Janne Juhola

Experience

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  Tampere University of Technology 1965-2018

  Jan 1988 - Jan 1990

  Researcher
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  Nokia

  Feb 1990 - Jan 2005

  Head of team of 20 people responsible for the Multimedia technology area. Roadmapping, coordination of technology projects, setting up SW factories for Multimedia area. Coordination of Symbian Multimedia API (MDF) development inside Nokia and with Symbian and partners. Strong role in starting co-operation with many external partner companies. Responsible to create team for multimedia development, setting up several development projects for multimedia technology. Technology transfer from Nokia Research Center to products Responsible for setting up Tampere R&D center, coordinate the Tampere projects and increase the competence and number of people. Staring with transfered 30 people from Nokia Research Center ending up to 60 before Tampere center was decided to discontinue. Nokia representative in DVB Technical Module. DSP designer for video processing in TV and video compression for digital TV standards. Big SW projects for video processing simulations. Later research group manager. Nokia repsentative in MPEG-2 standard and DVB standardization. Participating EU projects and national development projects.

  • Senior Technology Manager

    Jan 2001 - Jan 2005

  • Senior Technology Manager

    Jun 1997 - Oct 2001

  • R&D Center Manager, Nokia Multimedia Terminals, Tampere

    Jun 1995 - May 1997

  • DSP Designer, Project Manager, Group Manager, Senior Group Manager

    Feb 1990 - May 1995
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  Nokia

  Jun 2009 - May 2011

  Head of team of 6-9 people responsible for Symbian phones multimedia technology selection facilitation, multimedia feature roadmapping, baseline requirement management, internet compliance, operator requirements follow-up, research portfolio project management.

  • Director, Feature Roadmapping

    Jan 2007 - May 2011

  • Principal Engineer, Display Consumer Experience

    Jun 2009 - Jan 2011
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  Nokia

  Apr 2012 - Mar 2014

  Principal Engineer

  Display and Touch Technology team, consumer experience feedback analyses for organization, portfolio management, HW and SW asset & requirements management tool deployments (Focal Point, Integrity, Accept360), technical studies for touch technologies.

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  Microsoft

  May 2014 - Oct 2015

  Operations manager for Natural User Interaction team (100+ people) implementing Lumia phone’s display, touch, audio and sensors. Responsible back-log management of SW and HW teams. Microsoft Team Foundation Server (TFS) tool deployment for the organization. Severall positions in Display and Touch Technology team, consumer experience feedback analyses for organization, portfolio management, HW and SW asset & requirements management tool deployments (Focal Point, Integrity, Accept360), technical studies for touch technologies. SW work coordination for Lumia display & touch solution.

  • Senior engineer, operations

    Sept 2014 - Oct 2015

  • Principal Engineer

    May 2014 - Aug 2014
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  Dtream

  Jun 2016 - Jun 2018

  CFO, Founder

  Setting-up a new start-up specializing in structural optimization.

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  Eximap

  May 2018 - Sept 2019

  Advisor, Member of the board

  Investor, member of the board, CTO, all work of a start-up company and back to SW development. Developing CaaS Solution based on the Eximap SW asset. Full stack development . It included two back-ends (Python, Flask, Blueprints, SQLAlchemy, Jinja2, Rest-APIs), one web-based control view (Javascript/ HTML5) and mobile application (Cordova/Javascript/HTML5, jquery).

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  Varaani Works

  Oct 2019 - now

  Software Consultant