Natalia Petrova

p.o.box.18189

Philadelphia, PA19116

(610)909-3861;

EXPERIENCE:

2000-presentFree-lance translator, certified court and medical interpreter: work for PA

and NJ judiciary ( and hospitals

directly as a contractor and through agencies. Per diem interpreter at Albert Einstein Medical Center, Jefferson Health System (Philadelphia, PA).Senior Associate Translator at Multilingual Solutions (Rockville, MD).Written translation and oral consecutive, simultaneous and sight interpretation. English–Russian, English-Ukrainianand English-Belarusian language combinations. Executive OfficerPanagenic International, Inc., Hatboro, PA. Translation and interpretation in the area of medicine, law, biotechnology, molecular biology, biochemistry andgenetics. Preparation of legal documents, business proposals, research agreements, patent filing, bookkeeping, office management.PC proficiency.

1996-2001Interpreter/Translatorfor Enrich International, Orem, UT. Interpreted at company meetings all over Europe, USA and Japan. Familiar with etiquette at meetings of top business executives. Translated educational video-tapes and helped prepare advertising materials on nutritional supplements for publication. Work on contract basis.

1997-1999*Manager. Top-kniga, Novosibirsk, Russia.*Concurrent with the interpreter employment. Managed a chain of 3 wholesale/retail bookstores focusing on educational and reference books.

1992-1997*Free-lance language specialist.

Composed and translated sales agreements on import of home appliances and general merchandise from Germany and US for International Trade House “Sibkom”. Did all paperwork in English for the accounting, Customs, etc. Prepared business conferences. Translated at executive business meetings and commercial exhibitions.

Gave classes of English colloquial practice and Home Reading at the Humanities, Natural Sciences and Physics Departments of Novosibirsk State University. Interpreted at various scientific and business meetings.

1989-1992*Office manager/interpreter Novosibirsk office of Pharmacia/LKB (Uppsala, Sweden and then Vienna, Austria).*Concurrent with the academic employment.

Interpreted at scientific seminars and presentations of the company all over Former Soviet Union. Managed the office. Maintained database of customers and products.

1987-1992Senior translator. Institute of Bioorganic Chemistry, Siberian Division of the Russian Academy of Science. Novosibirsk, Russia. Made English-Russian translations of scientific papers. Member of the Organizing Committee of the International Conference on Oligonucleotide Derivatives in 1988 (300 attendees). Interpretation at scientific seminars.

EDUCATION:

MA(cum laude) Minsk Linguistic University, Belarus, FSU (English and French major)

Small Business Development Course at Temple University SBDC, 2000

Summer course of Financial Accounting at CCP, 2001

Workshop on court and telephone interpreting at LSA (Philadelphia, 2001)

NAJIT Conference and workshops in Legal Interpreting (New York, 2002)

Certification interpreter examination at the Offices of the NJ Superior Court, 2003

DVTA (ATA chapter) workshops in Court Interpreting (Philadelphia, 2004-2005)

“Bridging the Gap” training for medical interpreters (Einstein Hospital, 2004)

Language Line testing of language skills (Einstein Hospital, 2004)

Seminar for medical Interpreters (Health Federation of Philadelphia, 2005)

Simultaneous interpreting course at Union College (Elizabeth, NJ, 2005)

Member of ATA, NAJIT, DVTA

PERSONAL:Permanent resident of the US.

Publications

  1. L. A. Yakubov, N. Petrova, N. Popova, D. Semenov, I. Oskina, «Role of Extracellular DNA in Maintaning Genomic Stability and Cancer Clone Onset», Proceedings AACR-NCI-EORTC International Conference Molecular Targets and Cancer Therapeutics: Discovery, Biology and Clinical Applications, #669; October 2001, Miami Beach, Fl.
  2. Leonid A. Yakubov, Natalia Petrova, Nelly Popova, Dmitry Semenov, V.P.Nikolin, Irina Os'kina «Genomic DNA fragments of tissue fluids induce genetic alterations in somatic cells», Proceedings International Conference «RNA as Therapeutic and Genomic Target», #37, August 2001, Novosibirsk, Russia
  3. Yakubov, L.A., Petrova N.A., Popova N.A., Semenov D., Nikolin, V.P., Oskina, I.N. " Role of extracellular DNA in maintaining stability and variability of cellular genomes." Doklady Akademii Nauk (2002), 382, 405-410. English translation: Doklady Biochem Biophys (2002), 382, 31-34. Free PDF is available at Kluwer Academic Publishing,