Personal information

Janne Juhani Toivola
Married, born on the 27th of July 1981

Areas of interest

Concept and UI design, user-centred design, web design, web analytics and marketing, search engine optimization, agile project management

Work experience

Sininen Meteoriitti Oy (5/10-)
Consultant. Concept design and specification of various customer web sites, project management and web analytics consultancy.

Loitsu.net (sole proprietorship) (9/03-)
Web designer, Owner. Design and implementation of multiple web sites for small and medium sized companies in Finland and abroad.

Sininen Meteoriitti Oy (9/09-4/10)
Project Manager. Managing various customer web site projects. Concept and UI design. Participating in the development of Meteor CMS from the perspective of UI and concept design.

Sininen Meteoriitti Oy (9/07-9/09)
Web designer. Designing and implementing various customer web sites with Meteor CMS in ASP.NET environment. Participating in the development of Meteor CMS and other internal development projects.

TeliaSonera (8/06-4/07)
Concept designer/Project manager. Designing an advanced service concept offering for the R&D department. IDBM industry project in a multi-lingual student group.

HeyDay Entertainment (6/05-12/05)
Technical designer. Technical design and implementation of several projects for small to medium sized Finnish companies.

TKK / Innovation Management Institute (5/03-8/05)
Research assistant. Assisting in various innovation research projects. Designing and maintaining the research institute's web site.

Beta Audiovisual (8/00-1/02)
Editor of a daily-distributed newsletter (part-time job) and designing the company's web site.

Beta Audiovisual (6/98-8/98)
Video production assistant. Assisting in various video production projects.

Thomeko, Martela, Rakennus Marttinen (99, 00 and 02)
Factory and construction jobs during the summers.

Education

M.Sc. (Tech.) Information Networks degree program
Helsinki University of Technology 2000-2009
Thesis: Luotain - Human-centered method for website design
Major subject: Content production
Minor subject: International Design Business Management IDBM

Helsinki School of Economics HSE 2006-2007
International Design Business Management IDBM program

University of Art and Design Helsinki 2006-2007
International Design Business Management IDBM program

Upper secondary school graduate 2000, Nummelan lukio

Web design skills

Site building: HTML+CSS+Javascript, ASP.NET, SQL
Content management systems: Meteor, Plone, Sharepoint, Wordpress
Web analytics: Google Analytics Individual Qualification certification, 3/2010
Agile software development: Certified Scrum Product Owner
Graphics, UI design: Photoshop, Flash, Freehand, Illustrator, Balsamiq Mockups
Development (basic level): C#, J2SE, PHP, Python

Language skills

Finnish (native), English (fluent), Swedish (fair)

Publications

Berg P., Nordlund H., Pihlajamaa J., Seppälä J., Toivola J., Poskela J. 2005. Customer oriented innovation management. Submitted to the review process of International Journal of Technology Management.

Berg P., Nordlund H., Pihlajamaa J., Seppälä J., Toivola J., Poskela J. 2004. Customer oriented innovation management - Description of a database and benchmarking analysis from the customer viewpoint. ISPIM 2004 Conference. Oslo, Norway.

Positions held

The Polytech Choir
Board Member: Bass 1 Representative (2010), Web master (2007), Board member: PR secretary (2003), Board member: Fuksikeisari (2002)

Lukkari (song leader)
The Student Union of Helsinki University of Technology TKY (2005), The Polytech Choir (2004-2006, 2008), Information networks’ guild Athene (2003-2005), Automation and System Technology’s guild AS (2002)

Hobbies

Choral singing (The Polytech Choir), photography, scuba diving, gym, playing the piano (a degree in Länsi-Uusimaa music school)