Working online with a team to help get the latest Ukraine war news out in English. Originally translating from Russian, now editing English translations of Ukrainian news reports, long reads and video subtitles.

Translation and editing focused on the arts, film, literature, history and religion. Typical assignments: film/TV subtitles and screenplays; news reports, magazine articles and promotional materials on a wide variety of subjects.Full-length published works: #Мынеругаемдетей (#ParentingWithoutYelling) by Dana Ormanbayeva;Кровавое правление Сталина (Stalin's Bloody Reign) by Lyalya Umirzakova.

Specialist in corporate and commercial law, taxation, accounting, banking and finance.Typical assignments: legislation, contracts and legal correspondence; magazine articles, tourism brochures and guidebooks.Very experienced editor of translations done by non-native speakers of English, including a Central Asian newswire service.Direct clients included international law firms, publishers, research organisations and local government agencies.Prepared and led seminars for translators in Almaty.

Headed department consisting of five native Russian-speaking translators serving 50-60 employees: allocated and oversaw all work; handled queries from lawyers; and created records system.Translated a large volume of complex documents under urgent time pressure.Edited all translations into English.Reviewed all correspondence written in English by local lawyers.Solely responsible for translations of Kazakhstan, Uzbekistan and Azerbaijan legislation.Dealt with personnel issues within the department, including recruitment.Promoted to management position six months after joining; replaced by two people upon leaving.

Part of multi-disciplinary working group advising the Government of Kazakhstan on establishing the Kazakhstancaspishelf Consortium with six major western oil companies.Translated all correspondence between Chase and Kazakhstani client.Analysis and research for other oil & gas projects.Promoted five months after joining as direct result of contribution to Kazakhstan project.

Proofread all correspondence written in English by Polish lawyers (responses to tax and legal queries from the local representatives of multinationals).Trained secretaries in word-processing, presentation and language skills.Learned Polish in order to be able to assist with the translation of laws into English.