M.A. in Museum Studies (working towards) Harvard University, Boston, MA
B.A. in Germanic Languages; St. Petersburg Teachers University, Russia
B.S. in Computer Science; Brandeis University, Boston, Massachusetts, US;

- Over 25 years interpreting/translating; contract U.S. Department of State interpreter, certified by ATA for English-> Russian translation
- 9 years as software engineer and PM, including the U.S. Air Force and MIT Lincoln Labs
- Translated and/or edited and published several children books (English into Russian) at Pink Giraffe Publishing House in Moscow, Russia (pgbooks.ru)

American Translators Association (ATA) certified in English to Russian Translation
Contract interpreter for the U.S. Department of State; 1 week Interpretation Course at the U.S. Department of State

INTERPRETED FOR: Mrs. Al Gore, U.S. Secretary of Defense William Perry, Russian Secretary of Defense Pavel Grachev, Director of CIA William Colby, U.S. Secretary of Defense Les Aspen, Congressmen Richard Gephardt, Speaker of the House Newt Gingrich, Hon. Charlie Rose, and other congressmen, Secretary of State Warren Christopher, Russian Parliament Speaker Mr. Rybkin, Russian Parliament Chief of Staff Mr. Voykov, Members of the Russian Parliament, Ambassador Thomas W. Simons, and other officials.

TRANSLATIONS include: recent years, non-proliferation, nuclear forensics; 100K words of legal material for the U.S. Department of Justice; 3-year translation contract with the Environmental Protection Agency; over 500 pages of legal and regulatory material for the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission; hundreds of pages on energy sector regulation/rate design etc. for the power industry regulators and associations; hundreds of pages of medical, biology, and biochemistry texts including for the defense industry.