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Jouko Vaskimo Named International Correspondent for PMForum and PM World Today in Finland
Jouko Vaskimo has become an International Correspondent for PMForum and PM World Today in Finland. Jouko is also Projects Director at Ixonos PLC, a major Finnish IT consultancy. He is a well-known project management leader in Finland, active in both the Project Management Association Finland (PMAF) and the Finland Chapter of the Project Management Institute (PMI Finland) and holds both IPMA and PMI certifications.
Jouko Vaskimo graduated from Helsinki University of Technology in 1992. During his studies he worked part time at Sinebrychoff, the oldest brewery in Scandinavia. Subsequent to graduation he was hired by Sinebrychoff project services to help relocate the old brewery from Helsinki, Finland to St. Petersburg, Russia. In early 1996 Jouko was hired by Kemira Engineering Ltd; the in-house engineering office for chemicals producer Kemira. For six years he participated in various international projects as a sub-project manager in charge of equipment.
DNA Finland Ltd, a major Finnish mobile phone operator with over 1 000 000 customers hired Jouko as a Program Leader in August 2001. He created a corporate project management methodology, provided in-house project management training, and managed a range of complicated projects. Nokia hired Jouko as a Process Development Manager in late 2004 for developing NOCOP, the Nokia Business Infrastructure project management methodology, in use on over 1000 ICT projects globally. In late 2006 Jouko accepted an offer from Ixonos PLC as Projects Director, responsible for project management methodology and competence development within the Ixonos group and at Ixonos clients.
Jouko received the IPMA Level C Project Manager certificate in June 2001, and was invited to join the Project Management Association Finland team of IPMA assessors. He received the IPMA Level B Senior Project Manager certificate in 2004, and was invited to chair the PMAF certification body FINCERT (operating the IPMA certification in Finland), and to join the PMAF board of directors. At that time he was nominated the Finnish representative to IPMA global governing bodies IPMA Council of Delegates and IPMA Certification System Panel. Jouko is a founding member of PMI Finland Chapter and received the PMP certificate in 2003. Since October 2007, Jouko has been participating as the head of the Finnish delegation, in the creation of the new ISO standard 21 500: Project Management: Guide to project management.
According to Wikipedia, Helsinki is the capital and largest city of Finland. It is in the southern part of Finland, on the shore of the Gulf of Finland, by the Baltic Sea. The population of the city of Helsinki is 573,789[1], making it the most populous municipality in Finland by a wide margin. Helsinki, along with the neighbouring cities of Vantaa, Espoo, and Kauniainen, constitutes what is known as the capital region, with over 1,000,000 inhabitants.
The Greater Helsinki area has a population of over 1,300,000 and accounts for a quarter of the population of Finland, 29% of jobs, and a third of the GDP. Helsinki is Finland's capital for business, education, research, culture, and government. Greater Helsinki has eight universities and six technology parks. Some 70% of foreign companies operating in Finland have settled in the Helsinki region. The immigration of rural residents has made it one of the fastest growing metropolitan areas in Europe.
Helsinki's GDP per capita is one of the highest of any city in the world. Since the 1950s, the economy has become largely service-based, although industries such as shipbuilding continue to employ a substantial number. Large service-based employers include the public sector and the information technology sector. The metropolitan area is the location of choice for the headquarters of large Finnish companies as well as the regional headquarters of international companies. The Helsinki metropolitan area has the best availability of highly skilled employees in Finland, and good infrastructure and business support systems. The metropolitan area's gross value-added per capita is 200% of the mean of 27 European metropolitan areas. It equals Stockholm or Paris. The gross value-added annual growth has been around 4%. 83 of the 100 largest Finnish companies are headquartered in Greater Helsinki.
Finland, officially the Republic of Finland, is a Nordic country situated in northern Europe. It borders Sweden on the west, Russia on the east, and Norway on the north, while Estonia lies to its south across the Gulf of Finland. The capital city is Helsinki.
Around 5.3 million people reside in Finland, with the majority in the southern part of the country. It is the eighth largest country in Europe and the most sparsely populated country in the European Union. The native language for most of the population is Finnish, one of the four official EU languages not of Indo-European origin. The second official language, Swedish, is the mother tongue of 5.5 percent of the population. Finland is a democratic, parliamentary republic with a mostly Helsinki-based central government and local governments in 415 municipalities. A million residents live in Greater Helsinki and a third of the country's GDP is produced there. Other major cities are Tampere, Turku, and Oulu.
Finland was historically a part of Sweden and from 1809 an autonomous Grand Duchy within the Russian Empire. Finland's declaration of independence in 1917 from Russia was followed by a civil war, wars against the Soviet Union and Nazi Germany, and a period of official neutrality during the Cold War. Finland joined the United Nations in 1955 and the European Union in 1995, and participates in the Eurozone. Finland has been ranked the second most stable country in the world, in a survey based on social, economic, political, and military indicators. (More information about Helsinki and Finland can be found at http://en.wikipedia.org).
Jouko Vaskimo resides in the Greater Helsinki area and can be contacted at jouko.vaskimo@ixonos.com. We at PMForum want to welcome Jouko to the PMForum Global Correspondents Network.
PMForum’s global network of International Correspondents provides news and information from around the world of project management. PMForum now has advisors and correspondents in over 40 countries. More information about this program can be found at http://www.pmforum.org/pm%20forum%20team/index.htm#5.
Established in 1995, www.pmforum.org was the world’s first website devoted to professional project management and is one of the world’s most popular sources of project management news and information. PMForum is a company formed to operate and administer the pmforum.org website. PMForum also produces the monthly online PM World Today eJournal where articles, case studies, papers and viewpoints by leading PM authorities from around the world can be found; free subscriptions are available at www.pmworldtoday.net.
DNA Finland Ltd, a major Finnish mobile phone operator with over 1 000 000 customers hired Jouko as a Program Leader in August 2001. He created a corporate project management methodology, provided in-house project management training, and managed a range of complicated projects. Nokia hired Jouko as a Process Development Manager in late 2004 for developing NOCOP, the Nokia Business Infrastructure project management methodology, in use on over 1000 ICT projects globally. In late 2006 Jouko accepted an offer from Ixonos PLC as Projects Director, responsible for project management methodology and competence development within the Ixonos group and at Ixonos clients.
Jouko received the IPMA Level C Project Manager certificate in June 2001, and was invited to join the Project Management Association Finland team of IPMA assessors. He received the IPMA Level B Senior Project Manager certificate in 2004, and was invited to chair the PMAF certification body FINCERT (operating the IPMA certification in Finland), and to join the PMAF board of directors. At that time he was nominated the Finnish representative to IPMA global governing bodies IPMA Council of Delegates and IPMA Certification System Panel. Jouko is a founding member of PMI Finland Chapter and received the PMP certificate in 2003. Since October 2007, Jouko has been participating as the head of the Finnish delegation, in the creation of the new ISO standard 21 500: Project Management: Guide to project management.
According to Wikipedia, Helsinki is the capital and largest city of Finland. It is in the southern part of Finland, on the shore of the Gulf of Finland, by the Baltic Sea. The population of the city of Helsinki is 573,789[1], making it the most populous municipality in Finland by a wide margin. Helsinki, along with the neighbouring cities of Vantaa, Espoo, and Kauniainen, constitutes what is known as the capital region, with over 1,000,000 inhabitants.
Helsinki's GDP per capita is one of the highest of any city in the world. Since the 1950s, the economy has become largely service-based, although industries such as shipbuilding continue to employ a substantial number. Large service-based employers include the public sector and the information technology sector. The metropolitan area is the location of choice for the headquarters of large Finnish companies as well as the regional headquarters of international companies. The Helsinki metropolitan area has the best availability of highly skilled employees in Finland, and good infrastructure and business support systems. The metropolitan area's gross value-added per capita is 200% of the mean of 27 European metropolitan areas. It equals Stockholm or Paris. The gross value-added annual growth has been around 4%. 83 of the 100 largest Finnish companies are headquartered in Greater Helsinki.
Around 5.3 million people reside in Finland, with the majority in the southern part of the country. It is the eighth largest country in Europe and the most sparsely populated country in the European Union. The native language for most of the population is Finnish, one of the four official EU languages not of Indo-European origin. The second official language, Swedish, is the mother tongue of 5.5 percent of the population. Finland is a democratic, parliamentary republic with a mostly Helsinki-based central government and local governments in 415 municipalities. A million residents live in Greater Helsinki and a third of the country's GDP is produced there. Other major cities are Tampere, Turku, and Oulu.
Jouko Vaskimo resides in the Greater Helsinki area and can be contacted at jouko.vaskimo@ixonos.com. We at PMForum want to welcome Jouko to the PMForum Global Correspondents Network.
PMForum’s global network of International Correspondents provides news and information from around the world of project management. PMForum now has advisors and correspondents in over 40 countries. More information about this program can be found at http://www.pmforum.org/pm%20forum%20team/index.htm#5.
Established in 1995, www.pmforum.org was the world’s first website devoted to professional project management and is one of the world’s most popular sources of project management news and information. PMForum is a company formed to operate and administer the pmforum.org website. PMForum also produces the monthly online PM World Today eJournal where articles, case studies, papers and viewpoints by leading PM authorities from around the world can be found; free subscriptions are available at www.pmworldtoday.net.
