OUR TEAM

ALMA MATER translation agency has been present on the language services market since 2005. All the services at our agency are provided by a team of client-focused professionals:

1. Foreign languages professors together with engineers, computer programmers, economists, health care professionals, psychologists, historians, political scientists, sociologists etc. from

• Gorlovka State Institute for Foreign Languages,
• National Technical University of Ukraine "Kiev Polytechnic Institute"
• National Aerospace University "Kharkiv Aviation Institute",
• Donetsk National University,
• Donetsk National Medical University
• Kharkiv National University
• Dnepropetrovsk National University

2. Our experts have gained their expertise on a number of industrial sites across the CIS-countries – in the power-generating, automotive, information technology, pharmaceutical, chemical, metal manufacturing and electrical engineering industry.

Our team’s make-up reflects our corporate development strategy aimed at the continuous improvement of the services we provide.

All our translators have been known for their good command of the target language, wide area of expertise, extensive background knowledge and rich practical experience.

The majority of our freelance translators hold the degree of Doctor of Science, Doctor of Philosophy, Doctor of Laws, Doctor of Letters, Master of Arts or Master of Science and are authors of a great number of learned works (monographs, research papers, manuals, text-books etc.) both in engineering sciences and liberal arts.

CHIEF EXECUTIVE
        Oleg Shlapakov, PhD

Languages: Russian, Ukrainian, English, Written French.

Scientific Interests: Pragmatics, Sociolinguistics, Lingo-culture Studies, Genre Studies, cognitive linguistics, Public Relations, Nonverbal Communication.

Publications
        25 research papers

Editorial Work

Executive editor of the annual digest of research papers "Young Scholars' Studies in the Liberal Arts Area" (Gorlovka, Ukraine)

Qualifications

Experience

Affiliations
        An individual member of the American Translators Association
        A Member of the Donetsk Philological School
        A Member of the Ukrainian Association of the Russian Language Teachers

GENERAL MANAGER
        Helen Starchenko

Languages: Russian, Ukrainian, English, Written French. Scientific Interests: Terminology, Stylistics, Lingo-culture Studies, Cognitology, Lexicology, Sociolinguistics, Political Science Publications 17 research papers; a textbook of English for the first-year ESL students Work in Process Comparative Analysis of the English and Ukrainian Political Terminology

Qualifications

12/2001–12/2004	Gorlovka State Pedagogical Institute for Foreign Languages, Ukraine a postgraduate studying to get a 3-year Ph.D degree in Linguistics (English, Ukrainian, Russian)
09/1992–09/1997	Gorlovka State Pedagogical Institute for Foreign Languages, Ukraine 5-year Specialist’s Degree in English and Ukrainian
09/1990-05/1992	Gorlovka Field Studies Centre, Ukraine Computer Literacy Courses

Experience

09/1997-Present	Assistant Professor of the English Phonetics Department at Gorlovka State Pedagogical Institute for Foreign Languages (Ukraine)
1996-2005	Freelance translator from English into Ukrainian and Russian
09/2001-09/2002	Assistant Professor of the Foreign Languages Department at Kramatorsk Machine-building Academy (Ukraine)
09/1998-09/2000	Assistant Professor at the Translators’ Faculty of Gorlovka State Pedagogical Institute for Foreign Languages (Ukraine)

Affiliations
        Member of the Donetsk Philological School
        Long-term collaboration with the British Council