My areas of expertise are technical, IT, medical/pharmaceutical, marketing, e-business, automotive and market research questionnaires (specialized in Brand Image and Customer satisfaction surveys for the IT industry).

I have got 7 year's experience working in translation/market research/ copywriting. I've worked as a fulltime translator at Taylor Nelson Sofres, one of worlds' leading market research companies, for 3 years now. Tasks I do include verification, linguistic quality assurance and file analysis of English source files. Performing translation and editing the native target language. Researching and resolving linguistic issues, testing of documents. Transcription of recorded interviews. IT Customer satisfaction complaints and their resolution. Utility vehicle client satisfaction and technical problems. Translation of medical and pharmaceutical documents and presentations of medication and medical devices.

Companies I've worked with include IBM, Microsoft, Ford, Sage, 3Com, Bull, TV5, Accenture, France Telecom, the European Commission and many more.

I'm native Finnish, with a bilingual level of English and French. I also speak/write fluent German and Swedish.

In February 2000, I created my own copywriting/ translation company, Maestro Media Publications, based in Hull, England.

I normally charge between 0.09 and 0.12 USD per word depending on the area of expertise required. However, I am willing to discuss these rates depebding on the amount and frequency of work you propose.