Резюме: удаленный переводчик, Дружковка

Oleksiy Shkondin
Engelsa street 91, ap.3, Druzhkovka, Ukraine
Telephone (Home): +380667336829
Email: ashkondin@hotmail.com

Professional profile
A confident and successful translation specialist having served multiple professional roles in various industries for over ten years. Capable of working in high-pressure deadline based environments and possess team building, conflict resolution and negotiation skills needed to serve both public as well as private sector undertakings. Highly motivated and acquired advanced abilities in multiple languages such as Russian, French, Ukrainian and English in all areas such as translation, oral and written communication. Possess advanced knowledge in all the software tools like Trados, TradeWind, Idiom World Server, TMS, Transit and MS Helium, that help in translation and also conversant with web search and indexing mechanisms to increase page hit ratio.

Career summary

2010-2012 Translation & Localisation Project
Alpha CRC, UK
• Managing project translation, Liaising and interacting with clients, vendors and linguists about translation and procedures, using software such as Trados, TradeWind, Idiom WorldServer and TMS
• Creating and maintain budget reports, analysis reports and invoices
Key Achievements
• Promoted to Project Manager within eight months after starting career as a Production Assistant
• Initially starting with low budget client Xoom and later getting chosen to work for much bigger clients such as McAfee, Symantec and APC as a credit for increased performance

2006-2010 Verification Author
NAMSA (NATO Maintenance and Supply Agency), Ukraine
• Checking arms and ammunition whether in loaded, destroyed and out loaded conditions from arms facilities, auditing arms and ammunition and weapon data components and supervising demilitarisation operations
• Supporting contract management and liaising with staff on ongoing issues, assisting project supervisors during operational VIP visits (US Department of State representatives and US Ambassador to Ukraine among other NATO/NAMSA officials)
• Co-ordinating daily, weekly and monthly data status reporting and assisting in translating project documents
Key Achievements
• Successfully implementing different project phases of different types of ammunition demilitarisation like, MANPADS (man-portable air-defence systems), SALW (small arms and light weapons) and ammunition components
• Maintained four project sites in various different locations of Ukraine, developing own method of auditing and tracking that can cover two project sites simultaneously

2004-2006 Project Manager / Translator
Advanced International Translations (AIT), Ukraine
• Managing project translations for different requirements, using software tools for translational aid like Trados, Transit, MS helium for translating English into Ukrainian and Russian
Key Achievements
• Provided outstanding office support, managed and gathered more information into organizational website to make it the number one in Google search results, delivered projects on time while managing different kinds of projects

2001-2002 Surveillance Officer
Rastr Alpha, Ltd, Ukraine
• Surveillance of games and general casinos, reporting fraud and cheat cases to senior management, implementing and checking credit card transactions
• Working closely with security staff in assisting with conflicting and fraudulent cases, performing other ad hoc duties assigned by the management
Key Achievements
• Improved decision making and alertness dealing with circumstances, ability to work under pressure in both English and Russian/Ukrainian team environments

1993-1994 District Inspector
Druzhkovka Department of Inner Affairs, Ukraine
• Dealing with citizens issues and complaints, delivering inspiring public speech in schools, participating in different operations of department
Key Achievements
• Promoted to the rank of Junior Lieutenant after starting initially as a Sergeant within two months due to excellence in work, developed motivational abilities due to access to all levels of Public Speech and programs

Education and qualifications
MA: Major Diplomacy, University of Reading, UK (2003), Achieved Pass with merit

Specialist Degree: French & English, Gorlovka State Pedagogical Institute of Foreign Languages, Ukraine (1999)

International Studies, Orange Community College, Middletown, USA, (2000)
Key I.T. skills
MS Word, MS Excel, Windows Vista, XP, Outlook, Internet research
Personal details
Interests Include: Social Sciences
References are available on request