Tom Laine

Current

• International Subcontracting Agent/Nordic Resource Mngmt at Elan IT

Past

• Principal Consultant at Executive Net Ltd, UK
• Owner, Principal Consultant at Sukseet Works Ltd (UK, FIN)
• Partner (Member of the Board) at Luonto-Suomi Oy

• IT Contract Recruiter at Templeton & Partners Ltd
• Senior Consultant at Huntress Search
• Channel Campaign Manager at Oracle, Denmark
• Managing Director (CEO), Partner, Member of the Board at Kilpitalo Teikit Oy
• Project Researcher at Turku Polytechnic
• Partner, Member of the Board, (Project Manager) at Green Innovation
• Entrepreneur at Tom Laine t:mi
• Partner (CEO) at Nuuse Solutions
• Graphic Designer at Kilpi-Laine Ky
• Stock/shop Manager, etc. at R. Kanerva Records Ky

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Education

• Jyväskylän yliopisto
• 1) Ingeniörhöjskolen i Köbenhavn, Denmark
• 2) Turku Polytechnic Finland

• 3) Turku Commercial College
• 4) Raisio Commercial College
• Turku Commercial College, Turku Open University, Helsinki Marketing Institute

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Recommended

19 people have recommended Tom

Connections

500+ connections

Industry

Information Technology and Services

Websites

• Luonto-Suomi Oy
• Green Innovation

Tom Laine’s Summary

MyLink500, TopLinked and Linkedin LION Member, feel free to invite me. (laine. tom at gmail . com)

I'm all the time looking for IT Consultants / Contractors / Freelancers with European language skills and/or SAP skills in general. Several opportunities available for both permanent and contract openings with some of the global leading industry players and consultancies across Northern and Central Europe (occasionally globally)! Skills of special interest; SAP, Oracle/Siebel/Peoplesoft/JD Edwards, Java EE/J2EE/J2SE/J2ME, Qt (Trolltech Qtopia), LAMP, C/C++, .NET/C#/VB/AD/MOSS, BI (BO, Cognos, Crystal, Informatica, BW), Testing, and Telco-, Open Source - and IBM-related technologies. Get in touch asap!

- 2004 Finland
2004 - 2006 Denmark
2006 United Kingdom
2007 - Finland

Languages: Finnish mother tongue, English fluent, Swedish very good, German good, Danish & French basics, very good understanding of written Norwegian & Danish.

Tom Laine’s Specialties:

IT Consulting, SAP, CRM/ERP, Oracle, IT Staffing, Recruitment, Partner/Supplier Channel build, territory/account mngmt, marketing & sales, Software IPRs & R&D processes, patent law, SE Asian Business culture, Telco expertise, e-business experience, social media/networks, HR, subcontracting, cost analysis, and general, project & key account management, Internet/Mail order, Board-memberships, mobile pre-seed start-up...

Tom Laine’s Experience

• International Subcontracting Agent/Nordic Resource Mngmt

  Elan IT

  (Privately Held; Information Technology and Services industry)

  January 2008 — Present (1 year 7 months)

  IT Consulting, subcontracting, resourcing. A Manpower Group company. Responsible for staffing International projects across Nordics and globally for Nordic clients.

• Principal Consultant

  Executive Net Ltd, UK

  (Information Technology and Services industry)

  2006 — January 2008 (2 years)

  IT Recruitment, both contract and permanent positions, mostly SAP-related. Built the Nordic approach from the scratch, as well as the SAP focus on the technical side.

• Owner, Principal Consultant

  Sukseet Works Ltd (UK, FIN)

  (Information Technology and Services industry)

  2004 — December 2007 (3 years)

  Services varying from ICT IPRs to SW R&D processes. Consulting, knowledge sharing, training, studies, software patentability, etc.
  
  Publication "Computer Software Development & Patenting Computer-Implemented Inventions" released Oct. 2004. Research report; copies distributed to 8 countries. Book available from author, Turku Polytechnic bookshops and online (email: publications@turkuamk.fi, www.turkuamk.fi), or web-bookshop Granum (http://granum.uta.fi/english/kirjanTiedot.php?tuote_id=10720). ISBN 952-5113-79-5. e-book released Nov. 2004 at www.ellibs.com.
  
  2004-2005 worked for a Nordic Innovation Center study "IPR best practise for Nordic SMEs" with Norwegian IPR-specialists Leogriff AS.
  
  Project Management for an Intl research (publ. June 2005, e-book due 2006) "eGovernment services for European SMEs in the field of Innovations", co-ordinated from Denmark, sponsored by IHK Denmark, EVTEK Finland and Siemens. Publishing negotiations.

• Partner (Member of the Board)

  Luonto-Suomi Oy

  (Privately Held; 1-10 employees; Environmental Services industry)

  September 2003 — February 2006 (2 years 6 months)

  Spin-off from Green Innovation. Internet-portal/e-shop. Not actively involved, remained as a co-owner. Sold my shares in February 2006. (Aside Teikit and other positions)

• IT Contract Recruiter

  Templeton & Partners Ltd

  (Information Technology and Services industry)

  2006 — 2006 (less than a year)

  (UK) IT contract recruitment agency. Focusing mostly on CRM / ERP -projects; mainly SAP, but also Oracle, Peoplesoft, Siebel, MS Dynamics, etc.

• Senior Consultant

  Huntress Search

  (Privately Held; Information Technology and Services industry)

  2006 — 2006 (less than a year)

  (UK) Head-hunted to Huntress for a Senior Consultant role Summer 2006. Concentrated in new business development & Partnerships, Service Agreements and PSL building, mostly SAP-related. Family situation changed rapidly, moved urgently back to Finland late 2006!

• Channel Campaign Manager

  Oracle, Denmark

  (Public Company; ORCL; Computer Software industry)

  2005 — 2005 (less than a year)

  SME Channel Campaign Manager for Finland and Sweden - marketing to/with/through partners, such as Tietoenator, Accenture, Logica, Apple, Fujitsu, Sun, Vineyard, Wisetime, CCC, Championchip, etc. Created alone Europe's greatest/best pipeline (for Finland) in FY06's main SME channel campaign. Helping Denmark, Norway, Russia setting up channel campaigns and partner networks. Spent some time at Oracle EU HQ in Ireland. Part of Nordic channel mngmt team. Competitor analysis; SAP, Business Objects, IBM, Microsoft, etc.

• Managing Director (CEO), Partner, Member of the Board

  Kilpitalo Teikit Oy

  (Plastics industry)

  May 1999 — February 2004 (4 years 10 months)

  Company established when 2 companies merged. Co-founder. Production Manager. As Managing Director (2001-) executed full company turn-around. Annual turnover tripled, company returning profitable; negotiating long-term contracts, pricing & delivery changes, personnel changes, subcontractor network re-establishing. Key account and partner management. Subcontracting to Aker Kvaerner Masa-Yards Finland (exclusive), Nokia, Sandvik Tamrock (worldwide exclusive!), MacGregor, TDI (USA), RCCL (USA), Metso, etc., and providing consultants and subcontractors to projects as well as our own people. Import from China and Sweden, export to clients in Italy, USA and China.
  
  Studied at nights while working (B.Sc./IT), left the job to move to Denmark and to write the book about IPRs. Remained as a co-owner until December 2004.
  
  2 recommendations available.

• Project Researcher

  Turku Polytechnic

  (Research industry)

  2004 — 2004 (less than a year)

  Project work on ICT- & biotech-sector IPRs and innovations, funded by Turku Polytechnic & Nokia.
  
  3 recommendations available.

• Partner, Member of the Board, (Project Manager)

  Green Innovation

  (Environmental Services industry)

  2001 — 2003 (2 years)

  Acted as a consultant and innovator, giving advice on business and financial issues as well as created new products and services. Project Manager for "Luomumaa - e-portal" -project. (Aside Teikit Oy)
  
  1 recommendation available.

• Entrepreneur

  Tom Laine t:mi

  (Privately Held; Myself Only; Marketing and Advertising industry)

  2000 — 2002 (2 years)

  Various special services to Kilpitalo Teikit Oy's customers.
  Had to quit for running out of time for all other work and projects. (Aside Teikit Oy)

• Partner (CEO)

  Nuuse Solutions

  (Privately Held; 1-10 employees; Computer Software industry)

  1999 — 2000 (1 year)

  Partner, Member of the Board.
  Pre-seed stage mobile software start-up. Dissolved; too complexed products for mobile devices at that time, key companion backed out. (Aside Teikit Oy)

• Graphic Designer

  Kilpi-Laine Ky

  (Privately Held; 1-10 employees; Plastics industry)

  1998 — 1999 (1 year)

• Stock/shop Manager, etc.

  R. Kanerva Records Ky

  (Consumer Goods industry)

  1988 — 1998 (10 years)

  Various positions through the years; starting from vendor and sales rep., ending as Stock/Shop Manager. Positions included handling import activities, product segment, customer database, managing mail delivery, internet&mail orders, catalogue design, invoicing, advertisement planning and purchasing (international). Positions also included personnel training. At times I acted as no.1.
  The company is the biggest privately owned music & entertainment goods importeur, shop, mail order, internet music portal & record company in Finland.

Tom Laine’s Education

• Jyväskylän yliopisto

  Approbatur , Customer Service & Marketing

• 1) Ingeniörhöjskolen i Köbenhavn, Denmark

  B.Sc. , Software, Information Technology, European Project Semester

  6 months IT studies + took part as a 'Project Manager' in a 6-month International research project about Software Innovations, sponsored by Siemens and EVTEK. Personal evaluation from the project graded 11 (excellent, highest grade).

• 2) Turku Polytechnic Finland

  B.Sc.(Eng.) , Software, Information Technology

  2 years in Finland at night school aside work, 1 year in Denmark at IHK (in Copenhagen). Graduated 1 year faster than normal routine. Bachelor Thesis chosen to be published as a book and e-book, graded 5 (excellent, highest grade, made for/sponsored by Nokia Oyj). Thesis chosen to national Bachelor Thesis-competition finals.

• 3) Turku Commercial College

  Diploma in Business & Administration , Customer Service & Marketing

  Higher degree (Yo-Merkonomi). Graduated in less than one year, normally takes two years.

• 4) Raisio Commercial College

  Diploma in Business & Administration , Sales

  Lower degree (Yo-Merkantti)

• Turku Commercial College, Turku Open University, Helsinki Marketing Institute

  International Trade, Commercial English, History, Maths

  Separate studies from various schools and various fields.

Additional Information

Tom Laine’s Websites:

• Luonto-Suomi Oy
• Green Innovation

Tom Laine’s Interests:

Innovations, travelling, sky-diving, arts, billiards, books, music, movies, IT recruitment, Internet start-ups, networking.

Tom Laine’s Groups:

Mensa,
Insinööriliitto (Engineers' Union Finland), MyLink500

•    Club ex-Oracle.org
•    LION™ Worn with Pride! [Choose wisely ... ] < BEWARE OF COUNTERFEITS >
•    Lean Six Sigma
•    Mensa - International
•    International SAP Projects (12,000+)
•    TopLinked.com (Open Networkers)
•    SAP Plant Maintenance (membership only for direct contact to sapguroo@gmail.com)
•    GroupLinked.com
•    InvitesWelcome.com (Open Networkers)
•    Finnish Speaking SAP Consultants
•    LION500.com (Open Networkers)
•    DUTCH ICT FREELANCERS
•    Clarity Recruitment Group

Tom Laine’s Honors:

Bachelor's thesis published as a book by Turku Polytechnic Publishing co. Oct 2004, and as an e-book Nov 2004 at www.Ellibs.com.
Thesis chosen to join the national bachelor's thesis-contest finals 2005.
2nd publication (collaboration), a research report on "IPR best practise for Nordic SMEs", published March 2005.
3rd publication published June 2005, "eGovernment services for European SMEs in the field of Innovations", Intl research group, Project Management responsibility, planned to be published as an e-book late 2005 at www.ellibs.com.

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