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Espoo, Uusimaa, Finland

Innofactor is the leading driver of the modern digital organization in the Nordic Countries for its approximately 1,000 customers in commercial, public and third sector.Project 2, August 2022 - current: Lead Scrum Master in a LeSS team consisting of 24 people in four sub-teams, who develop a large set of both public facing and internal applications for a large governmental agency.Project 1, January - August 2022: Scrum Master in a customer project with a customer facing browser application that utilizes the Azure cloud platform. The team consists of under 10 developers working in a hybrid manner at both the customer premises and remotely, working closely together with customer product owner and stakeholders using agile methodologies.

Helsinki, Southern Finland, Finland

Dazzle Rocks makes games for the social generation, currently making a new kind of sandbox MMO experience for mobile with world-building, exploration, adventure, and collaborating with other players.Team Lead for the Tech Team, consisting of six backend and client engineers. Responsibilities as the Team Lead include being the manager of the team members, the execution of the technical roadmap, overseeing the sprint execution on the technical side, and coaching the technical team to both technical and teamwork excellence.

Espoo

UL Benchmarks, formerly Futuremark, creates the world's most popular benchmarking software for PCs, tablets, and smartphones..Product Owner of the Procyon products for Windows and the Team Leader of a team of 10 developers consisting of backend, frontend, devops, and benchmark engineers.Responsibilities as a Product Owner for the Procyon product line included creating the initial specification of the benchmark based on the requirements from the Product Management. Responsibilities as a Project Manager include scoping and setting up the project, managing the project during the development, ensuring the quality of the benchmark, and keeping all the various stake holders up to date on the progress of the project, including the industry partners. Also responsible for the after care of the released products, including technical support to customer care and release of patches.Released the following products as a Project Manager for the projects: PCMark 10, PCMark 10 Application, PCMark 10 Battery Life, PCMark 10 Storage, UL Procyon Photo Editing, and UL Procyon Video Editing. The projects were run as Agile projects, using a hybrid Agile methodology of both Scrum and Kanban depending on the stage of the project. Project management tools were Jira and Confluence.Created and chaired weekly meetings for the product and project management teams to continuously improve processes and to learn from each other’s experiences. Created and chaired a series of meetings for the whole house on the theme of Quality.Completed courses at the UL University – the UL in-house training• 2017: Kepner-Tregoe project management course. • 2018: Managing for Higher Performance.• Various shorter courses in soft skills, including Difficult Conversations, Emotional Intelligence, Effective Feedback, and Managing Virtual Teams.Training at Työturvallisuuskeskus• 2020: Huono työkäytös ja häirintä kielletty -koulutuspäivä - Bad work behavior and harassment forbidden training day

Espoo, Finland

Rovio Entertainment is an industry-changing entertainment media company, best known for its Angry Birds franchise.At Rovio I worked as a senior tools programmer in the Games Technology unit. My responsibilities included being responsible for the development and maintenance of the graphics pipeline tools, the development and maintenance of the animation pipeline and the animation system, and the development and maintenance of the game editor. The programming languages and technologies I have used includes C++, C# .NET, WPF, Java, JavaScript for Photoshop and Flash, and LUA.

Espoo

G-cluster is the leading cloud gaming provider for IPTV.My work for G-cluster consisted of porting games for the G-cluster IPTV and PC gaming portal and supporting the porting library. Programming and scripting languages used are whatever the original games use, but mainly C++ and LUA.

Helsinki

Frozenbyte is the game studio best known for its Trine games series. I worked on their Trine 2 game, released in the fall of 2011.My main duty was making the AI for the NPCs in the game, and programming game components for the NPCs and the game elements. I also worked on the game editor, making the keyframe tool for it. The languages used were C++, C#, and LUA for scripting.

Espoo

Visual Components provides 3D solutions for visualizing and simulating manufacturing processes for machine builders, system integrators, and manufacturers.My main duty was to design and implement a new user interface to the main product, the project was unfortunately postponed. My work was therefore mainly to add some new features and doing maintenance on the product. The languages used were C++ and C#, and Python as the scripting language.

Espoo

Futuremark Games Studios was part of the Futuremark corporation. I participated in making its first game, the Shattered Horizon, which was released in 2009. I worked for the Shattered Horizon project as a user interface programmer making the HUD for the game using Pixel Shader 4.0. As a programming language I used C++ and for scripting language LUA. The work also included working on the game engine. In the beginning of this project I worked in the game tools team, making the tool for the game world building and asset placement, using C#, C++, and also some database programming.

Espoo

Futuremark is the world leader for 3D, mobile and PC benchmarks. I was involved in all these benchmark families: in the 3DMark and PCMark product families and on the mobile side in SPMark04.My primary duty for Futuremark was as one of the main programmers for the PCMark product family. I was also the user interface and application programmer for the 3DMark product family, and as one of the main programmers for SystemInfo, which collects the user’s computer hardware and software information. I also worked on SPMark04, which is a benchmark product for smartphones, using Symbian for Series 60 and UIQ.

Espoo

Capgemini is one of the larges it-consultancy providers in the world. At Capgemini I worked as a programmer on several projects using C++, C and Delphi programming languages on mainframe and personal computer platforms; attended introductory, consulting, and project manager Cap Gemini courses for employees. Working in Cap Gemini gave a solid foundation in working with customers.

Jyväskylä

VTT Technical Research Centre of Finland is the leading leading research and technology company in the Nordic countries. I worked as a C++ programmer for VTT Energy in a paper machine simulator, used by the Finnish paper industry. My work was application and user interface programming in Windows environment. From July 1998 I worked as the lead programmer, being responsible to produce deliverables for our customers.

Computer Science

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