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Oleg Lyashenko PROFESSIONAL ENGLISH><RUSSIAN TRANSLATOR & INTERPRETER Over 20 years' experience LINGO S LTD. Office address: Pulkveža Brieža 4-4 Riga LV1010 Latvia. Tel./Fax: +371 67336167 www.lingos.lv E-mail 1: accounts@lingos.lv E-mail 2: projects@lingos.lv Home address: Dzervju 3-85 Riga LV1019 Latvia. Mobile: +371 26462980. PERSONAL INFORMATION Date of Birth: 25.02.1957 Place of Birth: Baku, Azerbaijan Nationality: Russian Marital Status: Married EDUCATION & QUALIFICATIONS 1997 - 1982 State Pedagogical University of Foreign Languages, Baku, Azerbaijan (former USSR Republic) Diploma in Teaching English as a Foreign Language. Since 1996 Certified Legal Translator. PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE TRANSLATION & LOCALISATION • General areas of expertise Commerce, Finance, Business Law, Accounting, Legislation, Economics, Consumer Products, Marketing, Technology, Mechanics, Civil Engineering, Technical Manuals, Legal Documents, Environment, Web Pages, etc • Major recent & on-going projects End Client Description Languages Volume Period STB Various projects, including EU documentation, engineering manuÍ„Â?ls, travel brocjures, etc En>Ru 2000-present Pentax Digital Cameras – Operating manuals En>Ru 2003-2006 Lloyd Instruments Ltd Materials Testing Machines – Specifications & Testing Software En>Ru ca. 250 pages 2002 European Commission Radionavigation Plan of Russian Federation; Radionavigation Programme of CIS countries for 2001-2005 Ru>En ca. 200 pages 2002 EUROSTAT Principles and practices of European Statistics for CIS and Russian National Statistics Offices En>Ru ca. 350 pages 2001 E.Wood Ltd Copon & Thortex Industrial Coatings & Protection Systems for Oil & Gas Industry, Automotive Industry, Structures & Buildings: Application Equipment, Technical Specifications, MSDS, Tests Reports, Sales Support Materials, etc. En>Ru over 500 pages 1996-2005 • Software used: MS Word 2000, Excel, FrontPage, PowerPoint, Acrobat Reader, WinZip, Norton AntiVirus. CONSEQUITIVE INTERPRETING • Over 15 years' experience in interpreting during projects implementation, business negotiations, business visits, presentations, seminars, meetings, etc in England, Ireland, France, Denmark, Switzerland, The Netherlands, Russia, Latvia. SIMULTANEOUS INTERPRETING • Barents Rescue 2001 International Exercises, Boden, Sweden: Interpreted at lecture workshop (4 days). Topics: emergency management in case of nuclear accidents, political & human approach to a crisis, environmental & health issues, consequences for agricultural and food products, crisis information management. • International Seminar: Anticorrosion Protection of Oil & Gas Tanks, Moscow, Russia, 2000. • Barents Region Rescue Services Cooperation, Luleo, Sweden. Conference, May 13-16, 2003. TEACHING ENGLISH & RUSSIAN • Riga Technical University, Latvia: Teaching English as a Second Language to students of Mechanical Engineering, Production Automation, Computer Science, Mechanics, Electronics, Civil Engineering, Textile Industry. • Excel International College of Languages, Cork, Ireland. Introductory Russian language evening course for business clients. ACADEMIC WORK • Participated in research work and compilation of The Systematic Dictionary Of English Nouns (Baku, 1986). • Wrote & published a number of papers on methods of teaching English for students of technical professions. EMPLOYMENT HISTORY 11.2000 – present SIA Lingo S Translation Bureau, Pulkveža Brieža 4-4, LV1010 Riga, Latvia. Managing Director & Co-Founder. Translator/Proofreader/Editor. 11.1996 – 02.2005 SIA LTkonsults Translation Bureau, Pulkveža Brieža 4-4, LV1010 Riga, Latvia. Managing Director & Co-Founder. In 2000 established and manage LINGO-S Company for international translation and interpreting services while continuing working as freelance translator & interpreter. 10.1994 – 10.1996 SIA HEV, Riga. Technical Translator & Interpreter. 07.1993 – 09.1994 Latvian Waterways Company, Riga. Technical Translator & Interpreter. 04.1992 – 06.1993 Arfa Company, Riga. International Secretary. 09.1985 – 03.1992 Riga Technical University, Riga. Department of Foreign Languages. Teacher of English for Special Purposes. 12.1982 – 09.1985 Riga Boarding School No.4. Teacher of English as a Foreign Language. 06.1981 – 11.1982 State Pedagogical University of Foreign Languages, Baku, Azerbaijan. Research Assistant at The Department of Applied Linguistics. REFERENCES Available upon request