Sirte Pihlaja

Current

• Service Design Lead, Strategist at Fjord

Past

• Senior Consultant, Digital Business Development & Business Manager at TietoEnator
• Senior Consultant at Accenture
• Intranet Producer, Journalist at Finnish Broadcasting Company YLE

• EU Press Officer, Internet Producer at Ministry of Education, Science and Culture
• Freelance Journalist at Radios & News agency
• Press Officer at Ministry of Education, Science and Culture

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Industry

Information Technology and Services

Sirte Pihlaja’s Summary

Sirte Pihlaja’s Specialties:

* Innovating and identifying service & product opportunities
* Strategic planning, global roll-outs & product launches
* Portals
* Social networks & communities, Smart Shopping (Web 2.0)
* Digitalizing business, business process modeling (UML)
* User-centric design & requirements
* User experience design & testing
* Concept & UI/interaction design of multi-channel services
* End-user participatory research
* Digital media production (RUP/SCRUM)
* Content management & processes

Sirte Pihlaja’s Experience

• Service Design Lead, Strategist

  Fjord

  (Information Technology and Services industry)

  August 2008 — Present (1 year 4 months)

• Senior Consultant, Digital Business Development & Business Manager

  TietoEnator

  (Public Company; 10,001 or more employees; TIEN; Information Technology and Services industry)

  July 2001 — August 2008 (7 years 2 months)

  @ Digitalized Self Services Business Unit as
  Senior Consultant, Digital Business Development
  Heading the development of TietoEnator Mobile Offering
  
  @ Public Sector Design Team as Business Manager, Account Manager, Member of the Executive Board, Design Team Leader

• Senior Consultant

  Accenture

  (Public Company; 10,001 or more employees; Information Technology and Services industry)

  January 2000 — July 2001 (1 year 7 months)

  @ Internet Center of Excellence, Digital Media Team as
  Digital Media Team Leader, New Media Producer,
  Senior Consultant (Technology and DigiTV), Concept Designer

• Intranet Producer, Journalist

  Finnish Broadcasting Company YLE

  (Public Company; 1001-5000 employees; Media Production industry)

  June 1993 — January 2000 (6 years 8 months)

  @ YLE Communications as
  Intranet Developer and Producer, Internet Specialist, Journalist, Sub-editor
  
  @ Swedish Language Radio as Freelancer
  
  @ Internal Communications as Journalist, Freelancer
  
  @ Program Service as Journalist

• EU Press Officer, Internet Producer

  Ministry of Education, Science and Culture

  (Government Agency; 201-500 employees; Government Administration industry)

  November 1995 — October 1996 (1 year )

  Press Service as
  EU Press Officer, Internet Producer
  European Union training program for young EU professionals

• Freelance Journalist

  Radios & News agency

  (Media Production industry)

  March 1994 — December 1995 (1 year 10 months)

  RADIO FRANCE INTERNATIONALE 07/95-09/95
  @ World Service as Journalist, Internship
  
  FINNISH NEWS AGENCY STT 04/94-08/94
  @ Foreign News Department as Freelancer, Summer job
  
  RADIO YKKÖNEN 03/94-12/95
  Number one Finnish commercial radio station
  @ Morning Team as Freelancer

• Press Officer

  Ministry of Education, Science and Culture

  (Government Agency; 51-200 employees; Government Administration industry)

  May 1992 — August 1994 (2 years 4 months)

  @ Press Service as
  Press Officer, Internet Developer, Substitute for the Information Head
  
  @ Internal Communications as
  Press Officer, Substitute for the Information Secretary

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