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Empowering a crazy good team of Acoustic and DSP magicians..

- Product management and development on wearables product category- Portfolio and technology roadmap planning - Explore new product development processes, and drive process change through the company

Helsinki, Southern Finland, Finland

Built and led a small PhD level audio engineering team to develop technologies for head-worn audio product concepts. Some of the main development topics included:- Machine learning based signal processing solutions for miniaturised transducers (MEMS) - Acoustic architectures for product concepts- Perceptual signal processing concepts for adaptive.

Helsinki Area, Finland

Consultation project for a company to help create a plan for an audio product creation from an idea, through all the steps in product creation, to manufacturing.

Cupertino, California

Lead Audio and Acoustics design engineer for the AirPod Max headphones.My duties covered the whole product creation cycle, from early concept and design work, all the way to manufacturing - and all the cross-functional fun that comes in between..I also drove audio and acoustic design for other exploratory concept projects.

Espoo, Finland

Developing and prototyping Internet of Things product concept and services. Mostly continuing concept work from Nokia (that was acquired by Microsoft), and now driving the ideas through Microsoft by contacting and communicating with various teams across the company. - Lead audio and IoT concept designer for a Bluetooth sensor tag

Espoo, Finland

Concept and prototyping work for Internet of Things gadgets and services.- Drove a project to unify cloud services across the whole company to enable IoT product concepts- Lead the project to connect Nokia Treasure Tag family with the IFTTT cloud service- Lead HW designer for Nokia Treasure Tag miniIn addition, I also supported Nokia Gear audio product.

Worked in a team desiging Nokia audio accessories. - Lead audio designer on various audio products - Early product concept work and prototyping - Acoustic simulations for the whole audio accessories team- Audio laboratory management and maintainance- Driving research collaboration projects with Universities and technology vendorsProducts where I was the.

Consult work for a start-up. Key responsibilities were to design the signal sensing hardware for the product, and to develop and program a real-time audio DSP algorithm for analyzing and processing the sensor data. DSP algorithm was written in assembly language.

Acoustic and audio related research, mainly focusing on Augmented Reality Audio technologies. Key research topics and work included:- Augmented reality audio technology development and evaluation - Developing and building an acoustic head-tracking and positioning system- Research on headset and ear acoustics- Modeling acoustic systems- Developing in-situ.

Software testing, application development for customers, Java software development to create new web-based features for the software.

Phd., Acoustics And Audio Signal Processing

Activities and Societies: - Major subject: Acoustics and audio signal processing Minor subject: Digital signal processing Doctoral.

Msc., Engineering

Activities and Societies: - Major subject: Acoustics and audio signal processing Minor subject: Microelectronics