QTI
Company Management/Translation Team
Chief Executive Officer
Kurt V. Porter
- Extensive experience managing medium-sized and large interpreter teams for governmental and commercial projects.
- Freelance Conference Interpreter (English-Russian)
- Former Department of Defense interpreter (civilian as well as military)
Russian-English conference interpreter with over 20 years of experience in interpreting and translating for the United States Government, U.S. civilian corporations and as a freelancer. His interpreting experience and expertise includes high-level negotiations between the United States Department of Defense and the Russian Ministry of Defense. He has worked extensively as an interpreter in the areas of international relations, disarmament and joint United States and Russian military exercises, and in the business arena. He has led interpreter teams of up to 150 personnel for various projects.
Translation Team Members
Roll over photos to see Experience Summaries
Nat
Interpreter, Translator
- Over five years of experience in translation and consecutive interpretation.
- In-house experience with Metran/Emerson Process Management, first as a translator/interpreter, then as a translation group leader, finally as a specialist in international contract administration and logistics.
- Excellent insight into process automation systems and instrumentation.
- Superb consecutive interpretation skills, which were polished during various company events, including Board of Directors meetings, technical and sales trainings and seminars, technical committee meetings, customer visits etc.
- A full-time freelance translator and consecutive interpreter mainly specializing in Oil& Gas, Process Instrumentation, Automation Systems and Finance. Leads a team of three translators/interpreters with similar backgrounds.
Dmitry
Interpreter, Translator
- Consecutive interpretation at business and technical meetings (Russian-English and English-Russian).
- Extensive interpretation services in challenging construction environment.
- Provided translation services for major petroleum-engineering and judicial projects.
- Web-site translation.
- Three-years of experience in interpretation and translation for high-level officials from the US Government, RF Government (Ministry of Industry and Trade), and commercial clients.
Katya
Translator, Editor, Program Manager
- Freelance translator (English — Russian).
- Four years of experience in construction, and oil and gas translations.
- Extensive experience providing translation support for a power plant construction project.
- Leads a team of three translators in support of a major oil & gas translation project.
- Senior Editor, oil & gas translations.
Roman
Interpreter, Translator
- Freelance conference interpreter — consecutive interpretation (Russian-English and English-Russian).
- Provided interpretation and translation services for several major Oil & Gas and legal translation projects for Russian and US clients.
- Experienced in managing small teams of interpreters involved in commercial projects.
- Over three years of experience in interpreting and translating for the US Government, RF Government (Ministry of Defense), as well as US and Russian companies, both as an employee and a freelancer.
- Managed a team of 10 translators in several translation projects for industrial facilities in Russia.
Natalya
Interpreter, Translator
- En=>Ru & Ru=>En translator /interpreter with over 5 years of experience in providing support for industrial, economic, and technical projects.
- Extensive practice in interpreting at conferences, high-level meetings and for the US & RF Government officials.
- An expert in translation /interpretation for oil & gas production and service companies mainly specializing in subsurface, reservoir engineering, drilling, and production.
- Involved in other oil & gas translation projects.
Ann
Interpreter, Translator
- English-Russian and Russian-English translator with five years of extensive practice in industrial, economical and technical translation both as a freelance and a fulltime employee of mining companies and translation agencies.
- Her experience includes long-term work on the translation of a complete feasibility study of a mineral deposit development project, recurrent participation in large-scale oil-and-gas translation projects, and translation of all kinds of business documents.
- Most valued for her expertise in geology, mining, construction and oil-and-gas.
Lyubov
Interpreter, Translator
- Consecutive Interpreter, Simultaneous Interpreter, Translator.
- Interpretation-translation (English-Russian and Russian-English) in the fields of civil construction, Oil&Gas, legal business, environmental protection, engineering, safety, procurement, anti- terrorism, demilitarization, chemical weapons destruction, and others.
- Over three years of full-time experience in interpretation and translation for high-level officials, including clients from the RF Government, the US Government, and the RF Ministry of Defense.