Career / Experience

HENRIK PIPOYAN
English, Russian, French > Armenian Free-lance Translator
Translating, interpreting, desktop publishing, editing, web site design
          19/1 Vagharshyan Street, # 15, Yerevan, 375012, Armenia
          Tel./Fax: + 374 (1) 22-35-60, Fax in USA: 1 (309) 276-2242
          E-mail: henrik@pipoyan.com, pipoyan@yahoo.com 
          URL: http://www.pioyan.com

Certified Translator
(English, Russian, French - Armenian)

Fields: business, law, medicine, agriculture, literature, religion, history, military

Free-lance translation for companies and government agencies in Armenia, Russia, France, USA, Canada and elsewhere; head up a team of Armenian free-lance translators and interpreters, compile an Armenian-English Dictionary, develop and maintain Internet projects, design web sites. 1998-present.
Biayna, Ltd. Moscow, Russia, Vice President / Import Manager. Conducted daily correspondence with 12 foreign companies; composed and translated letters, faxes, E-mails, contracts; participated in negotiations; developed and designed catalogues, business plans, profiles and web sites in English, French, Russian and Armenian. 1994-98.

Ministry of Agriculture of Armenia / United States Department of Agriculture, Office Manager Yerevan, Armenia. Managed the office staff, located and hired translators and interpreters; organized meetings with American specialists and interpreted at the meetings; translated numerous highly technical documents, manuals, fact-sheets, agreements, projects, etc., in Armenian, Russian and English. 1991-94.

Education

• Graduate of Yerevan State Institute of Russian and Foreign Languages1980-85.
  MA in Linguistics (English and French).
• Intensive English Course in Great Britain, English Proficiency Test: Level 9, 
  London, Brighton 1992-93.
• Advanced Computer Course at "Ergo Ted & Terracom", Yerevan, Armenia.1992.
• Cochrane Fellowship Program (studied Agricultural Extension in US), 
  Oklahima, Utah, Kentucky, Colorado, Nevada, Washington, D.C. 1993

Expertise

• Native language is Armenian.
• Fluent in Russian, English and French.


• Literary and highly technical translations into Russian and English need slight stylistic
  editing.


• Typing speed: 350 characters per minute in
  English, French, Russian and Armenian.


• Expert user of MS Word, Adobe Page Maker, MS Excel, MS Front Page, Corel
  Draw.

Publications

• Ellen G. White, “Steps to Christ” (English-Armenian), Yerevan, Armenia,
  1993.


• Ellen G. White, “The Lion on the Loose” (English-Armenian), Yerevan, Armenia, 1995.


• Ellen G. White, “The Story of Redemption” (English-Armenian), Zaoski, Russia, 1997.
  
  See excerpt


• Authored / translated from Russian into English 32 one-hour-long episodes of TV game “Memorina” aired on the Russian TV channel RTR from January through December 1997. 


• Translated from English into Russian the rules for 8 educational games of German company Ravensburger GmbH (300+ pages). The Russian versions were put on production in 1998.
  
  See translation of one game.

Hardware and Software

• Hardware:
  PC Packard Bell; Intel Pentium III 600 MHz; HDD - 10,8 GB UDMA; RAM - 64 MB, CD/DVD
  Player; CD Recorder; Sound card; Microphone; Video camera.
  
  
  
  • Modem 56 kbps V.90 Data Fax, 24-hour
    access to Internet.
  
  
  • Printer: HP LJ 1100A, Res: 600x600 dpi; 2 MB RAM.
  
  
  • Scanner: Umax Astra 6400.
  
  
  
  


• Software: Windows 98 Pro, MS Word 2000, MS PowerPoint 2000,
  Adobe PageMaker 6.5, QuarkXPress 4,0, Adobe Acrobat 4.05, MS Excel 2000, MS Front Page 2000, Corel Draw 10, Corel Photo-Paint 10, Adobe Illustrator 8.0, Adobe Photoshop 6,0, MS Internet Explorer 5.5, Netscape Navigator 4,7, MS Outlook Express 2000,
  WinZip 8.0, Norton Antivirus (updated weekly).

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