Markus Aurala

Government Agency; 201-500 employees; Gambling & Casinos industry

May 2008 – April 2009 (1 year)

I manage four agile product development teams which develop and integrate components for the company's B2C Internet offering.

I moved to this position from EGET which was acquired by Paf in May 2008.

Privately Held; 51-200 employees; Information Technology and Services industry

October 2007 – April 2008 (7 months)

I am a certified ScrumMaster for a team of highly skilled agile J2EE developers.

I also manage a cross-enterprise CRM software integration project.

I moved to this position from WinOne which is a wholly owned subsidiary of EGET.

Privately Held; 1-10 employees; Wireless industry

September 2006 – October 2007 (1 year 2 months)

In this position I lead the in-house development team, supervise the external development and testing/porting teams. I also participate in the management team meetings and pre-sales activities.

Privately Held; 1-10 employees; Wireless industry

December 2005 – August 2006 (9 months)

My current job is to design and implement mobile money games (J2ME / Flash Lite), related back-end systems (OTA downloads, CRM tools, billing, etc) and B2C sites.

Educational Institution; 5001-10,000 employees; Research industry

August 2001 – December 2005 (4 years 5 months)

I am the technical coordinator of Luomus project (http://www.luomus.fi) which aims at creating a state-of-art database storage and mining tools, including a national taxonomic database service and new online end-user interfaces for a variety of biodiversity monitoring and query purposes.
My responsibilities include designing the software, taking part in the implementation and participating in the workgroups of several international organizations (GBIF, BioCASE, Eurocat, ENBI, TDWG).

June 2001 – October 2005 (4 years 5 months)

Maia Solutions Ltd. (http://www.maiasolutions.com) develops turn-key mobile solutions. The company belongs to Interaktivum Group (http://www.interaktivum.fi).

Maia Solutions Ltd. was merged with another Finnish SMS-TV developer, Fun2Phone, in 2005. The name of the new company is Motion Avenue International (http://www.motionavenue.com) and I'm an owner in this company as well.

The company operates in more than 30 countries around Europe, Asia, the Middle East and the Americas, and has created an impressive portfolio of mobile solutions, including several "firsts" (such as the first interactive SMS-TV campaign in mainland China).

Wearing several hats (founder, CTO, managing director, etc) at the same time, my job description is not easily explained, but my expertise is in understanding what our customers and partners want and making it happen.

December 1999 – June 2001 (1 year 7 months)

Miscellaneous jobs (from IT infrastructure management to SMS/WAP service programming).

Public Company; 10,001+ employees; Retail industry

1996 – 1998 (2 years)

Privately Held; 11-50 employees; Information Technology and Services industry

1996 – 1998 (2 years)

August 1994 – August 1995 (1 year 1 month)