Curriculum Vitae
| It may be possible to get consulting, training or article work from me with certain amount of planning in advance. | ||
Personal Information |
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| Name | timo.jyrinki | |
| Year of birth | 1978 | |
| Place of residence | Finland / metropolitan area | |
| Contact |
@iki.fi – E-Mail (GPG) @jabber.org – Instant Messaging @ekiga.net – Voice |
Homepage: iki.fi/tjyrinki Blog: losca.blogspot.com µ-blog: identi.ca/tjyrinki |
| Languages | Fluent Finnish and English (good but rusty Swedish, some German, a little Japanese) | |
Education |
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| Helsinki University of Technology | ||
| 2005 - | Postgraduate studies | |
| 1999 - 2004 | M.Sc. in Communications Engineering | |
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Major subject: Cognitive Technology Minor subject: Digital Interactive Media |
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Working Experience |
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| 2005 → | Nomovok. Team Leader & Software Developer. Rich UIs for embedded/mobile devices, browser technologies, software distribution and release management. | |
| 2004 – 2005 | TUT / DMI & NRC. Automatic Speech Recognition and TTS related evaluation work. | |
| 2004 | Nokia / NRC. Master's Thesis, see publications. Multi-modal interaction studies, laboratory and user tests setup. | |
| 2002 – 2003 | TKK / TML. Assistant on Multimedia Tools -course. | |
| Summer 2002 | Nokia / NRC. Development of language identification algorithms with n-grams and neural networks. | |
| Summer 2001 | F-Secure Corporation. Technical Writer Trainee. | |
| 1999 – 2001 | Sonera Corp.. Technical Support Specialist. | |
Activities |
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| 2008 → | Member of Steering Group at COSS – the Finnish Centre for Open Source Solutions (via Nomovok) | |
| 2008 → | Debian developer | |
| 2007 → | Founder of vapaasuomi.fi (”Libre Finland”) | |
| 2005 → | Founder and team contact of Ubuntu Finland | |
| 2004 → | Media contact for the Finnish Wikipedia | |
| 2002 | Chairman of board in Telecommunications and Information Technology Club TLT-Klubi | |
| 1998 | Military service (compulsory in Finland) | |
| 1995 → | I've been hanging around the demoscene community, in a group called Fobia Design | |
Publications |
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| (1) | Perception of Small Device Vibration Characteristics - Test Facilities Setup and Study. Master's Thesis. Helsinki University of Technology, Laboratory of Computational Engineering, Oct 2004. [printable version] | |
| (2) | High Dynamic Range Images. Seminar on computer graphics. Helsinki University of Technology, Telecommunications Software and Multimedia Laboratory, May 2003. |
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Interests |
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| Communities | Debian, demoscene, FSF Europe, GNOME, Openmoko, Ubuntu, Wikipedia | |
| Technologies | GNU/Linux on x86 and ARM platforms, human-computer interaction, multimedia, devices for impaired senses, localization, LaTeX, embedded devices, wiki technologies and content | |
| Other | Cats, music, nature, sauna, speculative fiction | |