Personal information
Tiia Suomivuori
Born on 8 October 1970
Mother of two boys, aged 8 and 10
Education
February 2006: Master of Arts, University of Tampere, Finland
Major: Translation Studies (English),
Specialization: Technical Communication
Minors: Translation Studies (Finnish), Psychology
Thesis: Evaluation of Intermedial Target Texts
Language skills
Finnish: excellent, mother tongue
English: excellent
Swedish: good
French: satisfactory written skills
Computer skills
Windows Office, Trados 7 Translator's Workbench,
HTML and CCS, SGML/XML basics
Work and other experience
2006 Private entrepreneur, Informal translation and communication
services
2004-2005 Freelance translator for eg. Tampere University.
Scientific articles, project reports etc., mainly Finnish-English.
2004 Bemis Company Inc. Marketing communication and translation, Finnish-English-Finnish.
1998-2001 Freelance translator for eg. SKT Group Finland.
Product descriptions, instructions, customer magazines, English-Finnish.
1990-1992 Assistant to Editors, Rakennustieto Oy. Editorial tasks.
2002-2004 Treasurer of Student Association Transla ry.
Hobbies and interests
Literature and writing, communication, family, humor, dog, interior design,
renovation, old motorcycles.