CV

A brief look into my work history.

Current positions

Oct 2021 -

Showell

Chief Design Officer

Leading the development of Showell's brand and user experience across all digital touch points. Designing and developing a multi-platform design system. Ramping up a design team.

1998 -

Outrospective

Owner & entrepreneur

Working with international clientele ranging from start-ups to corporations as a freelance full-stack designer / front end developer. Concept creation, UI/UX design, prototyping, design systems development. Currently mostly working with Figma, React, Typescript, Tailwind, NextJS + design systems.

Past positions

Oct 2020 - Oct 2021

Futurice

Lead Designer

Working as a design lead / consultant for Finland's largest media house in a B2B sales channel development project.

Mar 2019 - Aug 2020

Vincit

Design Director

Leading a team of 20+ designers in Helsinki together with another design director. Responsible for driving design sales, account management, project advisory, recruitment, and team building. Sustainable Digitalisation business development (www.planetcentricdesign.com) in Finland & Europe. Developing Planet Centric Design as a key part of Vincit's strategic offering.

Apr 2017 - Feb 2019

New Things Co

Chief Design Officer

Futures thinking & foresight, business & service design, design recruitment, new business generation, promoting design thinking practices. Spinoff consulting company of Reaktor.

Sep 2015 - Apr 2017

Hubchat

Head of Design

Leading a cross-disciplinary team of design thinkers at Hubchat, a startup building a communication tool for communities. Nurturing & promoting design thinking in company's practices. Facilitating workshops and doing some hands-on design work too.

Aug 2014 - Sep 2015

Futurice

Senior Service Designer

I worked as the design lead for the biggest news media in Finland. During this time, their web site was re-designed into responsive format and UX of native apps was improved.

Nov 2011 - Jun 2014

Valu Digital

UX/UI Designer

Visual design + prototyping with HTML5, CSS, Javascript + various cutting edge frameworks (Compass, Foundation, Bootstrap) for web- and mobile apps and large web sites. UX consulting, service design & business design. Lead designer for showell.com, a product geared for sales people.

Apr 2011 - Nov 2011

Valu Digital

Designer / Developer

Design and implementation of Zend Framework and Magento -based e-commerce solutions. Custom Magento module development. User interface prototyping, design and implementation.

Apr 2010 - Apr 2011

Digia

Interaction Designer

Development, design and testing of various mobile and web application interfaces. Responsibilities included visual design, usability testing, interaction design, heuristic evaluation, and usability testing management / tutoring, and practical front end development work.

Jan 2003 - Apr 2010

University of Jyväskylä

Web developer & UX/UI designer

Design and implementation of several large CMS/publication systems from scratch. Responsibilities included consultation, project management, concept planning, interaction design, information architecture, visual design, usability evaluation & testing, complete server- and client-side implementation, system maintenance.