Jani Saarikoski
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Binaya Manandhar
I was Jani Saarikoski’s Manager from 2005 to 2009. Our team had responsibility of deploying, supporting, upgrading mobile core networks in North America. I was impressed by Jani’s attention to details, follow through, leadership and customer communication. One special project he led was the critical hardware upgrades in live Mobile Switching Centers. One small mistake could cause complete outage to hundreds of thousands of subscribers. Jani’s leadership, attention to details and customer communications were key to the success of this project. He worked day and night across whole United States leading the upgrades. He always had pleasant personality and very easy to work with.
Kimmo Tidenberg
I had the pleasure of having Jani in my engineering team. He is a reliable, hard-working and target focused team player. Especially his Project Management, Product Management and Technical skills were often simply unmatched within our big organization and ensured that the job got done and projects completed. Jani is able to manage and drive large and complex projects and communicates efficiently with his team and network. I highly recommend Jani if you need to get the job done.
Binaya Manandhar
I was Jani Saarikoski’s Manager from 2005 to 2009. Our team had responsibility of deploying, supporting, upgrading mobile core networks in North America. I was impressed by Jani’s attention to details, follow through, leadership and customer communication. One special project he led was the critical hardware upgrades in live Mobile Switching Centers. One small mistake could cause complete outage to hundreds of thousands of subscribers. Jani’s leadership, attention to details and customer communications were key to the success of this project. He worked day and night across whole United States leading the upgrades. He always had pleasant personality and very easy to work with.
Kimmo Tidenberg
I had the pleasure of having Jani in my engineering team. He is a reliable, hard-working and target focused team player. Especially his Project Management, Product Management and Technical skills were often simply unmatched within our big organization and ensured that the job got done and projects completed. Jani is able to manage and drive large and complex projects and communicates efficiently with his team and network. I highly recommend Jani if you need to get the job done.
Binaya Manandhar
I was Jani Saarikoski’s Manager from 2005 to 2009. Our team had responsibility of deploying, supporting, upgrading mobile core networks in North America. I was impressed by Jani’s attention to details, follow through, leadership and customer communication. One special project he led was the critical hardware upgrades in live Mobile Switching Centers. One small mistake could cause complete outage to hundreds of thousands of subscribers. Jani’s leadership, attention to details and customer communications were key to the success of this project. He worked day and night across whole United States leading the upgrades. He always had pleasant personality and very easy to work with.
Kimmo Tidenberg
I had the pleasure of having Jani in my engineering team. He is a reliable, hard-working and target focused team player. Especially his Project Management, Product Management and Technical skills were often simply unmatched within our big organization and ensured that the job got done and projects completed. Jani is able to manage and drive large and complex projects and communicates efficiently with his team and network. I highly recommend Jani if you need to get the job done.
Binaya Manandhar
I was Jani Saarikoski’s Manager from 2005 to 2009. Our team had responsibility of deploying, supporting, upgrading mobile core networks in North America. I was impressed by Jani’s attention to details, follow through, leadership and customer communication. One special project he led was the critical hardware upgrades in live Mobile Switching Centers. One small mistake could cause complete outage to hundreds of thousands of subscribers. Jani’s leadership, attention to details and customer communications were key to the success of this project. He worked day and night across whole United States leading the upgrades. He always had pleasant personality and very easy to work with.
Kimmo Tidenberg
I had the pleasure of having Jani in my engineering team. He is a reliable, hard-working and target focused team player. Especially his Project Management, Product Management and Technical skills were often simply unmatched within our big organization and ensured that the job got done and projects completed. Jani is able to manage and drive large and complex projects and communicates efficiently with his team and network. I highly recommend Jani if you need to get the job done.
Experience
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EDZCOM
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Finland
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Telecommunications
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1 - 100 Employee
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Technical Project Manager
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Mar 2021 - Present
Technical Project Manager for private networks. Responsibilities • Contribute to Bids and solution design in own responsibility and competence areas. • Support smooth handover of Bid from Sales to Delivery. • Manage named delivery projects, internal development projects, subprojects or tasks from start to approval and/or handover to production. • Define project scope, scheduling, resourcing. • Perform task management, purchases of equipment & services, follow-up of logistics, do change, risk and HSEQ management of the delivery project. • Guarantee timely delivery of solutions. • Propose and implement best practices for upcoming issues. Show less
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Nokia
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Finland
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Telecommunications
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700 & Above Employee
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Site Engineering Manager (ex. Development Manager) - RAN Cloud
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Jun 2014 - May 2020
Working closely with MBB and CO markets and regions related to RAN Cloud technology design for serviceability and service capability creation programs as a content matter expert. Responsible to provide Network Implementation guidelines for Project and Technical Project managers.Role definition:Serviceability use case solution owner in the GS NI and is a technical expert for serviceability solution development.Define and monitor KPI’s towards product line.Responsible for transforming technology and business requirements to consolidated Site Engineering solution deliverables (work time estimates, model sites, solution description, guidelines) and technical requirements.Owner of the technical requirement gathering, specification and handover to NI Serviceability management.Overall solution/requirement review and validation with SE Solution Engineers and development team.Collaboration with SE Solution Engineers, technical architects and development teams for estimating development effort and cost.Facilitator of review & approval meetings with SE Solution Engineers before final submission of SE deliverables.Steer prioritization based on business targets with stakeholders to define the release content, roadmap and adjust the backlog.Steer requirements forward, ensure all teams fully understands e2e solution requirements and documentation is available. Manage expectation and key acceptance criteria definitions (example E2E testing).Single point of contact to clarify solution requirements as necessary.Participate and contribute in service portfolio management.Responsible for solution communications and training material creation for Markets and other stakeholders, supported by SE Solution Engineers.As NI technical solution owner, work with development teams assigned for NI requirements to ensure e2e technical solution development, follow and report progress. Show less
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Test bed engineer
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Jan 2013 - Jun 2014
Owner of the test bed cost center.Project leader for test bed related projects. Leads technical teams assigned to perform testbed activities.Maintenance planning and preventive maintenance.Planning and implementing extensions and upgrades as well as installation of new products.Participate in preparing budget proposal for test bed - extension, hardware upgrades, new equipments.Managing equipment database containing test bed items, tools and test equipments.Managing reservations tools.Co-operation with internal and external customers during reservation periods.For ensuring the operability of the test bed for customers (configuration changes, correct software packages, etc.,). Co-ordinating needed technical support during reservation period. Show less
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NAM NTN team lead, Project Manager
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Sep 2009 - Dec 2012
Team leader for Mobile test network team in NAM and PM for related projects.My team was responsible to build 2G, 3G, LTE networks and provide test network services for Mobile SW development and verification.
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Care Engineer / Technical leader
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Jul 2005 - Aug 2009
Responsible for troubleshooting and implementation telecom switches MSS/MGW/HLR/SGSN Participated in 24hr/7 Emergency On-callSupport testing of new sw/hw releases in Nokia and customer laboratoriesTechnical Leader for ATT capacity expansion upgrades, MSCi
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R&D Laboratory Engineer
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Jan 2003 - Jul 2005
Laboratory support for several Core and Radio Networks Business testing teams in Helsinki and Espoo testing laboratories.
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Education
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1997 - 2002
Kemin Ammattikorkeakoulu
Bachelor's degree, Information Technology
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