Experience

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  Neles-jamesbury

  May 1993 - Dec 1997

  Senior engineer

  Tasks and Responsibilities: Mechanical engineering of pneumatic actuators, electro-pneumatic positioners, and valves for process control systems. Survey of EU directives and interpretation of quality system’s, certificate’s and standard’s requirements to product design. Support of 3D-MCAD program and production PDM (product data management) systems including manufacturing drawings, assembly and service instructions.Major Achievements: Designed several factory quality control automation stations e.g. measurement devices for pneumatic actuators’ and electro-pneumatic positioners’ for manufacturing assembly lines. As a member in four person team designed a new valve controller product with all the required product documents and manufacturing training materials for the product ramp-up. Show less

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  Helsinki university of technology

  Jan 1998 - Dec 1998

  Research manager

  Tasks and Responsibilities: Responsible for MCAD & PDM education, research project funding, personnel hiring and investments needed for MCAD & PDM research projects in the Machine Design laboratory of Helsinki University of Technology. Manager of a 4-6 person research team.Major Achievements: Instructor of three Master of Science Thesis. Initiated several research projects and successfully applied project funding from Tekes and industry. Projects delivered agreed results.

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  Nokia technologies

  Jan 1999 - Jan 2018

  Tasks and Responsibilities: Led the development of wearable bio-sensor solutions and selection of suitable technology providers. Managed quality system creation & ramp-up for medical devices, mechanics prototyping workshop operations and competence development of a multinational and multidisciplinary engineering & specialist team. Close collaboration with device program management in Silicon Valley, California.Major Achievements: Development of wearable photo plethysmography and bio-impedance devices and firmware. Creating technical differentiation on the device integration and optical coupling of photo plethysmography sensors. Benchmark and verification of motion artefact cancellation solutions and photo plethysmography waveform analysis technologies. Created design & development standard operating procedures according to ISO 13485 and IEC 60601-1 standards. Medical device basic safety and essential performance analysis for developed wearable vital signs measurement device with data logging and streaming functionality. Creation of SW tools for mobile devices and computers for sensor data acquisition and visualization. Technology mapping of smart fabrics and technology evaluation for electrocardiography, photo plethysmography, blood pressure and glucose measurements. Led the operations and moving of mechanics workshop and low power electronics laboratory facilities from Otaniemi to Karaportti. Show less Tasks and Responsibilities: Research leader and line management of 15 person multinational and multidisciplinary team consisting of CNC machinists, mechanics & electronics engineers & architects, firmware & application developers and usability researchers. Close collaboration with nanomaterials research team in Cambridge, UK.Major Achievements: Development of modular HW & SW system for fast and agile sensor technology evaluation, firmware development and demonstrator creation. Creation of flexible mobile device structures & mechanisms for usability research of interaction by whole device deformations. Integration of nanotechnology enabled functional thin films and smart fabrics into wearable device concepts. Development of 2 wrist wearable sensor device concept prototypes series. Technology evaluation of environmental sensors for humidity, CO2, ambient light, pressure, temperature, motion, e-compass and positioning. Managing mechanics workshop and low power electronics laboratory operations. Show less Tasks and Responsibilities: Management of multi-site projects’ device development and concept verification by industrial designers, nanotechnology researchers, system integration engineers, SW & UI subcontractors and user experience verification specialists. In addition the responsibilities included also HW prototyping competence development in ASE organization and close collaboration with nanomaterials research team in Cambridge, UK.Major Achievements: Successfully lead projects of new touch screen solutions, nanotechnology enablers and future concepts that utilizes them. Active internal communication lead to multinational and multi-team collaboration across organizational borders. The HW prototyping competence development main results were a state-of-the-art study and introducing the results within the organization to establish new working practices. Team delivered 4 prototype devices and 2 concept specifications with concrete prototypes. One of them was the futuristic Nokia Kinetic Device, which was publically demoed at Nokia World 2011, and realized the HumanForm concept’s UI. Show less Tasks and Responsibilities: To form and lead a new hardware research focused team by hiring local Ph.Ds & students, setting-up the facilities and university co-creation. Define research topics, create project plans and manage the execution of research projects to match the project, team, unit and entity strategy & requirements.Major Achievements: Established and lead a 20+ researcher multidisciplinary team and research facilities with rapid prototyping and reverse engineering equipment. Team built 4 product-like system demonstrators, made several inventions and tens of scientific publications, just shortly after it had been formed. Show less Tasks and Responsibilities: Line management of 10+ member mechanics research team split between Helsinki & Tampere sites with both M.Sc. research engineers and micromechanics for manufacturing. Tasks included e.g. resource allocations, development discussions, investments, budgeting, workshop maintenance & safety guiding and own research of mechanisms & impact protection.Major Achievements: Full allocation and funding of research team by successful competencies management and project proposal marketing. Led team to push through several inventions & academic publications. Established the use of 5-axis machining center and CAM tools for HW prototype creation. Internal publications of Hard Disk Drive drop shock protection and mechanisms design guideline. Show less Tasks and Responsibilities: Research of mechanics in consumer products and support of MCAD system. Study of functional (smart) materials & micro mechanics for actuators, robotics, sensors and user interface input devices. Competence building in plastics, elastomers and other structural materials for protecting brittle components in mobile phones.Major Achievements: Display drop shock protection FMEA and design guidelines. Nokia Input Device Forum set-up and facilitation. Smart Materials technology overview report. Established the use and support of Nokia wide MCAD-tool for NRC globally. Accepted invention reports on self-disassembly mechanisms & double action keypad. Show less

  • Head of Wellbeing Sensors

    Sept 2014 - Jan 2018

  • Sensor Systems Research Leader

    Jan 2013 - Aug 2014

  • Senior Program Manager

    Mar 2009 - Dec 2012

  • Research Leader

    Oct 2006 - Feb 2009

  • Research Manager

    Jun 2004 - Sept 2006

  • Senior Researcher

    Jan 1999 - May 2004
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  Vaisala

  Aug 2018 - Mar 2024

  Led a team of highly talented scientists in diverse fields of technology. Covering optical particle counters, electrochemical cells, weather radars, millimeter RF, wind shear detection, pressure & humidity sensors and metrology. Coaching the team members to conduct applied science with wide skill set and master their area of expertise fully from understanding the measured phenomena and related technologies; through device design, data science and manufacturability all the way to creating identified customer benefits into Vaisala products. The leader role included also developing science ways of working e.g. by improving the team's innovation climate & peer review practices and leading trials for utilizing artificial intelligence and machine learning in product development and nowcasting. Show less Managed R&D projects in various stages of product life cycle. The sustaining of AQT400 transmitter & MOG100 gateway; new product development and productization of AQT530 air quality transmitter; and concepting a next generation air quality transmitter. Lead the daily R&D activities & scheduled tasks for HW, embedded SW, scientists and production technologies experts. Took care of building & maintaining good team spirit and all the usual management tasks like planning, budgeting, monitoring, reporting and subcontracting. Main achievement was the launch of AQT530 in the first quarter of 2021 with excellent reliability and carefully tested performance. Show less

  • Team Leader, Weather and Environment Technologies Science

    Mar 2021 - Mar 2024

  • R&D Project Manager, Air Quality

    Aug 2018 - Mar 2021
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  Ge healthcare

  Jul 2024 - now

  Software engineering manager

  Leading algorithms and sensor software developing teams.