University of Tampere 1925-2018

People Person & Senior Service Architect

Gofore is an international digital transformation consultancy with Finnish roots. We have over 1,400 impact-driven people in 19 locations across Finland, Germany, Austria, Spain, Estonia, and Italy. 

With our technology and business expertise we create an equal digital society and sustainable solutions for the intelligent industry. Our diverse group of professionals share a pioneering ambition to create a more humane, sustainable, and ethical digital world. Our values guide our business: Gofore is a great workplace that thrives on customer success. 

Our vision is to be the most significant digital transformation consultancy in Europe.

Gofore

Board Member

Aplika on nopeasti kasvava ohjelmistotalo jonka vahvuuksia ovat kokenut henkilöstö ja viimeisin teknologiaosaaminen. www.aplika.fi

Aplika Oy

Skills: Agile Methodologies · Project Coordination · IT Project Management · Project Management · Technical Project Leadership · Agile Project Management · Scrum

Technical Project Manager

Skills: Sales · Resourcing · Team Management · Engaging People · Business Development · Customer Experience · Account Management · Customer Relationship Management (CRM) · Partner Relationship Management

Account Owner

People Leads (formerly People Persons) are the true Swiss army knives of career services at Gofore. In the spririt of servant leadership, People Leads help people develop and succeed in their jobs. People Leads also constantly develop the workplace to be better and work closely with various support functions such as HR.

My task is to provide managerial services to the employees in my team right from recuiting to having exit discussions. Between these endpoints I also handle recruitment interviews, project resourcing, development and salary discussions, exit discussions, and the occasional difficult situations at work.

My goal is to support my people and remove obstacles in front of them so that they can focus on the things that are important and belong to them.

People Lead

Skills: Facilitation · Agile Methodologies · ICT · Project Coordination · Public Sector · Project Management

Senior Service Architect

I coordinated the planning and preparation phase of the Open Data and Interfaces Spearhead Project, a key part of the Finnish 6Aika strategy for sustainable urban development. After successful project application period I acted as the lead manager in the project.

In this project the six largest Finnish cities (Helsinki, Espoo, Vantaa, Tampere, Turku, Oulu) opened up their data while developing and following shared operating models. The target group of the project was companies. The aim was to make the opening up of data a natural part of the normal operation of cities, thus helping them facilitate the creation of data-based services and business even after the completion of the project. Total budget of the 3,5 years project was over 8 million euros.

Project leadership and coordination was much praised in the 6Aika strategy's mid-evaluation in 2016, project's mid-evaluation in 2017 and project's final evaluation 2018.

See more at https://6aika.fi

In addition to above, I was elected as a staff representative for the company board of directors, in which position I created new models for better well-being and greater transparency in the company.

Keywords: open data, api, open source, community, well-being, 6Aika, ERDF, EAKR

Business Tampere

Development Manager, Open Data

Co-founder and project manager of Open Data Tampere.
Co-founder of Apps4Pirkanmaa competition.
Several steering group and advisory board positions in the field of open data.

Hermia Group

Project Manager

Skills: Project Management · Open Source Licensing · Open Source · Board of Directors · Event Management · Open Source Software · Business Networking

COSS – Centre for Open Systems and Solutions

Project Manager / Open Source Specialist

Program Director of the Digibusiness Centre of Expertise, Tampere Region.

The general objective of the Digibusiness cluster programme was to facilitate the development of digital content products and services. There were five regional offices, which concentrated on their own areas of expertise. I was heading the Tampere Region office, coordinated by Hermia Ltd.

During my leadership we started the Open Data Tampere Region project and Apps4Pirkanmaa competition, and were active players in the Finnish open source community catalyzing for example the Finnish MeeGo community.

Program Director

Leading the IT unit.
IT strategy work.
Member of the company board of directors.

Validos helps companies to use open source software in products and projects. Validos focuses on package level compliance and provides reports on compliance and instructions for redistribution and shares the results of validation within the collaboration.

Validos ry

Board member

Open source specialist and project manager at COSS, the Finnish Centre for Open Source Solutions, operated by Hermia Ltd.

Managing and developing COSS member network, organizing events, consulting and training companies and public sector organizations and managing projects around free and open source technologies and open data.

Several steering group and advisory board positions in the open source domain.

Some events I've been organising (together with others):
- Openmind conference from 2007 to 2013, Tampere & Helsinki
- MindTrek conference from 2007 to 2013, Tampere
- Akademy 2010, Tampere
- Open Solutions 2010, Espoo
- Android Keynote - a Platform for Developers and Business 2011, Tampere
- MeeGo Summit FI 2011, Tampere
- Devaamo Summit 2012, Tampere
- Devaamo Summit 2013, Tampere
- Ubuntu 10.04 LTS Release Fest, Tampere
- Ubuntu 12.04 LTS Release Fest, Tampere

Software testing and development projects.
Internal and external consulting and training.

Company name until April 2005: Almare Systems Ltd.
Company name until February 2009: Plenware Ltd.

Matti Saastamoinen