Markus Aurala

Current

Head of Games at PAF

Past

Head of Site Development at PAF
ScrumMaster / Project Master at EGET
Product Development Manager at WinOne Oy

System Architect at WinOne Oy
Research Specialist at University of Helsinki / Finnish Museum of Natural History
Founder, CTO, Managing Director at Maia Solutions Ltd.
System Specialist, Software Developer at Wapit Ltd.
Consultant at Stockmann Oyj
System Support at Lanware Oy
Trainee at Telecom Finland (later known as TeliaSonera)

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Education

Helsingin yliopisto
Teknillinen korkeakoulu-Tekniska högskolan

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Connections

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Industry

Gambling & Casinos

Markus Aurala’s Summary

Managing people, projects and processes in a fascinating industry

Markus Aurala’s Specialties:

Mobile ecosystem and development, web development, eGaming

Markus Aurala’s Experience

Head of Games

PAF

(Government Agency; Gambling & Casinos industry)

May 2009 — Present (7 months)
Head of Site Development

PAF

(Government Agency; Gambling & Casinos industry)

May 2008 — April 2009 (1 year )

I manage four agile product development teams which develop and integrate components for the company's B2C Internet offering.

I moved to this position from EGET which was acquired by Paf in May 2008.
ScrumMaster / Project Master

EGET

(Privately Held; Information Technology and Services industry)

October 2007 — April 2008 (7 months)

I am a certified ScrumMaster for a team of highly skilled agile J2EE developers.

I also manage a cross-enterprise CRM software integration project.

I moved to this position from WinOne which is a wholly owned subsidiary of EGET.
Product Development Manager

WinOne Oy

(Privately Held; 1-10 employees; Wireless industry)

September 2006 — October 2007 (1 year 2 months)

In this position I lead the in-house development team, supervise the external development and testing/porting teams. I also participate in the management team meetings and pre-sales activities.
System Architect

WinOne Oy

(Privately Held; 1-10 employees; Wireless industry)

December 2005 — August 2006 (9 months)

My current job is to design and implement mobile money games (J2ME / Flash Lite), related back-end systems (OTA downloads, CRM tools, billing, etc) and B2C sites.
Research Specialist

University of Helsinki / Finnish Museum of Natural History

(Educational Institution; 51-200 employees; Research industry)

August 2001 — December 2005 (4 years 5 months)

I am the technical coordinator of Luomus project (http://www.luomus.fi) which aims at creating a state-of-art database storage and mining tools, including a national taxonomic database service and new online end-user interfaces for a variety of biodiversity monitoring and query purposes.
My responsibilities include designing the software, taking part in the implementation and participating in the workgroups of several international organizations (GBIF, BioCASE, Eurocat, ENBI, TDWG).
Founder, CTO, Managing Director

Maia Solutions Ltd.

(Privately Held; 1-10 employees; Telecommunications industry)

June 2001 — October 2005 (4 years 5 months)

Maia Solutions Ltd. (http://www.maiasolutions.com) develops turn-key mobile solutions. The company belongs to Interaktivum Group (http://www.interaktivum.fi).

Maia Solutions Ltd. was merged with another Finnish SMS-TV developer, Fun2Phone, in 2005. The name of the new company is Motion Avenue International (http://www.motionavenue.com) and I'm an owner in this company as well.

The company operates in more than 30 countries around Europe, Asia, the Middle East and the Americas, and has created an impressive portfolio of mobile solutions, including several "firsts" (such as the first interactive SMS-TV campaign in mainland China).

Wearing several hats (founder, CTO, managing director, etc) at the same time, my job description is not easily explained, but my expertise is in understanding what our customers and partners want and making it happen.
System Specialist, Software Developer

Wapit Ltd.

(Privately Held; 51-200 employees; Telecommunications industry)

December 1999 — June 2001 (1 year 7 months)

Miscellaneous jobs (from IT infrastructure management to SMS/WAP service programming).
Consultant

Stockmann Oyj

(Public Company; Consumer Goods industry)

1996 — 1998 (2 years )
System Support

Lanware Oy

(Privately Held; 11-50 employees; Information Technology and Services industry)

1996 — 1998 (2 years )
Trainee

Telecom Finland (later known as TeliaSonera)

(Telecommunications industry)

August 1994 — August 1995 (1 year 1 month)

Markus Aurala’s Education

Helsingin yliopisto

Computer science 2000

I have not graduated and I currently have no plan for finishing my studies.
Teknillinen korkeakoulu-Tekniska högskolan

Computer Science 1995

I have not graduated and I currently have no plan for finishing my studies.

Activities and Societies:

Chairman of Club for Digital Media (DOT), 1997