Product manager at Nokia
Finland
- Current
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- Product manager at Nokia
- Critic at Helsingin Sanomat
- Implementor / acting CEO at Random Development
- Past
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- Product Manager at Nokia Siemens Networks
- Product Manager at Nokia
- Project Manager at Nokia
- Education
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- Helsingin yliopisto
- University of Utah
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Ville Lavonius’s Summary
Software development, concentrating on providing a platform for applications.
Nine years in various engineering positions, two years in project/product management.
Ville Lavonius’s Specialties:
Project management, troubleshooting, UNIX, product integration, high-availability systems, requirements management, rapid development.
Ville Lavonius’s Experience
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Product manager
Nokia
(Telecommunications industry)
November 2008 — Present (1 year 1 month)
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Critic
Helsingin Sanomat
(Public Company; 201-500 employees; Newspapers industry)
October 2007 — Present (2 years 2 months)
Occasional reviews and articles in the weekly Nyt-supplement.
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Implementor / acting CEO
Random Development
(Privately Held; 1-10 employees; Information Technology and Services industry)
October 1996 — Present (13 years 2 months)
CEO / implementor / consultant / translator / teaboy.
In a company this small no-one has the luxury of having just a single title. -
Product Manager
Nokia Siemens Networks
(Public Company; 10,001 or more employees; NOK; Telecommunications industry)
April 2007 — October 2008 (1 year 7 months)
Member of the FlexiPlatform Product and Architecture Management Team.
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Product Manager
Nokia
(Public Company; 10,001 or more employees; NOK1V; Telecommunications industry)
June 2005 — March 2007 (1 year 10 months)
Member of the FlexiPlatform product management team.
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Project Manager
Nokia
(Public Company; 10,001 or more employees; NOK1V; Telecommunications industry)
September 2004 — July 2005 (11 months)
Led a major software migration project.
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Technical Lead / Chief Research & Development Engineer
Nokia
(Public Company; 10,001 or more employees; NOK1V; Telecommunications industry)
December 1998 — September 2004 (5 years 10 months)
Architected, designed, implemented and tested a wide variety of software components for Nokia's DX200, IPA2800 and FlexiPlatform-environments.
Worked as an architect / technical lead for multiple domains.
Participated in Open Source Laboratories' Carrier Grade Linux workgroup as Nokia's technical lead.
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Software Engineer / Scientist
Helsinki Institute of Physics / Tuovi Project
(Government Agency; 201-500 employees; Research industry)
June 1998 — June 1999 (1 year 1 month)
Developed a GANTT/PERT-visualizer for the Tuovi document management system.
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Trainee / Research & Development Engineer
Nokia
(Public Company; 10,001 or more employees; NOK1V; Telecommunications industry)
March 1995 — December 1998 (3 years 10 months)
Designed, implemented and tested a variety of software components for Nokia Networks' DX200 and IPA2800-platforms.
Wrote my master's thesis on "POSIX/DMX co-existence in the DX200 computing environment".
Worked as a part-time lecturer for the learning services, with 400+ hours of courses in four years.
Ville Lavonius’s Education
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Helsingin yliopisto
M.Sc. , Computer Science, Mathematics, Economics , 1990 — 1997
Worked in Mowgli research group as a software engineer.
Never applied for B.S. degree (would have received that a couple of months before graduating with masters).
Spent one year at University of Utah, last two working full time.- Activities and Societies:
- Mild involvement in Eteläsuomalainen Osakunta, TKO-Äly, Limes, Alter Ego.
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University of Utah
M.Sc. , Computer Science, Economics, Bowling , August 1993 — June 1994
On an ISEP exchange program.
- Activities and Societies:
- Thursday night hellraisers.
Additional Information
Ville Lavonius’s Interests:
UNIX, literature, movies, games, sushi, fishkeeping, music, single malts, travel, mobile/ubiquitous computing, bowling, requirements management, photography, operating systems, geocaching, interactive fiction.
Ville Lavonius’s Groups:
OSDL, Scope Alliance, EFFI, wikipedia.
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University of Utah Alumni -
Nokia Siemens Networks Global Alumni -
Finn - and proud of it! -
TKT-alumni
Ville Lavonius’s Contact Settings
Interested In:
- career opportunities
- consulting offers
- new ventures
- expertise requests
- reference requests
- getting back in touch
