Having spent nearly all of my career in small, fast-moving companies I am very delivery-oriented and have a startup / entrepreneur mindset focusing on the end result.Work experience
Precond Ltd., Founder, Independent Consultant, 2006-
Check my recent work page to see examples of what I do.
First Hop Ltd., Senior Software Architect, 1998-2006
First Hop (later acquired by Airwide Solutions) created a messaging and value added services management product suite for mobile operators, currently in use at 60+ operators worldwide. I joined the company as the 3rd employee and held various senior technology positions. My last assignment was senior architect role in a major development project to create a new generation product platform.
Helsinki Univ. of Technology, Research Assistant, 1996-1998
I worked at HUT (currently Aalto University) as a thesis worker and project manager in a group studying software architectures for broadband networks and services.
Ebara Corporation (Japan), Systems Engineer, 1994-1995
As a part of my studies at HUT I spent a year as a trainee at Ebara Corporation in Tokyo in junior position in the company IT department. In addition to IT work the traineeship was a major cultural experience.
Education
MSc in Engineering (Computer Science), Helsinki University of Technology, 1999. Thesis: "Broadband Service Architecture".
Skills
Programming languages: Java (since 1997), C/C++, Bourne Shell, PHP, Scala
Backend technologies: Spring Framework, Tomcat, Jetty, EJB3, JBoss, Mule, Apache, MySQL, Oracle, CodeIgniter, MongoDB, Weblogic, LDAP
Frontend technologies: HTML/XHTML, JSP, Javascript, jQuery, Android UI framework, Lift
Tools: Eclipse, Maven, SVN, Nexus, Hudson, Adobe Creative Suite
Operating systems: Linux, OSX, Android, Solaris, Windows
Languages: Finnish (native), English (excellent), Swedish (moderate), Japanese (basics), German (basics)