Piotr Graff - Polish translator and conference interpreter

Expertise

Advertising	Economics	Law
Agriculture	Energy	Manufacturing
Banking	Engineering	Marketing
Biochemistry	Environment	Patents
Commerce	General	Social Sciences
Computing	Human Resources	Software
Defense/Military	Industrial	Technology

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Experience

Translating: Over 30 years of experience with the annual volume of approximately 500,000 words.

Interpreting: Lech Walesa; Aleksander Kwasniewski (current President of Poland); Tadeusz Mazowiecki (former Prime Minister); W. Bartoszewski (former Foreign Minister); William Perry; Gen. John Shalikashvili; Gen. Tadeusz Wilecki, former Chairman of the Polish General Staff; Madeleine Albright; Justice Antonin Scalia; Janet Reno; Strobe Talbott; Hon. Zbigniew Brzezinski; Herbalife Intl.; Booz Allen Hamilton; U.S. State Department treaty negotiations; Embassy of Poland, Washington; Los Alamos National Laboratory; Georgetown University; U.S. Holocaust Museum; Salomon Brothers; AFL-CIO and others.

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Credentials

U.S. State Department conference interpreter and translation contractor, clearable
Certified member of Stowarzyszenie Tlumaczy Polskich (Polish Translators Assn., Warsaw)
Accredited, English to Polish, American Translators Association
U.S. citizen, current passport, available for U.S. and overseas conference interpreting
Over 100 agency and corporate clients each year

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Tools

PC	MS Office 2000 Trados 7.5 Team Edition Adobe Acrobat 5.0 (PDF creator) OCR Polish language tools Desktop publishing in Polish, all major software packages
Macintosh	MS Word QuarkXpress PageMaker Polish fonts selection Desktop publishing in Polish, all major software packages
Other	Postscript laser printer Scanner Modem 24 hour dedicated fax Internet access Ftp site CDRW drive Extensive reference library

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Education

MA and PhD, Warsaw University, Department of Philosophy

Habilitation (Post-PhD Degree), Institute of Philosophy and Sociology, Polish Academy of Sciences, Warsaw

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Positions held

1990-present	US based full time independent translator and conference interpreter
1963-1990	Researcher to professor, Institute of Philosophy & Sociology, Polish Academy of Sciences, Warsaw
1958-1990	Free-lance writer, translator and interpreter
1982-1983	Institute for Advanced Studies in the Humanities, University of Massachusetts, Amherst, MA
1981-1982	ACLS (American Council of Learned Societies) Fellow, Amherst College, Amherst, MA
1979-1980	Fellow, Centre National des Hautes Etudes, Paris, France

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Personal interests

Pondering, Pontificating, Carrying On, Dwelling Upon, Holding Forth

Piotr Graff PhD