Esa Juhani Väisänen

Mr Väisänen Esa

35bis avenue Berthelot

F-69007 Lyon, France

+33 (0) 426 647 477

esa.juhani.vaisanen@gmail.com

http://esavaisanen.weebly.com

 

Freelance translator

Translation	§         Translating English, French, Spanish and Swedish into Finnish §         Technical and medical translations §         EU-related texts §         Computer-aided translation §         Knowledge about the history of the translation and about the different schools of translating §         Proofreading
Information retrieval	§         Creation of the terminological databases §         On-line information retrieval §         Networks of specialists of different fields and translators
Organisation of the workload and different tools	§         Respect of the deadlines §         Working at home §         Using CAT tools (TRADOS, terminological databases, linguistic corpus)
Interpreting	§         Consecutive and simultaneous interpreting

Languages

Finnish                                  Mother tongue

English                                  Bilingual

French                                   Bilingual

Spanish                                 Bilingual

IT skills

§        Software : TRADOS Freelance 7, Opera, Fols, MS Office, Wordfast

§        Windows XP, Windows Vista

Recent projects

Translation of an online dating website in 2009

§        English – Finnish translation of 50 000 words

Translation of a medical patent in 2009

§        English – Finnish translation of 14 000 words

Education and additional formation                                                                                                           

2008	Translation traineeship Parliament of the European Union, Luxembourg
2007	Filosofian Maisteri (Master of Arts) French and English translation/interpreting, linguistic technology University Turun Yliopisto, Finland
2007	Master in Applied foreign languages Multilingual translation, terminology Université Lumière Lyon 2

Professional experience

3/2009 onwards	Freelance translator
3/2009 onwards	Interpol, International Organisation of Criminal Police, Lyon - France Administrative agent, part-time Switchboard Updating and creating databases