BOUTIQUE TRANSLATION AGENCY: BECAUSE SPECIALISATION MATTERS
Name: Oleg SemerikovPosition: Founder and general manager
Working with us since: 2006
Acquired for Translators Family: 200+ customers
Oleg started as a freelance translator (English into Russian) when he was still acquiring his Master’s degree in translation. Possessing rather good organisational and business skills, as well as a flair for generating new ideas, he founded the Translators Family team of translators in 2006. Thanks to his devotion to quality and determination, the team is operating successfully today and is registered now as a Polish translation agency.
During his career, Oleg has performed all the duties of his agency: he has worked as a translator, editor and copywriter, and was QA, project, sales and HR manager before those roles were taken on by other employees. So, he’s familiar with all the nuances of his business.
Name: Inna LatyshevaPosition: Human resources manager
Working with us since: 2014
Tested and hired for Translators Family: 100+ linguists
Inna is responsible for selecting new freelance suppliers. Having two higher qualifications and many years of work experience, she knows how to choose the best linguists for our team. She works closely with our proofreaders to test every new member of our team.
Name: Larisa KhomenkoPosition: Russian and Ukrainian linguistic editor/proofreader
Working with us since: 2007
Proofread with Translators Family: 10 million+ words
Larisa is one of our most active proofreaders.
Apart from Translators Family she has worked for a wide range of Russian and Ukrainian magazines as a proofreader and supervising editor.
Some of the large projects she has proofread with us include business and marketing translations for a number of footwear and clothing companies, documentation for a department of education in the US and two UK agencies, content of a number of websites.
Fluent in English and with native Russian and Ukrainian, she is able to provide bilingual proofreading services that leave texts sparkling.
Name: Andrey MasalovPosition: English-to-Russian technical translator and editor
Working with us since: 2006
Translated with Translators Family: 15 million+ words
Andrey is an expert in technical and IT translation with a doctorate in technical sciences and a Master’s degree in physics. He has translated a wide range of technical specifications, manuals, patents and other documents.
Name: Oleksiy SavkevychPosition: Quality assurance manager
Working with us since: 2009
Translated and edited with Translators Family: 15 million+ words
Oleksiy has been our quality assurance manager in large-volume translation projects related to the areas of politics (Russian into English translation of slovoidilo.ua website with 2 million words), the metallurgy and cement industry (English into Russian translation of more than 7 million words), legal (Russian into English translation of more than half a million words), education (more than 3 mln words) and more.
Name : Svitlana SavkevychPosition: Russian and Ukrainian linguistic proofreader
Working with us since: 2012
Proofread with Translators Family: 1 mln+ words
At Translators Family, Svitlana is primarily involved in our long-term English-to-Russian translation project for the Department of Education. She holds a Master’s degree in Ukrainian and Russian philology and, together with her husband Oleksiy, has translated a number of full-length books.
Name: Vladimir LorPosition: English-to-Russian/Ukrainian technical translator and editor
Working with us since: 2007
Translated and edited with Translators Family: 10 million+ words
Before becoming a freelance translator, Vladimir spent five years working as an in-house technical translator and interpreter at a pump plant. Vladimir is known for his smooth, fluent writing style which lends itself well to mixed technical and marketing translations.
He has taken part in many large technical translation and editing projects with us, including: long-term ongoing (over 5 years) English-Russian translation of documentation of equipment and services related to cement and minerals industries; long-term (4 years) project for a supplier of diagnostic equipment and services to the automotive industry; and more.
Name: Gennadiy GonchrovPosition: Russian/Ukrainian to English & English into Russian/Ukrainian translator, subtitler
Working with us since: 2013
Translated and edited with Translators Family: 100,000+ words
Holding a Cambridge Certificate in Advanced English, along with a university degree in translation, Gennadiy has sufficient prowess to translate into English at a near-native level. He has over 11 years’ commercial experience in translation, his main areas of expertise being marketing, journalism, law (general), business and economics, hospitality and tourism.
One of his projects was the 2 mln. Russian into English translation of a Ukrainian political website.
Name: Anna ShevchenkoPosition: English-to-Russian translator
Working with us since: 2015
Translated with Translators Family: 200,000+ words
Anna is a skilled specialist with both philological and economical (project management) education. She is fully conversant in translation of business, commercial, and marketing documentation. Anna closely cooperates with some Kharkov universities, translating a number of scientific articles, thesis researches, patents in the field of ACS, radio electronics, telecommunication networks, ergonomics.
She has translated with us a number of marketing and business projects, including transcreation tasks.
Name: Oksana and Oleksandr UsichenkoPosition: German/English-to-Russian translators
Working with us since: 2010
Translated with Translators Family: 1 mln+ words
Oksana and Oleksandr provide a strong partnership translating from English and German into Russian and Ukrainian. They specialise in technology, engineering, automotive, electronics, printing and publishing, IT and a wide range of other industries.
They have taken part in translation projects such as: vehicle and equipment manuals (Ford, BMW, Mercedes, Toyota); interfaces and software manuals (Microsoft, Sony, Samsung, Siemens); technical operation manuals for industrial and agricultural machinery (CNH, John Deere, Viking), home appliances and electric tools (Bosch, Makita); clinical trials and surveys of medication (Respironics, Microlife, Carestream, Solvay) and more.
Name: Ludvig GlavatiPosition: English-to-Russian translator and editor
Working with us since: 2010
Translated with Translators Family: 2 million+ words
Name: Ganna ShaliaPosition: English/Italian to Russian/Ukrainian translator
Working with us since: 2012
Translated and edited with Translators Family: 5 mln.+ words
Name: Tatiana KilmayevaPosition: English-to-Russian translator
Working with us since: 2012
Translated with Translators Family: 500,000+ words
Name: Elena KozarPosition: French/English-to-Russian translator and editor
Working with us since: 2015
Translated with Translators Family: 50,000+ words
Name: Viktoria IevseievaPosition: English-to-Russian/Ukrainian translator
Working with us since: 2014
Translated: 800,000+ words
Viktoria is a technical and IT translator with Bachelor’s degree in electro-mechanics engineering. She also has experience in translations for the tourism sector.
Name: Ilja ZmiejevPosition: Russian and Polish voice-over artist
Working with us since: 2016
Ilja Zmiejev is a Russian and Polish actor, voice-over artist and previously a radio host. He appeared in more than 60 films. Ilja is known for his voice, have been recording as a voice-over artist for a number of TV and Internet commercials. As a hobby, he also records audio books of the Russian classics such as the Master and Margarita and Eugene Onegin. Translators Family is the agent of Ilja as a voice-over artist on the global scale.
Name: Maria JaszczurowskaPosition: English-to-Polish translator and proofreader
Working with us since: 2015
Translated: 2,5 million+ words
Maria has an M.A. in English philology, completed as full-time studies at the Jagiellonian University. She is primarily a literature translator, but her major projects in other areas include corporate procedures, policies and confidential legal agreements. She also has experience as a copywriter and proofreader.
Since 2014 she is a sworn translator, certified by the Polish Ministry of Justice.
Name: Simon HodkinsonPosition: German-to-English translator, proofreader, copywriter
Working with us since: 2014
Translated and edited: 5 million+ words
Simon is a language services provider with a diverse portfolio, having worked on a wide range of translation, localisation and marketing projects. He specialises in copywriting services and in German-to-English translation, with particular expertise in the fields of IT and education.
