Head Of Business Team at Futurice
Finland
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- Chief of music selection at Pitkämies
- Head Of Business Team at Futurice
- Owner at If Society avoin yhtiö
- Past
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- Software Engineer at Kynämies Oy
- Software Engineer at 2ndhead Oy
- Education
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- Helsingin yliopisto
- Metropolia Ammattikorkeakoulu
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Tommi Forsström’s Summary
Microsoft Certified Professional, April 2008
Tommi Forsström’s Specialties:
Agile software development, lean product development and fit-for-purpose services.
Social media and the web as a medium.
Web usability / reachability, Search engine optimization.
.NET and other MS technologies
Tommi Forsström’s Experience
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Chief of music selection
Pitkämies
(Entertainment industry)
May 2008 — Present (1 year 7 months)
Pitkämies is a comic book / record store on Kolmas Linja in Helsinki, Finland. I run the music section.
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Head Of Business Team
Futurice
(Privately Held; Information Technology and Services industry)
February 2008 — Present (1 year 10 months)
I run a business team in the Finnish unit at Futurice, specializing in small-to-medium sized projects and continuous development, mostly in the web domain. My primary functions are sales, project management (with Scrum), people / numbers management and tasteless jokes.
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Owner
If Society avoin yhtiö
(Music industry)
May 1999 — Present (10 years 7 months)
If Society is an independent record label with about 50 releases in it's catalogue ranging from ambient to electropop and from hardcore punk to indierock. Yet the thing that combines these releases is the fact that we consider them meaningful, timeless and important.
My other jobs I've done because I need money to pay for food. This one I've done because it is more important than food. -
Software Engineer
Kynämies Oy
(Privately Held; 51-200 employees; Writing and Editing industry)
December 2005 — February 2008 (2 years 3 months)
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Software Engineer
2ndhead Oy
(Public Company; 11-50 employees; Information Technology and Services industry)
January 2001 — December 2005 (5 years )
Tommi Forsström’s Education
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Helsingin yliopisto
- , Mathematics (teacher), Computer Science , 1998 — 2002
Got about halfway to my degree before realizing I like work far more than school.
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Metropolia Ammattikorkeakoulu
- , Digital communications , 2000 — 2001
Dropped out after the first year. This school was definitely not for me.
Additional Information
Tommi Forsström’s Websites:
Tommi Forsström’s Interests:
Agile methodologies, the internet as a medium, music and everything (and I mean EVERYTHING) involved, bad comedies and poor humor.
Tommi Forsström’s Groups:
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Futurice
Tommi Forsström’s Honors:
Rock trivia national Finnish champion 2006!!!
Tommi Forsström’s Contact Settings
Interested In:
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- job inquiries
- expertise requests
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