Kari Korkatti

Name: Kari Korkatti
Address: Kontulankaari 3 E, 00940 Helsinki, Finland
E-mail korkatti@gmail.com

Education
Bachelor of Business Administration at Helsinki School of Economics.

Working experience as an Independet consultant
I started my career by working in Accounting and Business Development for the Finnish Savings Banks in 1971-1976. One of my assignments was to develop a computer aided planning methodology for the Finnish Savings banks, which was highly appreciated.

I worked in Sweden as a consultant in Software Design from 1976 to 1982 in a small consultant company. I specialized in analysing and modelling of business processes and concepts to assist IT-specialists in Software development projects. I became one of the pioneers in this methodology in Sweden.

I established my own business in 1982 and worked then 20 years as an independent Management and IT-consultant. I specialized in areas such as Business Process Development, Information Resource Management and Software Engineering.

My customers were among the biggest Swedish corporations, such as Swedish Post, Ericsson and Saab, Pharmacia Corporation, Folksam, SPP/Alecta, Swedish Savings Banks, Stjärn-TV/UPC, and so on. I helped my customers to define their strategic Business and IT-development plans.

Through my work I got to understand business principles and concepts in various branches, such as Logistics, Banking, Insurance, Electronics, Pharmacy, Cable-TV-networks, almost no branch or business process neglected.

Experience as a Freelance translator
I am now using my wide and deep working experience as a Freelance translator since 2007. Finnish is my native language, but after having lived 30 years in Sweden I regard even Swedish as my second native language. I translate from English into Finnish and Swedish,
and reverse from both of these languages into English.

Since 2007 I have had an opportunity to cover a variety of special fields, such as Finance, IT, Business Economy, Marketing, Tourism, Medical Equipments, Automotive, Technical translations (like Owner’s manuals for cars, motorcycles), Mines, Education, Localization, etc.

I have translated in average 350,000 words per year. My daily output can be 2000-3000 words, depending on the situation.

CAT-tools
I am using Cat-tools like Trados (latest versions) and Passolo (for localization) and Workfast. I have of course all ordinary desktop applications (MS Office etc.).

Keywords
A generalist with a wide and deep working experience.
Used to work under tight schedules.
Focused to deliver good quality in agreed time.
 

• Adobe Acrobat
• Idiom WorldServer
• TRADOS
• Wordfast
• Microsoft Office