Olli Salminen
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Mika Tarvainen
The most dynamic team leader I ever been privileged to work with. Get Olli around and you'll surely have a constant flow of good happening going on!
Stephen C.
It has been a pleasure working with Olli. Olli was a software development leader for a business that I am partnering with. Olli brought his expertise into the business organization that lead to its transformation; he is progressive and knowledgeable in the latest SDLC best practices and SW technologies. He was focus on deliverables and manages the dynamics of both short term and long term goals. It is a pity that he decide to leave the company, I enjoyed working with Olli.
Mika Tarvainen
The most dynamic team leader I ever been privileged to work with. Get Olli around and you'll surely have a constant flow of good happening going on!
Stephen C.
It has been a pleasure working with Olli. Olli was a software development leader for a business that I am partnering with. Olli brought his expertise into the business organization that lead to its transformation; he is progressive and knowledgeable in the latest SDLC best practices and SW technologies. He was focus on deliverables and manages the dynamics of both short term and long term goals. It is a pity that he decide to leave the company, I enjoyed working with Olli.
Mika Tarvainen
The most dynamic team leader I ever been privileged to work with. Get Olli around and you'll surely have a constant flow of good happening going on!
Stephen C.
It has been a pleasure working with Olli. Olli was a software development leader for a business that I am partnering with. Olli brought his expertise into the business organization that lead to its transformation; he is progressive and knowledgeable in the latest SDLC best practices and SW technologies. He was focus on deliverables and manages the dynamics of both short term and long term goals. It is a pity that he decide to leave the company, I enjoyed working with Olli.
Mika Tarvainen
The most dynamic team leader I ever been privileged to work with. Get Olli around and you'll surely have a constant flow of good happening going on!
Stephen C.
It has been a pleasure working with Olli. Olli was a software development leader for a business that I am partnering with. Olli brought his expertise into the business organization that lead to its transformation; he is progressive and knowledgeable in the latest SDLC best practices and SW technologies. He was focus on deliverables and manages the dynamics of both short term and long term goals. It is a pity that he decide to leave the company, I enjoyed working with Olli.
Experience
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Profit Consulting Oy
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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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Senior Consultant
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Feb 2023 - Present
Project and Program Management consulting. Executing large and complex customer projects and create predictability and structure to projects. 2023/03 - Metsä Group Oy, Material Master Data standardization and data harmonization. Leading program with multiple tracks and offshore teams. SAP R3 & SAP S4/HANA. Plant maintenance material master data. #offshore #data #standardization #SAP Project and Program Management consulting. Executing large and complex customer projects and create predictability and structure to projects. 2023/03 - Metsä Group Oy, Material Master Data standardization and data harmonization. Leading program with multiple tracks and offshore teams. SAP R3 & SAP S4/HANA. Plant maintenance material master data. #offshore #data #standardization #SAP
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CollectiveCrunch
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Finland
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Software Development
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1 - 100 Employee
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Vice President, Services
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Oct 2021 - Feb 2023
Services function includes Customer services, Customer project deliveries and PMO & Project Management services.I was responsible of Customer Service, PMO, Project Management, delivery projects, Project methods, Process development in Customer Services and Project Management area and I also led some of the customer projects.I was also Head of Information Security and worked actively in data privacy.
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Director, Project Management Office
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May 2021 - Oct 2021
As Head of PMO I had responsibility of project portfolio management processes, responsibility of the project office and development of project management tools and processes. I was also heading projects.
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Delta Auto Oy
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Finland
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Motor Vehicle Manufacturing
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1 - 100 Employee
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IT Adviser
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Aug 2021 - Oct 2021
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Rightware
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Finland
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Software Development
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100 - 200 Employee
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Chief Operating Officer
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Aug 2021 - Oct 2021
Head of Software R&D, Kanzi Services, IT, Support, Product and Projects Head of Software R&D, Kanzi Services, IT, Support, Product and Projects
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Delta Motor Group Oy
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Finland
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Motor Vehicle Manufacturing
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1 - 100 Employee
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CIO and Head of IT
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Nov 2016 - Aug 2021
As IT Director I was Head of IT and Head of Information Security. I was responsible of IT team, IT systems, IT services and IT strategy. I was responsible of the overall IT security, data privacy and GDPR activities, help-desk services, data center operations, public cloud operations and continuation of the business-critical services. As IT Director I was Head of IT and Head of Information Security. I was responsible of IT team, IT systems, IT services and IT strategy. I was responsible of the overall IT security, data privacy and GDPR activities, help-desk services, data center operations, public cloud operations and continuation of the business-critical services.
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Thermo Fisher Scientific
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United States
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Biotechnology Research
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700 & Above Employee
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Head of Software Development, LHC
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Dec 2015 - Nov 2016
Thermo Fisher Scientific creates software and hardware for medical laboratory use. I was heading the Software Engineering function. My tasks were to ensure on-schedule and on-specification delivery with very high quality of software for medical devices. I was head of software development. I was with my teams creating software for a Group of $260M yearly revenue and we created software for Windows PCs, mobile devices, embedded software for the hardware and software for IoT devices. I had teams in Vantaa and Bangalore development centers and we were using extensively development partners. My team size was 36 people in two development centers. I acted as Design Owner for Software and we are actively working with new technologies, such as with IoT, automation networks, Hololens, and other new state-of-the-art hardware. I was also responsible of the software, quality assurance operations, test automation and development center strategy and I contributed to Product Roadmaps. Show less
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Rovio Entertainment Corporation
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Finland
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Computer Games
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400 - 500 Employee
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Director, Head of Projects & PMO
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Nov 2013 - Dec 2015
In this position I was Project Director for all game launches and I was also head of Project Management Office. My tasks were to create PMO operations, project portfolio processes, improved visibility and project governance and to support, facilitate and coordinate launches together with business units and that way help Rovio to further improve its business.My tasks included acting as Launch Director to support launches of major Rovio titles as it was important that we were aligned across the business units to make major releases as successful as possible - delivering a truly fantastic experience for our fans at launch and beyond. I did everything to provide added visibility and transparency to operations to ensure world-class operational excellence in all of Rovio projects and releases. Show less
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Senior Manager, Project Management
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Jun 2012 - Nov 2013
In this position I was Heading Project Management at Rovio Entertainment Ltd. My tasks included creating basic processes for project governance and to create a working project portfolio management process. I was also personnel and competence manager for project managers in R&D. I concentrated to help teams to succeed with projects and to improve ways of working constantly.
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F-Secure Corporation
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Finland
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Computer and Network Security
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700 & Above Employee
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Senior Manager, Project Management
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Nov 2010 - Jun 2012
In this position I was heading Project Management function globally at F-Secure R&D. I was responsible of portfolio and project processes and process development. I was also responsible of practices and daily operations as well as competence development of the professionals in this area.I was responsible of executing Project Portfolio process. My every-day work was concentrating on getting projects right on track and improve ways of working.
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Program Manager, Lab Systems Development
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Jun 2008 - Nov 2010
As a Program Manager, Security Lab Development, I was responsible of the IT-operations, system design, development, Lab automation, test automation, maintenance and administration of systems for Security Response and Security Research at F-Secure Labs.My IT team created the IT infrastructure and the infrastructure was built to be 24/7 available and it was monitored and automated to handle incidents. IT Operations were in two different locations and we had 24/7 service for the infrastructure.I was responsible of investment planning, hosting strategy and budgeting. I was heading 3 development teams and one system administration team. My budget responsibility was relatively large.Team was working as DevOps team and we had CI system (build automation) as well as system and integration test automation. Show less
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Research Manager
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Sep 2005 - Jun 2008
As a Research Manager I was responsible of F-Secure Spam and Phishing technology research and development. I was also heading Security Labs systems development, administration and Lab automation. I was also heading Lab IT team and operations.I was heading small team of people researching Spam and Phishing domain and several software developers and admins who were creating the general infrastructure of Lab Systems.
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Project Manager
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Jan 2001 - Sep 2005
I was running many internal and external projects during these years and I was responsible of projects with roughly 30 small and medium size, domestic and global, Internet Service Providers. I handed over about 300 project deliveries during there years. I was Project Manager also for few internal software development and IT projects.
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Sales Engineer
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Oct 1999 - Jan 2001
I worked together with our sales as technical engineer. Typically we discussed with customers their specific environment and how F-Secure solutions could be used to solve their problems. I worked with many domestic and global customers.My expertise areas were antivirus, file and network encryption, security management and networks.
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Fujitsu
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IT Services and IT Consulting
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700 & Above Employee
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System Engineer
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Jun 1996 - Oct 1999
The company was called ICL Retail / ICL Edacom back then, later known as Fujitsu. As a System Engineer I was responsible of large installations of POS/Till Systems, development of software, testing, documentation, hardware validation, training and similar project tasks. I was responsible of the backup and till sub-systems and software was widely used in Finland and Nordics. The company was called ICL Retail / ICL Edacom back then, later known as Fujitsu. As a System Engineer I was responsible of large installations of POS/Till Systems, development of software, testing, documentation, hardware validation, training and similar project tasks. I was responsible of the backup and till sub-systems and software was widely used in Finland and Nordics.
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