Kimmo Linkama

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Kimmo Linkama

Copywriter, Qualified Translator

Owner, Copywriter & Translator

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  • 67404 Otepää
  • Estonia

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Personal information

Professional experience

  • May 2005 - present

    (8 years, 1 month)

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  • Nov 1996 - May 2005

    (8 years, 7 months)

    Copywriter

    Independent Professional

    Industry: Marketing & Advertising

  • 1994 - 1996

    Copywriter

    A&L Grey Oy

    Industry: Marketing & Advertising

  • 1993 - 1994

    Owner, Copywriter

    Keyword Ky

    Industry: Marketing & Advertising

  • 1992 - 1993

    Business Unit Manager

    Taucher Communications

    Industry: Public Relations & Communications

  • 1989 - 1992

    Account Executive

    Varis & Ojala Oy

    Industry: Graphic Design

  • 1988 - 1989

    Head of Corporate Communications

    Fiskars Corporation

    Industry: Consumer Goods

  • 1985 - 1988

    Copywriter, Campaign Planner

    Anderson & Lembke Oy

    Industry: Marketing & Advertising

  • 1982 - 1985

    Sales Consultant

    Finnair Oy

    Industry: Airlines

  • 1980 - 1982

    Export Manager

    Botnia Carpet Ky

    Industry: Consumer Goods

Educational background

  • Sep 1977 - May 1980
    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

More information on my website and in my marketing blog.
 
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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