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London, GB

London, GB

I work with international clients on planning for and executing digital transformation programmes, carrying out organisational change initiatives, and creating sustainability strategies. My engagement covers both strategic advisory and interim positions, and we focus on advancing the client’s organisational capabilities to successfully deal with ambiguity.

London, London, GB

Linköping, SE

I answered the request to move back to Estonia and make use of my international industry expertise by accepting a role in the newly formed cabinet as the government minister providing interim leadership and strategic goal-setting in the areas of innovation, entrepreneurship, industry development and international collaboration, foreign trade, information.

Tallinn, Harju, EE

The role of HITSA is to ensure that the graduates at all levels of education have obtained digital skills necessary for the development of economy and society, and that the possibilities offered by ICT are wisely and skilfully used in improve the quality of teaching and learning.

London, GB

MindBridge provides executive consultancy services and skills development programmes for business and technology leaders and their teams. We help our international clients with building organisational capabilities for sustainable continuous improvement; aligning programme, project, and product management with business priorities; and maximising the.

itSMF is a global community for ITSM professionals, managed through 50+ national chapters around the world. I joined the Estonian chapter in 2008 as a Board Member, focusing on international relations and events management. I was then nominated as Chapter President in 2013, and was re-elected by chapter members every year until my resignation in 2018.

London, London, GB

I joined the UK Cabinet Office’s newly established joint venture to revamp and future-proof their world-leading product portfolio of 25 years and to lead further product strategy and development work in this new format. This included team mentoring, market analysis, user research, revenue planning, stakeholder management, partnership development, product.

Redmond, WA, US

I worked with multiple business and technology teams to build and improve operational excellence capabilities in product and service development and support. We developed frameworks and techniques for embedding DevOps, Lean, Agile, ITSM, and cloud practices in service value streams. After the Microsoft acquisition, I was leading international.

Austin, TX, US

Epicor is a global leader in delivering business software solutions to the manufacturing, distribution, retail, hospitality, and services industries. My role was to represent Epicor Professional Services in the Baltics and manage ERP and ITSM software implementation programmes and projects in the Nordic and Baltic regions (incl. in Fortune 500 companies).

Stockholm, -, SE

BiTA Service Management is one of the leading ITIL and ITSM training and consulting companies in Scandinavia. My role was to set up and run the Estonian subsidiary, as well as provide ITSM consulting services to our domestic and international customers, including major telecoms, banks, and a significant number of public sector organisations.

Agricultural Registers and Information Board (ARIB) is a government agency in the area of administration of the Ministry of Rural Affairs in Estonia, overseeing the implementation of various EU funding projects. My role was to set up and lead the PMO, head up the software development and QA departments, and coordinate methodology adoption initiatives.

Artaxis, a spin-off startup founded by four colleagues, focused on building bespoke web-based applications for small and medium-sized companies and public sector organisations. I held the triple role of a software developer, product manager, and Chief Technology Officer.Key technologies used: Python, Java, Zope, PostgreSQL.

IT Meedia was a unique semi-academic startup founded by some of the brightest minds in the Estonian tech scene in the early 2000s, several of whom later joined Skype. I was working as a team lead and a branch office manager, as well as a hands on product manager for the cross-platform synchronisation module and the content management system. Key.

Hanse Baltic was one of the oldest wholesalers in Estonia, an industry leader in the computerisation of operations, and one of the first to add an online retail arm to their business in the late nineties. My responsibility was to choose, implement, and support the tools used in daily operations, as well as manage the company’s website and online shop.