Head Of West Coast R&D Information Technology
Espoo, Southern Finland, Fi
Head of West Coast R&D IT As a member of the Mobile Solutions Leadership Team, I was responsible for all IT activities supporting the US Mobile Solutions Business Unit and their execution and coordination of IT activities with the Mobile Solutions program delivery schedules. Maintained local deployment calendar, provided overview, feedback of local cost structure and local activities. Dedicated point of contact for all IT issues not solved through standard support model at respective sites, provide area, location and site specific vision to staff, stakeholders and global IT Leadership. Partner leadership focused on satisfaction of partner performance, Resolve/escalate persistent/urgent issues internally and to partner relationship leads. Engineering Environment Manager Managed projects implementing local and global solutions to fit the customer’s needs consistently on time and at budget. Lead two large-scale global projects that directly affected the engineering environment and how cross site/region collaboration was accomplished. Managed Annual $7 Million Budget with $10 Million in Assets. Lead 3 Teams / 24 Employees – Core management team member to lead the change from Nokia Mobile Phones CDMA BU to Nokia-Sanyo Mobile Devices and oversaw new company IT and Engineering needs. Recruited, trained and managed day-to-day staffing needs and provided technical leadership for Engineering Tools & Platforms (ETP), Electronic Design Automation (EDA) and Software Engineering Environment for Terminals (SWEET) in both hierarchical and matrixed organizations. UNIX Team Leader Implemented & Co-developed custom PVMGmake solution at local site reducing software build times by 34 times the expected standard (4 hours to 7 Minutes), this started as local project affecting 1,900 and was adopted by 16 R&D sites globally and 10,000 end users worldwide.