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Curriculum Vitae

Freelance Translator

Lipattsev, Andrey Yurievich 0044-8701351085 (Fax)

79098 Freiburg, Deutschland

Date of birth: 16 April 1980 Nationality: Russian

Summary

Professional translator with over 14 years experience in business, economic, technical, telecom, medicine, nutrition, literature, art, sports and other language areas. Emphasis on quality and speed of work. Extensive knowledge of 6 European languages and useful background knowledge of 4 European and 2 Asian languages.

Language skills

Native speaker / Russian
Fluent / English
University of Cambridge Certificate in Advanced English - Grade “A” (Dec 1997);
High School Exams – Grade “A” (July 1994)
Spanish
University of Alcala & Madrid CIC Superior Certificate in Business Spanish – Grade 8.2 out of 10 (May 2000); Spanish-English & English-Spanish translation exams – First class (May 2002)
French
GGSB Exams – distinction (June 2003); High School Exams – Grade “A” (July 1994)
Czech
German
DSH exam at the Freiburg University – Grade 2 (good) (March 2006)
TestDaF exam – Grade 4.5 of 5 (February 2006)
Düsseldorf Institute for International Communication – Grade 1,0 (Mar 2005)
False beginner / Polish; Bulgarian; Italian; Portuguese; Chinese; Hindi.

Software

MS Windows XP; MS Office Pro (entire suite); PaintShop Pro; Corel Draw; Adobe (full suite); Trados; DejaVu, Transit etc.

Relevant Employment and Professional Experience

Oct 2004-present

Position: Freelance Translator

Description: Engaged as a full-time freelancer with agencies such as Kenax (www.kenax.cz); Net Translators (www.net-translators.com); (www.ptsgi.com); Transperfect (www.transperfect.com); NCI (www.nci.be), Technicis (www.technicis.fr) etc.

1997-2004 “Lanari GmbH”, Germany; “ANAR Moda s.r.o.”, Czech Republic

Position: In-house translator.

Description: Several Trainee, Intern and Managerial positions entailing a large amount of translating and interpreting work in areas ranging from international documentary trade to medicine, and from finance to cottage industry manufacturing techniques.

1994-1997 “Supernova” Magazine (Russian Edition), Moscow, Russia

English to Russian translator. Several published translations in various issues.

Largest Recent Projects

Source / Target / Word Count / Field / CAT / Client / Date
German / Russian / 13426,10 / Engineering / Araya / Zelenka / 05.03.2008
Russian / English / 15517,00 / Business / N/A / Intertranslations / 01.04.2008
Russian / English / 10200,00 / Business / N/A / Transwell / 06.05.2008
English / Russian / 15597,00 / HR / N/A / Shakti Enterprise / 12.05.2008
English / Russian / 13687,50 / Engineering / SDLX / Transperfect / 10.06.2008
English / Russian / 13125,00 / Oil & Gas / N/A / Book Web Translations / 13.06.2008
Russian / English / 24654,00 / Business / N/A / Transperfect / 01.08.2008
English / Russian / 11475,50 / Business / N/A / Transperfect / 04.08.2008
English / Russian / 13743,00 / Business / N/A / Transperfect / 26.08.2008
English / Russian / 18064,75 / Games / Trados / Net-Translators / 12.10.2008
French / English / 10621,10 / Legal / Trados / Paspartu / 05.01.2009
Russian / English / 19648,00 / Business / N/A / Transperfect / 23.01.2009
English / Russian / 9214,00 / HR / Trados / Transperfect / 26.01.2009
English / Russian / 8772,67 / HR / Trados / Transperfect / 26.02.2009
Spanish / English / 18832,30 / Engineering / Trados / Paspartu / 13.04.2009
Russian / English / 15030,00 / Occult / Trados / Book Web Translations / 13.05.2009
English / Russian / 22174,50 / Finance] / Trados / Net-Translators / 08.06.2009
English / Russian / 36471,00 / Engineering / Virtaal / Lexicae / 17.06.2009
English / Russian / 36000,00 / IT / Trados / Net-Translators / 06.08.2009
French / Russian / 80 hours / HR / N/A / Transperfect / 12.08.2009
English / Russian / 20412,00 / Business / N/A / Transperfect / 15.09.2009
German / English / 12600,00 / Engineering / Transit / Book Web Translations / 21.10.2009
English / Russian / 10011,00 / Marketing / Trados / Sisel International / 24.11.2009

References

Mr Karel Kosman, Owner, KENAX -

Mr David Sommer, Project manager, Net Translators -

Ms Helena Silva, Department manager, Transperfect Translations -

Education[1]

2003-2004 Graduate School of Business (GGSB) at the Grenoble Ecole de Management, France

Masters in International Business (MIB)

Grade – Distinction

1998.2002  University of Hull, UK

Joint Honours Undergraduate Degree in Business Studies and Spanish (BA)

Grade – Upper Second Class

2000.2001  Year Out (Erasmus) at the University of Oviedo, Spain

1997.1998  King’s St. Joseph’s Hall College, Oxford, UK

Foundation Course for Humanities and Business-Related Disciplines

Grade – “Starred” Merit Pass

1986.1994  High School No. 28, Moscow, Russia

Grade – “Golden” A (“A” in all subjects)

[1] Detailed course transcripts available upon request