Personal details
Name: Timo Varis
Location: Southwest Finland
Contact: Preferably via LinkedIn
Summary
Experienced itc-professional and supervisor with 20+ years of experience in various positions. Currently working as a advisory consultant in Knowit Solutions.
During my career in software development, I have used various different technologies and design patterns, mostly in OO paradigm. In project management and product owner roles I have used both waterfall and agile methodologies.
My skill set includes, but is not limited to:
- Requirements analysis
- API designing
- Concepting microservices based architectures (yes, I mean death star -diagrams)
- Consultancy (e.g. document management process, platform economy, integrations etc.)
- Leading multicultural development teams
- Product portfolio and roadmap management
My experience in software development industry is mostly based in following “business domains”:
- records- and documents management
- quality management
- customer relationship management systems
- real estate property management systems
Experience
Affecto Oy, 06/2000 – 08/2003
Financial Solutions Systems Analyst
Business Objects and Informatica consultancy, programming
Festum Software Oy, 08/2003 – 12/2011
Consultant and partner
Quality management systems, records management systems, programming, project
management.
Aune Consulting 11/2008 – 06/2011
Consultant, freelancer
Software development, project management, managing offshored teams
Hakosalo Software Oy, 01/2012 – 8/2015
Technical director, member of board
Technical leadership, product ownership, HR, managing outsourced resources
Anders Innovations Oy, 08/2015 – 2/2016
Technical project manager
Requirement analysis, project management, team management
Agenteq Solutions Oy, 02/2016 – 6/2018 (merged to Visma in 6/2018)
Product manager (API, e-services)
Product management, roadmap management, service design, large scale integration projects
Visma Tampuuri Oy, 6/2018 - 8/2022
Product manager (API, e-services)
Product management, roadmap management, service design, large scale integration projects
Knowit Solutions Oy, 8/2022 - present day
Advisory Consultant
Leading and managing projects and software lifecycle, providing advisory expertise in software development
Education
Satakunta University of Applied Sciences (1998 - 2001)
BBA/Tradenomi
information science
Tampere University of Applied Sciences (2009 - 2013)
50 + european study credits
Information science
Seppo Hofren Consultancy (2012-2013)
General management education
Turku University of Applied Sciences (2018-2019)
Studies in information security
Satakunta University of Applied Sciences (2016 - )
MBA/Tradenomi, ylempi amk
Information science
not graduated
Several years of “random university level studies”, including
- Psychology
- Theology (Yes I know, talking about REALLY interdiciplinary studies here)
- Pedagogy
- Information science