CV

Jake Laisi, born in 1976, Karhula (Kotka), Finland, living in Vantaa, Finland

A well-seasoned architect for digital marketing technology, end to end, with hands-on, can-do attitude, entrepreneur-like mindset and enterprise-grade experience.

EDUCATION

  • 06/1995 Senior High School (Karhula), graduate (M)
  • 09/1997 – University of Jyväskylä, Department of Information Technology, Computer science as major, economics (corporate strategies and marketing) as minor subjects.

WORKING EXPERIENCE

  • 02/2018 - current, Gravito Ltd, co-founder, CTO, technology strategist
  • 12/2017 - current, Second Thought Ltd, co-founder, CTO, technology strategist
  • 07/2016 - current, Millisecond Digital, co-founder, CTO, R&D architect
  • 07/2015 - 06/2016, Microsoft, Senior Program Manager, engineering, digital marketing
  • 02/2015 - 06/2015, Microsoft, Principal IT Enterprise Architect, digital marketing
  • 04/2014 - 02/2015 ,Microsoft, Senior Capability Architect, BI/Analytics, Marketing Capability
  • 08/2013 - 04/2014, Nokia Corporation, Senior Capability Architect, Sales & Marketing Insight
  • 03/2013 - 07/2013, Nokia Corporation, Process Manager, Sales & Marketing Insight
  • 11/2012 - 02/2013, Nokia Corporation, Capability Architect, Sales & Marketing Insight
  • 01/2012 - 10/2012, Nokia Corporation, Senior Systems Analyst, Online Analytics & Reporting
  • 01/2008 - 12/2011, Nokia Corporation, IT manager, Web Analytics
  • 01/2006 - 12/2007, Nokia Corporation, Configuration Manager, PKI
  • 01/2003 - 12/2005, Nokia Corporation, Test Manager, Portal Platforms + PKI
  • 11/2001 - 12/2002, Nokia Corporation, System specialist, e-business Services
  • 06/1999 – 11/2001, Law Office Marja-Liisa Järvinen Oy, IT consultant, IT systems renovation, personnel trainings, development of electrical library and digital communication channels, project co-operation with Tekes, The Finnish Bar Association (Asianajajaliitto) and West Finland Alliance.
  • 09/2000 – current, Palasokeri.com, Editor in chief, technology development and editorial for one of the largest independent underground music related community in Finland.
  • 05/1999 – 11/2001, PC-SuperStore Oy, Jyväskylä, computer sales representative, computer retails sales for consumers and corporations, IT systems configurations and setups, marketing material production
  • 09/1997 – current, Freelancer, web development for various customers, portfolio of around 30 different web sites accessible via personal web page.
  • 01/1996 – 11/1996, Military service, secondary telecommunications squad leader, responsible of maintaining messaging based military telecommunications system.
  • 05/1993 – 08/1998, Visi Systems Oy, Kotka, mechanic/electrician, several employment periods (total ~ two years) consisting of manufacturing and installation of industry grade process automation, access control and surveillance systems.

SPECIAL EXPERTISE

  • Adobe Marketing cloud (Sitecatalyst/Analytics, Survey, Discover, T&T, Tag Manager, Genesis)
  • Tag management and frontend data layer (Tealium, Ensighten, Google)
  • Doubleclick (DFA), Atlas, Bluekai
  • Google Analytics, AdWords, AdSense
  • Piwik and various other custom analytics tools
  • Big Data and noSQL (Hadoop, Hive, Pig, Spark, MongoDB, Splunk, Sumologic)
  • Cloud infra (AWS, Azure)
  • IT, infra & vendor management
  • LAMP stack
  • iPlanet, Weblogic, Oracle
  • Identity and Access Management
  • PKI services
  • Platform and data architecture
  • Software testing and test management
  • EA analysis (e.g Troux)
  • CMS

LANGUAGES

  • Finnish native
  • English fluent
  • Swedish average (rechargeable)
  • German average (rechargeable)
  • Powerpoint fluent

POSITIONS OF TRUST

  • 03/2012 – 04/2014    Nokia/NSN Helsinki Area Hobby Clubs, Music club board member
  • 01/2009 – 01/2010    As Oy Melasato, Executive board member
  • 09/1999 – 08/2000    Dumppi ry, vice chairman & excursions & corporate visits rep
  • 09/1998 – 08/1999    Dumppi ry (student association), excursions & corporate visits

OTHER SIGNIFICANT OUTPUT

  • Two full length self financed documentary movies about Finnish Rock phenomenon Rockstarba.
  • Several short films consisting of concert videos, documents (e.g. for Kotka Yachting Club) and artist portraits.

SPARE TIME ACTIVITIES

Drums, producing music in home studio, sailing and boat renovation, music & films, traveling, making (writing, directing, filming, recording and editing) independent films, photography etc.

REFERENCES

Would be provided upon request per expertise and experience area.