Heikki-Pekka Noronen Email & Phone Number

Acting as a principal programmer with focus on world-building tech.

Jyväskylä, Finland

When you are working on small startup, you'll easily end up having so many hats. That's what has happened to me.I was first employee to be hired to Action Squad Studios for full-time and been working here ever since. The main thing I do is all about programming and tech.lead things. Therefore the lead programmer title is still the most fitting one. On the other hand, in the credits of our first game, Iron Danger, you will find me also as Community Manager, Game Designer, QA manager and Marketing Director.In our on-going game project, I'm working as a lead programmer and game director, heavily participating in programming and architecture, but also having main responsibility in the game design, vision and scope of the game as well.keywords: C#, Unity3D, game development

Finland

I've always thought that we should share our experiences and help new talents to emerge, so took this interesting side-project in teaching Unity3D development.In practice I was responsible for planning content, preparing material and executing entry-level Unity course for the students. The focus was much in learning the Unity tooling in-depth and creating own playable game with it.

Jyväskylä, Finland

I took this position to help our organization to continuously improve in quality of the code that we produce, including tools, mindsets and capabilities. In this position I have done variety of things including for example tons of code reviews, working with coding guidelines, mentoring and training developers, participating into architectural reviews and renewal of our review processes as well. I've also been jumping to help critical projects with technical and also management issues and been helping top management of Healthcare Nordic organization to dig deeper into arising technical issues in any project.I've also heavily focused on improving visibility on development testing and quality on the code level, helping organization to take in use different kind of tools such as static analysis and related dashboards.So to summarize, a work focusing heavily in cultural change and any actions to guide developers and other members of organization to continuously improve in technical quality that we produce.Even though the role has wide set of responsibilities, I've also kept my hand dirty with actively writing C# code as well.During the time, I've also been continuing to participate in process improvement work, as well as coaching projects. In addition I've been member of our internal Lifecare brand products certification team as responsible for technical quality in certifications, and later moved also to work as a head of the certification team.Keywords: C#, static analysis, unit testing, code reviews, software architecture, coaching, mentoring, change management, leadership

Jyväskylä, Finland

My responsibilites in this position include the management of development and maintenance work, processes and practices of medical imaging product development team. I am also acting as first-line manager for the development team members, which currently is total of 12 persons.During my first year as a manager, we achieved a lots of great things as a team. We focused heavily on continuous improvement and quality, improving for example our unit testing practices and learning and shaping our practices through both Scrum and Kanban.The team's fine progress could also be seen in few different team based surveys:- Tieto employee survey, 32% higher rating than company average- SIA Group TPD survey, 30% higher than industry average and 12% improvement during the year- Tieto leadership survey, 31% higher rating than company averageWhile working on the role, I still didn't let go of all of the programming duties but also participated on tackling some concrete development work and giving hand to the developers with code when ever necessary.In addition to my duties in team, I am also actively working on Tieto Healthcare Finland level activities such as taking part to renewal of our overral software development process (where also having main responsibility in software definition phase), leading our testing automation workgroup and being member in our agile workgroup.Keywords: C#, Scrum, Kanban, Lean, unit testing, leadership, team management

Jyväskylä, Finland

Senior level developer duties in cutting edge medical imaging software development. During this time, I have also been acting as project manager in two different product development projects. In addition I have been responsible of giving numerous customer presentations.In addition to my duties in team, I also worked actively on Tieto Healthcare Finland level activities such as taking part to renewal of our overral software development process (where also having main responsibility in software definition phase), leading our testing automation workgroup and being member in our agile workgroup.Keywords: C#, software architecture

Wide variety of roles under the same title. Mostly worked on medical imaging software having responsibilities as for example lead programmer, Scrum Master and Product Owner.Also, actively participating to furthering agile processes in house, being part of Agile Workgroup of Tieto Healthcare Finland, through which I've also ran in-house "hardcore" agile training session for project managers and software developers.Keywords: C#, project management

Operational level project and team management in development of multi-platform game title Reset Generation, including duties of Scrum Master, and practical implementation duties as programmer in the development team having hands in bit of each part of the code.Also had main responsibility for the AI programming in the project."The best N-Gage game yet, and up there with the best on any platform" - Pocket Gamer review (score 10/10 and platinum award)Keywords: C++, team management, Scrum, games, mobile, AI

During my time at Redlynx I've been working on several different kind of projects and roles. Including for example:- Technical designer and programmer of distributed license management system- Technical designer and programmer of scheduling system for participation TV programs- Technical designer and programmer in Redlynx Theatre MobileTV interaction service system- Project manager and technical designer in media center functionality extension prototype- Project manager in crossmedia videoservice Katomua, which has presence in www, wap and TVKeywords: C++, Java, C#, mobile, project management

Game programmer in highly succesful PC gametitle Rally Trophy, which was published by JoWood Publishing and has sold over 650k copies.Tasks considered for example of UI, AI and tools programming.Rally Trophy also reached good reviews, and was for example picked by Gamespot as the Best Racing Game of year 2002.Keywords: C++, AI

Master'S Degree, Information Technology, Master'S Thesis Grade 5/5

Studies consisting mostly of information technology management related courses, but also including studies in Information Security.

Bachelor Of Engineering, Information Technology