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Joonas Savolainen

Curriculum Vitae

PERSONAL DETAILS

Full name Lasse Joonas Savolainen
Date & place of birth 19 September 1980 Helsinki, Finland
Nationality Finnish
Marital status Single, engaged
Place of residence Helsinki


EDUCATION

1999-2003

Lahti University of Applied Sciences, Bachelor of Business Administration (BBA) in Computing (Application Development).

Final thesis on "MySQL vs. PostgreSQL - Selecting a database for PHP applications".

2 April 2002 - 13 April 2002 International Summer School: Application development on the Internet. Manchester, England.
1999 Matriculation Examination (Finnish equivalent of A-level examinations). Overall Eximia papers (second highest grade) with general mathematics being Laudatur (highest grade).
1996-1999 High School in Iitti, Finland
1987-1996 Lower & upper comprehensive school in Iitti, Finland


SKILLS


WORK EXPERIENCE

Work title Web Developer
Employer Paf (Gaming company)
Period March 2010 - Present
Work description Working mostly with SDL Tridion and OpenCMS content management systems. Some of the techniques used in the work include XHTML, CSS, JavaScript, C# / .NET, XML, XSLT, etc.

Paf is an international company with almost 20 different nationalities amongst the employees and English is the official company language, which is used in all internal communication, documentation and most of the meetings.

Work title Senior Web Developer
Employer Endero Oy (#1 largest digital agency in Finland)
Period April 2007 - March 2010
Work description Developing and maintaining dynamic web sites and intranets with various content management systems, mostly on various Microsoft-based platforms and CMS systems such as Sharepoint and NAS 5 (a .NET based CMS by Systems Garden Oy), but also LAMP-based systems such as Typo3.

Also leading the Site Building virtual team, and so spreading the happy message of things like web standards to other web developers in our company.

Work title Owner / Web Developer / Consultant
Employer Self-employed
Period March 2009 - Present
Work description Some on-the-side web development projects and consultancy using my own company name.

Work title Systems Specialist
Employer TDC Song Oy
Period August 2006 - April 2007
Work description Developing and maintaining various business support systems with high amounts of data and integration with other systems. Mostly PHP/PostgreSQL and front-end development work.

Work title Web Developer
Employer Helsingin Sähköinen Toimisto Oy
Period December 2004 - July 2006
Work description Developing and maintaining dynamic and static websites for a large number of customers.

Work title Systems Developer
Employer Nevicom Oy
Period June 2002 - July 2003
Work description Design and development of several database-driven websites and products.

In addition to my official work experience, I have created web sites as side projects in my free time ever since high school (probably around 1998).

Also, I was selected and trained as a Military Police during nine months of mandatory military service (from 2003 to 2004).


CERTIFICATIONS

70-630 Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007, Configuring
70-541 Microsoft Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 - Application Development


AWARDS

Kontakti 2009 competition Honors for "VR Aikaa Itselle" campaign


LANGUAGES

Finnish Native language
English Fluent written & spoken
Swedish Working knowledge
German Some basics


REFEREES AND RECOMMENDATIONS

Please ask for contact information of people who can be contacted to give me a reference. Some recommendations can also be found from my LinkedIn profile.


OTHER INTERESTS

Singing, songwriting, fishing, snooker/pool. Living.