Béatrice Karjalainen

My goal is to have a position within an organization that holds the lead in its area and drives the development forward, where I with my analytical, pedagogical, and creative skills have a leading roll. Project management, business development and information analysis/design are main parts of my work as well as close cooperation with the rest of the team and customers to make sure that the company keeps its position on the market.

Béatrice Karjalainen’s Specialties:

Project management, product management, sales engineering, quality assurance, ISO 9000 certification, software testing, human-computer interaction, teaching technical classes

Béatrice Karjalainen’s Experience

Sales

Exait AB

(Privately Held; Information Technology and Services industry)

August 2009 — Present (4 months)
Movie reviewer

Pricerunner

(Public Company; Internet industry)

March 2009 — Present (9 months)

I write movie reviews (in Swedish) at http://filmblogg.pricerunner.se
Owner and webmaster
Pärlplatsen (Self-employed)

(Self-Employed; Myself Only; Internet industry)

June 1996 — Present (13 years 6 months)

Pärlplatsen (www.parlplatsen.se) is a web community and educational site about beading. I run it as a hobby project. I do all the programming and management of the website as well as write most of the material to the educational/information pages.

The web site is in Swedish and targeted to Swedish beaders.
Consultant

Logica

(Public Company; LOG; Information Technology and Services industry)

August 2008 — June 2009 (11 months)

Project coordination for a project at LKAB
RFP response to Skatteverket
Pre-sales Engineer

Operax AB

(Privately Held; Telecommunications industry)

August 2006 — July 2008 (2 years )

Assisted the Account Executives in the sales process to a number of customers and partners. It included customer presentations, customer demonstrations, preparation of quotations and assistance in relation to customer activities.

Key Responsibility Areas
Made presentations and demonstrations of Operax products for customers and partners.

Prepared solution proposals and quotations.

Assisted in customer activities like POC, trials and training.

Participated in marketing events/lead generation organized by Marketing

Feed-back on product aspects/market requirements to product management.

Under this role I also act as Customer Project Manager.

I have also been responsible for developing product training material.
Quality Assurance Assistant

Operax AB

(Privately Held; 51-200 employees; Computer Software industry)

October 2004 — May 2008 (3 years 8 months)

Develop and maintain Operax' ISO 9001:2000 certificate.
Project manager

Operax AB

(Privately Held; 51-200 employees; Computer Software industry)

October 2004 — August 2006 (1 year 11 months)

Project manager for some smaller development project. Was also responsible for some of the technical documentation.
Lecturer

Luleå University of Technology

(Educational Institution; 1001-5000 employees; Higher Education industry)

April 2002 — December 2002 (9 months)

Lectured operating systems, web design with focus on information design, HCI, and was tutoring master degree students in degree thesis seminars.

Administrated the master degree student’s degree thesis course.

Engaged in the reorganization of the department and discussions of a new course plan for system analysis student.
Product Manager

Interbizz Scandinavia AB

(Privately Held; 51-200 employees; Computer Software industry)

April 2000 — October 2002 (2 years 7 months)

Product manager with responsibility to make product plans, conduct market intelligence and competitive analysis, execute pre-studies and create and review promotion material regarding the products.

Worked close with the sales and marketing department to create the marketing material and attended exhibits and customer meetings where I demonstrated the software for potential clients.
Project Manager

Interbizz Scandinavia

(Privately Held; 51-200 employees; Computer Software industry)

January 1998 — October 2001 (3 years 10 months)

Project manager for the development of version 2 of a security and options trading software for the Swedish market. The system was a java based real-time trading client for retail customers, communicating via the Internet with a C++ server at the broker’s office. Handled the pre-study and wrote function specifications for the system.

Project manager with budget and result responsibilities for a new project aimed to design a new system targeted for the US market’s institutional client trading. Handled the pre-study and wrote function specifications for the system.

Project manager with budget and result responsibilities for several UK based projects. Parts of this work were on site in London working together with the team there.

In parallel with my duties as project manager I was involved in the process of establishing a common toolbox for the system development.
Lecturer

Luleå University of Technology

(Educational Institution; 1001-5000 employees; Higher Education industry)

August 1996 — January 1998 (1 year 6 months)

Lectured system development methods, programming, design and operative computer maintenance and was a tutor for bachelor degree students during their exam thesis.

Involved in student – teacher communication groups and worked closely with students to improve the education for system analysis students.