TACIS program on land cadastre in Samara region

1997 Mayor's Office, Togliatti

Foreign Economic & International Relations Department

Translator

Togliatti, Russia

- Business correspondence translations

ACADEMIC HISTORY

 - Samara State University (Russia) – honors degree

  Qualification: English translator/interpreter

 - Togliatti Polytechnic – Automotive Engineering

CERTIFICATES

 SDL Trados Certified

HARDWARE & SOFTWARE

- IBM PC, laser printer, scanner, modem

-  SDL Trados, Microsoft Office (Word, Excel, Access, PowerPoint), Microsoft Visio, Adobe Acrobat, Adobe Photoshop, Adobe Illustrator, QuarkXPress, and other industry standard software

• Adobe Acrobat
• Adobe Photoshop
• PowerPoint
• TRADOS
• Windows Vista/XP, Microsoft Office 2003/XP (Word, Excel, Access, PowerPoint), Adobe Photoshop