Highly Motivated IT Pro, Program/Product/Project Manager

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Pekka Niikkonen

Address: ***** ***** **** **, *******, WA 98053 – USA

Tel: +1-425-***-****

Email: *****.*********@*******.***

http://www.linkedin.com/in/pekkaniikkonen

Effective program and team leader with experience in creating innovative products with worldwide impact. Skills & Expertise

• Cross-organizational influence & collaboration

• User focused design from concepts to commercial

products

• Technical evangelism to drive industry-wide

influence & adoption

• Product planning & design, program & project

management

• People management

• Cloud technologies

• Device connectivity technologies

• Wireless & other networking technologies

• Account & relation management

• Languages: English (Bilingual proficiency)

Finnish (Native proficiency)

Experience

FinnTek Consulting LLC, Redmond WA

Founder and Principal, Oct 2016 - present

• Provide management consulting, product and program management services to clients. adaQuest, Inc., Bellevue WA

Localization Specialist, June 2016 - Nov 2016

• Provided localization services (English to Finnish) for Xbox at Microsoft Corporation in Redmond, WA. Microsoft Corporation, Redmond WA, June 1992 – April 2015 Principal Program Manager, Operating Systems Group, September 2003 – April 2015

• Redesigned network connectivity experiences that scale across PC, Tablet and Phone in Windows 10.

• Led creation of the new and easy experiences for BYOD and Virtual Private Networks (VPN) for Windows 8.1.

• Simplified Windows 8 experiences for customers to easily connect their Windows devices with peripherals and the Internet. Managed a team of 4 PMs.

• Incubated and motivated teams to deliver next generation network diagnostics, health monitoring & tracing capabilities for Windows, resulting to reduced TCO with reduced support calls and time to resolution, and removing network connectivity issues from top 10 list. Managed a group of 3 PMs.

• Shipped innovative Wireless Provisioning Services for Windows XP. Planned & executed industry engagement with participation from key players in telecom industry worldwide. Technical Evangelist, Windows Hardware Strategy & Business Planning Group, April 1996 – September 2003

• Increased the quality of PC hardware and peripheral designs by working with the industry leaders by doing the following activities:

• Drove design wins in both Windows platform and products from the industry partners, in order to create and maintain a healthy PC ecosystem where both the Windows Ecosystem partners and Microsoft can succeed.

• Managed a group of 8 technical evangelists focusing on several consumer technologies resulting to wide-industry adoption and improved hardware products that are more robust and easier to use by our customers. Page2

Microsoft Corporation, Redmond WA

Account Manager & Systems Engineer, OEM Division, June 1992 - April 1996

• Negotiated license agreements, created & maintained excellent relationships at all levels.

• Provided key evangelism, strategic and product positioning, and technical information for the Original Equipment Manufacturers (OEMs), driving design wins in these accounts.

• Managed business and the technical issues between the OEMs and Microsoft, for all Microsoft products, with high level customer satisfaction.

Certifications

Certified Cloud Architect, Arcitura Education Inc., completed August, 2016. Certified Cloud Professional, Arcitura Education Inc., completed May, 2016. Patents

• Transmitting a communication from a wireless access point indicating hidden networks, US 8,116,287, 2/14/2012

• Activity Identifier Based Tracing and Troubleshooting, US 7,904,757, 3/8/2011

• Detection of Home Network Configuration Problems, US 7,881,231, 2/1/2011

• Method and Apparatus for Performing Wireless Diagnostics and Troubleshooting, US 7,904,757, 2/23/2010

• Transmitting a communication from a wireless access point indicating available networks and their capabilities, US 20,070,025,371, 1/2/2007

Education

ATK Instituutti, Helsinki, Finland

Bachelor of Science Equivalent, Computer Science.

Additional Experience

Ristorante Vino, Renton WA

Co-owner, June 2004 - May 2006

• Ran a successful Italian restaurant in the greater Seattle area with two other partners. According to our customers we provided the best dining experience in the neighborhood. The restaurant continued to do well after my departure.

Esselte Systems Oy & DataTime Oy, Helsinki, Finland Senior Product Specialist & Communications Consultant, June 1988 – May 1992

• Provided consultation, technical sales, training of customers & resellers, integration, and expert services to optimize customers’ use of Microsoft, Novell, 3Com, Cisco and other networking products. Was sought after subject matter expert and managed a team of 4 product specialists.

• Designed, installed, and maintained over 400 computer networks for satisfied customers to improve their processes

& increase productivity.

Bank of Postipankki, Helsinki, Finland

Network & PC Product Specialist, June 1987 – June 1988

• Analyzed and standardized PC and networking products to be used and deployed by different departments of the bank. Installed, developed, integrated, and maintained these systems, and trained the staff to use them. Toimistotaito Oy, Helsinki, Finland

PC Product Specialist, March 1985 – June 1987

• Provided consultation, technical sales, training, integration, and expert services for optimized use of PC hardware and software products with high level of customer satisfaction. Karhu-Titan Oy and Tietovoima Oy, Helsinki, Finland System Analyst & Software Design Engineer, June 1983 – March 1985

• Successfully designed and developed critical line-of-business financial enterprise software systems in mainframe & PC environments.

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