Has two higher educations: historical and philological and legal.
The marine has more than 20 years' experience in law (for 2012): was a founder and the head of law firm, headed profile service in DSK-1 construction company.
Since 2009 is engaged in projects in the field of business development, in particular, directed the service of the same name in directorate of railway stations of Russian Railway, was responsible for development and projects implementation on creation of productions using the innovative technologies at Institute of problems of safe development of nuclear power.
In July, 2012 Marina Umnova is appointed the advisor to director general of Infra Engineering Ltd for business development. Among its main objectives – start and projects implementation in road construction and power.