Working languages:
English to Finnish
Finnish to English

Susan Ruusunen
20 years as a full-time translator, BA

Finland
Local time: 21:00 EEST (GMT+3)

Native in: Finnish 
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Translation and proofreading services since 2001

Specialized in medical and software translations:
-   Imaging equipment hardware and software: e.g. MRI, CT, ultrasound, fluoroscopy,           cath lab systems
-   Pharmaceuticals (SPC, PIL), human and veterinary medicine
-   Instruments and devices; e.g. defibrillation electrodes, blood pressure systems,          exercise stress test equipment, ECG, hearing instruments, tracheostomy tubes and     speech valves
-   Technical translations in various fields, including software strings, user interfaces,      marketing materials, patents, and user manuals
-   Member of SKTL ry - The Finnish Association of Translators and Interpreters. I've         participated in the special training courses for professional medical translators in     2012, 2015, 2017, 2019, offered biannually by SKTL ry.

My translation and proofreading work in numbers:

-   22 years as a full-time translator
-   Over 3.8 million words of medical imaging texts
-   500.000+ words of other pharmaceutical, instruments and other medical texts
-   950.000+ words of translations in a highly varied sector, including a large volume of     user guides, as well as websites, software strings, user interfaces, marketing     materials, catalogues; local culinary and travel books (Fi-En), educational material (2     books, Fi-En).
-   Hundreds of hours of subtitled documentaries, tv series, films, patient interviews

I have a university degree in English and Finnish translation and interpretation, incl. linguistics, phonetics, language technology, and translation theory - University of Turku, Finland

-   English to Finnish - I am a native Finnish speaker
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  Finnish to English - I have a bilingual home, and a proofreading option by my     English native speaker husband is available

My CV is available upon request; it's not uploaded to this website for data security reasons. I'll gladly provide you with further information via email.

I'm a member of The Finnish Association of Translators and Interpreters,
SKTL.
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Palvelua saa tietenkin myös suomeksi. CV:ni on saatavilla sähköpostitse, tietoturvasyistä se ei ole ladattuna tälle sivustolle.
Olen SKTL:n jäsen, joten yhteystietoni löytyvät myös SKTL ry:n jäsenhakemistosta.


- I work with SDL Trados Studio 2021 and MemoQ (10.3)

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Profile last updated
Oct 10, 2023



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