Career / Experience

1993-2006 NEW YORK, USA

• ATA member since 2005; with 20 years of translation/interpreting experience; simultaneous and consecutive; specializing in legal, business, and financial translations;
• Acted as a simultaneous interpreter for a family court, Toms River, NJ;
• Successfully passed an examination offered by the Department of State in Washington, DC; Georgian language interpreter for the Federal Government of the United States;
• Translated Anti-Proliferation program materials for DTRA;
• Georgian interpreter at Examination Before Trials at various law firms;
• Interpreted high level government conference for the U.S. Civilian Research and Development Foundation, including on-site animal feed plant tours in Kentucky and Ohio and agriculture related facilities;
• Translated for New York City Department of Education;
• Ten years of full time paralegal experience at well-known New York law firms;
• Language consultant for Dunwoody Press-McNeil Corporation; successfully completed a Georgian Test Development project for less community taught languages; created bilingual English-Georgian level III audio and graphic tests;
• Translated antiterrorism projects and manuals for military personnel;
• Cooperated with Metropolitan Interpreters in a lengthy project and translated legal documents involving fraud of a financial institution;
• Coordinated telephone interpreting for the Tele-Interpreters group;
• Simultaneous interpreter at the Superior Court, San Diego, CA for a criminal case; interpreted entire trial process including prosecution statements, witness statements, judges rulings, and jury verdict;
• Translated academic degrees, diplomas, birth certificates, divorce decrees, marriage certificates, adoption documents, powers of attorney, contracts, lengthy legal and technical documents, bylaws, shareholder agreements, litigation materials, attorney – client privilege documents, legal pleadings in the criminal and immigration matters, letters, complaints and statutes, etc.
• Translated legal files for such well-known entertainment companies as “Mosfilm” and “Pesnyary”;
• Translated newspaper articles, political journals, tapes and videotapes;
• Prepared and gathered documents for the political asylum cases and green card visa lottery;
• Acted as an interpreter at the examinations before trial, court hearings, expert evaluations, etc.

   Certification / Accreditation

English > Georgian

ATA – American Translators Association
TTIG – Translators and Interpreters Guild
ALTA – American Literary Translators Association
United States Department of State – Escort Interpreter