Education:

B.A/ESL, 1982, Jagiellonian University, Krakow, Poland

M.A., English, 1984, Jagiellonian University, Krakow, Poland

Ph.D., English/Comp. Lit., 1992, State University of New York--Buffalo

Qualifications:

I passed the U. S. State Department test for seminar interpreting, English/Polish

I passed the U. S. State Department test for escort interpreting, English/Polish--Polish/English

I passed the U. S. State Department test for translation, English/Polish

New York State certified per diem court interpreter, Polish/English, The Unified Court System (Third Judicial District), Albany, New York

Berlitz-certified U.S. Immigration Court interpreter, Polish/English

Skills: translation (Polish/English, English/Polish, Russian/Polish, Russian/English): military, legal, financial, medical, technical, industrial, literary; text editing: (Russian/Polish/English to English/Polish); business communication; research; simultaneous/escort interpreting: (English/Polish, Polish/ English)

Experience: 6 years as escort interpreter, 4 years as seminar interpreter, 3 years as Russian language monitor, 16 years in translating written documents, 7 years in text editing, indexing, research papers composition, proofreading, thesis writing, published author and translator in Poland and in the United States