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Curriculum Vitae

Mirna Soininen

22 August 1980

mirna.soininen@gmail.com

+34 627 199 365

+358 40 555 8732

Raunintie 3 a 14

20300 Turku

Languages

–           Finnish         Native speaker

–           English        Resident in The United States, Ireland and Australia for over five years, English Bachelor’s degree

–           Spanish       Resident in Spain for two years, two semesters of business studies in the Universidad de Deusto. Internship in a Spanish travel agency 2007

Education and Specialization

–          English degree – Bachelor of Business Administration – International Business and Marketing Logistics. Satakunta University of Applied Sciences 2007

–          Specialized in business, (creative) advertising/marketing, travel/tourism and web site related translations

Recent and Essential Translation, Writing and Localization Experience

–          Finished project. Airline web site material – Marketing/travel/legal, English to Finnish, 25 000 words.

–          Finished project. Casino web site material – Marketing/gaming/legal, English to Finnish, 23 000 words

–          Ongoing project. Music industry, technical – Technical user instructions for amplifiers etc. So far 10 000 words

–          Finished project. Executive level CV’s – Business terminology, Finnish to English, 19 500 words.

–          Ongoing project. Beauty product marketing campaign - Long term localization, editing and ‘transcreation’ project to suit Finnish markets from English language.

–          Ongoing project. Business launch marketing material – Ongoing assignment for new business translations/localization, English to Finnish, 50 000+ words for websites, TV, etc.

–          Ongoing project. Large electronic company, web news – 7200 -word English to Finnish translation for monthly posts, 2 year contract.

–          Finished project. Travel web site – 50 000 -word English to Finnish translation for an online travel service

–          2008 – 2009. SDL International – Project coordinator and financial admin.
Coordination and direct management assistance in all tasks related to localization and translation projects within the SDL Finnish unit. Technical tools: SDLTrados, FTP, Lotus Notes

–          2007. Descubretuviaje.com (travel agency in Spain) –

               website development/marketing. Translating travel related and                          country specific descriptions, Spanish/English

–          2001 – 2002. Kaarinalehti – guest foreign columnist from New York for a local Finnish newspaper

Publications: ”Marketing Adventure Travel, Destination South-America” – VDM Publications 2009

Technical Competence:

Windows NT/2000/XP/Vista, MS Office (Word/Excel/Access/Power Point/Outlook/Front Page), SDLX Trados, POEdit, Qt Linguist, FTP, LotusNotes

Other Relevant Experience

–          2008 – present. LinguHouse – Freelance travel writer for an educational and travel based web site. Finnish/English

–          2009 – present. English teacher – Private English classes as a part time teacher. Mainly business English.

–          2008 – 2009. Lionbridge – Freelance quality controller. Evaluation of English to Finnish web sites for search engine optimization

–          2005 – 2006. Universidad de Deusto – Erasmus student in San Sebastian, Spain

Additional Areas of Expertise and Interest

–          For almost ten years of travelling around the world I have developed a profound interest and expertise on different cultures and continents. I’ve worked in five countries, and travelled around Europe, USA, Australia and Central-America.

• Adobe Photoshop
• PowerPoint
• TRADOS
• POEdit