Teemu Metsola

Director, Digital Business Services


+358 44 584 1702

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Special skills

Large scale IT governance in an complex and security oriented environment.
INNOVATIONS and DIGITAL CHANGE – Proven ability to implement innovations based on emerging technologies.
ARCHITECTURE - Architecture as a product and as a process. Especially in overarching level and in target architecture views.
CONCEPT DEVELOPMENT AND EXPERIMENTATION (CD&E) – CD&E theory and practically tested concept development and management capacity.
DEVELOPMENT PROGRAMS – program management, acquisitions, outsourcing and insourcing and system integrations and agile application development.

Relevant experience
Strengths
Education
Relevant experience

  • 20 years of experience in public sector IT (Finnish Defence Forces (FDF) / IT personnel ~1200 and annual IT budget ~100M€s).
  • RESEARCH – Lead for IT research unit and network (+50 person). From theoretical research to practical digital era CIO support.
  • STRATEGY – Head of IT strategy and the member of FDF strategy team. Overarching capability – focus to people instead of processes.
  • BUSINESS – Team lead in business development unit. From technical push to functional and business driven pull.
  • TRANSFORMATION – Lead for development programs and integration office (+150 persons and ~10M€s annual). ERP, IntegrationPlatform, CoreServices and C2Applications.

Strengths

  • “Business first – IT capability next and finally technology” –attitude.
  • Strong cultural and human aspects in every changes.
  • Understanding the big picture and when needed, able to create one.
  • Proven ability to make organization wide changes and innovations.
  • Creating impressive links between senior business leaders and IT.
  • Rapid execution and decision making in self oriented manner.
  • Large tool box with different methods and the most important: practical and field tested understanding about methods’ pros and cons.

Education

  • Master of Science (Economics), Information Technology, Jyväskylä University, Finland​ (2005)
  • Officer (Signal), National Defence University, Finland (2001)

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