Michael Wasserman - RESUME

R E S U M E


7731 North Eastlake Terrace
Chicago, IL 60626
Telephone (773) 764-3224
Fax (773) 764-0079
wasserman12@sbcglobal.net

 

Born 1949 in Riga, Latvia.

EDUCATION

1975 US State Department Interpreting Course
1971 M.S. in Mathematics Latvian State University
1966 Physics High School #13 Riga, Latvia

INTERPRETING EXPERIENCE

Twenty six years' experience as a free-lance simultaneous interpreter and technical translator to and from English, Russian and Latvian; provider of interpreting equipment and interpreters.

G-7
  • Jobs Conference (in Kobe, Japan).
CBS
  • Bush-Gorbachev Summit meeting (Washington, DC).
U.S. Department of Commerce
  • U.S.-U.S.S.R. Commercial Commission meetings (in London).
  • Capital Goods and Overseas Construction Department seminars and meetings (in the US, Russia and France).
  • Legal Department Workshops on Commercial Law.
  • Gore-Chernomyrdin Commission meetings (in Chicago, IL and in Portland, ME).

U.S. Department of Energy

  • US Power Generation Conference (Moscow, Russia).
  • Workshop on preparing financial packages for Russian power plants. MW provided all interpreters and simultaneous interpretation equipment (Gatlinburg, TN);
  • Workshop on Energy-Efficient Construction. MW provided equipment and interpretation. (Moscow, Russia);
  • Workshop on corporate, financial and legal structure of utilities (Charleston, SC);
  • U.S. High Temperature Gas Turbine Mission to Russia (Moscow, Russia.);
  • Power Generation and Distribution Law International Conference (Moscow, Russia);
  • Conference on environmentally sound oil production in the Arctic. MW provided 25 English-Russian interpreters (Anchorage, Alaska);
  • Workshop on export controls at the Nuclear Research Institute (Kiev, Ukraine);
  • Workshop on oil spill emergency response system (Odessa, Ukraine).
Cambridge Energy Research Association
  • CERAWEEK 2001 - Shooting the Rapids: Strategies and Risks for the Energy Future (in Houston, TX).
Environmental Protection Agency
  • Ongoing program of scientific exchange on Dose Reconstruction. (Site visits to Chernobyl, Chelyabinsk and other nuclear accident locations);
  • US/Gazprom Working Group meetings (Moscow, Russia).
University of California
  • Workshops on Dose Reconstruction. MW provided equipment and interpreting (Davis, CA).
Brown University
  • Oral history conference: End of the Cold War. (Providence, RI).
Ohio State University
  • Oral history conference: End of the Cold War. (Columbus, OH).
Center for Disease Control
  • Nuclear Epidemiology Seminars. MW provided all interpreters and equipment. (Atlanta, GA).
American International Health Alliance
  • VIII Annual Conference on Retroviruses and Opportunistic Infections (in Chicago, IL).
National Institute of Standards and Technology
  • Exchange program with GOSSTANDART, Russia. Annual meetings (in the US and Russia).
American Society of Mechanical Engineers
  • Conference on industry-generated standards (Chicago, IL).
Underwriters Laboratories
  • Conference on industry-generated standards (Chicago, IL).
Center for Naval Analysis
  • Sea Power Forum (Washington, DC).
Nuclear Regulatory Commission
  • Program to assist GOSATOMNADZOR in writing Russian legislation on commissioning and decommissioning nuclear power plants (Moscow, Russia).
The Federal Court of Canada
  • Court sessions on the Podins Matter (Valmiera, Latvia).
Arthur Andersen
  • The Energy Symposium (Houston, TX).
U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development
  • Exchange program on seismic construction
National Institutes of Health
  • Cancer Conference
  • Conference on Bypass Surgery (Washington, DC).
Illinois General Assembly
  • Exchange program with members of CIS legislatures (Chicago and Springfield, IL).
Arctic Council
  • Arctic Council Meeting (Anchorage, AK)
  • Senior Arctic Officials' Meeting (Barrow, AK)
The MITRE Corporation
  • US-Russia ecological conference on the use of defence satellites and space photography for environmental purposes (Washington, DC).
US Missile Defense Agency/University of Utah
  • Russian-American Observation Satellites (RAMOS); regular meetings (in Moscow, Russia and Logan, UT)
Motorola A
  • IRIDIUM satellite communications project Board of Directors meetings (Chicago, IL and Bangkok, Thailand);
  • Cellular communications and data transmittal infrastructure (training for Russian network operators). MW provided equipment;
  • Land Mobile Product Sector certification exercises;
  • iDEN group negotiations.
Argonne National Laboratory
  • Scientific exchanges, seminars and workshops with Semipalatinsk, Novaia Zemlia, and other Russian scientists on nuclear armaments. (Argonne, IL, and Kiev, Ukraine).
Oak Ridge National Laboratory
  • New generation nuclear power plant design and operation. MW provided all interpreters and equipment (Oak Ridge, TN);
Livermore National Laboratory
  • Russian and Byelorussian scientists' Briefings on the Lab's Cutting Edge Research (Berkeley, CA).
Sandia National Laboratory
  • Nuclear arsenal support conferences (London, England and Vienna, Austria).
North Pacific Anadromous Fish Commission
  • Annual meetings since NPAFC inauguration. (Vancouver, Canada; Seattle, AK; Vladivistok, Russia; Juneau, AK; Honolulu, Hawaii).
U.S. Department of Defense
  • Workshops with Russian Ministry of Defense on nuclear arsenal stewardship in the post-CBNT era (London, England and Vienna, Austria).
U.S. Postal Service
  • International Conference on Latest Research in Mail Processing Robotics (fuzzy sets, etc.). (Washington, DC.)
Union Carbide
  • High-density Polyethylene Plant Technology Transfer to Russia. Training program for Russian plant operators (Piscataway, NJ).
United States Information Agency
  • U.S.A. conference of the Presidents of U.S.S.R. Universities (Washington, DC; Cleveland, OH; and Urbana-Champagne, IL).
  • Small Business Administration School for Russian Businessmen (Washington, DC; Cleveland, OH).
  • U.S.-U.S.S.R. Information Summit (Chief Interpreter) (Washington, DC).
American Bar Association
  • A.A. Sobchak, Mayor of Leningrad (Chicago, IL).
General Electric Company Executive Training Center
  • GAZPROM executive training workshops (Crotonville, NY; Moscow, Russia).
GE Power Systems
  • Turbine Control Training workshop (provided all interpreters and simultaneous interpreting equipment) (Crotonville, NY).
U.S. Federal Reserve
  • Workshop for the heads of Central Banks of NIC: The Changing Role of Central Banks in Emerging Economies (Chicago, IL).
International Monetary Fund
  • Seminar: Tax Options for Economies in Transition (Washington, DC).
  • Conference: Second Generation Reforms (Washington, DC).
The World Bank
  • Annual meeting (1998, 1999) (Washington, DC).
The Arctic Committee
  • Senior Arctic Officials meeting (Fairbanks, AK).
  • Working Group on Sustainable Development (Fairbanks, AK).
The Antarctic Treaty
  • Annual Meetings (Tromso, Norway; Lima, Peru; Warsaw, Poland and Madrid, Spain).
FIFA
  • Soccer World Cup USA 1994 (Chicago, IL).
FIBA
  • The Seventeenth World Basketball Congress, World Basketball Championship (Indianapolis, IN)
International Olympic Committee
  • 1996 Summer Olympic Games (in Atlanta, GA.)
  • 1998 Winter Olympics (in Nagano, Japan.)
  • 2002 Winter Olympics (in Salt Lake City, UT.)
  • The 114th IOC Session (in Mexico City, Mexico)
Herbalife International
  • Herbalife Extravaganzas, Presidential Summits, Corporate Schools and Weekend Leadership Training Sessions (Orlando, Los Angeles, Chicago, Las Vegas, London, Prague, Moscow, Barcelona, Helsinki, Stuttgart, Rimini, Montecatini, Tokyo, Osaka, Kobe, Chiba, Fukuoka, Hong Kong, Hawaii, Paris).
Pepsi Cola
  • Pepsi Cola Ring of Honor (in San Juan, Puerto Rico, and Albany, NY.)
Encore Entertainment
  • The Treasures of Russia from Peterhof exhibition (Las Vegas, NV).
  • Faberge Collection at Casa Loma press conference (Toronto, Canada)
The Field Museum
  • Kremlin Gold exhibition (in Chicago, IL)
International Launch Services
  • Astra 1K Launch Campaign (in Baikonur, Kazakhstan).
Heartland International
  • A Training Program for Armenian Water Sector Specialists: Institutional and Regulatory Issues for the Water Sector (in Chicago, IL)
A short list of other interpreting clients and conference events:
  • U.S. Department of State
  • U.S. Department of Agriculture
  • U.S. Senate Committee on Finance
  • Congress of the United States, House of Representatives
  • President Reagan
  • United States-Mexico Chamber of Commerce
  • Dallas-Riga Lawyers' Exchange
  • Foundation For Russian-American Economic Cooperation
  • U.S.I.A. Television
  • American Council of Young Political Leaders
  • Illinois General Assembly
  • National Center for Environmental Health
  • John Marshall Law School - Elena Bonner's speech
  • Small Business Administration
  • Arnold and Porter Law Firm
  • Payhauler Corporation
  • International Harvester
  • Melroe International
  • Packaging Machinery Manufacturers Institute
  • Urschell Laboratories
  • Baxter Healthcare Corporation
  • V. Mueller Medical Equipment
  • Source/Inc. advertising agency
  • Morgan Building Systems
  • Clarke Equipment
  • D D Distribution
  • TLI International Corporation
  • Interlingua Advance Language Studios
  • Language Services International
  • Berlitz International
  • The Mid-America Committee
  • Executives' Club of Chicago
  • U.S. - U.S.S.R. Enterprises
  • Russian Resources International
  • Don Meier Productions: "Mutual of Omaha Wild Kingdom"
  • Chicago Theatre Foundation
 
TRANSLATIONS
  • The Treasures of Russia from Peterhof Catalogue
  • Bonnard - Vuillard - Denis - Roussel: Decorative Painting Agreement (The Art Institute of Chicago)
  • Italian Baroque Terracotta from the Hermitage Collection Catalogue (The Art Institute of Chicago)
  • Russia, the Spiritual Well of the World Catalogue (The Field Museum of Natural History)
  • Vibration Technology Quarterly
  • Executive Club of Chicago brochure
  • Design Strategies booklet
  • National Harvester Grapple Skidder Manual
  • Briefing books for GE Executive Training Programs
  • Encyclopaedia Britannica: Contract with Russian publishers
  • A.S. Pushkin. Little Tragedies: The Covetous Knight and Mozart and Salieri (plays in verse)
  • Flann O'Brien. The Third Policeman (a novel)
  • Platonov Sparrow's Travels (a story)

 

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