Pekka Barck
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Steve Lilley
Pekka made a great contribution to a project I led and it was a pleasure to work with him. As a world leading expert in data warehousing his knowledge proved to be invaluable, but he also has rare gifts as a leader and motivator who can really bring out the best in others. He sets high targets for himself and his teams and then gets the job done. On top of this it was a lot of fun to work with Pekka and he had a very positive effect on the atmosphere in our office
Mikael Nurmi
I have had the pleasure of working with Pekka on a very large Data Warehouse initiative. Pekka has shown true leadership and strong knowledge in the area. He is a real authority in the field and his opinion is valued by many of the best experts all over the world. He has a strong dedication and he is working persistently towards the goal.
Steve Lilley
Pekka made a great contribution to a project I led and it was a pleasure to work with him. As a world leading expert in data warehousing his knowledge proved to be invaluable, but he also has rare gifts as a leader and motivator who can really bring out the best in others. He sets high targets for himself and his teams and then gets the job done. On top of this it was a lot of fun to work with Pekka and he had a very positive effect on the atmosphere in our office
Mikael Nurmi
I have had the pleasure of working with Pekka on a very large Data Warehouse initiative. Pekka has shown true leadership and strong knowledge in the area. He is a real authority in the field and his opinion is valued by many of the best experts all over the world. He has a strong dedication and he is working persistently towards the goal.
Steve Lilley
Pekka made a great contribution to a project I led and it was a pleasure to work with him. As a world leading expert in data warehousing his knowledge proved to be invaluable, but he also has rare gifts as a leader and motivator who can really bring out the best in others. He sets high targets for himself and his teams and then gets the job done. On top of this it was a lot of fun to work with Pekka and he had a very positive effect on the atmosphere in our office
Mikael Nurmi
I have had the pleasure of working with Pekka on a very large Data Warehouse initiative. Pekka has shown true leadership and strong knowledge in the area. He is a real authority in the field and his opinion is valued by many of the best experts all over the world. He has a strong dedication and he is working persistently towards the goal.
Steve Lilley
Pekka made a great contribution to a project I led and it was a pleasure to work with him. As a world leading expert in data warehousing his knowledge proved to be invaluable, but he also has rare gifts as a leader and motivator who can really bring out the best in others. He sets high targets for himself and his teams and then gets the job done. On top of this it was a lot of fun to work with Pekka and he had a very positive effect on the atmosphere in our office
Mikael Nurmi
I have had the pleasure of working with Pekka on a very large Data Warehouse initiative. Pekka has shown true leadership and strong knowledge in the area. He is a real authority in the field and his opinion is valued by many of the best experts all over the world. He has a strong dedication and he is working persistently towards the goal.
Experience
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InfiniteDATA
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Poland
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IT Services and IT Consulting
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1 - 100 Employee
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Managing Partner
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Aug 2019 - Present
Offering the most advanced, cost efficient and easy to deploy and manage enterprise automation solution. Selling and deploying migration projects. Creation of new concepts like "workflow-as-a-code" and helping customers move towards zero-touch-lights-out-operations. Offering the most advanced, cost efficient and easy to deploy and manage enterprise automation solution. Selling and deploying migration projects. Creation of new concepts like "workflow-as-a-code" and helping customers move towards zero-touch-lights-out-operations.
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Singularity Tech Pte Ltd
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Singapore
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IT Services and IT Consulting
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Managing Partner
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Mar 2019 - Present
Snowflake and AWS migration frameworks. Test automation and continuous integration. Created a DevOps training curriculum and 8 courses. Snowflake and AWS migration frameworks. Test automation and continuous integration. Created a DevOps training curriculum and 8 courses.
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Teradata
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United States
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Software Development
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700 & Above Employee
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Director of Architecture Consultancy Services
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Feb 2014 - Feb 2019
Managing team of architects and later platform (incl. Teradata, Hadoop and object store) security, orchestration and business continuity experts in EMEA and APAC. Our team do both project and presales. We have created reusable assets for global use. Extensive achievements, awards and public appearances across the globe. High success rate in sales efforts including new major accounts. • Direct team management for architects and technical specialists in EMEA and APAC.• Owner of Data Foundation Platforms for EMEA and APAC. Tasks include data lake foundation, data orchestration and cloud, benchmark, business continuity and ecosystem security.• Latest projects include analytical ecosystem, DevOps, security, high availability, asset management quality and agility projects.• Specializing in efficient mechanisms for cost savings.• Deployment of IM governance for a global company and multiple banks, teleoperators etc.• Conducting data governance, data quality, big data and cloud planning.• Creating analytical security plans for banks.• Leading authority in agility with experience across industries.• One of the early adopters globally of agile methodologies and self provisioned analytics.• Plan transformations from on-premises systems to cloud across environments.• One of the early adopters of open source and Hadoop since 2008.• Architecting dual systems kept in sync across geographies.• Plans, assessments, roadmaps and governance for analytics across industries.• Built calculation engines for project ROI, estimation, risk evaluation and mitigation etc.• Built several different project estimation tools that have been used worldwide.• Worked in projects in Australia, China, India, Indonesia, Japan, Korea, Malaysia, Pakistan, Philippines, Russia, Singapore and Vietnam.• More than 30 financial institutions and 10 teleoperators. Also logistics, transportation, government, defense, utilities, manufacturing and life science.
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Lead Architect, South East Asia
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Aug 2010 - Jan 2014
Presales and postsales support in challenges requiring regional effort to support local teams. Architect for several applications winning Asian Banker Award. Key role in new account wins. Projects in 10 countries.• Building big data strategies.• Long term architecture planning.• Conducting and leading multiple maturity assessments across industries.• Analytical ecosystem planning, metadata strategies and road mapping.• Deployment of IT organization renewals.• Long track record in successful sales and presales efforts across industries.• Rescued multiple companies out of difficult architectural or project deadlock situations.• Architect for several projects awarded the Asian Banker Award.• Built multiple specialized analytical databases for a variety of business purposes.
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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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Head of Financial Data Warehouse
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Mar 2010 - Jul 2010
Ensuring deployment of the mission critical Financial DW program. • Project dependency identification & risk reduction• IT advisor• Reconciliation and audit trail• Business rule engine & calculation engine integration to the dw environment• End-to-end process smoothness
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Head of Data Warehousing
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Jun 2006 - Mar 2010
• Direct team management, up to 30 direct reports.• Total control over 200 people in simultaneous programs across the globe.• Annual budget responsibility over $ 30 M / year.• Responsible for implementation of multiple projects and programs on 3 continents. Largest up to 200 people and multi-year duration.• Building a development ecosystem for hundreds of developers in tens of parallel SDLC projects and embedding scrum.• Designing a global analytical ecosystem include R&D, manufacturing, logistics, financial, sales, marketing and consumer data with hundreds of systems plus millions of devices.• Owner of a large private cloud built upon SAP, Oracle, HP and EMC.• Program and process responsibility for multiple simultaneous SDLC and 20 agile scrum subprojects.• Owner of off-shore development and outsourcing.• Deployment of IM governance and IT organization renewal.• Working with vendor to develop terabyte class SSD based analytics environment in 2008.• Driving vendors to build new more cost-efficient platforms.• Been interviewed several times by Gartner and Forrester for industry trends.• More than 100 Public appearances. Events include TDWI, VLDB, Aalto University, IBM CIO Forum, SPSS, Teradata Partners, Teradata Universe, Marcusevans (UK), Intelligent Solutions (USA), BO, Informatica & Microstrategy customer events. • Deployment of Sarbanes Oxley controls and conducting audits for risk management. • Development of customer strategy business plans.• Business stakeholder management• Creation of many new concepts, such as agile DW concept• Organizing and setting up an internal/external DW organization• Supplier relationship coordinator• Arranging the first Nokia Analytics day for Nokia executives• Leading the Analytics working group including DW, BI and data quality• Owner of free-text analytics capabilities ramp-up
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Solution Manager, Management Reporting Solutions
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May 2004 - Jun 2006
Responsible for all Financial Reporting applications and initiating an Enterprise Data Warehouse project.• Line management for product managers• Stakeholder management• Platform assessments, in particular SAP BW• Planning and deployment of SOX IT controls and auditing all SOX compliant IT products• Creating an Enterprise Data Warehouse Mode-of-operation
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Tieto
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Finland
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Information Technology & Services
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700 & Above Employee
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Business Development Manager
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Jan 2004 - May 2004
ECM business process automation for pension application handling. Prototype, business requirements, design, planning & implementation.
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Business Unit Manager, Business Intelligence and CRM
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May 2001 - Dec 2003
Unit head for business intelligence, data warehouse and CRM consultants for the Finance sector.• Direct line management• Customer & RFP responsibilities,• Statutory reporting for banks, Basel II• Near real-time integration of customer data from 22 systems in a bank• Development of data warehouse meta data strategy for a bank• Development of a data warehouse for web metrics reporting for a bank• Development of B2B information sharing architecture combining mainframe and server technology for a financial institution• Development of a high-level CRM business plan and quick pay-off actions for an insurance company• Building a new data warehouse from development to maintenance for an insurance company
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AEL
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Finland
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Non-profit Organizations
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200 - 300 Employee
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Development Manager
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Jun 1999 - Apr 2001
Responsible for IT and Telecom training, development & consulting. Several consulting assignments for large corporations in Europe- Creation of 20+ data warehouse, CRM & XML courses mainly for integration specialists. - More than 100 training appearances in different data warehousing and CRM courses for customers in Finland, Sweden, UK, Belgium and France, covering more than 30 different topics- Business consulting for a large electronics manufacturer website measuring & planning: Short term and long term goals.- E-business concept for a large electronics manufacturer: packaging and classification, task inter-dependency clearance
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Program Manager
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May 1992 - Jun 1999
Responsible for multiple parallel projects. Technical lead role and vendor contact in all deployments.- Design, planning & implementation of data warehouse from three different source systems- First Informatica deployment in Finland: Re-design of PL*SQL ETL-procedures of DW into Informatica. Automation & maintenance.- DBA on Oracle versions 5-7- Third BusinessObjects deployment in Finland.- Renewal of several legacy applications including accounting, HR, electronic invoice handling, electronic travel expense handling, optical survey handling, product planning, hotel and quality systems
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Novia University of Applied Sciences
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Raseborg
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Teacher
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Aug 1990 - May 1992
3-D modeling and architecture training to construction engineers 3-D modeling and architecture training to construction engineers
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Partner
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Sep 1991 - Apr 1992
Rules engine to support cost estimates for project offering, planning and scheduling. Building the rules engine & design of the database with the rule parameters for an electronics manufacturer. Rules engine to support cost estimates for project offering, planning and scheduling. Building the rules engine & design of the database with the rule parameters for an electronics manufacturer.
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Nordkalk Corporation
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Finland
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Mining
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100 - 200 Employee
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Application support & programmer
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Sep 1986 - Jul 1990
Application support & programmer. Programming different scientific applications and application support for manufacturing R&D. - Development of a database for scientific analysis of different test results for compound plastics - Development of knowledge base program for controlling the nutrition and limestone powder spreading on fields for soil improvement, distributed in thousands of copies - Logic programming of remote-controlled station. Programming of the main PC controlling different remote stations - Application support - AutoCAD 3D development - Pascal reporting for applications - Spreadsheet applications
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Turun yliopisto - University of Turku
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Finland
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Higher Education
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700 & Above Employee
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PC support, document management
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Jun 1986 - Sep 1986
PC support within the Medical Faculty. I worked with my first all green screen IBM PC with two floppy drives. PC support within the Medical Faculty. I worked with my first all green screen IBM PC with two floppy drives.
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Yle
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Finland
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Broadcast Media Production and Distribution
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700 & Above Employee
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Political Journalist
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Aug 1985 - Dec 1985
Radio reporter about the political changes in China. Radio programs and magazine articles. Radio reporter about the political changes in China. Radio programs and magazine articles.
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Education
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Åbo Akademi University
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Hangö Gymnasium