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Vera KaykyTRANSLATION INTERPRETING CROSS-CULTURAL COMMUNICATION
Phone: 1.253.227.8983
Fax: 1.253.444.4916
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CERTIFICATION
Certified by Department of Social and Health Services (DSHS) of Washington state, U.S.A.
PERSONAL PROFILE
Born in Kishinev, Moldova, into a multilingual family. Professional journalist. Professional interpreter/translator. Citizen of the U.S.A.; emigrated to the U.S.A and settled in Seattle area in 2002. Able to travel for a job purpose, available upon request, 24/7.
LANGUAGE PAIRS
English > Russian (native)
Russian > English (next-to-native)
English > Spanish (advanced)
Spanish > English (next-to-native)
AREAS OF SPECIALIZATION
Advertising & public relations
Arts and Humanities (General)
Banking
Business (General)
Contracts
Entertainment (General)
Industry & Technology (General)
Law (General)
Literature (Fiction)
Religion
Medicine (General)
Social Sciences (General)
IP and software localization
SERVICES
Translation (English into Russian and Russian into English, English into Spanish and Spanish into English)
Interpreting (consecutive, simultaneous, voice-over, English into Russian and Russian into English)
Editing and proofreading
Localization and cultural adjustment
Linguistic and cross-cultural support
Cultural sensitivity training and conflict resolution
EXPERTISE
Professional interpreter. More than 5 years of experience in translation, interpreting, and cross-cultural communication. Excellent oral and written communication skills; excellent command of scholarly and colloquial Russian, English and Spanish. Detailed familiarity with Russian, Northern American and Latin American history, politics, and cultures. Effective communication with people from diverse cultural backgrounds; keen awareness of cross-cultural issues in international business and workplace. Translation in a broad range of areas including legal, business, marketing, advertising, medical, religion, communication, environment, education, art, architecture, film, video, literature.
COMPUTER PROFICIENCY
PC and Mac platforms, MS Word, Excel, Power Point, Cyrillic support for Windows, Editing and Text Recognition Tools for Russian, English, and Spanish, Adobe Acrobat, Adobe Photoshop, Express Scribe, advanced Internet research techniques.
WORKING EXPERIENCE
Qualified Court Interpreter
Interpreting for depositions, arbitration, mediation, and trials; business and real estate disputes, intellectual property, adoptions, juvenile dependency, personal injury, workers' compensation, hate crime. Superior Court of Washington, U.S. Immigration & Naturalization Services, Seattle District Attorney's and Public Defender's Offices, Workers' Compensation Appeals Board, Department of Health and Human Services, major local and national law firms.
Certified Medical/Social consecutive Interpreter
Oral interpreting in on-call appointments in all health and social departments, court hearings and interviews between advocates and Russian/Ukrainian speaking clients, filling out any necessary application forms and papers.
Translator
Russian into English and English into Russian, Spanish into English and English into Spanish, Russian into Spanish and Spanish into Russian in a broad range of topics including legal, business, marketing, advertising, medical, religion, communication, environment, education, art, architecture, film, video, literature. Certified translation of legal and business documents, academic records and transcripts, birth and marriage certificates.
MEMBERSHIP AND PROFESSIONAL AFFILIATION
American Translators Association (ATA)
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