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Portuguese to Russian
Spanish to Russian

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Vladimir Filipenko
Quality and reliability for 27+ years!

Moscow, Moskva
Local time: 22:05 MSK (GMT+3)

Native in: Russian Native in Russian
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About me

Professional Russian translator since 1980
Source languages: English, Portuguese, Spanish
Target languages: Russian (native speaker), Ukrainian (near-native)

Specialties:
* general business (incl. contracts), sophisticated legal documents, finance & banking;
* computer science, hardware (incl. tech. specifications) & software (incl. localization), Internet & WWW (incl. Web-site translation & localization);
* wide range of technical fields: from aerospace to oil and gas equipment, mining to automotive, industrial equipment to general & mech. engineering (incl. manuals, user instructions etc.)

Qualifications
In 1980 graduated from Moscow State University of Linguistics (former Moscow State Institute of Foreign Languages "Maurice Thorez"), Dept. of Translation and Interpretation. M.A. equivalent in Linguistics.


Experience
In translation business since 1980.
* 40,000 words per month free-lance translation (full-time) for firms and translation agencies in Russia, USA, UK, Spain, Australia, Japan, and elsewhere. 1997-present.
* Uni-V-Tour Translation Agency, Moscow, Russia. Translated wide range of documents, technical & business materials. 1996-97.
* Full-time freelance translator for companies, banks, foreign diplomatic missions, governmental & public organizations in Moscow, Russia. 1991-1996.
* "Novosti" Press Agency (at present - RIA "Novosti"), Moscow, Russia. Translated wide range of press materials from/to Russian, English, Portuguese. 1987-1990
* TASS News Agency (at present - ITAR-TASS), Moscow, Russia. Translated wide range of press materials from/to Russian, English, Portuguese. 1982-1987.
* "New Times" weekly magazine, Moscow, Russia. Translated articles & other publications from Russian to English and Portuguese.

Selected clients
* Intel Corporation (EMEA Division, Moscow Office). Since 1997 translating their huge Russian Web-site (at www.intel.ru), as well as press releases, technical specifications, information and business documents, at an average of 6,000 words per week.
* Transtek Associates Inc., Wakefield, MA, USA. Translating user manuals (typesetting and photo processing equipment) and other tech. materials on a regular basis.
* Sykes Enterprises, Incorporated, Boulder, Colorado, USA. Software localization, translation/edit of strings, Help files, on-line and off-line User Guides.
* PAICE Corporation, NYC, NY, USA. Translating automotive-related materials, business & legal documents.
* Global Communications, LLC, Washington, DC. Translation of official reports for Human Rights Watch.
* DELTATEXT S.A., Madrid, Spain. Translating technical documents related to industrial equipment and food processing.
* WIP Tokyo/Osaka, Japan. Translation of legal documents.
* Multilang Internet Services, Salt Lake City, Utah, USA. Web-site translation & localization.

Computer equipment
Hardware: PC Pentium 4 at 3 GHz, RAM 2GB, HDD 1TB, CD-ROM/DVD-ROM burner, printer Epson Stylus Photo 890, Color Scanner, fax facilities, e-mail checked every 20-30 minutes, 24/7 unlimited broadband Internet access.




Software: Windows XP Rus., Windows 98 Rus., Mac OS 9.1, Mac OS X, MS Office XP (and earlier versions), MS Office 2001 for Mac, Corel WP Office 11, Adobe software (PageMaker 6.5, FrameMaker 5.5, Acrobat 6.0, Illustrator), QuarkXpress both for Windows and Mac, HomeSite 5 for Web-localization, Macromedia software (Dreamweaver, Director, Flash), AutoCAD 2002; Alchemy Catalyst 6, Passolo 4.0, SDL Trados 8.0, DejaVu X, Transit 2.7 Pro, as well as many other types of software. Tons of Cyrillic fonts, both TrueType and Poscript.

Other relevant info
HTML-literate. Excellent knowledge of word processing applications such as Word, WordPerfect, Excel and Apple Works, and good international keyboard skills. Good knowledge of graphic applications such as CorelDraw and Adobe. High ability to handle PowerPoint presentations. Internet expertise.
Easy communication: 24-hr fax, e-mail, unlimited Internet access.
Strict adherence to deadlines.
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