Kimmo Suominen

Espoo
Finland

kimmoX@Xsuominen.com
 

Summary

Innovative technology leader with a wide-ranging skill set. Designed, built, and supported best-of-breed systems infrastructure for applications in derivatives trading, large-scale Internet access, and web/mobile content management. Extensive software development experience with hands-on contributions to noted open source projects (NetBSD, BIND, Sendmail, Emacs). Deep knowledge of modern network, operating system, and database technologies from both an engineering and operations perspective. Capable team leader and able communicator. Seeking a lead position in network and systems design and implementation.

Professional Experience

CTO, Director ICT

2006 to present

Product Manager,
Social Media Technologies

2006

Oy Red Tail Media Ltd

Helsinki, Finland

Red Tail Media provides Social Media strategies, concepts, service formats and technologies for brand marketers and media.

Vice President
Network Infrastructure

2001 to 2005

Commerzbank Capital Markets Corporation (CCMC)

New York, NY, USA

CCMC is a wholly owned registered broker-dealer of Commerzbank AG, trading, selling and structuring bonds and equities.

Network Strategist

2000 to 2001

Blink.com, Inc.

New York, NY, USA

Blink created a smarter Internet through its interactive community where members could access and share their bookmarks from any wired or wireless Internet-enabled device.

Network Operations Manager
Manager of Systems
Systems Programmer

1993 to 2000

Juno Online Services, Inc.
D. E. Shaw & Co., L.P.

New York, NY, USA
 

Juno was a leading provider of Internet online services in the United States. It was the largest technology venture investment to date by the D. E. Shaw group.

D. E. Shaw & Co., L.P., is a global securities and investment firm whose activities center on various aspects of the intersection between technology and finance.

Freelance Systems Analyst

1991 to 1992

Senior Systems Analyst

1988 to 1991

Lappeenranta University of Technology,
Computing Centre

Lappeenranta, Finland
 

Education

B.S. equivalent, Information Technology
Lappeenranta University of Technology, Lappeenranta, Finland

Studies include a one year scholarship in the Master of Science program of the Department of Computer and Information Sciences at the University of Delaware, Newark, DE, USA.

Related Interests

NetBSD Developer

I was sponsored and accepted as a member of the NetBSD Foundation and gained full commit privileges to the NetBSD code repository in 1998. I had selected NetBSD as my primary operating system in 1994. Access to source code allowed me to properly and permanently fix problems in the operating system. NetBSD also has extensive multiplatform support, and over time my network has included i386, shark, sparc and vax machines. Earlier UNIX-like operating systems I have run include Dell SVR4 and ISC.

Open Source Software

When I started working on UNIX systems I very soon was introduced to the concept of Open Source (or Public Domain). I am a strong supporter of the concept, and have contributed to numerous efforts over the Internet. I have actively participated in developing several commonly used pieces of software (e.g. BIND 1993-1998, Sendmail 1990-1998, Emacs 1989-1995). Since 1998 my primary channel for supporting Open Source initiatives has been through the NetBSD Packages Collection (pkgsrc), which is a framework for building third-party software on NetBSD and other UNIX-like systems.

Key Words

Languages

Finnish:
Native.
English:
Excellent.
Swedish:
Good.
German:
Basics.

Networking

Hardware:
Cisco (series 7500, 7200, 6500, 5500, 4700, 3600, 3550, 2900, 2600, 2500, 1900, 1000, 800), IOS 10-12. Extreme Networks. Bay Networks. Wellfleet. Intel Shiva. Netopia. Xylogics Annex. Ascend. Netgear. 3Com. Allied Telesyn. Xylan. Chipcom. MorningStar. Adtran. Larscom.
Routing:
BGP4+. OSPF. RIP. EIGRP. PIM. IGMP. RPSL. MHSRP.
Transport:
IPv4. IPv6. AppleTalk. IPX. X.25.
Link:
HDLC. PPP. Frame Relay. ATM. CDMA.
Media:
Ethernet (1000BaseSX, 1000BaseTX, 100BaseTX, 10BaseT). DS-3. T-1. DS-0. Wireless LAN (IEEE 802.11a/b/g, Symphony). DSL. ISDN. Dialup.
Services:
DNS. NIS. DHCP. BOOTP. NFS. SMTP. NNTP. HTTP. XML-RPC. SNMP. RADIUS. IPsec. Kerberos 5. Kerberos IV. RSA SecurID.
Firewalls:
IP-Filter. Cisco IOS/FW/IDS (CBAC). Cisco PIX. Check Point FW-1. IP Chains.

UNIX

Systems:
NetBSD. Linux (Red Hat, Debian, Ubuntu). Solaris. SunOS 4. HP-UX (3.10-10.20). Digital Unix. IRIX. SCO. Dell SVR4. Apollo DomainOS. ConvexOS.
Software:
BIND. MyDNS. IP-Filter. Postfix. Sendmail. Cyrus. Procmail. Anomy Sanitizer. Apache. Nginx. MySQL. Sphinx. Icecast. Leafnode. C-News/NNTP. Zebra. Quagga. GateD. IRRd. UUCP. AMD. AutoFS. Automount. Samba. MMDF. CVS. RCS. Subversion. svk. KickStart. X11. Rsync. Amanda.

Other Systems

Windows Vista/XP/2000/NT/98/95. Mac OS X. Vax/VMS. DOS. MPE. VM/SP. PDP-11/RSX.

Programming

Shell Programming (e.g. sh, awk, sed, make, m4). PHP. Perl. Tcl. C. C++.

Topics

Network Design. Dynamic Routing. Global Routing Policies. Network Security. Firewalls. Business Continuity. Disaster Recovery. Design of UNIX Environments. UNIX Integration. UNIX System Tools. Open Source Software Development.