Kimmo Linkama
Copywriter, Qualified Translator
Owner, Copywriter & Translator(The company name is only visible to registered members)
- 67404 Otepää
- Estonia
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- Interests
- Edit Cars, especially off-road machines
Professional experience
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May 2005
- present
(8 years, 1 month)
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(Only visible to registered members)
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May 2005
- present
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Nov 1996
- May 2005
(8 years, 7 months)
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Industry: Marketing & Advertising
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Nov 1996
- May 2005
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- 1994 - 1996
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Industry: Marketing & Advertising
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- 1993 - 1994
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Industry: Marketing & Advertising
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- 1992 - 1993
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Industry: Public Relations & Communications
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- 1989 - 1992
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Industry: Graphic Design
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- 1988 - 1989
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Head of Corporate Communications
Industry: Consumer Goods
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- 1985 - 1988
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Industry: Marketing & Advertising
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- 1982 - 1985
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Industry: Airlines
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- 1980 - 1982
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Industry: Consumer Goods
Educational background
- Sep 1977 - May 1980
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Kouvola Language Institute, Finland
Theory & Practice of Translation, Qualified Translator
Technology, Trade & Commerce
- Languages
- English (Fluent), Finnish (First language), Swedish (Fluent), German (Good knowledge), French (Basic knowledge), Estonian Fluent
About me
Copywriting
After five years in domestic and export sales, active in the communications business since 1985. Wide experience in industrial clients, particularly in the engineering, pulp & paper, electronics and information technology industries. Special expertise in corporate identity projects. Assignments include advertisements, ad campaigns, brochures, direct mail pieces, articles for trade and customer magazines, TV commercials, presentation materials, annual reports, graphics manuals, WWW pages.
Transcreation
Finnish into English, English into Finnish: advertising campaigns, manuals, communication strategies, video and multivision scripts, presentation materials, magazine articles, annual reports, share issue materials, WWW content. Also translated novels by Sidney Sheldon, Ken Follett, Agatha Christie, Andrew Klavan, Alistair McLean, John Grisham, Danielle Steel from English into Finnish for WSOY, Finland’s largest publishing house.
Project management
Have held several managerial positions being responsible for corporate communications, clients’ communication planning and implementation, and corporate identity programmes. Assignments have involved strategic and tactical planning of Integrated Marketing Communications to maximise the yield of clients’ communication investments. Responsible for the costing, scheduling and sourcing of projects.
Specialities
Business-to-business copywriting and marketing communications in Finnish and English.
Transcreation
- from Finnish, Swedish, Estonian into English
- from English, Swedish, Estonian into Finnish
Languages
- Finnish (native language)
- English (second language)
- Estonian (fluent)
- Swedish (fluent)
- German (good)
- French (tourist level)
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