Curriculum vitae

Personal information

First name(s) / Surname(s): Pekka Tapio Jääskeläinen
Address(es): Laurinpolku 5 b 21, 40500 Jyväskylä Finland
Mobile: +358 40 708 2620
E-mail: pekka(at)pjvisual.com
Nationality: Finnish
Date of birth: 21.4.1984
Gender: Male

Work History

Dates: 28.06.2009 - on going (full-time)
Occupation or position held: Art Director / Web- / UI- Designer / Frontend developer
Main activities and responsibilities: Several projects where I have needed following skills: Graphic designing, web designing, site building, frontend developing, iPhone developing, video editing, 3D modeling, visualization skills and marketing planning.
Technologies used: XHTML, CSS, JavaScript, Action Script 2, MOSS, Objective-C
Software used: XCODE, Cinema 4D, Adobe Flash, Adobe Photoshop Extended, Adobe Dreamweaver, Adobe Illustrator, Adobe Premiere and Adobe After Effects.
Name and address of employer: Accenture Oy
Type of business or sector: Consulting, Technology, Outsourcing

Dates: 27.11.2007 - on going (side)
Occupation or position held: Entrepreneur / Graphic Designer / UI Designer / Web Designer / Web Developer
Main activities and responsibilities: Several projects where I have needed following skills: Company management, project management, customer management, UI designing, graphic designing, web designing, site building, web developing, video editing and visualization skills.
Technologies used: XHTML, CSS, JavaScript, PHP, MySQL, Action Script 2 and 3.
Open Source CMS used: Joomla! and CuteNews.
Software used: Adobe Flash, Adobe Photoshop Extended, Adobe Dreamweaver, Adobe Illustrator, Adobe Premiere and Adobe After Effects.
Direct customers: WSOYpro, Buildercom Oy, Jydacom Oy, Kuljetusliike Taipale Oy and Hyväkonditoria.
Subcontractor at: Into-Digital Oy, MobileTools Oy and Tuotantokopla Oy.
Name and address of employer: PJ Visual, Ruotutorppa 8 a 9, 02610 Espoo
Type of business or sector: Digital production agency

Dates: 28.6.2008 - 31.12.2008
Occupation or position held: Designer
Main activities and responsibilities: Several projects where I have needed following skills: graphic design, web design, site building and rvisualization skills.
Technologies used: XHTML, CSS, JavaScript, AJAX, Java/JSP, Action Script 2 and 3, Flash Lite 2.x - 3.x for S60 5th edition, Platform Service API for Flash Lite.
Software used: NetBeans, Adobe Photoshop Extended, Adobe Flash
Project skills used: Scrum
Name and address of employer: Into-Digital Oy, Yliopistonkatu 25 A, 40100 Jyväskylä
Type of business or sector: Digital Marketing Agency

Dates: 3.3.2008 – 7.3.2008
Occupation or position held: Part-time teacher
Main activities and responsibilities: Online service production and Multimedia courses. Main subjects were XHTML/CSS syntax and Adobe Flash software.
Name and address of employer: Jyväskylä College, Kulttuuri PL 472, Sepänkatu 3, 40101 Jyväskylä Finland
Type of business or sector: Public education

Dates: 2.5.2007 – 31.8.2007
Occupation or position held: Trainee
Main activities and responsibilities: I made two 3d visualizations of a paper machine. I used 3D Studio Max software to modeling and animating visualizations and Adobe Premiere software to video editing.
Name and address of employer: Metso Paper Ltd., Rautpohja, PL 587, 40101 Jyväskylä Finland
Type of business or sector: Paper machine industry

Dates: 3.3.2006 – 19.12.2007
Occupation or position held: Trainee
Main activities and responsibilities: Several projects where I needed following skills: Graphic design, web design, site building, visualization, project management and customer management.
Technologies used: XHTML, HTML, CSS, JavaScript, Action Script 2 and PHP.
Software used: Adobe Flash, Adobe Photoshop, Macromedia Dreamweaver, Macromedia Freehand and Microsoft Office tools.
Name and address of employer: Imagenius / Mediapalvelut Blueweb Inc., Väinönkatu 42, 40100 Jyväskylä Finland
Type of business or sector: Advertising agency

Dates: 13.5.2002 – 16.9.2006
Occupation or position held: Restaurant crew
Main activities and responsibilities: Service and kitchen
Name and address of employer: McDonald’s / Ari Taivalsaari Ltd.
Type of business or sector: Fast-food restaurant

Dates: 11.6.2001 – 25.6.2001
Occupation or position held: Trainee
Main activities and responsibilities: Explore working life
Name and address of employer: Jyskän metalli Ltd., PL 91, 40351 Jyväskylä Finland
Type of business or sector: Light metal industry

Dates: 19.6.2000 – 5.7.2000
Occupation or position held: Trainee
Main activities and responsibilities: Explore working life
Name and address of employer: Valmet Ltd., Rautpohja, PL 587, 40101 Jyväskylä Finland
Type of business or sector: Paper machine industry

Education and training

Dates: 1.9.2004 - 2.6.2008
Title of qualification awarded: Engineer
Principal subjects/occupational skills covered: Media engineering
Name and type of organization providing education and training: Jyväskylä University of Applied Sciences

Personal skills and competences

Mother tongue(s): Finnish
Other language(s):
English - Proficient user
Swedish - Independent User

Social skills and competences: I have been four years at customer service job (McDonald’s) and studied team work skills in different situations. One and half years work experience at graphic design team which included 2-10 persons.

Organizational skills and competences: 10 months Business man experience. IT Project course at Jyväskylä University of Applied Sciences which included Project Manager period (Length 15 etc). Working in the project where Scrum project management is in use.

Computer skills and competences Software used and studied: Adobe Photoshop, Adobe Illustrator, Adobe InDesign, Adobe Acrobat, Macromedia Freehand, Adobe Flash, Adobe Director, Adobe Dreamweaver, Adobe Captivate, Adobe Premier, Adobe After Effects, Adobe Soundbooth, 3d Studio Max, NetBeans and MS Office tools.

Technologies used and studied: XHTML, HTML, CSS, JavaScript, AJAX, JSP/Java, Action Script 2 and 3, Flash Lite 2.x - 3.x, Platform Servie API for Flash Lite, PHP, MySQL and Lingo.

Artistic skills and competences: Over two years work experience of Graphic designing. Four years practicing of 3D modeling skills. 3D visualization of industry was subject of my Bachelor theses.

Other skills and competences: Hygiene Pass completed

Driving license: Class B Diving license
Additional information: Six months Military service at Air forces.
PJ Visual’s webpage: http://www.pjvisual.com
My homepage: http://www.pjvisual.com/pekka