
Senior Product Manager at SSH Communications Security Corp.
Finland

Senior Product Manager at SSH Communications Security Corp.
Finland
(Public Company; 51-200 employees; SSH1V; Computer & Network Security industry)
January 2006 — Present (3 years 7 months)
- Act as business case lead on new product initiatives.
- Gather and prioritize market and customer requirements via customer interaction and market research.
- Create and maintain competitive intelligence for product portfolio and ensure timely, accurate, internal communication of same.
- Define product roadmap and product requirements and write Product Requirements Documents.
- Facilitate customer requested feature triage, provide support for critical accounts, and pro-actively work to ensure a high-level of customer satisfaction is achieved.
- Identify business development and collaboration opportunities. Work with 3rd party suppliers to define and drive technical elements of relationship.
- Identify specific industry segments and market opportunities.
(Public Company; 51-200 employees; SSH1V; Computer & Network Security industry)
August 2003 — December 2005 (2 years 5 months)
- Assist in defining and driving product marketing plans and strategic campaigns.
- Assist with market analysts and media interviews/reviews.
- Develop and maintain sales tools, presentations, and customer case studies.
- Assist in training the Sales team and channel partners on product portfolio, value proposition, technical capabilities and positioning.
- Assist in the development of messaging and content for collateral, direct mail, white papers, PR, web, etc.
(Public Company; 51-200 employees; SSH1V; Computer & Network Security industry)
April 2002 — August 2003 (1 year 5 months)
Responsible for organizing and holding product trainings for VPN, PKI and SSH customers and partners worldwide.
(Public Company; 51-200 employees; SSH1V; Computer & Network Security industry)
May 2001 — April 2002 (1 year)
Pre-Sales activities for VPN, PKI and SSH products worldwide. Customer meetings, technical support and technical trainings.
(Public Company; 51-200 employees; SSH1V; Computer & Network Security industry)
July 2000 — April 2001 (10 months)
Responsible for designing and writing a business plan for a prototype multicast IPsec product.
(Public Company; 51-200 employees; SSH1V; Computer & Network Security industry)
January 2000 — July 2000 (7 months)
Master's Thesis: "Implementing IPsec in Mobile IP Networks"
(Privately Held; 1001-5000 employees; Information Technology and Services industry)
April 1995 — December 1999 (4 years 9 months)
Several integration project responsibilities for Finnish banks and insurance companies.
Major: Computer Networks. Minor: Telecommunications Venturing 1989 — 2000
- IT security technology and venturing - Sailing (International certificate for operators of pleasure craft 2004) - Golf - Aviation and flight simulators (Private pilot license 1992) - Roller skating
- Wonderful daughter
- SSH make it happen (2006)
- SSH make it happen (2005)
- SSH sales best product manager of the year (2004)
- SSH make it happen (2003)
- SSH best pre-sales engineer worldwide (2002)
- Fujitsu Invia bronze excellence award (1998)
- Finnish naval academy anchor medal #7, merisotakoulun ankkuriristi #7 (1988)