"Everything which is good in me should be credited to books" (Maxim Gorky, Russian writer)

Matt Sundakov: Resume

1A Gilmour Street, Coburg, Vic. 3058

Melbourne, Australia

Emails: matt@bookwebtranslation.com

and matt.sundakov@gmail.com

(to make sure that I receive all your emails, please always send your messages to both these addresses)

Skype: matt.sundakov

Cell phone: (+61) 408 124 498

Comprehensive Book Translation Services http://bookwebtranslation.com/

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Summary:

Education: Degree in Telecommunications

Years of experience:

Translations: since 1975;
Engineering: 1961-1996;
Real Estate: 1997- 2000

Translation Languages:

from English into Russian (or from Russian into English)

Subjects:

Administration, Advertising, Animal Welfare, Art, Astronomy, Books and Libraries, Business, Chemistry, Children Welfare, Community Development, Culture, Current Affairs, Demography, Dictionaries, Economics, Education, Encyclopedias, Entertainment, Environment protection, Family and parenting, Finance, Genealogy, General Knowledge, Genetics, Geography, Glossaries, Government, Health, History, Human rights, Immigration, Insurance, International organizations, Journalism, Law and Order, Linguistics, Literature (including Poetry), Management, Marketing, Medicine, Movies and Video, Music, Nature, Pharmacology, Philosophy, Physics, Politics, Psychiatry, Psychology, Publishing, Race relations, Real Estate, Reference, Religion, Safety and Security, Science, Self-help, Social Welfare, Software, Sport, Statistics, Telecommunications, Television, Textbooks, Theater, Tourism, Transport, Travel, Websites

Available for: Translation, Proofreading, Editing, Preparation of Dictionaries & Glossaries, Creative Writing.

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BACKGROUND

Education

1996 Wellington - Real Estate Sales Persons Course at Open Polytechnic of New Zealand, Certificate.
1974 - 1975 Leningrad USSR - Advanced Course for the Improvement of the Professional Skills of Supervisory Personnel, Certificate with Honours.
1957 - 1961 Leningrad USSR - Electrical Engineering Institute for Communication Systems. Degree in Telecommunications (equivalent to Bachelor of Engineering).

Professional Experience

From March 2000 - Founder and Director of an international company Comprehensive Book Translation Services (CBTS). This company provides high quality translations of all kinds of books and websites: fiction and non-fiction, technical and otherwise - covering almost any language pair and any subject. For more information please refer to: http://bookwebtranslation.com/

In addition, I provide English consulting for Russian speakers and Russian consulting for English speakers - please refer to: http://www.bookwebtranslation.com/rusonweb.htm

1980 - 2000 (since arrival in New Zealand from Russia): In addition to full time work listed below, I was involved in the following part-time freelance activities:

Taught Russian at Wellington High School Community Institute
Taught Russian and English as a Second Language at Mana College (evening classes).
Did translations from English into Russian and from Russian into English for the Wellington Chamber of Commerce and Department of Internal Affairs.
Did regular translations of various articles from the Soviet scientific magazine "Telecommunications and Radio Engineering" for Scripta Technica Inc. (USA), a subsidiary of John Wiley and Sons Inc.

Full time work during the same (1980-2000) period:

Jan 1997 - to February 2000:Bethunes Real Estate, Residential Property Consultant.
Feb 1988 - Oct 1996: BOC Gases New Zealand Limited, Standards and Systems Engineer - Development of new, and revisions of existing, engineering standards. Constant development and improvement of the company's comprehensive technical documentation system. Design of various forms and formats for efficient and presentable documentation control and reporting. Development of Technical Library Data Base in Microsoft System and Vendor Master Data Base in SAP R/3 System.
April 1980 - Jan 1988: Electricorp, Assistant Engineer & Financial Officer - Planning and development of computer systems of technical and financial information, and the use of these systems in communications projects. Preparation of budgets, works programs and cost estimates; resource planning and expenditure control.

Prior to 1980 (Russian Experience):

1961 - 1979 Various Organizations for Design of Communications Facilities - Leningrad USSR. Standards, specific projects and training (positions from Engineer to Team Leader).

Technical Publications

1969 Design of Crossbar Automatic Telephone Exchanges for Rural Areas (ATS K 100/2000) Moscow USSR. Co-author of the above book - published by Communications Publishing House.

Part-time freelance activities during the same (Russian) period:

Wrote articles for a youth's newspaper "Smena" and for children's magazine "Iskorka"
Did translations from German into Russian for a publishing house "Progress" (Moscow).

Major Clients

LanguageWire, Denmark

Philip Philipsen, Project Manager

philip.philipsen@languagewire.com

Tel.: +45 7023 0044

J. Ross Publishing, USA

Tim Pletscher,

Senior Acquistions Editor

tpletscher@jrosspub.com

Tel: +1 954-727-9333 Ext. 7

Kathinka van de Griendt

kat2u61@aol.com

Mobile in South Africa: +27 727126521

Mobile in Germany: +49 172 2536114

Martin D. Korsawe

Bohemian Dragomans Lts
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Email:     info@bohemian-dragomans.com
Phone:        +49 (0)1805 005294
Fax:         +49 (0)1805 0052940
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