Welcome to my profile. Inspired by the ProZ.com developments, I started my paid membership in 2004 and am happy to be among its pioneers offering an uncompromising commitment to quality.
As a certified expert of English and German, translating since 1987, I guarantee excellent translation results and am ready to take on a project of any complexity and volume.

My experience in brief: Computers starting from a monochrome Robotron in the early 90s, then PC-XT, 286/386/486 ... Solid translation and team management experience. March 1997 through July 2000: Chief of Translation Bureau, Tula Chamber of Commerce and Industry, Russia.

Areas of expertise:

• Business: Bilingual contracts, minutes, presentation materials, corporate information, marketing, proposals
• Finance: Stock and financial market analysis, accounting, taxation, insurance
• Legal: Constituent instruments, grant agreements, legal notices
• Software localization: In-app interface localization
• Game localization: full in-game text localization / graphical contents localization / audio script localization / user manual translation / strategy guide translation / press kit translation / legal texts / game testing and QA support / localization of game marketing materials (website translations, banners, etc.)
• Medical: Health programs and plans (booklets, brochures, guides), medical devices, case records, examination results with conclusion decisions, other records (translations are checked by physicians)
• Technical: Photography (shooting techniques; camera features; image processing in Corel graphics package and in Photoshop); Automotive (with factory approved terminology; workshop literature, maintenance instructions, specifications); brewing as well as electronics, audio & video equipment, IT, software, and telecommunications sectors, metallurgy (casting machines, installations at metallurgical works, applied standards), printing facilities
• Education and training: Rules and policies of middle and high schools; e-learning programmes for service partners (on new product use), employees and experts in specific areas
• Travels & Hotels: Travel brochures and hotel descriptions

Ongoing projects:

• Diagnostics and operation of vehicles (trucks, buses, trailers): Diagnostic software and maintenance of hydraulic/pneumatic/electrical systems (brakes, suspensions, ECUs, advanced/innovative functions used to increase safety, etc.)
• High-voltage power and data cable testing and diagnostics, cable fault location, partial discharge detection, reflectometers, surge voltage generators, other devices, computer hardware (system units, networking: access points, routers, other communication equipment)
• Press releases: Sales and marketing effectiveness software, global business aviation companies, innovative noninvasive monitoring technologies, application performance companies, ERP and SCM solution providers, other topics
• Corporate: Presentations and booklets containing annual reports, product catalogues, marketing and sales information, descriptions of developed projects

Useful dictionaries available for free download from my site:

• German-Russian dictionary on electronics
• Russian-English dictionary on power transmissions and mechanisms (with pictures)
• German-Russian terms in the cutting theory (with drawings)

Quality Assurance:

• Consistency of terminology and specific glossaries, QA using software tools.
• Editing/proofreading.
• Preserving the original layout.
• Receiving customer feedback to include latest necessary changes.