MATIAS TURKKILA
Born 1973in Helsinki, Finland.
FORMAL EDUCATION
2004: Master of Science, technology, Helsinki University of Technology. Major: Mechanical engineering / CAD-design. Minor: Information Technology in Production. Diploma work: Requirement specification for web-based crm solution.
PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE
2012-Today: Editor-in-chief for Perussuomalainen-magazine and Suomen Uutiset.
2007-2012: Global German/French IT industry company. Worked as a Senior Technical Consultant.
Primary functions include SAP portal consultancy, development and programming, Identity and Access Management (=IAM) and Java development.
Project experience within this company:
2011-today: Identity Management Implementation for a global British media company. Worked as an Senior IT consultant.
2009-today: Identity Management Implementation for a Finnish IT company. Worked as a Project Manager.
2010-today: Portal implementation for a Finnish multidomain company. Worked as an IT consultant.
2009: SAP upgrade project for a Finnish forest industry company. IT consultant
2008-2010: Integration platform development project for a large Finnish municipality. Worked as a technical consultant.
2008-2010: Integration platform development project for a Finnish forest industry company.
2007-2010: Application development for a Multinational manufacturing company. Worked as an IT consultant.
2008-2011: Application development for a social insurance institution. Worked as a technical consultant.
2007-2010: Software project implementation for military customer. Worked as a technical consultant
2008-2010: HR Portal implementation for a telecommunications customer. Worked as a technical consultant
2007-today: NWDI implementation for a Finnish IT company. Worked as a Technical consultant.
2007-2008: HR Portal implementation for a Finnish forest industry customer. Worked as a portal consultant
2007-today: Identity management implementation for a Finnish IT company. Worked as a technical consultant / architect.
2004-today: DealMaker. CEO, Business owner, software consultant
DealMaker is a web-based crm software used by SME companies. Designed and implemented core parts of the system using Java, Hibernate, Tomcat and other opensource tools.
Project experience within this company:
Responsible for 70 crm implementation projects.
eCommerce software Implementation and maintanance of a web based product catalog for Silja Line / Silja Tallink taxfree products. Implementing a web based shops for Design Forum Finland Hef Group, Talenco Liikelahjat. Implementing 2 small bookstores utilizing Smilehouse’s Wosbee product.
Project Management software: Designing and implementing a web based project management systems for Alfred Berg Oyj, Suomen Helasto. Participated in implementation of project management software tool required for GSM 1800 network construction and roll-out in Austria. CMS, Social Media Implementation on circa 20 web projects implemented for small enterprises or for individual persons. Techniques included Joomla, WordPress, blogspot and proprietary content management systems, SMF forums and a large variety of opensource utility applications. Worked in the areas of Google optimization and distributed publishing.
Application Development: Experience of many different Java development environments (JBuilder, Emacs, Visual Age for Java, Eclipse), on database development (Oracle 8.x, PostgreSQL, MySQL, MsAccess, Solid Server, MsSQL, Sybase.) and on application server platforms (Sun, WebLogic, Orion, Iplanet, Tomcat).
1999-2004: Fivetec Solutions Oy. Worked as a Director of technology and production
Fivetec specialised in web-based crm systems. Responsible for managing all software projects within the company, also designed and implemented Java-based software systems. Team sizes varied greatly – small projects had 3 team members, large projects as much as 60 multinational members.
1998: Lemcon Oy / Nokia Oyj. Worked as a database engineer
Project was locaten in Graz, Austria. During the project, Nokia supplied a GSM 1800 network to Austria. Value of the project was 250 million USD. Participated in implementation of a project management software tool required for network construction and roll-out. Responsibilities were software and database development. Development team consisted of 4 multinational developers.
1996-1999: Patela Oy. Worked as a software developer, administrator
Responsible for implementing a CRM software used by 30 persons in 4 sales offices.
1995-1996: Software developer for The Association of Finnish Local and Regional Authorities (=Kuntaliitto)
Responsibilities included software development, data analysis and reporting. Implemented a software that was later sold to 70 Finnish municipalities. 1994-1994: Research assistant for Logit Ky Responsible for software and database development. Academic research project about Finnish taxation mechanisms. Research team consisted of three people, headed by Yrjö Vartia, Professor of Econometrics.
LANGUAGE SKILLS
Finnish: Mother tongue
English: Fluent, both written and spoken
Swedish, German: fair
INTERESTS
Cuddling with my kids. Photography. Renovating apartments. Also socialising, sports, philosophy, history, politics, physics, evolution, design, travelling, writing. Searching for the meaning of life.