Kimmo Laakkonen Email & Phone Number

Finland

Salo, Southwest Finland, Finland

Leading energy battery product engineering project. Spearheading cross-functional efforts in hardware, software, testing, and system engineering domains. Collaborating with multidisciplinary teams to deliver cutting-edge solutions.

Espoo

Leading Aito haptic touch technology development and integration project. The project focus was to integrate technology into one of the main laptop manufacturer's laptops.

Leading customer pilot projects. Projects are located outside Finland. I'm also the team lead for autonomous technology integration for vehicles. My duties are normal project management duties, error management, change management, software upgrade management, customer collaboration, risk management, scheduling, running agile processes, developing processes, etc...

I'm renewing my technology knowledge at University of Lappeenranta. My study plan is software, automation and industrial IoT focused.

Various digitalization projects. I was leading RPA (Ui Path), machine learning, mobile web and web-services projects at Lantmännen feed.

Helping research, development and innovation digitalisation projects to be kicked-off and successfully executed at Saimaa University of Applied Sciences.

Helsinki

Sharpeye Systems develops solutions which locates, measures and tracks within centimeter accuracy. We have been developing positioning system for self driving car research project. 2nd important project has been to develop distance meter for movie industry.My main responsibility areas are customer relationship, leading projects and product management. My work includes meeting customers & understanding their needs, project planning, requirement management, making offers for customers, negotiation of subcontracting and practical work for projects. Anyway in startup company have to be jack of all trades.

Salo

Sensoan is a company developing smart IoT solutions. Their expertise is IoT sensor systems. I participated in Diploma in industrial internet training in AaltoPro university. My focus on study was to make concrete proposals how Sensoan could develop their air quality sensor business. For thesis work I studied business model literature, IoT market forecasts, construction business ecosystems, building automation and internet of buildings areas.

Salo And Espoo

My role was to lead smartphone development program from idea to market launch. I was accountable for daily program execution, development schedules, budget, resourcing and program reporting towards stakeholders. My daily work was ensure that program and sub-projects were aligned against business plans. Device program main sub-projects were software, hardware, supply chain, product management and quality projects.I successfully led Lumia 640XL smartphone program from idea to market entry. Lumia 640XL was global product available in U.S, Europe and Asia.

My role was to lead smartphone development program from idea to market launch. I was accountable for daily program execution, development schedules, budget, resourcing and program reporting towards stakeholders. My daily work was ensure that program and sub-projects were aligned against business plans. Device program main sub-projects were software, hardware, supply chain, product management and quality projects.I successfully led Lumia 640XL smartphone program from idea to market entry. Lumia 640XL was global product available in U.S, Europe and Asia.

Salo

My role was to lead smartphone development program from idea to market launch. I was accountable for daily program execution, development schedules, budget, resourcing and program reporting towards stakeholders. My daily work was to ensure that program and sub-projects are alinged against business plans. Device program main sub-projects were software, hardware, supply chain, product management and quality projects.My main achievements: I successfully led Nokia C6-01 and Nokia Lumia 925 smartphones on market. Lumia 925 was fast track product to lead metal frame antenna concept in Nokia.

Salo

I was working in Global Nokia innovation management team. I was responsible for identifying and managing flow of innovations and new technologies through Nokia organization. I was working with sourcing, engineering and business development to bring external innovations to Nokia. My main expert areas were miniaturization technologies, location services and surface treatment.

Salo

My main responsibilities were to lead product definition work, be voice of customer for engineering, ensuring right marketing messages, drive product related actions and ensure timely launch of product & enhancements. To achieve my goals I had close co-operation with engineering, sales teams, go-to-market team, business development and business unit management.My main achievement was Nokia E61 launch from early idea to market. E61 was innovative device leading e-mail optimized device category. Device had miniaturized qwerty and several email clients.

Salo

I was leading team which was accountable of initiating new device programs and maintaining key technology roadmaps for business unit. Phone concept definition had product mission, business calculations, main features and schedules targets. I had close co-operation with engineering, business development and finance. I hired 7 people for team and we initiated several device programs during those years.

Salo

My responsibility areas were short messaging, multimedia messaging, instant messaging and e-mail service. My role was to maintain roadmaps of these technologies and ensuring competitiveness of features. I had close co-operation with software engineering daily basis.

Salo

I was software team leader for EPOC (Later branded as Series 60) SW team in 3G device concepting program.

Salo

I was working as user interface SW designer. I did all kind of tasks from new feature development, debugging, module testing and device field testing. Coding language used was C-language. Platform was Nokia S30 software.I was also Nokia Mobile Phone representative in ETSI (European Telecommuncation Standardization Institute) short message group during 1996-1998.

Savonlinna

I was software designer at forest industry start-up company. Coding language was Pascal.

Diploma In Industrial Internet

Bachelor’S Degree, Automation Technology