Qualifications Summary
Experienced professional in IT operations with proven skills in customer support, system
administration, project management and software development. During 7 years at VERITAS Software
(now Symantec) established excellent working relations with on-call and development engineering
groups and partner support organizations as the HP OEM escalation team leader. Excellent written documentation skills; created
and edited product and process documentation. Excellent working methods by providing timely deliverables,
meeting set goals and providing summary reports.
Professional Experience
5/1/2000 - Symantec Corp., Mountain View, California present Senior Staff Engineer Backline team leader for HP relationship, part of the backline support team for OEM partners (Sun,HP,Cisco,Oracle) for VERITAS products. Kernel level debugging of system dumps and primary HP-UX resource in the OEM team. Emerging products and VSFN supportability planning member. 7/26/1999 - Xerox Connect Inc., Houston, Texas 4/10/2000 Associate, Computer Engineering Continental Airlines SOCC applications, network & hardware support in HP-UX environment. UNIX system administrator at Mission Critical Xerox Connect Network Management Center, Firewall support. 9/1/1998 - Helsinki Phone Corporation, Helsinki, Finland 5/31/1999 Sr. Software Development Engineer Secure information systems design team leader, delivered HPY Digital Signature solution. Member of digital phone new product offerings team, digital phone email notification protocol implementation for HPY.Education
12/9/1998 - University of Industrial Arts, Medialab, Helsinki, Finland 5/31/1999 Minor studies at Medialab, two minors: Software Design and Game Design. 7/21/1988 - Helsinki University of Technology, Espoo, Finland 5/31/1999 Bachelor and Master studies at the Department of Computer Science, major in Telecommunications Software and Applications, Computer Networks.Certifications
SUN Certified System Administrator II SUN Certified Network Administrator SUN Competency Program Certification for Enterprise Training SUN Competency Program Certification for Workgroup TrainingPublications
1996 Cryptographic Algorithms And Their Strength Network Security Seminar publication and presentation. Release: Tik-110.501 Seminar on Network SecuritySoftware Releases
1994 Arashi co-writer and program manager Macintosh Shareware game, team of 5 engineers. Release: MacShare archive 1993 Virtual Learning Center HUTVLC project leader Supervising and administering the project, 4 members. Release: WWW pages at www.niksula.cs.hut.fi/projects/hutvlc 1990 Multiuser Dimension BATMUD founder and designer Content and basic network and functionality programming Release: Batmud WWW homepage at http://www.bat.orgLanguages
English fluent Finnish fluent French fluent Swedish good German passableExtracurricular activities
Workout (cardio, weights), hiking Fantasy and science fiction literature Computer & video games, pinball Training of "Chili" (black & tan Chihuahua)