Marko Pyhäjärvi

Current
  • Project Manager at Vaisala Oyj
Past
  • Software Project Manager at Metso Endress+Hauser Technology AG
  • Software Quality Assurance Leader at Metso Endress+Hauser Technology AG
  • Software designer at Ericsson
  • System tester at Ericsson
Education
  • Helsingin yliopisto
  • EVTEK - University of Applied Sciences
Connections
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Industry
Information Technology and Services
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Marko Pyhäjärvi’s Summary

Good experience in international project and subcontractor management, software development and testing, system integration, as well as software process improvement activities. Experiences in the field of telecommunication, automation and financial software development as well as project management and team leading.

Home page: http://markopyhajarvi.com

Marko Pyhäjärvi’s Specialties:

Project management, team leading, software development and testing, architecture development, quality assurance, software process improvement, subcontractor management and contract negotiations.


Marko Pyhäjärvi’s Experience

  • Project Manager

    Vaisala Oyj

    (Public Company; 501-1000 employees; Information Technology and Services industry)

    February 2007Present (1 year 8 months)

    Currently leading a corporate wide strategic development projects in Vaisala's System Architecture Integration Technology (SAIT) group. In my ongoing project we aim in unifying the development environments and software platforms of Vaisala.

  • Software Project Manager

    Metso Endress+Hauser Technology AG

    (Public Company; 11-50 employees; Computer Software industry)

    October 2005January 2007 (1 year 4 months)

    I lead software projects in Basel Switzerland in which my team developed new versions of the automation software product to the markets. My responsibilities in project management included e.g. planning and management of software development and internal process improvement projects, subcontractor management and contract negotiations, team leading, coordination with mother companies, leadership of joint project management and change control boards, reporting to company steering committee and budget management. I shared also some responsibilities with my operational manager, such as planning of yearly action plan and technology strategy, definition of project charters and personal development discussions with team members. In addition to my project management work I developed and renewed the software processes and tools towards the principles of agile software processes. As part of this work we got through major tool investments and changes together with my operational manager.

  • Software Quality Assurance Leader

    Metso Endress+Hauser Technology AG

    (Public Company; 11-50 employees; Computer Software industry)

    March 2005September 2005 (7 months)

    Main objective was to manage and develop the whole quality assurance process and test activities in a software development project in Basel Switzerland. I managed the quality assurance activities of the project with the QA strategy and test plan I developed. Additionally I was responsible for the test coordination within our own test team and subcontractors. I was acting as a team leader within our test team and I was involved in actual testing as well. Additionally I provided my contribution to software process development by developing our test process, root cause analysis, software reviews and incident management (based on ITIL and RUP).

  • Software designer

    Ericsson

    (Public Company; 10,001 or more employees; Telecommunications industry)

    August 2003March 2005 (1 year 8 months)

    I worked as a software designer and design team leader in a group developing a Media Gateway for UMTS network markets. My main responsibility was to lead the team so that it reaches the goals set for the projects. My role as a team leader consisted of team leading, software designing, team development and software process development. As a designer, I took part into design work as well, which was basically C/C++ programming and UML modelling. In my master’s thesis I made an empirical research in the field of software process development. Additionally I took part into tool development, and my role was to specify and program those tools together with another person.

  • System tester

    Ericsson

    (Public Company; 10,001 or more employees; Telecommunications industry)

    January 2001August 2003 (2 years 8 months)

    I worked with operation and maintenance issues of GSM and UMTS network nodes (MSC, BSC, MGw). The work was mainly node and network level trouble shooting and operation and maintenance work, and it included very much travelling to customer sites around Europe. My role included system and acceptance testing as well, both in our test field and on customer sites. Additionally, about 40% of the working time I did database designing and management, tool designing and programming. The technologies and languages and products I used included for example Sybase, MS SQL Server and MySQL database products, Java servlets, JSP and PHP.


Marko Pyhäjärvi’s Education

  • Helsingin yliopisto

    MSc, Software engineering, 20032007

    Primary subject software engineering, secondary subjects mathematics, telecommunication and leadership

  • EVTEK - University of Applied Sciences

    BSc, Telecommunication and computer networks, 20002002

    Bachelor's degree in the field of telecommunication and computer networks.


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Marko Pyhäjärvi’s Interests:

Professional: software project management, project portfolio management, process improvement, software architecture development, programming, leadership and people management Techn(olog)ical: layered architectures, component architectures, development of financial software systems, Java application development, J2EE, Linux Leisure time: alpine and cross country skiing, mountain biking, running, music, astronomy, my family


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