Mary Nurminen is a researcher and teacher of human and AI translation at Tampere University. For the past 10 years she has been investigating the various ways non-translators have integrated AI translation into their everyday work and lives. Her pre-academia career involved 13 years at Nokia, mostly in management, and 5 years as a Solution Architect at Lionbridge. In a nutshell, she selected the fields of localisation and technical communication early on, then proceeded to do every job imaginable around those areas. To date (31 years in) those jobs include: practitioner, manager, language services buyer, language services seller, consultant, teacher and researcher.