Sep 2022 – Dec 2024 · 2 yrs 3 mos

• Having spent months successfully lobbying the Business Platform for process changes, I decided the most effective next step was to join them. If you can't win them, join them, right?
• Strategic Liaison: My greatest asset was that I spoke fluent "engineer." I could translate the real-world needs of the delivery teams into the structured language of the platform because I had literally just walked out of their village.
• I collaborated daily with scrum teams, planning epics and prioritizing user stories from within the system.

Mar 2022 – Jul 2025 · 3 yrs 4 mos

• I was trying to introduce a self-driving car into a horse-and-buggy parade. (Read: My objective was to automate processes and standardize tools in an ecosystem that revered the waterfall methodology.)
• My Side Hustle: Network Leader for the Young Professionals

Jun 2021 – Mar 2022 · 9 mos

• I was responsible for guiding 7 jumbo jets (enterprise projects) through 3,000-point flight plans (test steps), all while coordinating 150+ pilots (key users), many of whom were flying these planes for the first time. My job was to talk them through the turbulence (bugs) and ensure they all landed safely. I even ran the flight simulator (training sessions) to prepare them.
• My ability to prevent mid-air collisions and reduce tarmac delays earned me an offer for a permanent seat in the control tower. I politely declined. I concluded that while I was an excellent controller, I'd rather be building the planes than living with the stress of landing them.

Mar 2021 – Jun 2021 · 3 mos

• Before you get a four-year run on the main stage at a place like Nokia, you have to nail the audition. This was mine.
• For four months, I was the ultimate backstage manager. I wasn't just allocating resources; I was in charge of "project readiness planning." This is a polite term for professionally poking various departments with a digital stick until they confirmed they were, in fact, ready to do the job they were hired for. It was a masterclass in the art of polite persistence.

Dec 2019 – Nov 2020 · 11 mos · Helsinki, Uusimaa, Finland

• I joined my first corporate role in December 2019, which, in retrospect, was like booking a serene cruise on the Titanic.
• My job was to make sure the vehicle was perfect for the big job. I mapped the routes (harmonized processes across 9 countries), customized the tech (built dashboards), and mastered the comms system (became the PPM tool owner). I did it so fast the crew didn't believe the engine could run that hot.
• Then Covid decided to become an Iceberg to the remote work concept I was so fond of. As a cost-saving measure in the face of the apocalypse, my contract was not extended. My master's thesis sunk to the ocean floor.
• It was exactly like being broken up with by your first love because she couldn't afford you. A brutal, but valuable, lesson in corporate romance.

Jul 2019 – Mar 2021 · 1 yr 8 mos · Helsinki Area, Finland

• I provided elite, on-demand technical support across Finland. The business model was simple: a client had a problem that was too simple for them to believe was the actual problem, so they'd pay me to travel for hours to confirm it for them.
• Exhibit A: Flew to Lapland. Found a secret truck testing hangar. Found their faulty access point. Turned it off and on again.
• Exhibit B: Drove to Lahti. Found the device. Found the 48-second YouTube tutorial on how to change its battery. Changed the battery.
• Exhibit C: Troubleshot a dead hospital server. Found a wire tickling a fan. Moved the wire.
• My key takeaway: I wasn't just fixing machines. I was fixing a client's disbelief that the solution could possibly be that simple.

Oct 2018 – Jul 2019 · 9 mos

• My job was to be the University of Jyväskylä's #1 influencer. My niche: convincing people to move to a city they couldn't pronounce for an experience they'd never forget.
• I was part content creator, part international student therapist. One day I'd be crafting an Instagram story that made a Tuesday lecture look like a TED talk, and the next I'd be in DMs reassuring a future student from Brazil that, yes, the sun does eventually come back in the spring.
• The stats say I doubled social media engagement, but the real KPI was the number of students I helped guide from "I'm interested" to "I'm here." I was rewarded with a JYU t-shirt, which I'm wearing as I type this. The influence was real, and apparently, it's permanent.

Feb 2017 – Present · 9 yrs 3 mos

• For our family-owned network of schools and a senior care home in Nepal, I hold an unofficial but critical title: the Idea Smuggler.
• My luggage is always overweight on trips to Nepal, but not with things. I smuggle in concepts. A recruitment strategy I admired in Europe, a compensation plan from a Finnish company, a color scheme I saw on a building in Porvoo.
• From my remote post, I act as the head of propaganda for the boring stuff: strategy, marketing, communications. But my real job is to be the bridge, ensuring that the best ideas I encounter on my global travels find a home where they can do the most good.
• It's the most rewarding act of intellectual piracy I've ever committed.

Jun 2016 – Dec 2019 · 3 yrs 6 mos · Espoo

• On paper, I was a part-time personal assistant helping with personal, tech and finances while I finished my Master's. In practice, I was a one-man venture capital firm operating from a laptop.
• Persuaded my employer to buy a significant stake in Tesla when it was still considered a quirky car company.
• Advised a full portfolio pivot into environmental stocks the moment it was clear the White House was about to change its climate policy. The ROI was... substantial.
• Managed hiring, onboarding, and scheduling.
• I apparently negotiated a lifelong contract, as I still serve as the on-call emergency technician and tax advisor. (I should probably start invoicing).
• The annual trips to the summer cottage with my family were the best compensation package I've ever had.

May 2016 – Nov 2016 · 6 mos

• My mission: to write my Bachelor's thesis by conducting a rigorous market analysis for a Seattle-based app company. From a desk in Finland.
• I produced a document of profound insight, meticulously detailing ROI strategies for a city I had never set foot in. To celebrate its completion, I flew to the United States for the first time.
• Naturally, I conducted my first-ever, in-person American market analysis... on the pizza-per-capita and traffic patterns of New York City.
• The thesis taught me about allocating resources; the trip taught me about priorities.

May 2012 – Sep 2018 · 6 yrs 4 mos

• For six years, I was the primary delivery vehicle for a high-volume, paper-based information platform. Operating hours: 02:00 to sunrise. My core competency was navigating the Helsinki metropolitan area when only foxes and other existential thinkers were awake.
• Key Skills: Advanced winter warfare logistics, interpreting the Finnish weather forecast as a binding legal threat, and developing a profound philosophical relationship with the 12:00 AM alarm.
• Asset Management: Personally beta-tested the point at which a standard hatchback's capabilities diverge from a snowdrift's embrace. This led to a strategic fleet upgrade to a company van.
• Exit Strategy: I executed a strategic departure when my compensation model was optimized to more closely resemble a rounding error.
• Saw the company just IPO'd on NASDAQ this week. I consider my six years of sleep deprivation a significant, if uncredited, angel investment.

Dec 2011 – Jul 2019 · 7 yrs 7 mos

• For nearly eight years, I had the power to make thousands of people cheer or scream with a single tap of my thumb. You see that "Dangerous Attack" graphic on your betting app? I was the one who decided if it was truly dangerous.
• Omniscience: I was the singular source of truth, translating the chaotic poetry of a live football match into the cold, hard binary that fuels the global betting market.
• Omnipresence: My domain was every stadium in Finland, from the manicured lawns of the HJK to the windswept pitches of Seinäjoki. My throne was whatever seat had the best signal.
• The Prime Mover: I wasn't watching the game; I was the game's digital pulse. That corner kick didn't officially exist until I said it did.
• It was the coolest job in the world: I got paid to travel and watch sports. My only KPI was reality, and my only tool was a smartphone. And no, I couldn't tell you who was going to win.

Jan 2011 – Aug 2011 · 7 mos · Kathmandu

• My role was to provide remote support to a US company. It turned out the most critical support I provided was covering B-site on Dust II during our "mandatory" office-wide morning CS matches.
• When the company's business model pivoted from "tactical shooter" to "mind-numbing data entry," the daily headshots-to-spreadsheets transition became untenable. I logged off for the last time and booked a flight to Finland.

Dec 2010 – Jan 2011 · 1 mo

• You know those sales guys who'd call from a completely different time zone to pitch you a website for a surprisingly low price?
• Yep. That was me.
• Essentially, I was selling the internet before "add to cart" was a universal language. It was a crash course in navigating time zones, mastering the art of the cold open, and learning that genuine enthusiasm can bridge any ocean. It’s where I learned to turn skepticism into a signature.