Jani Suikkola Email & Phone Number

Espoo, Uusimaa, Finland

• Creating and tracking program plans, milestones, success criteria, schedules and deliverable breakdowns together with engineering team, vendors and internal stakeholders• Ensuring the planned deliverables are on time and meet the quality criteria• Working with customers, internal stakeholders and manufacturing vendors

Helsinki, Southern Finland, Finland

- Leading technology teams covering embedded SW, Cloud SW, HW and algorithm development- Creating and owning development roadmap- Building company-wide project mgmt system on Jira- Several improvement proposals over R&D governance, processes and practices

Helsinki

- Global reliability process owner for audio. End to end responsibility over audio reliability.- Reliability process creation and execution.- Providing design proposals on how audio components could be integrated better into mobile devices resulting improved performance and quality. Moreover, proposals to improve water-proof robustness.- Planning and making preparations for new technology development related validation trials.- Roadmapping technology integration options particularly with MEMS microphones and other (MEMS) sensors.- Quality improvement tasks with audio component suppliers; improved design, minimizing FFR and MFR.- Product audio quality reviews; components, product integration, use cases, manufacturing quality.- Key contributor for substantial reduction of audio related field failures (FFR) in flagship category.- Key patent creator for slim acoustic screen technology solution and enabler for its record-fast productization to Huawei P30 Pro smartphone.

Beijing City, China

- Audio concept design for last Lumia products that were developed in Beijing. (performance, quality, cost, availability, size, customer/operator requirements).- Presenting and demonstrating Audio technology team's offering to Beijing R&D people as member of Beijing product concepting mgmt team. - Acting as a link between Audio technology teams and Beijing R&D, product & portfolio mgmt teams.- Preparing and providing information/insights/trends on China market; operator requirements, consumer trends, market shares, etc. for Audio technology team.- Managing audio supplier & quality field in Asia as representing Audio Technology organization in Beijing, China.

Helsinki And Beijing

- Project authority for project managers; supporting PMs, project milestone approver, technology development project process owner.- Global leader and owner for dedicated technology areas [microphones, haptics].- Leader for a highly motivated, productive and professional R&D team which was often used as benchmark and selected for piloting new practices and processes as part of team and organizational development.- Supply line management work for own area; Supplier base management; supplier selection & development.- Nokia global technology roadmap owner of own area.- Nokia global audio component portfolio owner of own area.- Leading through several disrupting technology transitions successfully; Utilizing them and developing new solutions for Nokia products. For instance, regarding microphones; from electret to MEMS, from analog to digital, from basic telecommunication quality to high dynamic range (HDR) microphones.- Relocated to Beijing in end of October 2011.

- Global leader and owner for dedicated technology areas [microphones, haptics].- Leader for small tech team.- Launched 1 st digital microphone for mobile phone mass market. That specific microphone was used in more than 100 different Nokia phone models.- Digital microphone was years ahead of competition and provided interference-free high quality uplink and recording quality and it formed crucial building block for forthcoming noise canceling and multi microphone applications.

- Project manager for Audio Solution Development Projects. Projects were mainly microphone and vibra platform component developments leading to high-scale mass production and to be used in numerous different mobile phone models. Therefore total volumes of components scaled up and represented substantial business value. It also emphasized the importance to design, manufacture and integrate components with extremely high quality.

Salo

- Worked as Audio Design Engineer in mobile phone product program.- Created concept for then new upcoming feature integrated handsfree (IHF), audio sub-system design for bringing new features that were not supported by chipset, audio amplifier development, IHF speaker development and microphone development in addition to normal product audio design in product program.- Participated in creating of audio component development process for platform development which was later widely utilized also into other tech areas (and acted as process owner many years afterwards).