I believe that true innovation comes from leaving your comfort zone and rejecting narrowly drawn career paths. My trajectory has been far from straightforward, involving stints in the performing arts, academia, international education, and tech. Each new endeavour has allowed me to hone new skills and draw on the expertise of newfound friends and colleagues. From 2011-2015, I worked in Moscow and Kiev, including two years as a translator in the localization department at Yandex. This experience was my entry into the world of tech and has led to fruitful collaborations with large companies and just-off-the-ground startups alike.

The solutions I offer draw on the tools, metrics, and processes of localization and content marketing. Any language service provider can tell you that no content exists outside of context. Even the most prosaic technical document has a target audience and addresses a pain point. Given that reality, I find it most productive to talk about language services on a spectrum of context-dependency that goes from technical translation to copywriting. Depending on what your needs are, I can work with you to create content that conveys your message, converts customers, and is optimized as part of a larger strategy.

Past and current projects include editing blog posts on machine learning for a big-data company; constructing daily taglines for a lifestyle brand's Instagram page; and writing press releases for companies in domains like cryptocurrencies, wireless charging technology, and consumer apps.