Galina Blankenship

Description

I am a trilingual linguist (native in English and Russian, near native in Turkish) with 20+ years of professional experience in the translation and localization industry, interpretation (onsite and remote), proofreading, editing, copywriting. copyediting, subtitling, and linguistic validation (COA and PRO instruments).

Drawing on my educational background in Social and Behavioral Sciences, Economics, Clinical Psychology, and Creative Writing, in addition to my professional experience, I have acquired a great deal of expertise in the areas of Life Sciences, Pharmaceuticals, Healthcare, Occupational (Business) and Clinical Psychology, Law, Business, Marketing, Software & Website Localization, and Journalism.

As an industry veteran, I have trained myself to fit in multiple hats, having performed most of the conventional linguistic tasks: forward and back translation; linguistic validation, cultural adaptation, and transcreation; copywriting and copyediting; website and app localization; user testing and linguistic quality control; editing, revision, and proofreading; subtitling; DTP; and interpretation (simultaneous, consecutive, VRI, and OPI).

I have also acquired some experience with AI projects, including (1) rating and rewriting AI-generated responses, and (2) rewriting AI-generated caption-like summarizations of video content extracted from TikTok videos for training AI multimodal models.

Professional certifications: member of the ATA & NLSC, certified as ProZ.com Certified PRO Translator, listed in ProZ.com Pools™ Directory as a Prescreened and Vetted Expert from the Specialized Pool of Pharmaceutical Translators, certified as RWS Machine Translation Post-Editor (MTPE Certificate).

For more information about my qualifications and experience, feel free to check my profiles at Proz.com, ATA, or LinkedIn, or visit my website or blog, where I regularly post on topics of grammar and usage.