Mr. Jarkko Santala

Personal Information
  • Year of Birth: 1978
  • Place of Birth: Tampere, Finland
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    Education

    1994 – 1998   Ulvilan Lukio Ulvila, Finland

    Ylioppilas

  • Graduated with the average degree of Magna Cum Laude Approbatur.
  • Degree in English Eximia Cum Laude Approbatur.
  • Oral exam in English 1998, degree 5- (scale 1-5).
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    Professional experience

    1994, 1995   Rakennus Vuorenpää Oy Pori, Finland

    Construction Worker

  • Summer job.

    • 1996 - 1999   i2 Technologies Finland Oy Ltd. Ulvila, Finland

    System Administrator

  • Miscellaneous duties ranging from a part-time Webmaster to a full time System Administrator of Windows NT servers, workstations, Lotus Notes system and TCP/IP network in a global organization.

    1999 - 2006   SSH Communications Security Corp. Helsinki, Finland

    QA Engineer (1999-2000)

  • Quality Assurance, mostly IPSEC products testing.
  • Release Engineering.

    System Administrator (2000-2006)

    Administration of various systems:
  • UNIX (NetBSD, FreeBSD, Solaris) and Linux servers and services
  • IPSEC based VPN infrastructure
  • PKI infrastructure and Certification Authority
  • Network administration
  • Linux desktop environment
  • Windows workstations

    2004 - 2005   City of Pori, IT Department Pori, Finland

    Siviilipalvelus

         Miscellaneous system administration duties, including:
  • F-Secure Client Security deployment and Policy Manager administration
  • Linux server administration

    2006 - (current)   Portalify Ltd. Helsinki, Finland

    System Administrator (2006-)

     

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    Languages
  • Native Finnish
  • Fluent English
    • Hobbies
  • Computers.
  • Hifi and home theater.
  • Playing drums.
  • Floorball.
  • Gaming.
    • Interests and activities
  • Vice chairman of astronomy association Porin Karhunvartijat Ry. 1998-1999.
  • A founding member of landot.org, a group which arranges LAN parties.