Kyle D. Vraa, CT
Kyle has more than 30 years of combined experience as an intelligence analyst and professional translator working with the Scandinavian languages (Norwegian, Danish, Swedish, Icelandic and Faroese), German, Dutch, Russian, Polish, French and, of course, English, his native language. Over the course of his career, he has worked with a wide variety of projects from different industries, including business, banking, finance, defense, intelligence and foreign policy. He has several years of experience as an open-source intelligence analyst with major private contractors for the U.S. Government. He gained his expertise in business, banking and finance through work experience in documentation at US Bank headquarters in the Commercial Real Estate, Commercial Lending and Mortgage Banking divisions. Kyle subsequently used this expertise from his many years of professional translation work for the business, banking, finance and legal industries.
Kyle is a summa cum laude graduate of the Russian program at the Defense Language Institute in Monterey, California, serving six years in a signals intelligence unit for the U.S. Army Reserve located at Fort Snelling, Minnesota. He also holds a B.A. in Scandinavian Languages and an M.A. in German from the University of Minnesota. As part of his graduate work, Kyle was awarded an IRSEP (International Reciprocal Student Exchange Program) scholarship to study Nordic Languages at the University of Trondheim in Trondheim, Norway, now known as the Norwegian University of Science and Technology. Kyle actively maintains his American Translators Association (ATA) translation certifications for Danish into English and German into English. He also serves as an exam grader for the ATA Danish into English certification exam.
Professional Memberships and Affiliations
- NorCham Minneapolis (Norwegian-American Chamber of Commerce)
- Finnish-American Chamber of Commerce
- Icelandic-American Chamber of Commerce
- American Translators Association (Active Member and Certified Translator)
- Germanic-American Institute, St. Paul, Minnesota
- Alliance Française Minneapolis/St. Paul
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