Antti Jaakkonen
Engineering Director at Schibsted Suomi- Claim this Profile
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Suvi Kuulasmaa
From the moment I met Antti I have admired his truly enthusiastic attitude to Lean and Agile! We worked at the same time as agile coach/RTE and often shared challenges and also moments of success. If I ever needed a fresh view or new ideas (even crazy) I went to Antti. He is also the one who knows all the new and must-read books so it's very valuable just to have a chat or coffee break with him :) It was a pleasure to teach SAFe trainings with such a professional, fun and lot of experience gained coach. I truly hope our ways cross still in the future!
LinkedIn User
Antti worked as a RTE when we met. I was (am) amazed by Antti's energy, enthusiasm and commitment to encourage and help teams to find their own Agile way of working. Antti always had an example to show, a picture to draw, a tool to use, a concept to try, a story to tell or an article to read when we needed support. His skillset is wide and he's easy to approach and work with which I think is crucial if you want to be a good facilitator. I once asked that Don't you ever get bored to learn more about the Agile mindset or organizational change (he was reading some book on his day or evening off) and the answer was simply No. So thank you for challenging, listening and caring! I would recommand Antti for any lean-minded team or organization which needs coaching or mentoring. And I would like to consider you as my mentor even we don't work together anymore.
Suvi Kuulasmaa
From the moment I met Antti I have admired his truly enthusiastic attitude to Lean and Agile! We worked at the same time as agile coach/RTE and often shared challenges and also moments of success. If I ever needed a fresh view or new ideas (even crazy) I went to Antti. He is also the one who knows all the new and must-read books so it's very valuable just to have a chat or coffee break with him :) It was a pleasure to teach SAFe trainings with such a professional, fun and lot of experience gained coach. I truly hope our ways cross still in the future!
LinkedIn User
Antti worked as a RTE when we met. I was (am) amazed by Antti's energy, enthusiasm and commitment to encourage and help teams to find their own Agile way of working. Antti always had an example to show, a picture to draw, a tool to use, a concept to try, a story to tell or an article to read when we needed support. His skillset is wide and he's easy to approach and work with which I think is crucial if you want to be a good facilitator. I once asked that Don't you ever get bored to learn more about the Agile mindset or organizational change (he was reading some book on his day or evening off) and the answer was simply No. So thank you for challenging, listening and caring! I would recommand Antti for any lean-minded team or organization which needs coaching or mentoring. And I would like to consider you as my mentor even we don't work together anymore.
Suvi Kuulasmaa
From the moment I met Antti I have admired his truly enthusiastic attitude to Lean and Agile! We worked at the same time as agile coach/RTE and often shared challenges and also moments of success. If I ever needed a fresh view or new ideas (even crazy) I went to Antti. He is also the one who knows all the new and must-read books so it's very valuable just to have a chat or coffee break with him :) It was a pleasure to teach SAFe trainings with such a professional, fun and lot of experience gained coach. I truly hope our ways cross still in the future!
LinkedIn User
Antti worked as a RTE when we met. I was (am) amazed by Antti's energy, enthusiasm and commitment to encourage and help teams to find their own Agile way of working. Antti always had an example to show, a picture to draw, a tool to use, a concept to try, a story to tell or an article to read when we needed support. His skillset is wide and he's easy to approach and work with which I think is crucial if you want to be a good facilitator. I once asked that Don't you ever get bored to learn more about the Agile mindset or organizational change (he was reading some book on his day or evening off) and the answer was simply No. So thank you for challenging, listening and caring! I would recommand Antti for any lean-minded team or organization which needs coaching or mentoring. And I would like to consider you as my mentor even we don't work together anymore.
Suvi Kuulasmaa
From the moment I met Antti I have admired his truly enthusiastic attitude to Lean and Agile! We worked at the same time as agile coach/RTE and often shared challenges and also moments of success. If I ever needed a fresh view or new ideas (even crazy) I went to Antti. He is also the one who knows all the new and must-read books so it's very valuable just to have a chat or coffee break with him :) It was a pleasure to teach SAFe trainings with such a professional, fun and lot of experience gained coach. I truly hope our ways cross still in the future!
LinkedIn User
Antti worked as a RTE when we met. I was (am) amazed by Antti's energy, enthusiasm and commitment to encourage and help teams to find their own Agile way of working. Antti always had an example to show, a picture to draw, a tool to use, a concept to try, a story to tell or an article to read when we needed support. His skillset is wide and he's easy to approach and work with which I think is crucial if you want to be a good facilitator. I once asked that Don't you ever get bored to learn more about the Agile mindset or organizational change (he was reading some book on his day or evening off) and the answer was simply No. So thank you for challenging, listening and caring! I would recommand Antti for any lean-minded team or organization which needs coaching or mentoring. And I would like to consider you as my mentor even we don't work together anymore.
Credentials
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Applying Lean, DevOps, and Agile to Your IT Organization
LinkedInJul, 2020- Sep, 2024 -
Become a Leader
LinkedInJun, 2020- Sep, 2024 -
Angular 5 (formerly Angular 2) - The Complete Guide
Udemy OnlineJan, 2018- Sep, 2024 -
Professional Scrum Master I
Scrum.orgJan, 2018- Sep, 2024 -
Learn Spring Boot in 100 Steps - Beginner to Expert
UdemyOct, 2017- Sep, 2024 -
OpenShift Developers Workshop
Udemy OnlineOct, 2017- Sep, 2024 -
DevOps Foundations
LinkedInJun, 2017- Sep, 2024 -
Certified SAFe® 5 Agile Product Manager
Scaled Agile, Inc.Feb, 2021- Sep, 2024 -
AWS Certified Solutions Architect - Associate
Amazon Web Services (AWS)Jan, 2018- Sep, 2024 -
Certified SAFe 5 Agilist
Scaled Agile, Inc.Dec, 2019- Sep, 2024 -
Certified SAFe 5 Program Consultant
Scaled Agile, Inc.Dec, 2019- Sep, 2024 -
Certified SAFe® 4 Program Consultant
Scaled Agile, Inc.Dec, 2019- Sep, 2024 -
SAFe® 4 Certified Agilist
Scaled Agile, Inc.Jan, 2018- Sep, 2024 -
Team Facilitation: The Core Skill of Great Team Leaders
Udemy
Experience
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Schibsted Suomi
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Online Audio and Video Media
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1 - 100 Employee
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Engineering Director
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Jan 2023 - Present
Leading tech function covering seller experience of recommerce vertical on our nordic marketplaces platform.
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Development/Engineering Manager, Architecture supervisor
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Apr 2022 - Jan 2023
A natural continuation of what was before with the addition of taking the people responsibility of our architecture team. On the side, I provide on-demand agile coach services where I am helping people and squads outside my regular Tori sphere. In essence, this is a servant-leadership position where fostering an environment where multiple squads and people in them can thrive and feel and act empowered is the key to success.We designed and facilitated an initiative to create clarity of our architectural and core development principles, modernisation scope and slicing, which we tested and improved with all of the squads and collaborated with the product and tech leadership group to align ourselves with the shared direction.Providing architectural, tech and way of working guidance when needed in various forums from multi-squad setup to squad level and on speciality forums like architectural and Product & Tech leads forums.Collaborating day-to-day with Product managers and other technical managers to build psychological safety, empowerment, autonomy and mastery in our squads.
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Development/Engineering Manager
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Jan 2022 - Jan 2023
Building ways of working for multi-team setup, technical renewal visioning & roadmapping, workshop and team event facilitation, mentoring and coaching continuous delivery and related practices.
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DNA Oyj
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Finland
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Telecommunications
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700 & Above Employee
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Lead Product Owner
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Aug 2021 - Jan 2022
Acting position providing leadership and people support, mentoring and coaching for a team of five product owners. This is an addition to my Agile Coach & RTE role at DNA.
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Lean Agile Coach
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Apr 2020 - Jan 2022
Member of DNA Lean-Agile Coach team and responsible for continually enhancing DNA agile ways of working for 650+ person development organisation. As a Coach team member, I regularly ran training sessions, both custom and SAFe flavoured, and facilitated or took part in designing and implementing the next experiments to further improve how we work (people, process and technology) and interact with each other at DNA. I advocate to look things from a system (holistic) viewpoint and emphasizing the interdependence of product and engineering capabilities.Working also in a Release Train Engineer role at (B2C) DNA Digital Services area, providing leadership support (ways of working, facilitating technical decision making and championing the evolution of software development practices towards continuous deployment, to mention a few and yes, we did deploy on black week & black Friday), mentoring and coaching for 80+ people in 9 different feature teams, including product owners, scrum masters, developers and members of the product management team. I helped to ensure our teams were aligned but autonomous and our product and engineering capabilities developed together. Brought and trained OKR planning as a method to replace PI Plans from Program increments.Wrote my master's thesis based on enterprise-wide ways of working evolution project in which I acted as the main driver and facilitator. This initiative invited ~ 40 leaders across the organisation to clarify the current obstacles and probable root causes in the architecture, development practices, organisations and way of working. This work culminated in identifying shared values, principles, organisational countermeasures and changes to our way of working that would not only remove the obstacles but be a significant improvement organisational outcomes.
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Nets Group
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United Arab Emirates
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Business Supplies & Equipment
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Nordic Agile Coach
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Aug 2019 - Apr 2020
One of three Nordic Agile Coaches at Nets Merchant Services unit responsible for training, guiding, mentoring, and coaching our agile journey using our in-house ways of working framework. Was at the service of 50+ Nordic teams and provided 1:1 and team coaching, workshop & team building facilitation and training sessions based on demand team and individual demand. One of three Nordic Agile Coaches at Nets Merchant Services unit responsible for training, guiding, mentoring, and coaching our agile journey using our in-house ways of working framework. Was at the service of 50+ Nordic teams and provided 1:1 and team coaching, workshop & team building facilitation and training sessions based on demand team and individual demand.
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Lean Agile Coach / SPC+RTE
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Aug 2018 - Jul 2019
Working as Lean-Agile Coach / SAFe Trainer (SPC) / Release Train Engineer and member of DNA's Lean-Agile Center of Excellence (LACE). I worked as RTE for one of the Agile Release Trains containing 9 different teams on Broadband and associated services area, as a trainer giving SAFe training and as a member of LACE, I worked to improve metrics and measurements (like. Lead/Cycle time, Little's law effect to attributes like throughput, depth of backlogs and time-to-market). Helping people adjust their ways of working, finding countermeasures to deal with various organisational and process impediments, training, mentoring and coaching depending on the situation.Certified as SAFe Program Consultant (SPC)
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Fennia
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Finland
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Insurance
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700 & Above Employee
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Solution Architect & Agile Coach
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Feb 2017 - Aug 2018
Agile architecting and occasional product management moving fluently between enterprise, solution and application architecture based on organizational needs and the type of problem at hand. Also, utilizing strong skills in improvement and quality to drive enhancement on various types of processes and outcomes of those processes. Evangelising Agile & DevOps way of working and culture, helping to tear down walls, create context and tell stories of a better world to enable people to work together better. Speeding up development through People & Process side as an Agile Coach and through Technical & Technological excellence in form of leveraging container PaaS (OpenShift), CI/CD -automation chain, and BDD/ATDD practices. Co-initiated Red Hat Open Innovation Lab project and led multi-disciplinary Product & Platform team through it to kick-start aforementioned change.Certified as AWS Certified Solutions Architect Associate, SAFe Agilist & Professional Scrum Master I
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Sp-Henkivakuutus Oy
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1 - 100 Employee
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Development (and Operations) Manager & Team Lead
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Dec 2013 - Jan 2017
My job was to lead the IT department in collaboration with our CFO, our responsibilities of IT reached from infrastructure administration to technology and enterprise/solution architecture choices. Our solutions were responsible for managing over 700 Meur insurance savings.Our team was built to handle full-stack roles. Almost everyone could provision servers, manage and maintain databases, deploy applications, test & create test automation cases, code and maintain our deployment pipeline, craft and distil business and non-functional requirements and run projects of various sizes.- 4 years of team leadership and line management- Co-defining business requirements with business owners- Non-functional requirement specifications based on business & IT needs and wants- Development and continuous improvement of domain processes, methods and tools- Responsible for managing both in-house and outsourced IT Operations- Responsible for managing in-house service desk & outsourced capabilities- Technology and architecture choices- Continuous integration and delivery -methods and tools /including Quality management- Heading automated acceptance & life-cycle testing automation framework projects- Domain process automation- Vendor management & partner collaboration- Various technologies, such as: Streamserve, MS SQL Server, Java (incl. Spring-boot, Hibernate, Tapestry), Robot Framework, WebSphere, JBoss, Azure, Atlassian stack (JIRA, Confluence, Bamboo, BitBucket, Clover), SonarQube, Pentaho Kettle.
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Project manager
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Feb 2011 - Nov 2013
Managing IT-portfolio from infrastructure to business processes. Vendor management and internal management of IT development.Noteworthy projects:Finvoice (eLasku / Suoramaksu) implementation and conversion projects.Various life insurance front and back office system projects, version upgrades and new feature implementations. Project management, vendor guidance, training and end user coaching. Plans and specifications for our IT-infrastructure. Close communication with service provider during development project and management during production phase.Planning, specifications, development and implementation of our customer mailing system. Technical implementation of our end user documents. (Sales and back office documents (policy letters, offer letters, invoices etc..)).Plans, specifications, development and implementation of internal tools. Customer service tool for overview of customers insurance portfolio. Group pension, group handling tool and offer calculation and invoicing.Implementation and management of internal service desk, change tracking and enterprise wiki.Previously (2011 - 2012):Technical hands on project manager with practical approach to both business and IT problems. In-house software development:Creating customer (back office user) oriented solutions for improvement of customer support capabilities and to enhance back office processes.- Streamserve development, administration, testing and project managing.- SQL Server administration.- Overseeing server installations and maintenance.- ETL data consolidation and migration for analyzing purposes.
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Sodea
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1 - 100 Employee
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Software Engineering Consultant
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Nov 2008 - Jan 2011
Providing services for one large Finnish life insurance company and Sp-Henkivakuutus Oy, services provided but not limited to:- Java application development & insurance system module maintenance and development- StreamServe development projects & systems administration- Other customer document projects using XML-FO and Render X- Various other projects, mainly in SQL, XML realms- Service Desk management and steering on customer behalfTechnologies such as Java (incl. Struts, Spring), FOP, WebSphere, DB2, StreamServe, Windows Server, MS SQL
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Profit Software Ltd
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Finland
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IT Services and IT Consulting
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1 - 100 Employee
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Software Engineer
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Jan 2008 - Nov 2008
I was part of a insurance system update project for finnish insurance company, my tasks encompassed of:- Requirements and specifications for insurance stock conversion from system-to-system- Planning and Implementation of aforementioned conversion- Developing client customizations, mainly to batch-sideI also provided production support for our client in form of:- Delivery packaging- Release and installation- Triage and mitigation of found production issues- Database development, OracleTechnologies such as: Java EE, WebSphere, Oracle, XML, Ant.
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Software Engineer
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May 2007 - Dec 2007
I was part of a delivery project for finnish insurance company, my work encompassed of:- Writing specifications for wide variety of customer requirements- Design of requirements - Implementation and testing of requirementsMy expertise was also used in various conversion, integration, UI/UX and printout functionality. And in further customer driven customizations of product based functionalities in claims and invoicing.Lastly, I took part in defining Customer Care Center service functionality and technical specifications. That also extended to testing various on-the-shelf tools for managing issue reports.
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Customer service
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Nov 2005 - Apr 2007
Handling credit resolutions for both various credit cards and car financing solutions.I also provided credit card application guidance and decision support for in-store credit card applications over the phone. Handling credit resolutions for both various credit cards and car financing solutions.I also provided credit card application guidance and decision support for in-store credit card applications over the phone.
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Life insurance claims processor
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Feb 2005 - Aug 2005
Comprehensive personnel insurance claims handling and customer service.Project worker on insurance & claims -services reporting improvement project.Other smaller tasks, such as:- Small process and tool improvement projects- Co-created performance bonus scheme for performing insurance handlers- Organized and held training session related to new tools Comprehensive personnel insurance claims handling and customer service.Project worker on insurance & claims -services reporting improvement project.Other smaller tasks, such as:- Small process and tool improvement projects- Co-created performance bonus scheme for performing insurance handlers- Organized and held training session related to new tools
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Life insurance claims processor
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Jun 2003 - Oct 2003
Comprehensive personnel insurance claims handling and customer service.Project worker on insurance & claims -services reporting improvement project. Comprehensive personnel insurance claims handling and customer service.Project worker on insurance & claims -services reporting improvement project.
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SoftSizing Oy
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Software Development
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Summer worker
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May 1999 - Jul 1999
Ideation and implementation of Softsizing Oy's home-site.Data migration to database systems. Ideation and implementation of Softsizing Oy's home-site.Data migration to database systems.
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Education
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2019 - 2022
Laurea University of Applied Sciences
Master's degree, Organizational Leadership -
2016 - 2017
Aalto University Professional Development
MQ - Master Class in Quality, Organizational Leadership and Quality -
2005 - 2009
HELIA
Bachelor’s Degree, Business Information Technology
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