5 years as an in-house translator (management consulting) in one of the "Big 4" global consulting firms. Work for one of the largest oil&gas company (accounting). Work for one of the largest telecommunications companies (billing).

30+ years as a free-lance and in-house translator in telecommunications, accounting, oil&gas, information technology, management, organizational systems, electronic business, project management, decision support systems, contracts and business process reengineering areas.

Education:
Diploma with honours, engineer, "Computerized Control Systems", Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology (MFTI).
Post-graduate studies in the Institute of Control Sciences of the Russian Academy of Science.
Philosophy Doctor Degree, "Management in Economical and Social Systems".
Completed more than 20 training courses on translation, consulting, project management, system implementation, e-business, MS Office, etc.

An author of several corporate databases and bi-lingual explanatory glossaries of professional terms (Telecommunications, accounting, Internet and electronic business, management consulting methodologies, project management, SAP R/3 implementation methods, telecommunications, disaster recovery planning, etc.). Author of more than 1800 articles in the Internet glossary MultiTran.

Launched and organized cooperative work with the computer added translation tool DejaVu by 2 translation groups

Publications: 4 books, 5 booklets and 59 scientific articles on the Management Science, Operations Research and Transportation Science published.

Computer knowledge: An experienced computer user, former system developer, familiar with Microsoft Windows and Office, Trados, DejaVu, WordFast.

Available electronic dictionaries: ABBY Lingvo, Multilex, Multitran, The American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, Random House Webster's unabridged electronic dictionary, Collins English dictionary and thesaurus, a large number of freeware electronic dictionaries.

Language pair: English-Russian, Russian-English
Throughput: 1+ hour per 1800 symbols.
Rates: negotiable, depend on complexity and deadlines.

Translation philosophy: Do today as much as you can endure and a bit more. Be accurate. Check with experts and dictionaries. Do not use slang. Meet deadlines at all costs.