Curriculum Vitae
Dr. Tapani Savolainen
born -54, married
Education
Doctor of Technology -90, Helsinki University of Technology (HUT), Doctor's thesis: "Software Integration Technologies in Industrial Applications"
Licentiate of Technology, -87 HUT, Licentiate's thesis: "Software Technologies in Computer Integrated Manufacturing", main subject of studies: Computer Science, second subject of studies: Digital Techniques.
MSc (Eng.) -78, HUT, Department of Technical Physics Master's thesis "The Software Structure of Real Time Process Control Systems"
Professional Experience
Present affiliations
Partner, Vice President Research, CAC-Research Oy 89-
Executive Vice President, FeedbackDialog Oy 04-
www.feedbackdialog.com
Docent of Business Process Modelling, Helsinki University of Technology 93-
Advisory Board Member, Real Time Systems Oy, 04-
Previous affiliations
Partner, Vice President Partnerships, ZenPark Oy 00-07
Partner, Co-founder, first CEO, Orchidea Innovations Oy 03
Vice President Global Concepts and Partnerships,
Digital Open Network Environment Oyj Done 00
Vice President Linux, Digital Open Network Environment Oyj Done 00
President of Idegen GmbH, consultant for CCSO Centre CIM de Suisse Occidentale, Switzerland 97-00
President of CAC-Research, Inc., USA 96-00
Project Manager at Helsinki University of Technology, Industrial Management 92-94
Managing CIM-Consultant, Consultant and Applications Engineer at Hewlett-Packard Oy 81-92
Design Engineer and Programmer, Nokia Electronics, Industrial Automation 75-81
Teacher at Helsinki University of Technology , Industrial Management, Control Engineering, Mathematics 79-95
Assistant of Laser Technology and Optics at Helsinki University of Technology 76
Research assistant at Round Oak Steel Works Ltd., Great Britain, 74
Research assistant at Forestry Research Institute, forest growth field research, 73
Conclusions from the CV
...experience in working in and leading international collaborative teams
- putting together and co-ordinating globally the Intelligent Manufacturing Systems (IMS) research project HARMONY- Coping with the Complexity of Business Innovation, partner organisations from Finland, Germany, France, Spain, Switzerland, Australia, US and Japan. The global budget of the 4 year project was USD 9M.
- the Finnish project manager of the EU-funded basic research activity CIMMOD at HUT
- Outside specialist in some HP research projects, eg. subcontracting to ESPRIT project AMICE (CIM-OSA), Hewlett-Packard France.
- member of the Factory of the Future project research team at HUT, while working at HP
- working for 3 months as a student at the R&D department of a steel plant in Great Britain
...extensive experience in the whole life cycle of technology based-products and services: R&D, marketing, applications for the clients – understands what is the basis of the value created in companies
- at Nokia and CAC-Research product development and management of product development, many years
- at Hewlett-Packard and CAC-Research software support, many years
- at Hewlett-Packard, CAC-Research and Idegen management consultant, over 10 years
...extensive experience in development of services and products:
- has lead more than 100 company specific consulting or training appointments in the area of R&D, many of which in ICT
- IDEGEN++ software developed by CAC-Research sold several thousands to more than 20 countries in all continents, in 7 languages
- OBT software developed by CAC-Research sold about 150 licences to Finland, Switzerland and Belgium
- Mobile Dialog software developed by ZenPark is sold by Radiolinja and Psycon
- Has deep experience on commercial SW packages and their markets at HP and CAC-Research
...used to global thinking
- Vice President Partnerships, ZenPark Oy
- Vice President Global Concepts and Partnerships of Digital Open Network Environment Oyj Done
- Vice President Linux of Digital Open Network Environment Oyj Done
- President of Idegen GmbH, Switzerland, about 3 years in Switzerland
- President of CAC-Research Inc. U.S.A., 3 months in US
- VP Research of CAC-Research Oy, Finland
- 11 years at Hewlett-Packard, about 1 year outside Finland
- 5 years at Nokia in R&D
- language skills: Finnish, English, German, Swedish, a little French
- leading software localisation into English, German, French, Dutch, Swedish, Norwegian, Finnish
- global network of friends, business partners, research colleagues and co-writers
- participated meetings of the world organisations of Angel Investors, personal contacts to the key people
…experience on international writing, publishing and analysing written reports of results
- as a Docent of HUT supervising, pre-examining and acting as an opponent of PhD thesis. Latest PhD opponent appointments:
Helsinki University of Technology, Matti Keijola
On Smart and Natural Language Technology Support of Strategy Work
University of Oulu, Harri Haapasalo
Creative Computer Aided Architectural Design
Pre-examiner appointments: Helsinki University of Technology, Ilmari Nikander
Early Warnings, A Phenomenon in Project Management - reviewer of Elsevier magazine Computers in Industry
- over 50 publications in the areas of ICT, Business Process Modelling, Innovation Management, Software Integration, CIM and Software Quality.
...extensive experience on making presentations and leading groups
- extensive top management team facilitation experience with company specific idea generation days
- experience on facilitating teams of 2-200 people at a time.
- developed tools for group brainstorming e.g. IDEGEN++ software
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http://fie.engrng.pitt.edu/fie2001/papers/1105.pdf - experience on participative BPR methods
...experience on working effectively with senior management teams:
- top management consulting, training and team facilitation experience
- developed tools for management of change e.g. OBT-Organization Benchmarking Tool software
…experience about PR:
- experience on being interviewed by TV, radio and press. Several tens of interview articles, TV and radio programs.
- extensive experience in leading public top management seminars
- the book "Creative Streamlining of Business Processes" (in Finnish) that came out by MET Publishing in August 1997, was sold out and had a second printing in 1999.
- frequent speaker in public and company specific seminars about Business Process Modelling and Creative Problem Solving
…experience about strategic consulting
- recently consulted many startups and SME:s in strategic matters
…experience about marketing and sales
- recently consulted many service and manufacturing SME:s in marketing and sales
- practical experience about marketing and sales at FeedbackDialog, ZenPark, CAC-Research, Idegen GmbH, CAC-Research Inc, Done, HP
...experience about company economics
- experience about starting, running, growing and mergers of companies
- experience in putting up international companies
- practical experience about accounting, annual reporting and company legal matters in Finland, Switzerland and USA
… experience about company legal matters:
- practical experience about international intellectual property rights and co-operation contracts
…experience about analysing technology- and service companies
- at Done experience about the IPO process, helped in writing the Prospectus
- at Done participated to the search, evaluation and negotiations of potential international IT service and software company acquisitions.
- at Idegen GmbH close co-operation with the Swiss organisation CCSO in startup support
- at CAC-Research VC negotiations
…experience about synthesizing of “big pictures”
- co-initiator and the global coordinator of the 4 year/9 MEUR/17 partners/8 countries HARMONY-project
- in CIMMOD the main author of the framework-article in Computers in Industry
- co-founded several companies
- co-developed and brought to market several ICT-products and services
- consulted several companies in strategic matters
...experience about working hard towards major achievements
- Software for Europe "Golden Softies" Innovation Award CeBit'93
- The Finnish Engineering Award 1994
- personal brainstorming with Bill Gates, Microsoft in 1993 and with the Prime Minister of Finland in 1994 (however cannot claim all their success...)
- met personally many of the top leaders and journalists of the ICT world
