1/3 Curriculum Vitae Risto Kivipuro
Risto Kivipuro Rentukkapolku 1 B 13 37120 Nokia, Finland Mobile: +358 500 502276 Email: [email protected]
PERSONAL DATA
Name Risto Juhani Kivipuro Birth date 25.5.1954 Nationality Finnish Marital status Married, 2 adult children, 2 grandchildren
EDUCATION
September 1973 - May 1979 Master of Science, Computer Science University of Tampere, Finland
January 1997 – October 1997 University of Tampere Business training course “Joko XV” ,
Compass, Program to develop leadership and managerial competence 2002 and skills of implementing Nokia Mobile Phones strategy
2002 Meet the Challenge, Program for creating leaders who lead the organizational future changes and drive the transformation of the industry.
WORK HISTORY
Co-Founder, Piceasoft role coaching, partnerships, channel development and Chairman of Board, business models.
VP Business Development, Piceasoft www.piceasoft.com
Co-Founder Jämi147 Jämi147 role mentoring.
www.jami147.fi
Coach for Lujakunto Lujakunto was founded 2001 and is owned by my son Lauri Kivipuro. www.lujakunto.fi Coached and helped especially in Web store development.
2012 - current
Risto Kivipuro Mobile +358 500 502276 Rentukkapolku 1 B 13 E-Mail [email protected] 37129 Nokia FINLAND
2/3 Curriculum Vitae Risto Kivipuro
Heading product teams located in Tampere, Boston and Cluj to create Director, PC Software PC and Mac software for Nokia devices
Solutions, Nokia As a result: . Nokia PC Suite integrated with all new Nokia devices . Nokia Ovi Suite created for high end Nokia devices and for Nokia Nokia Business Units service access from Desktop 2004 - 2012 . Adobe Photoshop Album integrated with Nokia devices and distributed in Nokia product packages . Philips Home device SLA5520 integrated with Nseries devices
Director, Platform and Heading the product team to create digital content delivery platforms for Solution Creation Nokia.
Member of Nmedia management team lead by Ms Tarja Pääkkönen
Nokia MUltimedia Business Unit As a result: 1999 - 2004 . Developed and deployed digital services for Club Nokia, first Nokia digital shop o Creation of Music, Games and Cartoons channels o Creation of ecommerce enablers, like billing (operator billing, and credit card) and digital content management system
General Manager Transfer of TeamWARE Tampere Site to Nokia Wireless Data. Organising the first set up of the Symbian factory – line organisation and Nokia Mobile Phones projects. 1999
Director, Groupware TeamWARE Group Tampere site manager. Development and Site Responsible of developing ICL`s TeamOffice groupware suite and Manager managing the multisided organisation of 200 people located in Tampere, Helsinki and Tokyo area. ICL, International Computer Limited TeamOffice X.400 eMail and Group Calendar systems were the January 1997 TeamWARE Group Oy first ones implemented using client-server architecture. was established (owned by Fujitsu), and continued ICL`s TeamWARE The system with replicated directory system was 3-4 years ahead operation in Europe of the completion.
(In May 1999 the TeamWARE Group Tampere site was acquired by Nokia Fujitsu selected TeamOffce as its next generation office application – and all personnel moved to 1996 TeamOffice was the market leader in Japan. NMP/Wireless Data unit)
1991 - 1999
Project Manager Responsible of specifying and implementing client – server groupware application suite for Nokia. The applications included X.400 eMail and Nokia Information Systems / Document Management System. The architecture scaled from Softplan Oy workgroups to corporate systems (50 – 15.000 users). The work included consultancy in Finland and Sweden. The Swedish government installed
1987-1991 1988 a system having 450 nodes for 15.000 users.
Risto Kivipuro Mobile +358 500 502276 Rentukkapolku 1 B 13 E-Mail [email protected] 37129 Nokia FINLAND
3/3 Curriculum Vitae Risto Kivipuro
Various positions Various positions in different SW product development and management areas, gaining experience e.g. in: Nokia Data Oy / Softplan Oy Tampere - Relational database systems - Computer architecture and instruction set (Nokia MPS 10) 1980 - 1987 - Compiler construction for digital computers (Ada language and tools) - Collaboration with technology vendors (Dansk Datamatic Center) - Software technical design (object oriented model) - Programming (Ada, C, assembler) - Managing a software project (Ada compiler for MPS 10)
CONFIDENTIAL POSTS AND ACADEMIC
Nokia member in Media Tampere Board 2000-2001 Several lectures in Tampere Technical University on 90`s about software engineering and creating software products
PATENTS
A method for providing contents for a wireless communication device Patent granted 6/2004 (FI), US application in process
LANGUAGE SKILLS
Finnish native English fluent Swedish intermediate German basics
INTERESTS
Motor cycling, home multimedia, fishing, building, gardening
Risto Kivipuro Mobile +358 500 502276 Rentukkapolku 1 B 13 E-Mail [email protected] 37129 Nokia FINLAND