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Tampere Metropolitan Area

My team is constructing and maintaining critical electricity distribution and transmission networks mainly in Tampere Metropolitan area. High Voltage systems are delivered nation wide to industry and national grid operator (TSO).

Helsinki Area, Finland

In Jan 2019 I joined Ilmatar Windpower on fixed term contract to develop and startup electricity retail business. I created business plan, startegy and hired required organisation and managed ICT-project to set up CIS and other necessary systems. Within 2 years Ilmatar has gained 30.000 private and 1.000 enterprise customers with total annual energy consumption of +300 million kWh.

Helsinki Area, Finland

Fixed term contract to manage Sourcing actions for Facility Management Services and to identify possible development areas within indirect procurement operations. Responsibilities included e.g. negotiations and preparation of sourcing contracts for major construction and refurbishment projects at Fazer facilities, services and maintenance.

Finland

Since Feb 2017 I have made consultation and project assignments as self-employed consult related to operations management, sales projects and procurement function. By nature these assignments have been short, also part time and fixed term (2-4 mth) confidential employment/consulting contracts with predetermined goals.Companies like Telvent S.A. Spain (a Group Schneider company) have used my services as a bid manager for public tendering to coordinate tendering process and materials.

Espoo

My primary task was to improve materials management and to reduce total cost of ownership (TCO) in matrix organization consisting of four business units. The work was carried out by consolidating suppliers by 75 per cent, centralizing supplier contract management, outsourcing materials to +20 nationwide consignment stocks and by creating in-depth partnership with key stakeholders and suppliers. Together with my excellent team we were able to achieve significant reductions in material management related net working capital (NWC). Further I was responsible of Procurement strategy for both indirect and direct sourcing. Annual direct material purchases exceeded 40 Meur.As Sourcing Director I was also member of the management team, Eltel Networks Ltd, Finland.

South-West Finland

For a period of 10 months I worked as a acting District Manager taking care of management and leadership of 120 power distribution field professionals in 7 local offices in South-West Finland withfull P&L, budgeting and performance responsibility. The District turnover was approx 20 Meur.

Espoo

I was initially hired to startup networks design business unit but soon my task evolved to general business development. As a result in early 2004 I created a process for AMM smart meter roll-out services which requested out-of box thinking ability, definition of key success factors and understanding the end-customer service requirements. The process proved to be much more (4-5 times) profitable than conventional Infranet business. Roll-out process was later widely copied by competitors and recognized as an industry standard. Until 2008 I had business and sales responsibility of AMM roll-out projects. My sales success ratio was 100% due to superior competitiveness of the created and implemented process.Additionally I participated on several process improvement projects and M&A cases.I also left my fingerprint at the time to Eltel by developing Build-Connect-Care business thinking and marketing idea based on life-cycle service approach.

Tampere Area, Finland

My main responsibilities were sales, sales development and sales support for agencies in EMEA (Europe, Middle East and Africa) area.

Tampere Area, Finland

I was responsible for business administration, operations and sales of RemaControl sawmill automation & measurement equipment's to mechanical forest industry in Finland, Baltics and Russia.As a subsidiary to Swedish parent company, RemaControl in Finland was a sales, service and project management subsidiary employing 4 service engineers and project managers. Major achievements in RemaControl were:- Selling the world´s 1st commercially operated, log measurement and classification systems based on combined X-ray/3D technology (to Luvia Sawmill in Finland).- Change of service operation pricing to more transparent and equal for all B2B customers.

Tampere Area, Finland

I managed the development of group wide (global) new generation control systems for crushers and crushing units. Further I was head of automation and electrical design department.

Tampere Area, Finland

I worked as project engineer which included both engineering and project management responsibilities. Additionally I made system start-ups and customer training's. Due to my fluent language skills my projects were mainly exported to Scandinavia and Europe.

Bachelor Of Science (B.Sc.), Electrical Engineering Technologies/Technicians

Executive M.B.A., International Business/Trade/Commerce

Business Administration And Management, General, Valmet Edge 4 Program