| Surname | Sinijärv |
| Given Name | Erkki |
| Date of Birth | 1974-02-28 |
| erkkisin(at)hot.ee | |
| Telephone | +37256628008 |
| Academic Degree | BA, Finnish and Swedish Philology, Translation & Text Editing Studies |
| 1998-2002 | Tallinn Pedagogical University — BA |
| 1995-1997 | University of Helsinki — transferred to Tallinn Pedagogical University |
| From January 2007 to August 2008 | AS Hansapank | Private bank |
| Job designation: | Documentary payments specialist | |
| Main tasks: | Issuing, amending and processing outgoing letters of credit, bank guarantees, and collection orders. Monitoring, tracking and advising incoming letters of credit, bank guarantees, and collection orders. Checking the related documents and maintaining files. Providing internal and external customer service on these and related issues. Trained in: UCP, URDG, IRC | |
| Location: | Tallinn |
| From December 2004 to January 2007 | Bank of Estonia | National monetary authority, state financial institution |
| Job designation: | Editor | |
| Main tasks: | Responsible for editing and translating European Central Bank periodicals into Estonian, contributing to term database, relevant reports, consultations and presentations | |
| Location: | Tallinn |
| From July 2004 to August 2006 | Zephyr Design | Web design, corporate Internet and network solutions, media monitoring |
| Job designation: | Media analyst | |
| Main tasks: | Monitoring media of Finland and Sweden: radio, TV, online news; writing summaries on relevant news in English, Finnish and Swedish | |
| Location: | Tallinn |
| From June 2003 to December 2004 | AS Radiolinja Eesti | Telecommunications, mobile and Internet providing services |
| Job designation: | Customer manager | |
| Main tasks: | Customer management for customers in Finland | |
| Location: | Tallinn |
| 2002-2003 | Aabeli | Translation services |
| Job designation: | Editor and Translator | |
| Main tasks: | Editing, translating, and proofreading Estonian, Finnish, English and Swedish texts, document processing, web mastering, staff management, workstation management | |
| Location: | Tallinn |
| 2001-2002 | Bona Reisid | Travel agency |
| Job designation: | Assistant | |
| Main tasks: | Managing international contacts, Web site administration | |
| Location: | Tallinn |
| 1999-2002 | Stockholm Environment Institute | Research and consultations |
| Job designation: | Translator | |
| Main tasks: | Translating from English and Swedish to Estonian, editing Estonian texts | |
| Location: | Tallinn |
| 1997-2002 | Anobion Hulgimüügi | Stationery products wholesale |
| Job designation: | Assistant | |
| Main tasks: | International correspondence, translating and editing stationery products documentation and business letters | |
| Location: | Tallinn |
| 1997-1998 | Eurouniversity | Education |
| Job designation: | Lecturer | |
| Main tasks: | English lectures | |
| Location: | Tallinn |
| Other: | Translator of Ian Dunlop's Louis XIV into Estonian, published by Varrak |
| Estonian | Native |
| English | Fluent |
| Finnish | Fluent |
| Swedish | Fluent |
| French | Average |
| Russian | Average |
Windows 95, 98, NT 4, 2000, XP Professional — including administration
Linux Red Hat 8 & Fedora Core — extensive experience on home user level
Document Processing — MS Office, KOffice, OpenOffice, Abiword, Notepad
E-Mail & Instant Messaging — Outlook, Thunderbird, Pegasus, Pine, Windows Messenger, MSN Messenger, AOL Messenger, Yahoo Messenger, IRC
Internet — Netscape Navigator 4+, Internet Explorer 5+, Mozilla 1.0+, Opera 5+, Konqueror 3.0, Lynx, FTP
Web Page Making & Graphics — Netscape Composer, Mozilla Composer, Nvu, Frontpage, Adobe Pagemaker, Macromedia Dreamweaver, Quanta, Gimp, MS Publisher, Flash MX, Canon MultiPass printer & scanner software
Additional — computer maintenance & antivirus software, knowledge of HTML & CSS specification
Latest edit: 2008-09-15