ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS

Fedor arrived on the ITI scene not long ago in 2021. Throughout his work, he found himself useful in many different projects. Quality assurance, editing, translation, and even project management – he’ll handle everything just all right. Although humble working experience in other localization studios may cause unexpected obstacles, persistence and hard work are Fedor’s loyal allies on the way to becoming a true disco-style localizer.

The most important thing for Artem is the ability to listen and understand clients’ needs. He has lived and studied in the USA for several years, and this experience has helped him gain a better understanding of different cultures. Artem’s passion is meeting new people and broadening his knowledge; he is certainly not afraid to face new challenges. Being able to learn new things fast and adapt to various conditions has enabled him to be even more flexible, and he is always keen to help out his colleagues at different levels of ITI’s production and sales departments.

Evgenia is person of many talents, she can manage projects, find and onboard new customers, and back up colleague PMs.
With an MA in Linguistics, Evgenia’s wealth of experience in phonetics is a great boon in checking the audio quality of ITI’s audio-related projects.
Evgenia’s credo in life is to learn and develop skills across the board, and to enhance what is learned in what is done. Fewer words, more action. Now get to work!

Alina is based in the picturesque seaside city of Odessa and she is a genuine poly, being fluent in Ukrainian, Russian, English and German. Not a bad list, huh? Moreover, Alina has extensive experience in translating and editing from the languages in which she is proficient. Therefore, she can apply as much of the relevant expertise as possible to manage different projects, which she, by the way, has in abundance. Alina is a straight-up point guard in our team. A major multilingual project? No big deal for Alina! For instance, she specializes in large-scale multilingual and mostly technical projects, which include her native Ukrainian, Russian, German and more occasional Kazakh, Georgian and Azerbaijani. Also, we cannot but mention Alina’s attitude and commitment to work. She will do everything possible — and impossible – to achieve the result and deliver a project on time. Last but not least, Alina has a degree in journalism. Kind of the cherry on top, proving that Alina is a most versatile person.

Dilyara has been with us for years. This means a lot, and that’s what the dedication is all about. Dilyara’s commitment and serious approach to work bring our company to a higher level. With her attention to detail, precision, positive attitude and the ability to strictly follow instructions, Dilyara knows every inch of how we get things done here in ITI. Furthermore, she is a very caring person and is always there to provide you with the best assistance and help. Last but not least, Dilyara is always ready for some new challenges, so bring them on!

If you wonder who is ITI’s game localization driving force – please meet Alyona.
Apart from having great expertise in linguistics and translation, Alyona is a true gamer herself, so she can resolve any issue on her game localization path.
Not a single obstacle gets in her way. Having a multilingual game project to offer? Sit back and leave it all to Alyona, as she is a real MVP in game localization.

A qualified interpreter. Fluent in English, with near-fluency in Spanish, he specializes in translating and audio-recording. He combines these two major skills in the field of localization. His personal motto is ‘Live and Learn’.
Furthermore, Evgeniy is always there to provide you with the best help and assistance. Last but not least, he is a self-taught video editor and artist who has spent many hours producing videos and music vibes, so if you have any audiovisual projects to work on, Evgeniy is certainly your man.

Able to conduct business in English, Russian, Chinese and Italian. With a BA in Linguistics and Interpreting from HSE, Maxim has experience in interpreting and translating from English and Chinese at international events.
An intellectual curiosity and willingness to learn are his unfailing attributes in life. Such a mindset helps Maxim to enhance his professional skills by utilizing the most up-to-date information in our rapidly-changing world.

Anton is the youngest of ITI’s PMs, but at the same time one of the most productive. He manages not only to seamlessly provide multilingual support on a huge IT project, but also process multiple projects per day in the Game Localization department. Anton’s passion for games has led to the creation of a channel on Telegram about games localization, which he successfully maintains on ITI’s behalf. (Posts are mostly in Russian: https://t.me/iti_gameloc)

Elena has been with us since 2001, and we rely on her in many ways. Not only does she provide us with brilliant linguistic support, being among the best in her field in bug fixing, proofreading and linguistic review, but is always there to resolve urgent matters in the late hours. And this we value a lot, because localization is obviously the kind of business where something is always happening 24/7. No less important is Elena’s impeccable record of dealing with IT bugs of all sorts that helps us have all proprietary software matters neatly tracked and sorted out.

Alexander founded ITI in 1992, and has been the company’s director ever since. Under his guidance, the company successfully found its niche in a very dynamic, rapidly changing environment, which fostered ITI’s evolution into one of the most advanced players on the market. Despite all the tasks and challenges of day-to-day business activities, Alexander is always there to help; his approach to employees is quite considerate and personal, which we value a lot.

Alexander is one of the best additions to our team in the last years. He is hard-working, extremely fast-learning, demonstrates a bright mind, good linguistic skills and has a core understanding of our company’s internal processes. Pretty soon after the start of his job at ITI, Alexander himself could instruct and supervise a group of managers. After several years of managing all kinds of translation projects, Alexander switched his focus to account management, liaising with new and existing clients in order to ensure the best possible customer experience.

With a major in International Business, and work experience with one of the largest automotive manufacturers in Eastern Europe, Alexey was our top candidate for a PM position who would handle all of our automotive projects (which we have in abundance!). His skills and fluency in several languages provided for a smooth and natural transition, and enabled him to use his industry-specific knowledge on our localization projects.

Gaming all the way since 2003! He is the top gun in video game localization projects, and has his own team of dedicated linguists, who are just as passionate about games as Maxim. He is, in fact, working in a separate games sub-department within our localization department at ITI, and we strongly admire his ability to cope with the workload in such a deadline-sensitive environment. Maxim has specialized in this area throughout his career and, needless to say, he knows what he is doing.

Igor is definitely not afraid of new challenges. We can’t really think of something that he cannot do. Deliver a twelve-language TEP project on the same day? Seems a little too easy. Have your new team work in a user-unfriendly tool that barely anyone really uses (oh, and the source has to be in German)? Consider it done. Igor is tireless enough to energize the rest of us. If you need someone experienced and technology-savvy to take care of your complex and (of course!) urgent project, this is the guy.

IT engineers, accountants, project managers…what do they all have in common? It is not an easy task to ensure smooth communication between employees from different departments, with various backgrounds, of all ages and widely different occupations. Olga’s enormous experience and excellent communication skills help all of us find a common language, and move forward and evolve as a company, both technologically and commercially.

No email will be left without a reply, no ambiguity will occur in our communication with new or existing customers, and every single project will be taken care of in a timely manner – all thanks to our project coordinator Irina. Always brief and to the point, she is the go-to person when it comes to liaising with vendors or making internal arrangements. Irina is quick to answer our questions or concerns and, being a certified proofreader herself with many years of experience, she’s always there for us when we need an expert opinion on various linguistic matters.

Alexander is quite literally one of the main driving forces at our company. He’s very reliable, extremely hard-working, and a professional in a variety of fields, from gaming to voiceover projects to applied chemistry (in which, by the way, he has a degree!) Alexander has achieved insane levels of productivity over the years, and still never ceases to surprise all of us. His “can-do” attitude and thoughtful approach to project management are some of our most valuable assets.

With a degree in electronic technologies and considerable experience in both written and oral translations, Ilya is our key man for quality control. He keeps a close eye on what our PMs are doing, and – thanks to his great attention to detail and analytical thinking – he is able to apply his expertise to develop new best practices, evaluate quality, recruit new linguists, and continuously improve our QA tools and processes.

Over the past few years, Yulia has become a key person in ITI, both on the client-facing and internal levels: a deep knowledge of the localization business and processes helped her contribute greatly to our company’s development, as well as take part in initiatives to popularize the localization industry itself. Yulia is effectively focusing on our most important tasks, at the same time productively organizing other people’s work and driving our team to success.