Kimmo Petteri Hoikka
36 Markham Court
GU15 3HJ
Camberley
UK

Contact

+44 77 2628 5067
Kimmo.Hoikka<AT>hotmail.com
www.hoikka.com

Profile

• Age 33 years
• Common law wife, no children
• MSc in Computer Science
• Current employment: Technical team lead, Nokia, contractor
• Hobbies: jogging, gym, football, motorcycling, hiking, programming, reading, movies, hifi

Languages

• English, excellent, presentation capable
• Finnish, native language

Career

2007- Software Engineer, Technical team lead (Contract), Nokia UK

• Coaching a team with all design and development activities, code reviews, unit testing
• Project and release planning, providing work breakdowns and effort estimates for new features
• Architecting, designing and implementing a large multimedia application in C++ for Symbian and S60

2002-2006 Senior Technology Manager, R&D, Digia & SysOpen Digia Finland

• Architectural design, consulting and inspection of applications and frameworks
• Definition of the Digia R&D product and technology roadmaps
• Design, implementation and review of core product components in Java and C++ for Windows, Symbian and Series 60 environments, hands on experience in most S60 and Symbian subsystems, layers and APIs
• Managing the research function and technology roadmapping, reporting directly to CTO and VP of Engineering
• Product development process management and improvement on engineering aspect, developing, documenting and training the best practices throughout the organisation (>200 engineers)
• Workshops and training on various Software Development topics both in house and externally
• Customer consulting on Software Development and Testing for all major S60 licensees
• Successfully filed a patent

2001-2002 EPOC Software Architect, Digia

• Defining and developing the Architecture Design in Digia
• Architectural design of mobile software systems
• Design, implementation and review of Software components in C++ for Symbian and Series 60 environments, hands on experience in most S60 and Symbian subsystems, layers and APIs
• Software process improvement as a member of Software Engineering Group, developing, documenting and training the best practices throughout the organisation (>100 engineers)
• Workshops and training on various Software Development topics both in house and externally
• Customer consulting on Software Development and Testing for all major S60 licensees

2000-2001 EPOC Software Engineer & Team Manager, Digia

• Design and implementation of applications and components in C++ for Symbian OS and Series 60 environments
• Project manager for a few projects
• Team manager for Symbian development team
• Consulted in the design and implementation of several other projects
• Participated actively in the improving of the development process of EPOC applications at Digia

1998-1999 Software Engineer, VerkonMerkki

• Design and implementation of client-side Java applets
• Dynamic HTML content creation from databases
• Server side CGI and HTTP programming with C++
• WWW-based database applications with server-side Java, JavaScript and several databases
• User interface design, product development for the company e-learning solution

1997-1998 Software Engineer, Idisoft

• Server-side CGI and HTTP programming with C++
• Web client Java and JavaScript applications
• Design of several WWW -based information systems
• User interface design and layout design for web pages

Education

• 1995-2001 MSc of Information Science at Lappeenranta University of Technology, majoring on Information Processing
• 23.5.2001 Masters Thesis, Topic: Design Patterns in EPOC software development
• 1990-1993 Upper secondary school at Senior Highschool of Savonlinna
• 1981-1989 Compulsory school

Skills

• C++, excellent, used in daily work for over 10 years
• Java, excellent, used frequently for 10 years, mostly J2ME and J2SE
• Assembly language, good, used every week for over 10 years, 680x0, Intel and Arm
• Symbian OS / EPOC, excellent, used in daily work for 7 years
• Series 60, excellent, used in daily work for 7 years
• UML, excellent, used in daily work for 9 years
• OOAD techniques, Design patterns, excellent, used in daily work for 9 years
• Windows, good, used in daily work, all versions since 3.0 (for over 10 years)
• Mobile Linux, Qtopia and Maemo platforms, familiarized during last years by self stydies and training
• UNIX, good, used in the past for 6 years
• Test driven development, Agile software development, XP, good, used occasionally for past 4 years

Background

• Started programming 1985 with C64 basic and assembly language
• Demo programming 1990 - 1997 with Commodore Amiga in assembly language
• C programming since 1992, C++ since 1995
• Programmed server & client Java from 1996
• Programming experience also in Perl, Pascal, AutoLisp, Logo, JavaScript, VBScript, Visual Basic, etc.
• Studied Design Patterns and Reusability in Software Development from beginning of 2000
• Programmed several applications on Artificial Intelligence, Data Mining and Self Organizing Maps, ability to solve complex problems
  

Publications

• Kimmo Hoikka, Antti Partanen. "Symbian OS ohjelmointi, osa 3: Ohjelmistoarkkitehtuurit", Prosessori 3/2002. www.prosessori.fi
• Smolander, K., K. Hoikka, J. Isokallio, M. Kataikko and T. Mäkelä (2002). "What is Included in Software Architecture? A Case Study in Three Software Organizations", Proceedings of 9th annual IEEE Conference and Workshop on Engineering of Computer-Based Systems, Apr 8-11 2002, Lund, Sweden.

Public presentations

• "Managing Smartphone Development", Merito Forum, Helsinki 2005
• "Digia Quality Kit product presentation", Symbian Partner Event, London 2004
• "Digia Quality Kit product presentation", Series 60 Platform Quarterly Review, London 2004
• "Managed platform development and integration on Symbian OS", Symbian Developer Expo, London 2003
• "Testing mobile software". Software Testing 2001, Helsinki
• "Future Smartphone Application Architectures". 10th Summer School on Telecommunications, Lappeenranta 2001
• "Design Patterns in EPOC". Technology Track in Symbian Developer Expo, London 2000

Conference participation

• The Smartphone Show, London, UK (16th-17th October 2007)
• The Smartphone Show, London, UK (17th-18th October 2006)
• Software Testing 2006, Helsinki, Finland (1st February 2006)
• The Smartphone Show, London, UK (10th-13th October 2005)
• 3GSM World Congress, Cannes, France (14th-17th February 2005)
• Symbian Partner Event, London, UK (13th May 2004)
• 3GSM World Congress, Cannes, France (23rd-26th February 2004)
• Series 60 Platform Quarterly Review, Niza, France (21st-22nd February 2004)
• Symbian Developer Exposium, London, UK (29th-30th April 2003)
• Component Computing 2002, Helsinki, Finland (5th-6th November 2002)
• Software Testing 2001, Helsinki, Finland (5th September 2001)
• 10th Summer School on Telecommunications, Lappeenranta, Finland (6th-10th August 2001)
• UML world, New York, US (11th-14th June 2001)
• Symbian Developer Expo, London, UK (6th-7th November 2000)

Interests

• New technologies in a pioneer spirit
• Software Architectures, Design Patterns and generic solutions
• UML, C++, Java
• Designing and developing defect free software for long lifecycle, understanding the different aspect of the software asset
• Symbian OS, Mobile linux, Windows CE, Mobility, Small memory software
• OOA/D/P methods and principles
• Solving complex problems
• Parsers, Compilers, SW development tools