Member since Feb '10

Working languages:
English (monolingual)
Ukrainian to English
English to Ukrainian
English to Ukrainian
English to Ukrainian

James Joeriman
23 YRS XP | Intl Dev | Pharma | Tech

United States
Local time: 22:54 EET (GMT+2)

Native in: English (Variants: British, US) Native in English
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I am a native U.S. English translator and interpreter working from Ukrainian and Russian into English, with over 23 years professional translation experience.

10 years spent living and working in Ukraine, using Ukrainian (and Russian) in professional, social, family, and everyday settings. That immersion gave me a level of linguistic and cultural fluency and nuance that is uncommon among non-native speakers, so I have a nuanced sense of everything from idiom, slang, humor, pop-culture references, to switching registers depending on audience and context.

4 years managing Ukrainian IT teams,with daily collaboration with Ukraine-based delivery, engineering,product, and development teams in the enterprise software industry, so I’m equally conversant in technical terminology for requirements,backlog grooming, workflows, implementations, and product discussions to the shorthand and IT slang used on teams or scrum calls.

Interpreting experience has included sensitive investigations/interviews for UN offices, NATO delegation meetings, etc. requiring careful handling of complex factual information, institutional terminology, and confidential discussions.

I also bring substantial hands-on experience owning a marketing, localization, and rebranding firm for nearly a decade in Ukraine, helping Ukrainian startups and product companies adapt their ads and marketing materials for US audiences.

This makes me particularly well suited to business and technology translation, localization, editing, and U.S.-English adaptation.

I understand not just terminology, but what the material is trying to accomplish — whether you need translation of a proposal, RFP response, website, case study, presentation, customer communication, contract, implementation document, or other commercial content.

My goal is always accurate translation that preserves the meaning and nuance of the source while reading as natural, professional English — not as a translation.


Services include:


• Ukrainian → English translation


• Russian → English translation


• Editing and proofreading


• Legal, International development, government, and NGO content


• Business and technology translation/localization


• U.S.-English adaptation and linguistic review


• Consecutive and interview interpreting


• MT post-editing and linguistic QA


• Transcription and subtitling



I am currently based in the United States and work on U.S. Eastern Time.

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Top languages (PRO)
Russian to English148
Ukrainian to English19
English to Russian8
Top general fields (PRO)
Law/Patents60
Tech/Engineering44
Bus/Financial35
Other20
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Top specific fields (PRO)
Law (general)52
Finance (general)27
Law: Contract(s)24
Construction / Civil Engineering12
Petroleum Eng/Sci12
Medical (general)8
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