Internet Professional
Finland
- Current
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- Digital Services Consultant at Logica
- Author at Various publishers
- Professional Speaker at
- Past
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- Founder at Blogilista.fi
- Concept Designer, User Experience at Satama Interactive
- Technical Manager at Arc Technology
- Development Manager at Wysiwyg
- Senior Concept Developer at Icon Medialab
- Software and Concept Developer at The Works Finland
- Analyst at University of Tampere
- Education
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- Seinäjoen lukio
- Tampereen yliopisto
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Sami Köykkä’s Summary
Sami Köykkä’s Specialties:
user experience, concepting and internet technology consultant; usability and user interface design; creative problem solving; presentation skills; internet services development
Sami Köykkä’s Experience
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Digital Services Consultant
Logica
(Public Company; LOG; Information Technology and Services industry)
April 2005 — Present (4 years 8 months)
Participating multiple large scale projects as a lead concept and user experience designer, sales support and technology consultant.
Clients include large Finnish and international companies (list available per request).
Concepting virtual team leader. New technologies evangelist. -
Author
Various publishers
(Writing and Editing industry)
1992 — Present (17 years )
Written books, columns and articles about Internet-related subjects.
Book titles include:
HTML Pro (Suomen ATK-kustannus) ISBN: 9517624778
Professional Mobile Technologies (IT Press) ISBN: 9518265631 -
Professional Speaker
(Professional Training & Coaching industry)
1992 — Present (17 years )
Held courses and lectures on concept design, programming, internet technologies etc.
Examples of locations:
University of Tampere (Department of Computer Science, Hypermedia Laboratory, Institute of Extension Studies)
Tampere Polytechnic School of Art and Media
AtWork
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Founder
Blogilista.fi
(Information Technology and Services industry)
2002 — December 2007 (5 years )
Concepted and created Blogilista.fi, Finnish top 50 community service which became the hub of Finnish blogosphere and attracted wide usage.
Blogilista.fi was acquired by Sanoma Digital at December 2007. -
Concept Designer, User Experience
Satama Interactive
(Public Company; Internet industry)
September 2003 — April 2005 (1 year 8 months)
Concept and user experience designer for various large projects; sales support.
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Technical Manager
Arc Technology
(Privately Held; Information Technology and Services industry)
January 2003 — August 2003 (8 months)
Product development, supplier relations, sales.
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Development Manager
Wysiwyg
(Privately Held; Marketing and Advertising industry)
January 2002 — December 2002 (1 year )
Management of internal CMS software project, sales.
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Senior Concept Developer
Icon Medialab
(Public Company; Internet industry)
November 1997 — December 2001 (4 years 2 months)
Lead concept developer for large scale projects. Concepting team competence coach.
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Software and Concept Developer
The Works Finland
(Information Technology and Services industry)
February 1996 — November 1997 (1 year 10 months)
The company was acquired by Icon Medialab at November 1997.
Concepted and created Serveri.net, one of the biggest link portals in Finland at its time, with user-generated content, personalization, integrated marketing and local services.
Serveri.net was later rebranded and updated to Haku.net and sold to Suomi24 at 2001.
Other projects included Finnkino.fi, movie theater chain web presence; and Tietoviikko, news site for a leading technology magazine. -
Analyst
University of Tampere
(Educational Institution; Research industry)
April 1992 — June 1996 (4 years 3 months)
Information service design and administration. Founded www.uta.fi at March 1994, handled its deployment across university departments and migration from Gopher-based service to WWW.
User support, Unix administration.
Sami Köykkä’s Education
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Seinäjoen lukio
1985 — 1988
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Tampereen yliopisto
B.Sc. , Interactive technology / CS
Additional Information
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Sami Köykkä’s Groups:
#reworks, NIW 08
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Jaiku Users. -
IconMedialab Alumni
Sami Köykkä’s Honors:
2006 WM-data key player award
2006 Person of the Year, TIME Magazine
- See: http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,1569514,00.html
2005 Finland State Award for Public Information (Valtion tiedonjulkistamispalkinto) for providing fast and professional information in a crisis situation at www.sukellus.fi (as a participant of the website project) after 2004 Indian Ocean tsunami.
- See: http://www.tjnk.fi/julkaisut/toimintakertomus_tjnk_2003-2006.pdf
2004 "Kultainen kuukkeli" lifetime achievement award for work with the Finnish weblog community
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