Teemu Metsola

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.

• "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.

• 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 on people instead of processes.

• BUSINESS – Team lead in a 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.

• Master of Science (Economics), Information Technology, Jyväskylä University, Finland (2005)

• Officer (Signal), National Defence University, Finland (2001)