Kimmo Suominen

Oy Red Tail Media Ltd

Helsinki, Finland

Red Tail Media develops social media strategies and licensable service formats for brand marketers and media. It also provides implementation and hosting of the formats. Their customers included Finnish market leaders such as Kauppalehti (financial newspaper), MTV3 (broadcast television), SMT (travel agency, owned by Finnair) and Kiinteistömaailma (real estate agency). I was with the company from its very first customer and I was one of its owners.

• Developed a syndication engine for near real time activity feeds across all products and on external systems using standard interfaces such as RSS and XML-RPC.
• Implemented a powerful blogging service platform, used by most customers.
• Enabled mobile blogging by designing an MMS to XML-RPC gateway.
• Enhanced service scalability by deploying a database driven DNS architecture.
• Designed a comprehensive search service for cross-product deployment. Implemented an XML-RPC interface for the service.
• Expanded server capacity to better separate development and production environments and to establish a control environment for testing upgrades.
• Designed a new server environment to better address service isolation, resource allocation, maintenance, and security, replacing an earlier out-sourced solution.
• Planned service routines and customer coordination for efficient server maintenance.

Commerzbank Capital Markets Corporation (CCMC)

New York, NY, USA

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

• Automated network connectivity fail-over using a combination of dynamic routing and layer 2 redundancy techniques, completely replacing manual fail-over procedures.
• Established centralized logging, log monitoring and reporting, and availability, bandwidth and service level monitoring for all network infrastructure.
• Engineered and implemented a centrally managed authentication service using replicated RSA SecurID and RADIUS servers.
• Migrated to a unified 3-layer Internet firewall that supports transparent use of multiple incoming and outgoing access paths for added capacity and fail-over.
• Redesigned market data connectivity to address several problems:
  • Improved router CPU utilization over 70% by reconfiguring IOS features.
  • Engineered and implemented a packet-filtering firewall for added security.
  • Designed, engineered and implemented transparent multi-site fail-over.
• Enhanced Disaster Recovery environment to provide constant service to support use as a Business Continuity Center that can also augment normal production capacity.
• Established and enhanced a wiki platform encouraging regular documentation updates. Technical groups at other Commerzbank offices also adopted the system.
• Provided technical review for overall architecture and especially for network connectivity and security issues for both internal and vendor-proposed applications.
• Managed and handled day-to-day operational activities for network and data center infrastructure (problem resolution, capacity management, planning, vendor relations).

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.

• Migrated to a global VPN structure that provides secure and resilient connectivity.
• Implemented a transparent fail-over scheme for Internet connectivity, first at application level and later also at transport level using dynamic routing.
• Established network traffic and route monitoring.
• Reconfigured e-mail delivery to utilize multiple redundant systems for high availability.
• Implemented a fully automated custom installation of Red Hat Linux.
• Migrated the office workstations to a uniform Windows 2000 environment.
• Developed documented routines for maintaining the computing environments.
• Developed enhancements for proprietary web portal software.

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.

• Designed and implemented a multiple autonomous system network that provides a high level of redundancy, extended control of traffic flows and complete support for VLSM.
• Developed a configuration library for Cisco IOS to unify router configurations.
• Managed the Systems department supporting the office and development environments.
• Evaluated and selected Internet and network service providers and co-location facilities.
• Designed the beta test system and expanded it into a scalable production environment.
• Configured LANs, leased lines, CSU/DSU hardware and channel banks.
• Provided primary support for standards conformance of proprietary e-mail software.
• Drafted and implemented security measures and policies.
• Developed telecommuting solutions for secure access via ISPs, analog and ISDN dialup.
• Evaluated VoIP solutions for replacing a traditional PBX/Voicemail system.
• Provided second-level support and participated in UNIX system maintenance.

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

• Maintained and expanded local and wide area networks.
• Designed global dynamic routing policy with automatic connectivity fail-over.
• Designed and installed several remote stand-alone and office systems.
• Developed and supported telecommuting solutions over analog lines and ISDN.
• Evaluated and enhanced open source software to provide desired functionality.
• Wrote tools for UNIX system maintenance and support tasks.
• Provided primary support for electronic mail and Usenet News.
• Provided system support for trading application environments.

DS-Konsultit Oy

Lappeenranta, Finland

• Designed and deployed a local area network.
• Deployed and managed UNIX and XENIX systems for the new LAN environment.
• Designed and implemented additional security features for the production environment.
• Provided support for LAN and dialup networking, and UNIX and XENIX systems.
• Developed enhancements for custom accounting and cashier database applications.

Lappeenranta University of Technology,
Computing Centre

Lappeenranta, Finland
 

• Designed and coordinated the integration of multiple UNIX platforms to a common environment through extensive use of services on the local area network.
• Planned the use of applications in a networked multi-vendor environment.
• Installed and managed HP-UX systems (HP9000 Series 800, 700 and 300).
• Ported open source software to multiple UNIX platforms.
• Supported users on UNIX, VMS, ConvexOS, Apollo DomainOS and MPE.
• Taught exercise classes and graded home assignments and assignment projects for Data Structures and Algorithms, Information Systems and Systems Design, and Languages, Compilers and Interpreters.

Finnish Air Force Headquarters,
General Staff Office

Tikkakoski, Finland
 

• Upgraded, managed and supported Vax/VMS.
• Reduced daily data transfers from 6 to under 1 hour through careful process analysis.
• Automated manual daily workflows with friendly menu-driven scripts on PDP/RSX.
• Ported the simulation model of the Hawk fighter jet engine written in FORTRAN to an IBM 4381 running VM/SP.
• Developed an automated online bank payment module for the reserve rehearsal salary payment system using dBase II. Later ported the application to Oracle V5 tools.
• Developed applications for grading and selecting students for the Air Force Academy.