Karl Laas

Experience

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  City of Tallinn

  Feb 2000 - Dec 2001

  Advisor to the major of Tallinn

  Advisor to the Mayor on issues of public administration and lawmaking.

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  Ministry of Justice of Estonia

  Feb 2003 - Mar 2006

  Project manager, analyst

  * Introducing court automation and leading the Court Case Management system project.* Leader in court training project “training the trainers” for new court case management system. Project involved training of e. 60 trainers (among them judges and court officials) to roll-out new case management system. The established trainers network was later-on used on many other training purposes.* Leader of court workflow change project “Office model” together with British experts. Responsible for training and new work-flow standards.* Organizing several study-visits for judiciary and court personell to England 2005 for “Office model” project, to Germany on 2004 for “Small claims online” project and many others. Show less

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  Registrite ja Infosüsteemide Keskus // Centre of Registers and Information Systems

  Apr 2006 - Dec 2007

  Head of department of Legal protection IT systems

  Organizing work on automation and IT usage in the area of Courts and legal information systems. Leading the E-file project.

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  Ministry of Justice of Estonia

  Dec 2007 - Aug 2008

  Head of ICT and work processes department, several other positions

  Organizing work on automation and IT usage in the area of responsibility of Ministry of Justice. Leading and supervising the IT organization (Centre for Information Systems) from the side of ministry.* Leading the E-file project.* International cooperation and Representing Estonia in EU and international organizations.

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  Estonian Ministry of the Interior

  Aug 2008 - Nov 2009

  Deputy state secretary for population and regional matters

  Top level civil servant, responsible on issues concerning development of local government, planning and coordinating regional administration and regional development, provision of E-services through the local governments, national organisation and supervision of the spatial planning activities, issues concerning vital statistics, and organisation of matters connected with churches and congregations. Directly responsible of work of following departments:* Department of Local Government and Regional Administration;* Department of the Spatial Planning;* Department of Population Facts;* Religious Affairs Department;* Regional Development Department;Carrying out several centralization projects in regional administration level.Introducing and leading the team responsible for local government reform in 2009.Responsible of law-making in area of responsibility.Participating in the National Population Register supervisory board.Member of the board of National Foundation of Civil Society.International cooperation and Representing Estonia in EU and international organizations. Show less

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  OÜ Flux Rebond

  Jan 2010 - now

  Consultant

  Management consulting, talent management consulting, HR and HRIS consulting, business analysis, project and change execution for privat and governmental bodies. Providing project leadership, quality management systems. Consultations for start-ups.

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  Upsteem.com LLC

  Apr 2010 - Oct 2019

  Founder, CEO

  Upsteem.com is a corporate social network(intranet) with additional services for HR and Talent management plus project management and collaboration. Its all done in cloud.The aim of the company is to make human resource development easy and understandable to all leaders and to make HR and talent management systems usable for small- and medium-sized organizations.See more: http://bit.ly/Uo4NKIMoney raised and projects:2012 - Mentor programme for promising companies (EAS)2012 - Involving business angels2012 - Product developing preliminary analysis aid - Enterprise Estonia (EAS)2011 - Gaining first clients2011 - Effective growth aid - Enterprise Estonia (EAS)2010 - Volunteers E-Passport project - National Foundation of Civil Society (KÜSK)2010 - Effective from start aid - Enterprise Estonia (EAS) Show less

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  HRConf

  Oct 2013 - now

  Co-founder, strategist

  HRConf is annual people management, workforce development and HR information systems conference and expo taking place in the late autumn in Tallinn, Estonia. It started as a one-day event in 2013, having more than 23 different workshops and showcases. In 2014 we held a two- day event, representing more than 50 individual events and top level speakers, including Elmar Vaher (head of Estonian Policeforce), Tiit Paananen (former CEO of SKYPE) and several others. HRConf attracts business leaders and HR professionals from Estonia and Baltic region, being the only HRTech specialized event in the area.Concept is introduced and held by Kristi Mikiver, Endel Hango, Karl Laas and Kaia Tammekänd. Show less

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  Keskkonnaamet

  Oct 2019 - Sept 2020

  Merger Project Manager for Environmental Inspectorate and Estonian Environmental Board

  Merger manager for Estonian Environmentatal Board and Environmental Inspectorate. Reporting to Director General, responcible for large scale change management and stakeholder decisions at political level. Planning, communication, legislation, reporting, workgroups management, process changes and general project delivery.

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  LABRIS - National Centre for Laboratory Research and Risk Assessment

  Jan 2023 - now

  Arendusjuht

  Organizational development, strategy and training