My main areas of expertise:

FINNWORD.COM is a one-man technical, legal and general translation service from and into Finnish. FINNWORD.COM is owned and operated by me, Risto Siikarla. I am a freelance translator, living in Boca Raton, Florida, the birthplace of the IBM PC.

I am certified by American Translators Association for the English into Finnish language pair. On the latest count, there are seven of us in the United States. I am equally comfortable with translating into the opposite direction, for which ATA does not offer a certification program.

In a nutshell:

- native speaker of Finnish, with high school and college education from Finland

- U.S. Citizenship 1981

- BSEE from Helsinki Technical Institute, majoring in wireless  communications

- over 20 years of engineering experience in US High Tech industry

- holder of 4 U.S. Patents.

- 23 years of translation experience, last 18 of which full time

- 1 year as an in-house Technical Translator with Ericsson company of Sweden