Eugenia Tarakanova
Language specialist (RU)
Riga Latvia
Entrepreneur
Open to opportunities
Areas of specialization: software localization, marketing, PR, web products.
Number of years Linguistic Experience: 10
Basic principles
Number of years Linguistic Experience: 10
Basic principles
- Capturing the essence of the message
- Providing proper style and tone depending on the product and the text purpose
- Providing terminology consistency
Language specialist
Pinterest
Since September 2013
Freelancer
St. Petersburg
Russia
- Translating web and mobile interfaces
- Reviewing translations made by colleagues
- QA checking
- Software I use: Smartling
Translator and reviewer
Various customers
Since April 2011
Freelancer
Riga
Latvia
- Translating web interfaces and mobile apps including games.
- Transcreation of important marketing texts such as promotional sites.
- Translating Help Center articles for different IT companies
- Reviewing marketing texts: evaluating translation quality and translator’s errors, checking glossaries, working in collaboration with client's linguists. Types of content: promotional texts, FAQs, UI review for large web company's products such as web mail, online advertising system, online calendar, online maps, online document storage; psychology-related business training materials.
- Evaluating and creating tests for translators and reviewers
- Creating terminology: creating and reviewing glossaries
- Staff training
- Writing style guides: participated in creation of Russian style guide for client’s reviewers
- Software:
Smartling
Transifex
Google Translator Toolkit
Idiom Worldserver Workbench
LQE tool (linguistic quality audit)
Customer site's CMS
Reviewer / Project Manager
INTER Technical Translations
February 2007
to March 2011
St. Petersburg
Russia
- Reviewing marketing texts, evaluating translation quality and translator’s errors, checking glossaries, working in collaboration with client's linguists
- Evaluating and creating tests for translators and reviewers
- Creating terminology: creating and reviewing glossaries
- Writing style guides: participated in creation of Russian style guide for client’s reviewers
- Project management
- Translation and editing for other 4 accounts: software products, built-in messages for consumer electronics, and photo/video
- Staff training
- Software:
Trados (several versions)
Logoport
Lionbridge Translation Workspace
Idiom Worldserver Workbench
Google Translator Toolkit
LQE tool (linguistic quality audit)
Editor
Media Komitet
March 2004
to September 2004
Moscow
Russia
- Editing TV audience measurement guidelines.
- Linguistic QA in live UI
- Editing
- Review
- Linguistic Quality Evaluation
- Training Translators
- Proofreading
- Software Localization
- Translation
- Transcreation
- Translation Project Management
