Dr. Andrei Gerasimov

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Dr. ANDREI GERASIMOV

English-Russian translator

Member of the Moscow Writers Association, the Literary Fund of Russia, the Union of Translators of Russia, and the American Translators Association.

Ph.D. Technical Sciences

SPECIALTIES:
advertising, promotion, PR, marketing, automotive, manuals, websites, electronics, software localization, IT.

EDUCATION:
The Lomonosov Moscow State University, B.Sc.&M.Sc. Physics, 1974-1980
Post-graduate courses at the Scientific Research Institute of Radio Engineering, 1982-1986, Ph.D. in Technical Sciences
Scientific translation courses at the Lomonosov Moscow State University, 1979-1980
Literary translation courses from the Writers Association of the USSR, 1980-1982
Courses in DTP (QuarkXPress 4.0), 1999
Courses in "C" programming language, 2000 (also experience in the use of Algol, Fortran, html)

EXPERIENCE:

Translation of technical and business documents for Audi AG, Volvo Cars, UNESCO, Philips, Babylon Ltd., Ericsson (Mobitex), Oneworld Inc. (Japan), Access Translations (Ireland), Alpha Translations (Canada), East-West Interchange Inc. (USA), Mother Tongue Writers (UK), Ycomm-Europe (Belgium), Adekvat AB (Sweden), S.T.E.D.-sas (France), Aset Intl. (USA), and many other companies and translation agencies. About 500 thousand words per year since 1999.

Translation of literary works of N.Lewis, I.Shaw, D.H.Chase, M.Spillaine, H.Robbins, J.Susann, J.Collins, S.Howatch, V.Holt, H.Denker, W.Woolfolk, M.Ford, S.Rann, J.Finder, L.Hightower, J.Sandford, T.Hoag, K.Martin, Fabio, M.Hix, R.Rogers, J.Woolfolk, W.Woolfolk, P&J Vaughan, T.Cabot, J.Elbert, J.Irving, E.Weber. These translations were published by dozens of major Russian and CIS publishers, such as "Terra", "AST Ltd.", "Eksmo", "Raduga", "Progress", "Izvestia", "Pravda", "Pressa", "Olma-press", "Centrpolygraph", "Russich", "Interbook", "Intergraphservice", "Interdigest" etc (1989-1999).

Total number of translated titles – 56, total number of editions – over 150, total print-run – over 10 million copies.

As a literary agent made about 300 contracts and business letters in English.

Translator since 1981 (full-time - since 1989), literary agent since 1996.

Free-lance writer. Authored articles on American literature, safe tourism and psychology for popular Russian magazines.

Engineering and scientific research work at the Scientific Research Institute of Radio Engineering, Moscow, from 1980 until 1989.

REFERENCES from:
Philips, Volvo Car, UNESCO, Ericsson, Babylon Ltd., translation agencies - Aset Intl., MTW, Ycomm-Europe, top Russian publishers – "Terra", "AST Ltd.", "Eksmo", American authors – Joanna Woolfolk, P&J Vaughans, Tracy Cabot.

HARDWARE: PC AMD 1100/256 MB RAM/20 GB HDD/48xCD ROM, HP DeskJet 610, modem 56kB/sec, UPS, UMAX scanner, answering/fax machine.

SOFTWARE: MS Windows 98, MS Internet Explorer 6.0, MS Office-97, QuarkXPress 4.04, Adobe Acrobat 4.0, FrontPage 98, FineReader 4.04, Encarta Reference Suite 2000, Britannica, over 20 CD dictionaries, Deja Vu, Wordfast, Trados 5.0, AV packages.