Profile
Vesa Palmu has more than 10 years of experience in working as designer and technical project manager on software projects. Vesa’s areas of expertice include web technologies, content management systems and customer relationship management systems.
Personal Information
Age: 33
Marital Status: Married
Hobbies: Scuba Diving (PADI Instructor), Skiing, Travelling, Aviation (Private Pilot Licence) and Living with two dogs
Language skills: Finnish (native), English (fluent)
Experience
Entrepreneur, Nettao Oy 94-95
Creating early websites and first interactive functionalities using CGI scripts in C and Perl.
Internet Designer, The Works Finland Oy (Icon Medialab) 95-96
Concetrating in web technologies and specialicing in design and implementation of Perl based CGI-solutions.
Head of R&D, Commedia Oy (Talentum Oyj) 96-97
In charge of implementation of new web sites for magazines of Talentum Oyj and co-founding SIME technology award winning web community Duuni.net.
Managing Director, Ufolabs Finland Oy 97-98
Branching out to create more web communities on Perl based technologies as partner and owner of Ufolabs. Managing development team of 5-8 people in software design and implementation. Ufolabs was merged to Satama Interactive when it was founded in 1998.
Development Manager, Satama Interactive Oyj 98-01
Technical project manager and software designer in projects for large Finnish clients. Projects included redesign of nokia.com and redcross.fi with a lot of smaller web sites, intra and extranet projects for various clients. Most client solutions were implemented in Java, Vignette Storyserver, Perl and PHP.
Partner, Tahitibar Innovations Oy 01-05
After Satama went public in beginning of 2001 Vesa co-founded Tahitibar Innovations Oy to focus on emerging open source technologies. Primary focus on CMS projects using number of early open source platforms and in-house software development.
Partner, Moana Oy 05-
Consulting and project management on technology projects. Strong focus on CMS and CRM systems with sizeable research and development efforts. Creating leading expertise in open source CMS technologies with a number of CMS projects. Large scale CRM experience from leading a Siebel implementation project from design to training and support for a client.
Education
University of Helsinki, Computer Sciences 95-06
Oracle University: Siebel 7.8 Core Consultant, Integration Siebel 8.0 Applications
Various courses in open source technologies including Drupal, LAMP stack and Ruby on Rails
Skills
Vesa has strong technical expertise in many areas. Current technical skills include expert knowledge in: internet technologies web application design scaling web applications data migration relational databases integrations Products and languages with expert knowledge in: Languages: PHP, Ruby, Perl, Java Products: Siebel, Drupal, Ruby on Rails, Joomla, Wordpress Databases: MySQL Other: Linux, Subversion, Apache, OS X
