Kimmo Linkama

More information on my website http://www.linkama.com and in my blog The Marketing Communicator at http://linkama.wordpress.com

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 consultation in Finnish and English.

Transcreation
- from Finnish, Swedish, Estonian into English
- from English into Finnish

Languages

- Finnish (native language)
- English (second language)
- Swedish (fluent)
- Estonian (fluent)
- German (good)
- French (tourist level)