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Helsinki, Fi

Espoo, Uusimaa, Finland

Responsible for driving new product and service concepts- Scoping and initiating of BIM business opportunities resulting in service introduction for door environment specification- New locking concept development for mobile access - working with industry players and third party SW partners to drive activities in the market, driving internal activities to ensure market introduction - Commercialization of ABLOY CUMULUS solution offering- Long-term roadmapping activities for the commercial segment offering, and in particular electric locking. Further, driving to ensure company wide long term roadmaps aligned and in place.- Commercialization of a mechanical key management solution for the Finnish market (abloyavainhallinta.com)- Overall product management responsibility for Abloy OS Incedo, a solution targeted at select verticals for Abloy export markets

Providing strategic and business guidance to Innovamo. Assisting in technology related issues with respect to service/product concepting and overall solution planning. Innovamo provides solutions for personal health care services in a cost efficient manner using Smart Phones and NFC

Espoo

As the product manager accountable for ensuring competitiveness and meeting and exceeding customer expectations with superior user experience for Efecte Self-Service.Working as the product owner with a brilliant team to deliver results using agile methodologies (scrum, kanban)Providing sales support, and engaging with customers directly through e.g. workshopsSpeaker at industry eventsCreating and maintaining product documentation, and sales and marketing materialsDriving problem and incident management activitiesRecruitment of new developers

Helsinki

Responsible for identifying and analysing new business opportunitiesIdentifying and negotiating partner opportunities Market activity planning and sales support for SugarCRM in FinlandDriving, and defining practices for, commercialisation of software products and professional services

Espoo

Responsible for ensuring the Nokia with Windows Phone experience for current and future products would be meeting or exceeding market needs and expectations in certain areas. Key contributions to Nokia connectivity strategy.

A key contributor to and driver of Nokia’s NFC (Near Field Communications) strategy definition and execution for payments, ticketing and improved ease of use. Drove the implementation for global NFC inbox offer for Nokia C7 and Nokia Belle range of devices from definition phases to implementation working with several international virtual teams and reaching the goals on time in challenging business situation. Product Manager for Nokia 6216 classic destined to be world’s first of its type and launched at an industry event in 2009.

Part of a venturing team driving deployment of mobile phone based NFC and RFID solutions with enabling network elements, software development tools and accessories. Responsible for developing a suitable B2B offer for various service companies mainly within the SME domain and defining roadmap of solution elements. Active contributor in direct partner, channel and customer acquisition, technical support, and sales support activities. During the time, also managing a small, yet highly professional product management team and part of the venture's management team.

Responsible for business and market analysis on messaging services in mobile domain. Ownership of base pricing and development of business case related tools and practises for the messaging product line at Nokia Networks.

Heading the product management team of several professionals with ownership of Nokia Networks' MMS Solution offering, roadmapping, tooling and solution development. In addition I was actively contributing to customer acquisition and market activity planning

Responsible for multitude of items related to Nokia Multimedia Messaging Service Center (e.g. requirements management, marketing, sales support, market making, project management for customer pilots and logistics) which was expanded into covering product management for the entire Nokia MMS Solution (constituting of several independent yet interdependent products with teams split across various locations) for feature and activity co-ordination. A key contributor in a number of customer cases with large global network operators and smaller local players where contracts awarded to Nokia.

Acting in assisting and driving roles in various data value-added services technologies, such as SMS content downloads, cell broadcast, MMS etc.

M Sc, Marketing

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