Sandy Kantola

Experience

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  Restel Ravintolat Oy

  Nov 2001 - Aug 2006

  Waitress and Deputy Manager
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  Qstock

  Jun 2004 - Sept 2019

  Artist Coordinator

  Qstock is the biggest music event in the northern Finland. It`s been arranged every summer since 2003 and nowadays it gathers approx. 32 000 visitors during two days of festival. Project-based work since 2004 when I started as a volunteer for the festival. For first two summers I took care of services backstage. Summer of 2006 my responsibilities grew and I was taking care of our headliners solely. In 2007 I was appointed as backstage manager and transport coordinator. My duties included organizing the backstages and keeping control of their functionalities and welcome our artists to the festival. It was my responsibility to recruit approx 40 volunteers for the backstages and transportations and during the festival I was their first manager. Since 2008 I have also taken care of the pre-production matters regarding backstages. This means going through all of the riders and calculate needed assets to order and finally take care of the orders also. In spring 2011 I was promoted to Artist Coordinator. That means I`m responsible for the artist production in big picture. This job needs great capabilities in organizing, structured working, management skills and ability to work under high pressure.Autumn 2015 brought new opportunities to me as I launched international collaboration for us and started as an assistant to our promoter with bookings of the festival. Thumb for that and for new challenges :) Show less

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  Qstock Festival, (Qstock Oy)

  Jul 2004 - Sept 2019

  As a booker I work under direction of Promoter/Festival Director. I am responsible of the artist negotiations and closing the deals and contracts. I participate festival programming and budgeting, seek new talents and focus on establishing the network nationally and internationally.As an Artist Coordinator I am fully responsible and in charge of the artist production of the festival. As a member of executive board I participate strategy-meetings and decision making processes applied to the entire festival. Show less

  • Booker, Artist Coordinator, Member of Executive Board

    Sept 2015 - Sept 2019

  • Artist Coordinator

    Jul 2004 - Sept 2015
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  Bar & Cafe PSK Kaupunni

  Apr 2007 - May 2008

  Deputy Manager
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  Outo Ry

  Oct 2007 - May 2008

  Sales Person & Manager @ Coffee house
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  Viivatieto

  Jun 2010 - Aug 2010

  Summer-trainee

  As a summer trainee, my duties included remote helpdesk and on-site customer support services. I also participated in software development project in which we designed software (web service) for handling the hardware resources of the company. It was developed using the PHP and MySQL and I was also in the charge of documenting the project.

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  Technopolis Plc

  Jan 2011 - Jan 2012

  Customer Service Agent
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  Eilakaisla

  Apr 2011 - Jun 2012

  Customer Service Agent for Technopolis

  Technopolis Plc is a listed real estate company that specializes in leasing space and providing services. Its core business idea is to combine business support services with modern, flexible, multi-user business environments. Customer Service tasks in multiple on-site reception-offices including big variety of daily tasks like access control, meeting arrangements, sales, face-to-face dealing with customers, call-center, problem-solving, handling complaints, consul in the Swedish Consulate of Oulu etc. Show less

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  Qstock

  Sept 2019 - Apr 2022

  Promoter, Head of Artist Production, Member of Executive Board
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  Tapahtumakeskus Tullisali

  Oct 2020 - Apr 2022

  Promoter, production manager
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  Oulun kaupunki - City of Oulu

  Apr 2022 - Jan 2024

  Event Coordinator
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  Oulu2026 - European Capital of Culture 2026

  Feb 2024 - now

  Executive Producer