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Timo S. is listed as Management Consultant, CPQ and AI at Variantum Oy, a with 15 employees, based in Helsinki Metropolitan Area, Finland. AeroLeads shows a matched LinkedIn profile for Timo S..
Timo S. previously worked as Concept Owner and Manager at Nokia and Architect and Enterprise Architect for Sales & Marketing at Nokia. Timo S. holds Doctor Of Science (Technology), Computer Science & Engineering, Pass With Distinction (I.E. Honours). Scale: Pass/Pass With Distinction from Helsinki University Of Technology.
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I have deep experience in developing business processes and IT systems, mostly at the interface between business, business processes, and IT, and between research and practice. Since my AI studies I have been fascinated by computers being able to reason and carry out tasks requiring complex analysis and problem solving. Now, I am very interested in applying Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning (ML) technologies:1) As an enabler for new and more efficient business processes and a component in information systems, and2) To increase the efficiency of process and information system development.During my latest career I have worked as 1) senior concept manager and business analyst, 2) process development manager, 3) an IT project and application portfolio manager, and 4) an enterprise architect. My work has focused on sales processes and product data management, ranging from strategy, roadmaps and business cases to working on business requirements and architecture design in development programs. I have often delivered results exceeding my targets, been selected 10 times to long term incentive programs for key employees, and recognized several times by executive leaders for my or team contributions.My previous career was from research assistant to university professor. I majored in symbolic, logic-based AI and did my PhD thesis on its application to product configuring. Our research group further developed a configurator system that was successfully commercialized. I got an overview of industry problems and practices by doing and leading applied research on enterprise information systems together with dozens of companies.My motivation for the above-mentioned areas stems from my engineering mindset. I enjoy analysing business needs or problems and defining solutions to them based on my experience and available research or other solid information.My core strengths are analytical thinking, problem solving and quickly grasping complex topics that I can clearly explain also to non-experts. I work independently, proactively and am goal driven while being open to new ideas and changes. My colleagues consider me a pleasant, fair, trusted, and consensus-oriented co-worker. I like to engage team members with different backgrounds to work together towards a common goal.Additional skills:• Business process and IT development strategy and roadmaps• Information modeling: product models, UML• Working with distributed, multi-cultural and cross-organisational teams in Agile projects• Procedural, functional, declarative & object-oriented programming
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Concept Owner And Manager
Mobile Networks/COO/Supply Chain/Product Structure ManagementResponsibilities: • Requirements analysis and concept design for Nokia sales product structure model, used in product development, sales, supply chain and financial reporting• Concept owner, architect, project manager for Configuration, Pricing and Quotation (CPQ) developmentKey Achievements:• Defined the first high level requirements for and versions of the global Nokia Product Structure… Show more Mobile Networks/COO/Supply Chain/Product Structure ManagementResponsibilities: • Requirements analysis and concept design for Nokia sales product structure model, used in product development, sales, supply chain and financial reporting• Concept owner, architect, project manager for Configuration, Pricing and Quotation (CPQ) developmentKey Achievements:• Defined the first high level requirements for and versions of the global Nokia Product Structure (Information) Model and it’s use cases across product management, sales, supply chain and financial reporting. It was approved as basis for next generation Nokia PDM, CPQ and ERP development.• Defined the Nokia MN Configuration, Pricing and Quotation (CPQ) strategy, business needs, and capability, functionality and application architecture as well as priorities as part of global Nokia CPQ program. These were approved and first proof-of-concept delivered.• Lead and business analyst of business team for successfully creating Nokia Microwave Partner Sales CPQ pilot solution based on SF.com, Apttus CPQ and an in-house developed network configurator.• Defined the high-level Nokia E2E SW business program business benefits, needs, strategy, priorities and the capability and application architecture as well as initial roadmap Show less
Sep 2019 - Jun 2024
Architect And Enterprise Architect For Sales & Marketing
IT/Sales and Operations and IT/Enterprise ArchitectureResponsibility: • Nokia Networks sales and marketing capabilities enterprise architecture, supporting the lead architect until 02/2015 and after that the lead architect. Consultation, governance and review for major sales capability programs. Platforms evaluated included SF.com, SAP CRM, Apttus, PROS, Tacton, ConfigIT, and CallidusCloud.Key Achievements:• Lead for task force designing interim product master… Show more IT/Sales and Operations and IT/Enterprise ArchitectureResponsibility: • Nokia Networks sales and marketing capabilities enterprise architecture, supporting the lead architect until 02/2015 and after that the lead architect. Consultation, governance and review for major sales capability programs. Platforms evaluated included SF.com, SAP CRM, Apttus, PROS, Tacton, ConfigIT, and CallidusCloud.Key Achievements:• Lead for task force designing interim product master data provisioning information and integration architecture for Salesforce.com-based applications in extremely short time. Proposal was approved by management and implemented as designed.• Lead architect in task force designing the high-level process, functionality, information and application integration architecture for the first stage of integration of target Nokia Configuring, Pricing and Quotation application to legacy CPQ and ERP applications. The proposal was approved by IT and business management. • Participated to the Nokia Networks Configuring, Pricing and Quotation platform vendor evaluation. Managed the analysis and decision summary creation for the configuration and product modelling capabilities. The proposal was clear and achieved a consensus between the sales, logistics, product management and IT experts in the team.• Defined and prototyped first version of an Agile methodology variant of Nokia enterprise architecture processes. It was later codified as standard practice. Show less
Jul 2014 - Aug 2019
Portfolio Manager And Head Of Capability Design And Development
Corporate Development Office/Process Excellence, and IT/CIO Office/Portfolio & architectureResponsibility:• First participating to and since 03/2011 driving and developing the process and tools for the NSN spanning strategic IT project and IT services portfolio managementKey achievements:• Managed with my team several rounds of IT portfolio planning and continuous IT portfolio management process to deliver challenging business and cost reduction targets during… Show more Corporate Development Office/Process Excellence, and IT/CIO Office/Portfolio & architectureResponsibility:• First participating to and since 03/2011 driving and developing the process and tools for the NSN spanning strategic IT project and IT services portfolio managementKey achievements:• Managed with my team several rounds of IT portfolio planning and continuous IT portfolio management process to deliver challenging business and cost reduction targets during the Nokia turnaround years 2011-2013. This culminated in managing the whole Nokia Networks IT multi-hundred-million-euro annual planning process with deliverables delivered in time and at targeted stakeholder satisfaction.• Lead defining NSN high-level ERP IT architecture evolution and program roadmap based on high level business cases, resource availability and dependencies. It covered NOKIA-Siemens integration, NSN-Motorola integration, and ERP Upgrade, in addition to dependencies to PDM roadmap. The roadmap was decided at NSN Executive Board level, and subsequently implemented. Show less
Jan 2010 - Jul 2014
Stream Lead And Process Development Manager Of Offering And Configuring Tools
Business Excellence/Customer Process, and CMO/Solutions sales management/Business excellenceResponsibility:• Drove the strategy, mode of operation development, road mapping, budgeting and portfolio management of the NSN offering tools portfolio as business owner during the challenging Nokia-Siemens integration years. Key achievement:• The NSN offering tools landscape was simplified and transformed by developing and deploying common NSN level tools.• Represented… Show more Business Excellence/Customer Process, and CMO/Solutions sales management/Business excellenceResponsibility:• Drove the strategy, mode of operation development, road mapping, budgeting and portfolio management of the NSN offering tools portfolio as business owner during the challenging Nokia-Siemens integration years. Key achievement:• The NSN offering tools landscape was simplified and transformed by developing and deploying common NSN level tools.• Represented Customer and Market Operations as the sales domain expert in Nokia – Siemens process and IT integration program strategy, scoping and roadmap task forces. The results approved at NSN Executive Board level and implemented as decided.• Managed Most Competitive Sales Operations task force stream on configuring to align the interface between Sales and Operations. I was also project manager and business analyst for subsequent Catalogue Based Offering proof-of concept. Show less
Apr 2007 - Dec 2009
Programme Manager
Nokia Networks/CMO/Operations & QualityResponsibilities:• Lead the Net Sales Suite (NSS) program that selected and piloted a NOKIA configuring, offering and pricing tool • Nokia-side co-project manager for Nokia-Siemens integration stream that selected the NSN to-be developed and deployed sales tools
Nov 2005 - Mar 2007
Docent
Helsinki University of Technology (since 01.01.2010 HUT merged to the Aalto University)External, part-time professor-level researcher and teacher.
May 2005 - May 2010
Professor Of Information Technology (Pro Tem)
Helsinki University of Technology (since 01.01.2010 HUT merged to the Aalto University)Department of Computer Science and Engineering/Software Business and Engineering Research Institute (SoberIT), Responsibility:• Lead a research group whose scope included product, SW and services sales configuring and product management, covering the related business processes, tools and information models, as well as enterprise systems architecture and integration.Key… Show more Helsinki University of Technology (since 01.01.2010 HUT merged to the Aalto University)Department of Computer Science and Engineering/Software Business and Engineering Research Institute (SoberIT), Responsibility:• Lead a research group whose scope included product, SW and services sales configuring and product management, covering the related business processes, tools and information models, as well as enterprise systems architecture and integration.Key achievements:• Lead and participant in several research projects done together with dozens of Finnish companies. These gave a good overview of the different company practices. • Key achievement: Authored and co-authored 46 publications cited more than 3500 times. Show less
Apr 2001 - May 2005
Teaching [Senior] Researcher And Research Project Manager
Helsinki University of Technology (since 01.01.2010 HUT merged to the Aalto University)Department of Computer Science and Engineering/Laboratory of Information Processing Science, and later in the Software Business and Engineering InstituteResponsibility:• Project manager of two research projects funded by National Technology Agency and Academy of Finland on configurable software product familiesKey achievements:• PhD thesis in which I defined a… Show more Helsinki University of Technology (since 01.01.2010 HUT merged to the Aalto University)Department of Computer Science and Engineering/Laboratory of Information Processing Science, and later in the Software Business and Engineering InstituteResponsibility:• Project manager of two research projects funded by National Technology Agency and Academy of Finland on configurable software product familiesKey achievements:• PhD thesis in which I defined a conceptual and mathematically rigorous, basis for modeling configurable products and the computational reasoning in configuration.• We built a research prototype in our research group, partially on the basis I had defined. It was shown to be practically useful for various types of products and commercialized and further developed by the successful startup company Variantum Oy. Show less
Jan 2000 - Mar 2001
Researcher
Helsinki University of Technology (since 01.01.2010 HUT merged to the Aalto University)Department of Computer Science and Engineering/Laboratory of Information Processing Science, and TAI Research Centre Responsibility:• Research on configuration knowledge representation and reasoning, the industrial management aspects of configurable products and product data management in projects in cooperation with a dozen industrial companies.
Feb 1996 - Dec 1999
Research Assistant
Helsinki University of Technology (since 01.01.2010 HUT merged to the Aalto University)Department of Computer Science and Engineering/Laboratory of Information Processing Science, and TAI Research Centre
Dec 1994 - Feb 1996
Co-Founder
A start-up company productizing research results of our research group in Helsinki University of Technology. I stepped out when joining NOKIA due to NOKIA policies.www.variantum.com
Jan 2002 - Dec 2005
Degree Programme Manager
Helia - Helsinki Business Polytechnic (later part of Haaga-Helia University of Applied Sciences) / Degree Programme in Business Information Technology Responsibility:• Managing an international Bachelors’ degree program in Business Information Technology and its 16-person team, as well as teaching IT project management.
May 2005 - Nov 2005
Part-Time Programmer
Finnish Red Cross/Blood Transfusion Services Responsibility: • Part-time programmer using Oracle RDB, SQL
Jun 1991 - Dec 1993
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Doctor Of Science (Technology), Computer Science & Engineering, Pass With Distinction (I.E. Honours). Scale: Pass/Pass With Distinction
Licentiate Degree, Computer Science, Pass With Distinction (I.E. Honours). Scale: Pass/Pass With Distinction.
Master Of Science (Engineering), Computer Science & Engineering
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Timo S. works for Variantum Oy.
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Timo S. is listed as Management Consultant, CPQ and AI at Variantum Oy.
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Timo S. is based in Helsinki Metropolitan Area, Finland while working with Variantum Oy.
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Timo S. has worked for Variantum Oy, Nokia, Teknillinen Korkeakoulu-Tekniska Högskolan, Haaga-Helia University Of Applied Sciences, and Finnish Red Cross - Suomen Punainen Risti.
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Timo S.'s colleagues at Variantum Oy include Tomi Männistö, Joonatan Bergholm, and Tommi Syrjänen.
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Timo S. holds Doctor Of Science (Technology), Computer Science & Engineering, Pass With Distinction (I.E. Honours). Scale: Pass/Pass With Distinction from Helsinki University Of Technology.
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