Victor I. Sidelnikov, Ph.D.

 

 

Translation, Proofreading, Editing

 

 

Ms. Physics, Ph.D. Physics , Moscow State University

 

1998 -             Freelance translator

1991-1998      IT company R-Star, top-manager

1988-1991      Freelance translator

         1984       Ph.D. in Physics, Moscow State University

1978-1988      Moscow State University, researcher

1973-1978      Physical Institute of Academy of Sciences, researcher

         1973       Ms. Physics, Moscow State University

 

SPECIALIZATION:

Technical

·  Software, Documentation, Help files, Manuals

·  Computers and Peripheral Equipment

·  Telecommunications, Internet, IT

·  Engineering, Electronics, Metallurgy, Automotive

·  Physics

Commercial

·  Business, Banking

·  Finance, Forex, Stock market

·  Contracts

 

EXPERIENCE:

More than 20 years (since 1974) in technical and scientific translation.

 

CURRENT POSITIONS:

·  Freelance translator

·  Editor of several Microsoft-related magazines (Visual Studio, C#, C/C++)

·  LQE for Russian in big IT project

 

Mainly I work using Trados. Accordingly I have rich TMs in following areas: software, computers, electronics and telecommunications, auto, engineering, economics and finances, FOREX. I have wide experience in tagged text documents translation using Trados, including XML files, texts from FrameMaker, PageMaker and QuarkXPress - mostly in translation and localization of software and manuals.

 


BOOKS TRANSLATED:

M.Minasi et al., "Windows Server 2003"

A.Adkoli, R.Velpuri, "Oracle9i for Windows Handbook"

R.Thomsett, "Radical Project Management"

J.F.Rabek, "Experimental Methods in Photochemistry and Photophysics"

 

RECENT JOBS:

Manuals

·  Printers (Star Micronics, Olivetti, Kyocera)

·  Transmitters and probes for fluids (Magnetrol Int.)

·  Machines for material's testing (Instron)

·  Dust separators (Aertecnica S.p.A.)

·  Medical equipment (Agfa, Siemens)

·  Telecom (Ericsson, Huaghes Network Systems, Butler)

·  Networking equipment and components (Marshall-Tufflex, Knur AG, Siemon Systems)

·  IC for digital networks (MITEL)

·  Network testers, analyzers (Fluke Networks)

·  Kiln/Raw mill (tech. project, FLSmidt)

·  PERC machines P and SP (Sailstar)

·  Acura MDX car (Honda)

·  Truck cranes (GROVE)

·  Portable generators and compressors (Atlas Copco)

Software and related

·  Linguistic software localization jobs for Agfa, Lotus, Novell, SAP, Oracle, Microsoft

·  Websites translations for Star Micronics, Forex Millennium, InfoCasa, Betfair.com

·  Editing of SAP project for a large multinational company in Russia

·  Editing of Caterpillar project

 

Also I have done a lot of translations for All-Union Center of Translations (scientific and technical papers, manuals and documents), USSR Chamber of Commerce (manuals and documents), publishing house "MIR" (scientific papers and book), p.h. "Lory" (books), RusAl, Agip. Translation of documents and projects of  Shneider Electric, TTI Telecom, Microsoft, March MMC, Merloni Elettrodomestici, J.W.Lemmens Gmb, VAI, East Line Group, Siemon, Marshall-Tufflex, Huaghes Network Systems and others have been done for my clients. Please contact me for additional information

 

SOFTWARE:

TRADOS 6.5.5 FL, Star Transit iX, MS Office 2003, WebWorks 2003, FineReader 7.0, Adobe Acrobat 6.0, MS Helium 4, MS LocStudio 4, Adobe PageMaker 7.0, Adobe FrameMaker 7.1, QuarkXPress 6.0, Corel Ventura 10, CorelDraw 12, AutoCAD 2004, various dictionaries.