During 1989 – 2000 I worked at Nokia Networks, Helsinki region, Finland

• R&D Line Manager, responsible for developing several new telecom infrastructure products at Nokia Networks and managing a group of hardware engineers for several years.
• Built and ramped-up a new hardware engineering organisation from scratch during 1996 to 1999.
• R&D Project manager & chief designer for hardware, software and system development of several Nokia products, such as: WCDMA (3G) base-station signal processing unit, ATM-based DSLAM, ATM Integrated Access Device (IAD), DSL modems, all of these involving several ASIC designs.
• Hardware engineer in several telecom system R&D projects: analogue and digital circuitry, CPU and DSP subsystems, ASIC & FPGA designs.
• Embedded software engineer in several telecom system R&D projects: Digital Signal Processing (DSP) software for high-speed modems in assembly language, user interface & node control software in C.
• Did my Master’s Thesis for the degree of M.SC. EE, aka “Diploma Engineer” at the Helsinki University of Technology. The university was later restricted and is to today called the Aalto University.

Project Manager

Radio Access R&D, WCDMA base station development

• Nokia WCDMA (3G) Digital Baseband Processing Unit, contained ASICs and DSPs

Section Manager

Access Networks R&D, HW competence center

• ATM-based IAD and DSLAM, contained ASICs, FPGAs, CPUs
• Line manager for a team of 20 HW engineers

Development Engineer

Nokia Data Communications, Modem R&D

• Developed complete xDSL wireline modem products, including transmission DSP algorithms and DSP microcode, OAM software by C.
• Developed a platform ASIC for modems.

Master Thesis, 1989 – 1990

Development of an emulator card for a signal processor.

Link to my M.Sc. Thesis at Aalto University