Larissa_B

Areas of expertise: coal mining and mine equipment; gas; business and marketing; contracts, laws, acts, and regulations; social care and services; medical; international adoption; telephone interpreting; language support in training

Russian native speaker, currently residing in Toronto, Canada. 15 years of professional translating/interpreting, including:
- six years as full-time in-house Interpreter/Translator for the US-Russian project dealing with coal mining;
- two years of full-time work for a British mine equipment manufacturer; and
- over three years as full-time in-house Quality Assurance Associate/Over-The-Phone Interpreter implementing company quality assurance procedures and providing interpreting for various industry segments (911, financial services, insurance, health care, hospitality, utilities etc.)

My other job experience includes:
- interpreting at conferences/seminars/workshops;
- translation of news, feature articles, and advertisements for Russian issues of UK-based coal magazine;
- translation of company brochures, court transcripts, medical documents, market research surveys;
- language assistance in the Russian mining specialists overseas training;
- freelance and part-time work for the UK Department for International Development (DFID) projects (social services, youth employment); and
- interpreting for an international adoption agency.