Veli-Pekka Vesala Email & Phone Number

Greater San Diego Area

Greater San Diego Area

Greater San Diego Area

• Former Nokia. Microsoft acquired Nokia handset business in Fall 2013. Position is the same.Directed global customer technical acceptance team. Responsible for managing technical acceptance projects for all Smart.
• Led a virtual-global team that obtained carrier approval for the first Windows 8 smartphone in North America.
• Managed customer acceptance and launch of 15 global smartphones.
• Supervised acceptance of the first Windows tablet.
• Reorganized the team so that specific members specialized in a specific carriers, resulting in a more informed process and faster approval time.

Dallas/Fort Worth Area

• Directed customer pre-acceptance testing team for carrier-ranged devices, technical approval, quality assurance of retail channel devices, and verification of device and services solutions in North America. Managed.
• Created a team of senior and junior testers that achieved cost-effective, high-quality testing.
• Developed and implemented a reporting mechanism that visualized cost savings resulting in an informed senior management.
• Achieved operational cost savings $2M+ via intelligent investing and identifying the most cost efficient way of operating.
• Managed internal technical approval and launch of 15 smartphones and feature phones in the retail channel.

Dallas/Fort Worth Area

Responsible for Nokia N-series products customer approvals in North America region. Key contributor for device acceptance of first Nokia N-series product by a major NAM carrier. Pioneered retail channel technical acceptance testing for Nokia multimedia (N-series) products in North America region. Managed budget and costs for Nokia Multimedia customer.

Managed interoperability projects for various technologies including SIP, Streaming, VoIP, IMS, Video Sharing, Push-To-Talk, Video Terminal. This involved industry collaboration with competitors but also network infrastructure vendors and operator customers. Managed and participated in operator trials of different technologies such as Push-To-Talk and.

Dallas/Fort Worth Area

Managed and facilitated interoperability projects concentrating on interoperability of Nokia devices with different appliances and WAP gateways. Led multisite team responsible for interoperability of Nokia devices in browsing technologies (WAP, http, Java).Pioneered platform level end2end technology testing at carrier premises.Facilitated testing of.

Demonstrated future wireless technologies such as wireless internet (WAP, Wireless Application Protocol), Smart Messaging (settings, ringing tones, etc. via SMS), Mobile Java, Psion Epoc (Symbian).

Led team of software professionals implementing, maintaining and enhancing features in Network Management System software. Was Nokia representative in trying to create industry standard for an application implementation framework for Network Management Systems API.Implemented C++ code for Network Management System framework software handling communications.