Technical translations, including automotive, IT texts, experience also in translating advertising and marketing materials
Beşeri Bilimler ve İnsancıl Çalışmaları, Çocuk Bakımı, Dilbilimi, Edebiyat, Eğitim, Girişimcilik, İş Genel, İş Pazarlaması, Makine Mühendisliği, Müzik, Otomotiv, Siyasi Bilimler, Spor ve Sağlık, Tarih, Tiyatro
EDUCATION
University of Turku
Master of Arts, M.A.
From August 1996 to 20th June, 2002
French language and culture (major)
English philology (minor)
University of Tampere
Undergraduate of Social Sciences
From August 1999 onwards
International politics
Ulvilan lukio (Ulvila high-school)
31st May, 1996
Secondary school graduate
WORK EXPERIENCE
Translation Services Miia Virtanen/Käännöspalvelu Miia Virtanen
Entrepreneur, translator and proofreader
From 1st of September 2005 onwards
Freelance translator and proofreader
From August 2000 onwards
Werner Söderström Corporation
Secretary of the General Management
From 27th of May 2002 to 31st of August 2005
Job description:
Travel arrangements, correspondence, maintenance of archives, legal advice to customers, phone assistance, PR work, writing articles and photographing to the internal organisational magazine, contract translations
Fun Languages
Kids Club Instructor
Summer 2001 and from December 2001 to May 2002
LANGUAGE SKILLS
Finnish
Mother tongue
French
Spoken good, written excellent
English
Spoken excellent, written excellent
Swedish
Spoken comfortable, written good
Italian
Basics
German
Basics
TRANSLATION EXPERIENCE
Translations, technical and commercial, translation check-ups, proof-reading, grammar and spelling check-ups since the year 2000.
Language pairs:
English-Finnish-English
French-Finnish-French
Swedish-Finnish
English-French-English (proofreading)
Specializiation:
Automotive industry
Business documents and contracts
Construction
Marketing materials
Technical manuals
IT EXPERIENCE
Web browsers
Microsoft Explorer, Netscape Navigator
Illustration software
Adobe Acrobat 5.0, Coreldraw, Photoshop
Email
Lotus Notes, Outlook, Outlook Express, Eudora, MSN Messenger
Office software
Office XP (Word, Excel, etc.)
Translation tools
Trados 7, SDLX, Star Transit, Wordfast
Broadband
Sonera 512/512
Online dictionaries
WSOYPro, MOT
Please contact me for any translation tests you might need.