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WebInfraCustomer: IP Networks Date: 11/2011 - 11/2012 Reference: Annika Hörkkö, Project Manager, +358 40 512 4290 |
Description of project: WebInfra is an Internet-based software-as-a-service that offers solutions to ease communication and increase sales. Own role: software architect, technical coordinator Professional skills: PHP5, MySQL, Apache, JavaScript, AJAX, (X)HTML, CSS, OOP, MVC, RPC Methods, tools and technologies: requirement analysis, customer communication, development, testing, architecture Main tools: Eclipse, Subversion, Dia, PHPUnit, Make, MySQL Workbench [Show more]
My responsibilities in WebInfra -project were to guide development work, maintain and develope the system's own RPC -component architecture, make technical decisions, monitor and improve processes and tools, inspect code and also take part in the normal development cycle of the product.
The service itself was a groupware solution, containing multiple applications such as an email client, calendar, application to send SMS -messages, hour reporting solution, online surveying tool, customer relationships management software and tools to ease software testing and deployment work. As a technical coordinator, my tasks included reviewing of RfOs and making technical work estimates and plans for possible projects.  Specs:
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Ciron Business IntelligenceCustomer: Ciron Date: 09/2010 - 10/2011 Reference: Jussi Auvinen, Project Manager, +358 40 768 4560 |
Description of project: Designing and implementing a system tailored for a customer's business activities. Own role: lead developer, customer contact person Professional skills: PHP5, MySQL, Apache, JavaScript, (X)HTML, CSS Methods, tools and technologies: requirement analysis, customer communication, development, testing, architecture Main tools: Eclipse, Subversion, Dia, PHPUnit, Make [Show more]
Ciron Business Intelligence (CBI) is a system that supports the customer's business activities with services and features of enterprise resource planning (ERP), product data management (PDM) and customer resource management (CRM).
The system was a fairly complex and large with both features and codebase. In the project I worked as a lead developer, guiding other developers in their work and doing also many project management -related tasks. A part of the project was also a feature for the customers of the company to make automatic RfO:s from the website of the company. This required implementation of an interface to the system that could be used from within the website. The system itself was built upon WebInfra, a groupware service for sales management and productivity, and the architecture, codebase and deployment tools were used as the backbone of CBI -system. One aspect of the project was to act as a testing platform for the new architecture of WebInfra -system.  Specs:
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Dynamic website for a customer using DrupalCustomer: Merella Date: 07 - 08/2010 |
Description of project: Designing a website for a customer using Drupal Content Management System. Own role: web developer Professional skills: PHP, Drupal 6, XHTML, CSS Methods, tools and technologies: Drupal API and theming system, graphic design, version control Main tools: Eclipse, Emacs, Gimp [Show more]
A customer required a website that does not require much technical competence to maintain and edit, and to achieve these requirements I chose Drupal as the framework for the site.
In addition to graphical design and implementation, I used the privilege system of Drupal to create different user roles to the system, in order for the customer to distribute the tasks of content editing, news posting etc. to different persons. The graphical design was based on existing logo- and color designs.  Specs:
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Application for storing and searching event and fair informationCustomer: Entre Marketing Date: 04 - 06/2010 |
Description of project: An application for a customer to store and search information about event and fairs. Own role: web developer Professional skills: PHP, MySQL, e107 CMS API, OOP, Apache Methods, tools and technologies: Requirement analysis, customer communication Main tools: Eclipse, Emacs [Show more]
The customer required a tool to store event and fair information and to display this information on their website with a form for their customers to search that data. I defined the requirements for an application to tackle this need together with the customer and desingned and implemented the final product, and controlled the deployment of the application.
The customer's website was implemented with e107 Content Management System, and the event search application was implemented as a plugin to the system.  Specs:
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Rewriting a travel expenses applicationCustomer: IP Networks Date: 03 - 05/2010 Reference: Esa Runola, CEO, +358 40 500 7888 |
Description of project: In this project I reviewed, restructured and improved code of an old and unstable travel expenses application. Own role: technical developer Professional skills: PHP, MySQL, JavaScript, e107 CMS API, AJAX, OOP Methods, tools and technologies: Unit testing, refactoring, restructuring, database migrations Main tools: PHPUnit, Eclipse, shell [Show more]
An old application designed to handle travelling expenses had not been under continuous development and maintenance even though it was actively used in production -environment. I approached the task by improving the database schema and by remodelling the application's implementation to be Object-Oriented, which in effect resulted in almost a complete rewrite of the application.
The user interface followed the original layout to a great extent, but during the project I applied AJAX -requests to the user interface, making the use of the application much more fluent and rapid. The application was a part of the company's intranet, implemented with e107 Content Management System, which required research to the e107 plugin implementation and means to create an administration user interface.  Specs:
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Retrofitting of unit tests to a software projectCustomer: SAKU ry Date: 09 - 10/2009 Reference: Toni Pippola, Teacher at Tampere Polytechnic University, +358 40 718 0281 |
Description of project: The project was a part of my bachelor's thesis. Project aimed to apply test-driven development to the alpo.fi -portal. Own role: technical developer Professional skills: PHP Methods, tools and technologies: Unit testing, mock objects, refactoring, Test-Driven Development Main tools: PHPUnit, WAMP, Eclipse [Show more]
The project was part of my bachelor's thesis, which was carried out in pair programming. In the project the development of the target application www.alpo.fi was lifted towards test-driven development in order to rationalize the development. This included the retrofitting of unit tests to the application code.
In the implementation of the unit tests mock objects were used widespread. The project also included a great deal of refactoring. Read the thesis: http://publications.theseus.fi/handle/10024/9966   Specs:
Project website: http://www.alpo.fi |
Designing web-pages for a bandCustomer: Band 6th Hour Jam Date: 08 - 09/2009 |
Description of project: Designing and creating web-pages for band 6th Hour Jam. Own role: web developer Professional skills: PHP, MySQL, XML, CSS, JavaScript Methods, tools and technologies: OOP, MVC, PHP5, XHTML 1.0 Strict, CSS 2 Main tools: Adobe Photoshop, Eclipse, phpmyadmin [Show more]
The project involved designing a layout for the pages, and some functionalities such as the photo gallery and the guestbook. On the layout of the site I aimed to create something unique but still working. The look of the pages tries to forward a feeling of shady night club or gig.
The photo gallery was implemented with open source PHP-application Plogger. For the guestbook and the news-portion I designed and implemented an MVC-architechture with PHP that uses MySQL -database to store news and guestbook entries.  Specs:
Project website: http://www.6thhourjam.net |
S60 platform game Space InvadersDate: 04 - 05/2009 |
Description of project: Project for a course of development with Symbian C++ for S60 platform. The game was a remake of the original. Own role: planning and implementing the game Professional skills: Symbian C++ Methods, tools and technologies: MVC, Symbian S60 3rd edition architechture Main tools: Carbide.c++ [Show more]
The project was a part of advanced mobile development course in TAMK. The game itself is a remake of the original arcade game.
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Renewing and maintaining web-pages of a racing assosiation for a seasonCustomer: Race Trucks Finland ry Date: 05 - 09/2008 |
Description of project: Designing and implementing new web-pages at racetrucksfinland.fi, and maintaining and updating the pages for a race season. Own role: web developer, web-page administrator Professional skills: PHP, MySQL, XML, CSS, JavaScript Methods, tools and technologies: OOP, MVC, PHP5, XHTML 1.0 Strict, CSS 2 Main tools: Adobe Photoshop, Eclipse [Show more]
The project's target was to renew the web-pages that had become obsolete and hard to maintain. I designed a new look and layout for the pages that still resembled the old pages to create an idea of an update rather than a total renewal. The project also included the design and implementation of a administrator's control panel. The old site was implemented statically, so in order to store data about races, drivers etc. I designed a database schema for the application to use.
After finishing the page's development I continued to update and maintain the pages as an administrator for the summer's racing season.  Specs:
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Java ME platform game Donkey KongDate: 03 - 06/2007 |
Description of project: Project for a course of development with Java ME platform. The game was a remake of the original Donkey Kong. Own role: planning and implementing the game Professional skills: Java ME Methods, tools and technologies: OOP, Java MIDLet architechture Main tools: Java ME SDK, Sony Ericsson S700i as testing platform, Notepad++ [Show more]
The project was a part of mobile development course in TAMK. The game itself is a remake of the original Donkey Kong arcade game.
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Designing and creating web-pages for a companyCustomer: Veljekset Salonen Oy Date: 01 - 03/2007 Reference: Matti Salonen, CEO, +358 50 074 1050 |
Description of project: Designing and creating new web-pages for Veljekset Salonen Oy. Own role: web designer Professional skills: XHTML, CSS Methods, tools and technologies: XHTML 1.0 Transitional, CSS 2 Main tools: Adobe Photoshop, Notepad++ [Show more]
The goal of the project was to create new web-pages for the customer. Customer's old web-pages had become outdated and didn't match up to the customer's needs.
On the design of the web-pages I strived to achieve a look that imitated the customer's blue- and white-colored trucks. The site was designed to be scaling so it would appear correctly on many different screen sizes.  Specs:
Project website: http://www.veljeksetsalonen.fi |
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