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(Updated 2023-02-22)

Experienced Scrum Master / Agile Coach

Helsinki, Finland

Native Finnish, Fluent English, Beginner Svenska

6 years experience as Scrum Master or similar role
9 years experience as software developer
Master of Science in Computer Science

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Skills (16)

Agile

TEAM LEAD

Scrum

CONTINUOUS IMPROVEMENT

RECRUITING

ONBOARDING

PRODUCT DEVELOPMENT

Kanban

Project Management

LEARNING AND DEVELOPMENT

ITIL

Management Consulting

MENTORING

SAFe

Frontend Development

Backend Development

Summary

I am an experienced team lead and agile software development
professional. My goal is to help people and software teams
improve and achieve great results. Effective teams are key to
thriving people, successful companies, and happy customers.

People come first in my world. The rest comes as the result of
enabled and supported people working together towards
meaningful goals. Business is nothing but the people and nothing
without the people. It makes sense to me to approach work
through the values, practices, and tools of agile, lean, and DevOps.

Having a strong technical background from both academia and my
early days as developer improves my ability to support
development teams as I know what it is like to code.

Professional Experience

Scrum Master

Smartly.io

2015-12 - 2020-01

helping teams with their agile practices and tooling. As there was no one recruiting developers, focused on tech recruiting as it was crucial to Smartly's success. Recruited and grew a team of tech recruiters, formed and headed the Engineering Talent team and formed a process to find, attract and hire top technical talent.
Headed organising Smartly's flagship developer event, DevTalks, arranging speakers from across the world to audiences of over a hundred guests. The purpose of DevTalks is to give own team easy access to new ideas and to build the employer brand of Smartly. Improved onboarding, arranging training, and building mentoring and peer learning programs.

Engineering Manager and Director

Flowdock / Rally Software

2014-05 - 2015-11

Ensured that the development processes run smoothly, did the needed that the Flowdock development team was able to focus on delivering value to customers. Took care of running the office, helped the US HR team with Finnish practices, improved back-office processes, and supported customers and end users.

My role changed to heading the whole Flowdock development team and the Rally Helsinki office. Collaborated with the teams and leadership at Rally Software headquarters in the United States. Guided the Flowdock team through turbulent times until the Helsinki office was shut down following Rally Software's acquisition.

Scrum Master

Logica / CGI

2008-01 - 2013-11

for a team developing the content intake for Nokia's mobile application store. The team worked using Scrum and I learned a lot as the team was eager to improve its ways of working. Over time took also a Service Manager role being responsible for the overall software development service offered to the customer.
Headed a team offering software development and supply chain management consulting for Nokia. For the last year at CGI worked as a Service Manager responsible for the production of a Finnish government-wide service unifying financial and HR systems.

Technology Consultant

Satama Interactive

2004-09 - 2007-12

at Satama after Mind on Move acquisition. Worked most of the time as a system architecture facilitator building Nokia's radio and music services. Other assignments varied from development tasks to project management.

consultant to enable resources for own product development

Mind on Move

2001-01 - 2004-09

One of the four co-founders of a company focusing on mobile applications and mobile services. Took part in the many things needed to get a company started and growing. Most of the time worked as an outsourced technology consultant to enable resources for own product development. For example, built mobile applications for Nokia's service for engaging television audiences through synchronised mobile content with pilots in Finland and the United States. Member of several multimedia research projects at the Nokia Research Center.

Founder, Software Engineer, Technology Consultant

Mind on Move

2000-01 - 2000-12

Designed and implemented changes to Tellabs network management software.

Academic Background

MASTER OF SCIENCE

Helsinki University of Technology

1992-01 - 2000-01

Certifications

Professional Scrum Master I

Certified Scrum Master