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E-mail
normally is acknowledged within 24 hours.
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Most
weekdays, E-mail probably will
be acknowledged within 2 hours between 7:00 a.m. and 2 p.m. U.S. East
Coast time.
- E-mail is checked and answered on
weekends and U.S. holidays, but not as frequently and only until about
noon Eastern U.S. time, and perhaps again in the early evening.
Please review the extensive listing
below to reassure yourself of my capabilities.
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Education and Certifications
- Bachelor of Arts in
Foreign Languages,
University of Maryland, 1980
- 1961-1962, Defense Language Institute,
Syracuse University
- 1965-1966, Defense Language Institute,
Syracuse University
- 1969-1970, Defense
Language Institute, Presidio of Monterey, California
- 1981, Certified as a
professional
translator into English by an agency of the Federal Government.
- 50+ years in Russian to English translation,
the last 11 free-lance.
- 21 years government
service performing tranlation,
research and analysis (last 4 years of active duty plus subsequent
Civil
Service career).
- 17 months performing
Internet research
under contract with Lockheed-Martin Corporation.
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Hardware configuration:
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Dell XPS 8930 Desktop with Windows 11 Professional 64-bit operating
system.
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CD Burners
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Epson ET-4760 All-in-One Printer, scanner, copier
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Uninterruptable power
supply
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Software configuration
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Full Cyrillic
(Russian-language)
capability:
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On-line viewing
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Searching
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Typing and printing
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OCR
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Microsoft Office XP
(2002)
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Microsoft Word 2002
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Copernic 2000
Professional, "the
intelligent search agent"
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Abbyy FineReader
Professional 8.0
OCR
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Adobe Acrobat Writer
8.1
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Computer-based
Russian/English dictionaries
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Polyglossum (with 20
topical dictionaries)
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Lingvo32 (with over
20 topical dictionaries)
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Alphabyte
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Multilex 2.0
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Explanatory
Dictionary of the Russian
Language
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Additional access to
dozens of on-line
specialty dictionaries
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Cyrill and Methodius
"Great Encyclopedia
7-CD set in Russian
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Approximately 200 regular (paper/hard bound)
dictionaries (with a concentration on colloquial speech, arms control
and
aerospace)
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Numerous
Russian-English, English-Russian
and/or Russian-Russian generalist and specialist dictionaries
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Numerous generalist
and specialist
English-only dictionaries
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A number of
dictionaries in other
languages that translate to or from Russian
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Other Information
- Extensive knowledge
of the Russian-Language side of the Web
- United States Air
Force, Retired
- 1981
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U.S. Civil Service,
Retired - 1999
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Life Member, Air
Force Association
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References available
on request
N.B. All
brand names and trademarks
mentioned on this page are copyrighted and/or registered by their
original
owners.
Last update 14 June 2024
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