Karri Mehtälä

Karri mehtälä

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  • About me

    Senior Project Manager @ KPMG Finland

  • Education

    • National university of singapore

      2011 - 2012
      Bachelor’s degree faculty of arts and social sciences

      Global History exchange studies. My year in Singapore was academically very rewarding. The research, writing, and debating skills learned at the NUS provided me excellent tools to finish my history seminar in Helsinki.

    • Hogeschool gent

      2007 - 2008
      European studies

      Erasmus Exchange Programme including European studies and Flemish language studies. Belgium and especially the cities of Ghent and Brussels taught me a lot about the European Union and European identity.

    • Haaga-helia university of applied sciences

      2005 - 2009
      Bachelor’s degree business and information technology

      Activities and Societies: Tutor for the business & information technology freshmen. Student member of the degree programme development board. Member of the student union Atkins ry. Majored in ICT Infrastructures and Security.Bachelor's thesis: "NAS based backup solutions"

    • University of helsinki

      2008 - 2016
      Master’s degree elementary education and teaching

      Activities and Societies: Tutor for the education theory freshmen. Member of the student union Peduca ry. Majored in educational theory.Minors in Media education, Global history and Food culture.Qualified primary school teacher.Qualified history teacher.Master's thesis: Combining Audiovisual Media and the Flipped Classroom Method in EducationBachelor's thesis: Rudolf Steiner's Alternative Pedagogy

  • Experience

    • Puolustusvoimat - försvarsmakten - finnish defence forces

      Jan 2003 - Mar 2004
      Military training instructor

      Basic and advanced military training for the conscripts and the army reserve.

    • Suomen lukiolaisten liitto

      Jul 2004 - Dec 2004
      Project coordinator

      The Union of Upper Secondary School Students in FinlandMarketing, promotion and vis-à-vis counselling at schools.

    • Modeo corporation

      Jun 2006 - Jul 2016
      System administrator

      Head of IT.During my time in the company, we grew from six employees in one city to sixty people in six cities. My responsibility was to create reliable and secure solutions to make all this possbile.Planning and implementation of network, hardware and software solutions.IT coaching and local & remote tech support.WWF Green Office contact person and implementer.

    • University of helsinki

      Sept 2010 - Dec 2010
      Teacher

      Planned, organized and implemented modules "ICT Skills in Education" and "Media in Education"

    • University of helsinki

      Sept 2015 - Apr 2022

      Digipolku is a collaborative media education, learning technology & ICT project for primary school and university students.In my six years with University of Helsinki and the surrounding municipalities, we have grown and helped to expand learning technology and media education awareness for hundres of students agents, teachers and scholars.Organizing and designing the module, teaching, building and maintaining educational content, and promoting the project in social media. Planned, implemented and taught course "Media and Online Videos in Education" for the undergradute students.

      • Project Coordinator

        Jul 2015 - Apr 2022
      • Teacher

        Sept 2015 - Dec 2015
    • Kasvatuksen ja koulutuksen toimiala

      Aug 2016 - Jun 2023

      City of Helsinki, Education Division. Head of digital learning platforms development.Programme lead, technical and pedagogical research and development of the digital learning platforms provided by the city of Helsinki.My responsibility is to find and develop the best digital learning solutions for over 100 000 learners and teachers of all age in Helsinki and do strategic planning and budgeting of our e-learning platforms.Highlights:- Development of multicloud/multi ecosystem service catalog- Design, development and release of Aula learners' portal- Design, development and release of Opehuone.fi teachers' portal- Specification of requirements (technical, operational and pedagogical), procurement process and deployment project of Learning Management System 3 Show less City of Helsinki, Education DivisionProject management, pedagogical research, service design and software development in a project to create a platform for the upper secondary school students to store and self-evaluate their personal learning processes.Planning and implementation of audiovisual presentation technology for the schools and the Education Division HQ. Release of "Kasvatuksen ja koulutuksen toimialan digiohje" design guide for smart learning environments in co-operation with Urban Environment Division. Show less

      • ICT Project Manager

        Jun 2018 - Jun 2023
      • Project Manager

        Jan 2017 - Jun 2018
      • ICT Planner

        Aug 2016 - Jan 2017
    • Finnish society on media education

      Mar 2017 - Apr 2019
      Board member
    • Kpmg finland

      May 2023 - now
      Senior project manager

      - project lead of implementation of an HCM system- business case, procurement and implementation planning of an ESG & CSRD reporting system

  • Licenses & Certifications

    • Itil® foundation certificate in it service management

      Axelos global best practice
      Nov 2018
    • Finnish occupational safety card

      Tmi timo kraufvelin
      Jan 2015
    • Leveraging generative ai for project management: strategic insights and future trends

      Linkedin
      Jul 2025
      View certificate certificate
    • Finnish first aid ea1

      Finnish red cross
      Aug 2012
    • Certified microsoft innovative educator

      Microsoft
      Dec 2016
    • Transforming project management with ai agents

      Linkedin
      Jul 2025
      View certificate certificate
    • Google certified educator

      Google
      Mar 2016
    • Stadin esihenkilöksi leadership training

      Helsingin kaupunki – helsingfors stad – city of helsinki
      Oct 2020
    • Prince2® 2017 foundation certificate in project management

      Axelos global best practice
      Mar 2018
    • Certified scrum product owner

      Scrum alliance
      May 2017
  • Honors & Awards

    • Awarded to Karri Mehtälä
      Master Thesis Award / Pro gradu -palkinto University of Helsinki Jun 2017 My Master's thesis "Combining Audiovisual Media and the Flipped Classroom Method in Education" was graded Laudatur (being the highest grade) and awarded by the Faculty of Educational Sciences.