A specialized legal and financial translator, serving major clients from the World Bank to the world's leading law firms since 1998. I have translated for many of the largest international arbitration and litigation cases to emerge from the former Soviet Union, often as the lead translator and glossary compiler, acquiring expertise in a number of specific industries along the way, including oil and gas, mining and metals, shipping, banking, property development, and mass media. I routinely handle the following types of documents:Legal:• Contracts• Laws, Statutes & Regulations• Court Rulings• Legal Opinions• Securities Transactions• Loan Documents Corporate:• Annual Reports • Corporate Charters• Board Minutes• Business Correspondence• HR PoliciesFinancial:• Financial Statements• Accounting• Tax Documents• Audit Reports• Bank Documents• Insurance Policies

• Translated Russian and Ukrainian media reports of interest to US and UK government customers.• Prepared intelligence reports on breaking developments in the former Soviet Union based on information gathered from open sources.• Prepared weekly analyses of cross-border economic crime (money laundering, cybercrime, credit card fraud, etc.) emanating from Russia and the former Soviet republics, based on open-source data.• Managed the assignment of other linguists to monitor open sources throughout Eurasia, the Middle East and North Africa.• Received three Exceptional Performance Awards for reporting on events in the former Soviet Union

• Reviewed oral testimonies in Russian and other languages from survivors of Nazi atrocities and summarized pertinent information to be used by the Shoah Foundation.• Helped create an archiving system for 50,000+ oral testimonies by advising on the structure of the keyword hierarchy and definitions of historical terminology