Matti Kinnunen

Current

Senior Advisor at Sofigate

Past

Systems architect at Finnish Postal Services
Systems Architect at Nokia Networks
Head of Competitive Intelligence at Nokia

Chief Engineer / System Architect at Nokia
Chief Engineer / System Architecture team leader at Nokia
Chief Engineer / System Architect at Nokia
Chief Engineer / Software Architect at Nokia
Senior Engineer / Software Engineer at Nokia
Programmer at University of Helsinki
Researcher at University of Helsinki

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Education

Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Massachusetts Institute of Technology - Sloan School of Management
University of Helsinki

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Information Technology and Services

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Matti Kinnunen’s Summary

Systems architect with experience on large distributed, embedded, real-time systems.

Respected business strategy and enterprise architecture consultant working on C-level.

Excellent engineering manager of talented engineers - up to 350 people.

Wide experience in working in multinational settings.

SAP certified associate enterprise architect.

Matti Kinnunen’s Specialties:

System architecting large computers systems, system start-up, high-availability system, traffic engineering, extensive experience in software architectures, leading large scale techinical work (experience up to 400 developers).

Some keywords: WCMDA, RAN, RNC, 3G

Matti Kinnunen’s Experience

Senior Advisor

Sofigate

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

May 2007 — Present (2 years 3 months)

Advising C-level IT-management on IT, business strategy, organization, and enterprise systems architecture related issues.
Systems architect

Finnish Postal Services

(Public Company; 5001-10,000 employees; Information Technology and Services industry)

December 2006 — March 2007 (4 months)

Systems architect in the logistics division of the Finnish postal services. Responsible for large scale systems integration projects.
Systems Architect

Nokia Networks

(Information Technology and Services industry)

1998 — 2006 (8 years)
Head of Competitive Intelligence

Nokia

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

March 2006 — November 2006 (9 months)

Head of Competitive intelligence. Systems architect. WCDMA RAN.
Chief Engineer / System Architect

Nokia

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

July 2004 — November 2006 (2 years 5 months)

System Architect of WCDMA RNC and MGW network elements.
Chief Engineer / System Architecture team leader

Nokia

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

January 2003 — June 2004 (1 year 6 months)

NOKIA NETWORKS, Hangzhou, China
System Architecture Team Leader / Chief Engineer
Recruited 9 Chinese system architecture candidates to establish a system architecture team; the team increased the performance of the product 400%.

Developed group work tools and processes, and documentation structures for international, multi-culture system architecting work.

Managed the 100-person site and planned strategy as a member of the site management team.
Chief Engineer / System Architect

Nokia

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

January 2001 — December 2002 (2 years)

NOKIA NETWORKS, Helsinki, Finland
System Architect / Chief Engineer

Designed and managed the system architecture of the 1000-processor network element.

Designed a new system start-up procedure, improving the start-up time 500%; down to 4 minutes.

Technically led 350 software and hardware engineers in implementing the system architecture.

Designed and led internal training in the system architecture in Finland, Germany, Hungary, India, Australia, Singapore and Taiwan.

Supervised a Master thesis in computer science on performance simulation.
Chief Engineer / Software Architect

Nokia

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

January 1999 — December 2000 (2 years)

Software Architect / Chief Engineer

Created a simulation system for the system and detected 40-fold performance deficiency; designed a more efficient software architecture, which solved the performance problem.

Technically led 70 software engineers in implementing the new software architecture in several departments.
Senior Engineer / Software Engineer

Nokia

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

January 1998 — December 1998 (1 year)

Software Engineer / Senior Engineer

Led a technical team of 5 programmers implementing connection admission program for ATM-base network element

Supervised a Master thesis in computer science on data mining.
Programmer

University of Helsinki

(Educational Institution; 5001-10,000 employees; Higher Education industry)

January 1997 — December 1997 (1 year)

Department of computational linguistics.

Developed computer programs for analyzing large collection of different natural languages speeding up the analysis 10-fold.
Researcher

University of Helsinki

(Educational Institution; 5001-10,000 employees; Higher Education industry)

January 1996 — December 1996 (1 year)

PhD studies in philosophy, logic and computational linguistics.

Matti Kinnunen’s Education

Massachusetts Institute of Technology

SDM , Systems architecture, program management, business and technology strategy , 2005 — 2006
Massachusetts Institute of Technology - Sloan School of Management

2005 — 2006
University of Helsinki

MA , Theoretical philosophy, logic, mathematics , September 1989 — December 1995

Thesis grade Eximia Cum Laude (4.5/5), GPA 5/5.

Studies also in sociology, political sciences, computational linguistics, statistics, environment science and journalism.