Profile
Vesa Palmu has over 15 years of experience in working as designer and project manager on techinical 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 co-founder of Ufolabs. Created a community software that was later sold to Fujitsu and become a product called Netcommunity that was sold to hundreds of corporate customers. 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
Co-founder and manager of early technology team. A lot of recruiting new talent, process development and client work. Technical project manager and software designer in projects for large Finnish and international clients. Customer 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, ColdFusion, 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. Tahitibar had many innovative ideas and limited success with open source products, but open source projects weren’t quite ready for enterprise market back then.
Partner, Moana Oy 05-
Consulting, project management, evaluation and outsourced CTO services for customers. Strong focus on CMS and CRM systems with sizeable research and development efforts. Building 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. More and more focus shifting to Drupal projects after numerous completed CMS evaluations for different clients.
CEO, Mearra S.A.R.L 10-
International technology solution provider with focus on Drupal based systems. Vesa is a co-founder and CEO of the company responsible for strategy, major clients and new country offices.
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 expertise in many areas. Current technical skills include expert knowledge in:
- software project management
- internet technologies
- large scale web application design
- data migration
Products with expert knowledge in include:
- Drupal, PHP, MySQL, Apache, Memcached, Varnish, Linux, Perl, Siebel, Ruby on Rails, Joomla, Wordpress, Subversion, OS X and a large number of other products
