Tania Samsonova

Current

Program Director at Alliance of Technology and Science Specialists
Technical writer, translator, SR&ED consultant at TIS

Past

Compiler Validator Specialist at IBM
Translator/Localizer at Million Artists website
Game Developer at Davisville Games Studio a.k.a. DGS, subsidiary of Cryptologic

Software Developer at Cedara Software
Developer at Metex
Software Engineer at Bioinformatics Centre, Engelhardt Institute of Molecular Biology (EIMB)
Programmer Analyst at QSP Financials
Software Engineer at Russian Academy of Science Computing Centre

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Education

York University - Glendon College
University of Kent
Moscow State University

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Recommended

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Connections

500+ connections

Industry

Information Technology and Services

Tania Samsonova’s Summary

ARE YOU…

... a business in search of new clientele?
...a small company involved in technical research and development?
... an owner of a website?
... an individual researcher working on a professional publication?
... an exporter or a provider of a service overseas?
... looking for new markets?

I CAN HELP

Contact me at tania@getyourmessageacross.com

Do you develop technology-related products or services?
I can:
- make a user manual for your product
- create website content or improve your existing website
- obtain money refund from Canadian government for your research and development expenses (SR&ED program)

Are you looking for new markets? Do you want to extend your client base? Or are you already conducting business abroad?
I will translate your marketing materials so you can reach new Russian-speaking or English-speaking clients, expand to international market or go on doing business there successfully.

Is your website clumsy and its message not clear? I will help make it usable and readable

Just need something translated to or from Russian? An English text edited or proofread? I can do that, too!

Tania Samsonova’s Specialties:

Translation (technical and literary), Web-site localization, technical writing (user manuals, SRED claims).

Experience in full software development lifecycle (SDLC) - requirements, functional specifications, documentation, analysis, design, development, testing, localization

Tania Samsonova’s Experience

Program Director

Alliance of Technology and Science Specialists

(Non-Profit; Non-Profit Organization Management industry)

May 2009 — Present (8 months)

Obtaining grants and assisting with commercialization of inventions
Technical writer, translator, SR&ED consultant

TIS

(Information Services industry)

May 2007 — Present (2 years 8 months)

TECHNICAL WRITING

User manuals
SR&ED claims

TRANSLATION (Russian<->English)

- IT-related marketing and technical documentation, help, user manuals, web-site localization (OS, networks, hardware and software solutions) for Microsoft, IBM, Novell, Sun Microsystems and other major vendors
- Marketing, business, economics
- Electrical, electronic and chemical engineering, mathematics and science
- General contracts, especially IT-related
- Medical IT (equipment manuals), general healthcare

Currently working on Russian translation of Cory Doctorow's "Someone comes to town..."
Compiler Validator Specialist

IBM

(Public Company; 10,001 or more employees; IBM; Computer Software industry)

May 2006 — April 2007 (1 year )

Compiler Validator Specialist at IBM Toronto Lab
(C/C++ compilers)

Responsibilities:
- analyzed requirements for compiler features to be tested
- created test documentation, test plans, scenarios, developed shell scripts and test cases
- investigated causes of test failures
- ensured proper documentation procedures
- interacted with the developers to extract information, create test documents and develop test code
- ensured quality of incoming development/QA documentation
- created tools to facilitate test development
Translator/Localizer

Million Artists website

(Internet industry)

March 2006 — April 2006 (2 months)

Participated in development and localization of MillionArtists.com - a charity & abstract art Web-site. The project is an attempt to break a Guinness record - raising funds for medical charities while creating the world’s largest piece of collaborative abstract art.
Game Developer

Davisville Games Studio a.k.a. DGS, subsidiary of Cryptologic

(Computer Software industry)

October 2004 — December 2005 (1 year 3 months)

Project: 3D Online Gaming Application
Responsibilities:
- designed, developed and enhanced various functionality elements
- participated in developing user scenarios and documentation process; prepared requirements, functional specifications and diagrams; provided feedback to business analysts
- implemented multilingual functionality with UTF-8 encoding for easier localization and internationalization
- designed and implemented a XML-configurable software robot (a standalone application) for automated testing
Tools: Visual C++, C#, managed C++, XML, Windows Forms, Visual Studio.NET, Windows Platform SDK, Visio, Alienbrain, Windows XP
UML, RUP, Design Patterns
Software Developer

Cedara Software

(Public Company; Computer Software industry)

April 2001 — July 2004 (3 years 4 months)

Contributed to:
- A surgical navigation system (SNS) for assistance in knee replacement surgery
- Applications for viewing/printing/processing/3D rendering of medical images of various modalities (X-rays, CT, MR etc.)

Responsibilities:

- participated in entire SDLC from requirements to support;
- developed the 3D math for the SNS;
- designed and developed Navigation module for the SNS
- created documentation, including requirements, class structure, functional specifiactions, UML diagrams;
- integrated image-viewing components into an application for viewing/analyzing cardiology images;
- participated in design and development of multi-threaded, n-tier, client/server systems for viewing/analyzing medical images

Tools: C++, Visual C++, MFC, Windows NT/2000/XP, Unix (SGI Irix 6.5, Solaris), C#, Visual Studio.NET, ASP, ASP.NET, VB, ATL COM, OLE DB, DICOM, CVS, Continuus, X-Windows, OpenGL, CVS, Rational Rose, XML, Xerces, Boost, gdb, STL, 3D Math, DICOM, HL7
Developer

Metex

(Computer Software industry)

2000 — 2001 (1 year )
Software Engineer

Bioinformatics Centre, Engelhardt Institute of Molecular Biology (EIMB)

(Computer Software industry)

1998 — 1999 (1 year )

Project: BLAST Web-page: a part of “Human Genome” project.
http://www.eimb.relarn.ru
Participated in creating a grid system for distributed processing of protein sequence queries. Implemented the Web-page and the CGI module.
Programmer Analyst

QSP Financials

(Public Company; Computer Software industry)

1997 — 1998 (1 year )

Company: Quality Software Products Plc., Gateshead, UK (a.k.a. QSP Financials)
– major international provider of financial software solutions
Responsibilities: Analysis, data modeling, design and development.
Software Engineer

Russian Academy of Science Computing Centre

(Computer Software industry)

1990 — 1991 (1 year )

Tania Samsonova’s Education

York University - Glendon College

Certified , Technical and Professional Writing , 2007 — 2009
University of Kent

1997 — 1997

Canterbury Business School at the University of Kent, UK
As a participant of Chancellor's Financial Sector Scheme (CFSS) of the British Council
Moscow State University

M.Sc. (With Honors) , Computer Science, Applied Mathematics , September 1985 — July 1990

Additional Information

Tania Samsonova’s Groups:

Moscow State University Alumni
The Greater IBM Connection: IBM's alumni program for past and present IBM employees
On Startups - The Community For Entrepreneurs
DemoCamp
Toronto
TechSoup (now TechSoup Global)
PodCamp
Toronto Entrepreneur Alliance
Translators Worldwide
MCAD
VizThink
Linked.NET Users Group (LIDNUG)
Localization Professional
York University Alumni
biz RUSSIA
Cloud Computing
Localization and Globalization Fusion Society
AmBAR
Translation Professionals
The Toronto Association of Systems and Software Quality
Freelance Translators - Interpreters network
Girl Geek Dinners
ProductCamp Toronto
Professional Translators and Interpreters (ProZ.com)
Toronto Open Networking
Refresh Events
Wired Woman
NewPath Network
Software Development Jobs
.DIGITAL .EXCHANGE
Vote for East-West Dialogue
CityEvents
ISG (Cedara) Alumni
Twitter Strategies
Third Tuesday
Mobile Experience Innovation Centre
Interactive Ontario
GameON: Finance
Networking in GTA (Greater Toronto Area)
Sprouter