From Junior Lecturer, Kimmo advanced through the positions of Senior Lecturer, Deputy Head (Department of English), Head of English, Director of Educational Services and Director of a private language school. At Tellus Kimmo's role involves participation in EU projects dealing with language training, course development and teacher training. Kimmo has studied a Masters in TEFL. Kimmo speaks English, Finnish and Swedish fluently, German satisfactorily and some Russian, Italian, Spanish and French.