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Espoo, Southern Finland, Fi

• Designed and developed Nokia’s first 5G Core Network SaaS commercial offer, enabling customers to deploy 5G networks on demand globally.• Advocated and pioneered intent-based automations that positioned the Nokia as the recognized leader by industry analysts.• Applied machine learning techniques to reveal significantly more efficient deployment approaches resulting in up to 72% cost savings for customers.• Created intent-based operations concept, focused on “what” instead of “how”, radically changing how we interact with systems.• Continuing to showcase the “Art of the Possible”, driving innovation and disruptive technological designs.

Espoo, Southern Finland, Fi

I wore two hats:1. Explored forward-looking work, while leading a rapid prototyping team. 2. Designed and built numerous complex, telecom solutions that span multiple domains. From EPC to the RAN to VoLTE, encompassing cloud and SDN technologies.

Espoo, Southern Finland, Fi

• Led the onboarding efforts for telecommunications applications (VNFs) for Alcatel-Lucent and Alcatel-Lucent's partner, Ecosystem.• Changed the industry with the introduction of LeanOps with the 3D metaphoric UI. This continued to define Nokia as a thought leader to our customers and the industry.

Espoo, Southern Finland, Fi

• Founding member of the CloudBand organization, focused on building one of the telecom industry's first cloud platforms.• Created the Japan CNC (Customer Network Center – Collaboration side) in Osaki, Japan, dedicated to technical collaboration with customers with an emphasis on cloud technologies.

Espoo, Southern Finland, Fi

• Created Alcatel-Lucent’s hosting business and oversaw the day-to-day operations as the business grew.• Conceived the concept, architected the hosting environments, including the fault-tolerant networks, compute offerings, and centralized storage solutions.• Hosted the MCM (Multimedia Manager – Alcatel-Lucent product) for T-Mobile for over 30 million subscribers and a monthly average of 1 million unique users. This architecture was additionally used to host applications for AT&T, Verizon, Telus, Etisalat, Telenor Serbia, Maxis Malaysia and Media Saturn.• Hosted the Enterprise Application Store for Verizon. Verizon launched this service with ALU providing turn-key hosting of the application, providing fulfillment, stocking the virtual storefront with downloadable content, and creating billing records of events. Drove further enhancements providing a robust geo redundant solution achieving SLA commitments without financial penalties.• Hosted the Proactive Network monitoring solution for Tier 1 customers. This was the first VNF application to use the ALU Global Cloud that I designed and operated. Enhanced operations principles from previous programs to develop cloud-unique tools, alarming and recovery practices.