2024: worked on virtual reality games and mobile games – and still made one more music video, which gained a few views and was selected for Spark Animation 2024 -festival.

2024: Continued to work on a new game development and live-ops + updates for Style Battle.2022-2023: Continued to work on Studio Killers 404 Style Battle as the programming lead, but also took responsibility in Early Access in customer management and technical part of Early Access publishing and customer acquisition and game design – the game was published in December 2023 to a wider audience. Also worked on other early game development and prototyping.2020-2021: Worked as an assistant director for the Studio Killers 404 animation pilot and did also designing, programming (C# / Unity) and arranging the backend and QA for the Studio Killers 404 Style Battle -game. In 2020, Studio Killers 404 Style Battle got silver in the Big Indie Pitch -competition. While engaged on this, I've been also working on marketing, social media material and graphic design for the Studio Killers 404 Kickstarter rewards – and of course assisting on producing Troll Karl & Lillan as co-creator on the IP.2017-2019: Game prototyping and new game development (casual mobile game prototypes), Studio Killers music videos, Angry Birds Slingshot Stories animatics and storyboard art (which in 2021 started streaming in Netflix), Studio Killers 404 Kickstarter -campaign. In 2017 we published our first game for Oculus Go and Samsung Gear VR. My core responsibilities were game design and game programming.

I've instructed and substituted Brazilian jiu-jitsu classes (beginner adults, advanced adults, kids and families) and sometimes helped with boxing, MMA and kettlebell at Hipko. In addition I've designed visual material including certificates, gear etc. for Hipko. On my designated BJJ classes I've documented the showed techniques for all the students to read and view in video format after class.2024, Winter-Spring: I was the BJJ instructor for Leppävaara Beginners and Intermediate classes, family jiujitsu and basics class (FRI). Planned a new curriculum by combining Hipko's intermediate and beginners program for Leppävaara, this was later adapted to all BJJ classes teaching earlier only the beginners program.2023: discount basic Brazilian jiu-jitsu (BJJ) course Friday classes during and extensive substituting of basics during Spring. Family and adults + adults advanced back-to-back classes twice per week & family and adults single class twice per week during summer (Leppävaara & Metsälä) and during autumn & winter twice a week beginners plus once a week basic course and once a week a family class. I was awarded as "Instructor of the Year" by the CEO of Hipko, Jesse Räkköläinen in December 2023.2022: free basic Brazilian jiu-jitsu (BJJ) course Friday classes during spring, adults and family classes back to back twice a week during summer (7 weeks), discount basic Brazilian jiu-jitsu course Friday classes during fall & winter, including extensive substituting in for basics Leppävaara during fall.2021: free basic Brazilian jiu-jitsu (BJJ) course Friday classes, during autumn (Olarinluoma)During this time I have also substituted other instructors.

I've been substituting other jiujitsu instructors since 2019 – as soon as I got my blue belt – by taking care of kid's class, family class, junior class and adults basics, beginner, advanced classes.

For 15 years I've taught in Aalto University's School of Arts, Design and Architecture as a visiting lecturer. I believe in giving back to the community I once learned from. The student base is very international, with students ranging from the Americas to Europe to Asia.2022-2024: DOM-E2114 & AXM-E2007, Design for Motion with more Blender emphasis.2021: Visiting lecturer for Design for Motion, added Blender to the list of software being taught in this course, continued with distance teaching due to the pandemic via Slack, MyCourses, YouTube, Dropbox and Zoom. (DOM-E2114 - Design for Motion, 11.01.2021-17.02.2021) I also did a small amount of hours in DOM-E2221 – Studio: Visual Narratives (21.04.2021), helping students to understand better the tools available and opening up my workflows.2020: Continued working as a visiting lecturer for a new class, which turned out to be more challenging than usual due to the Covid-19 pandemic shutting down the university, but I setup a Slack, uploaded material to YouTube and held Q&A with Zoom. Amazingly the students did well and the results speak for themselves. (DOM-E2215 - Motion Graphics and Production Design, 28.01.2020-03.04.2020)2018-2019: I taught the Moving Image and Production Design -course's animatic and animation creation (After Effects and beyond). (DOM-E2211 - Moving Image and Production Design, 23.01.2018-27.04.2018 & DOM-E2215 - Motion Graphics and Production Design, 29.01.2019-05.04.2019)2017: I taught Stories in Motion -course; more animation and motion design technique teaching to master students. (DOM-E2208 - Story in Motion I, 01.02.2017-17.03.2017)2014 - 2016: I taught animation and motion design techniques to master students mainly in the Pixstories -animation minor.2010 - 2013: I taught animation and motion design techniques to bachelor students and professors during the transition era from UIAH.

Worked on money games as an art director at Air Dice for a few months 80% of my day doing concept art, visuals for games in 3D and 2D, guideline art and overall helping junior team members, until ultimately deciding to leave to continue working in my own company full time.

I ran a hybrid of game development business and a design / animation business with minimal amount of employees for seven years.The work I did in my own company between 2010 - 2017 ranged from designing and programming games, game prototypes and interactive products to making demanding visual design and animation and apps or animation for advertising or for custom use.Lucky breaks: Trials of the Blood Dragon for Redlynx / Ubisoft (cutscene co-direction, 2016), Studio Killers (technical artist; animation, motion capture technologies, 2010-2017), Bella, Tonttula and Lämäri for Finland's Slot Machine Association (visuals, 2015-2016), Smart Dollhouse for Heureka (game design, programming + Arduino programming, 2016-2017) and several mobile games (visuals, game design, animation, programming, 2010-2017).

Between 2007 and 2010 I had responsibilities in making graphic design, illustrations, animations and interactive content for advertising.Lucky breaks: character design and illustration for one of Finland's largest retailers, animation work for Baltic Sea Action Summit / Baltic Sea Action Group which was awarded a Cannes Gold Lion (PR).

I did animation, graphic design, game design and programming (Flash browser -games) for several companies and other institutions, including Igglo, Kemira, Night Visions Film Festival and Helsinki Halloween Festival. I started working through Flammable while studying as a freelancer.

While studying graphic design, I did some graphic design work for a handful of companies and character animations for a game (Triplane Turmoil II).

After military service and while waiting for my studies to begin at UIAH, I worked as a substitute teacher in an elementary (teaching grades one to six, including special education), as a security officer in Helsinki-Vantaa Airport and as a fast food restaurant worker.

As high school ended I had a seven month period until military service began. During this time I was employed as a sausage factory employee and as a logistic worker at a game importer's warehouse.