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Name : Reino Westling
     
Age : 55
     
     
Marital Status : Married
     
   
     

JOB EXPERIENCE

 : 07 - 08 Turku School of Economics, Finland Futures Research Centre, Project director Starting and leading the feasibility phase of the development, training and lobbying project of a school of the future. The project is focusing on a new operational model of the future school to reach faster evolution of the school system
       
    06 - 07 Stadia Polytechnic, Industrial Management Project coordinator Developing entrepreneurship and strategic and Industrial Management interactive courses and carrying out the lessons. Taking part as an industry expert in Master’s Program for Service Management to create knowledge how companies innovate and carry out their renewal mechanisms. Assisting in Master's degree in Industrial Management program for industry officers. Taking part in Innoplaza, the entrepreneurship-project. The pedagogical method we are developing and carrying out is project learning.
       
    00 - 02 StoryWings Inc. President Starting interactive community, communication and content service for the youth and the organizations (especially schools) working with them. Creating a new innovative way of running the media business and global market expansion into the broadband world of the 21st century information society.
       
    99 -00 Business Portal Consulting Inc. President Starting new global consulting business for authorities, vendors, telcos, service providers and media concentrating on business models of full service business portals and consumer entertainment and school services where wireless and broadband solutions are integrated into each other. Partnering with the major international players in the industry. Recently, and still focusing on developing new operational model of a school of the future. Simultaneously, working as a freelance editor focusing on IT, information society and educational matters and as a senior advisor for corporate directors.
Just to mention some of our several customer’s that simultaneuosly had kick out thousands of employees; Ericsson, Sonera, Elisa and media companies like Alma Media and ministries like Ministry of communication and transportation
       
    93 - 99 Manusoft Ltd Managing Director. Founding Microdata's new daughter company, building the organisational structure and creating financial and accounting systems.
Creating a distributor network in Europe, Asia, Australia and USA. Providing market support to distributors, and expanding into exporting tools to the same customer group.
Running an international press service, Cimnews, for the metals industry and building an international network of contracts with journalists. Also working as an editor.
Developing the first vertical business portal for the metals industry. This portal has been the base for a generic product “Business Portal” for the advanced telcoISPs in the global market place. To create a successful project, and a product for the global market, this project was planned to be carried out as a joint project together with the international divisions of Compaq and Microsoft (agreed in Redmond headquarters) and with the biggest tele-technology companies, tele-operators, media companies and banks.
Here is short list of Manusoft’s about thousand customers, most of them international: ABB (8), Ahlström, Asko, Changchun Railway Car (Ch), Electrolux, Ericsson (2), Esselte, FinnPower, Flensburger Sciffbau Gesellschaft, Instrumentarium, Koni, Nokia (3), Parker Hannifin, Pharmacia, Purso, Queensland Rail (Au), Rautaruukki, Royal Netherlands Air Force, Schauman Wood, Sisu Auto, Tetra Pak, Volvo, VTT (2), Wärtsilä.
       
    92 - 93 Microdata Oy Director of BOX-NET business unit. Creating the business unit, and exporting the automation and data-transfer BOX-NET DNC software, a software programme for controlling computer controlled machine tools and robots. Building the distributor network in Europe.
       
    88 - 92 Tarbi Consulting Managing Director and Consultant. Customers included Wärtsilä, Rautaruukki, Neste, Huurre, Eurocon and Microdata groups. Projects included research and development of new products, strategic analyses of new business areas, market research, development of production and quality assurance systems, quality management and supply chain co-operation development.
       
    87 - 88 Marine Project Manager, Turku Shipyard Interior design projects, and cost reduction of the cabins; the most expensive part of the cruise liners
       
    86 - 87 Wärtsilä Marine Project Manager, Piikkio Works Starting a business of making prefabricated hotel room units, export marketing
       
    84 - 86 Wärtsilä Marine Project Manager, Helsinki Shipyard Interior design, development of future ship, development of CAD design, development of design and the manufacturing process of the ship, trends and developmental potential of the shipyard industry
       
    79 - 84 Lohja Corporation Project Manager Development of new caravan models, launching the Solifer Caravan, a new model into Scandinavia, Netherlands and Germany
       
    79 –79 Moscow Energy Institute (MEI), Work brigade, Participant Preparing Moscow for the Olympic games
       
    77 - 79 Army Headquarters Graduation work, Weapon Technology Department.
       
    75 - 77 Technical University
Assistant in stress analysis
       
    75 - 77 Nuclear power authority and NDT-testing at construction sites
       
       
     

Personal Details

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I am 55 years old and have eleven years old active son.
     
     
Education : Technical University of Helsinki. Master in Science in Engineering, 1979, specialising in stress analysis and metal technology.
     
    Helia School of Vocational Teacher Education. Education science and pedagogical studies to have a right to practise a teacher profession, 2005 – 2006.
     
    Over 225 training courses, seminars, conferences of current professional interests and business management and leadership. Most training has been in Finland, but also in Europe, USA and Japan.
     
     
     

Languages

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I am fluent in both written and spoken English and quite good in Swedish for both business and conversational purposes. Some German and Russian.
     
     
     

Articles

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Since 1994 about 75 published IT-business and information society articles mostly in Finnish trade presses. Also a couple of my product news articles has been published altogether in about 150 manufacturing magazines in different countries and languages, even in Japan and China.
     
     
     

Organizations, Projects, Lectures

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Technology Industries of Finland: Lightweight technology project, chairman of the management group, 1983 - 1984.
       
    Technology Industries of Finland: “The management of product development project” project, member of the management group, 1984 - 1985 .
       
    VTT, Wood laboratory: The research project of glueing of composite materials of wood and other materials, member of the management group, 1983.
       
    Project management association of Finland: The management of product development project from idea to markets, manager of the development team and lecturer, 1984.
       
    Project management association of Finland and INSKO: The management of product development project from idea to markets, lecturer, 1984 – 1987
       
    Project management association of Finland: member of the board, 1984 – 1985.
       
    Finnish Army headquartes, Materials management conference, Project management experiences in industry, lecturer, 1986
       
    City of Helsinki: New building and service concept of home for the elderly, 1988
       
    City of Helsinki: Building and operational concept of economical Hitas-Hotel, 1989
       
    Finnish Software Entrepreneurs: Image and resource availability project, member of the development team, 1993
       
    Finnpro: Distributor agreements in export marketing of software products, founder and member of the development team, 1994.
       
    Technology Industries of Finland, Tooling manufacturers’ group’s conference: Manufacturing software group – business initiative, lecturer, 1994
       
    Finnpro: Export marketing of software products, member of the development team, member of the development team, 1995.
       
    Technology Industries of Finland: Development projets of flexible production of metal workshops, member of the steering group, 1997
       
    Technology Industries of Finland, Tooling manufacturers’ group’s conference: Vertical business portals, lecturer, 1997
       
    Spinno Business Development Centre, Mentoring service for high-tech companies, mentor 1997 -
       
    Major teletechnology, operator, media, software and IT-compnies from Finland, Sweden and US: Vertical business portal - business initiative, head of the negotiation team, 1997 –1998.
       
    Finntec exhibition: Vertical business portals, lecturer, 1998
       
    The Ministry of Transport and Communications of Finland, Wireless E-Service Business Institute (WESBI) initiative, 1999 - 2000
       
    The new secondary school of Helsinki: Interactive life of the youth, interactive lecture, 2000
       
    The EU-Japan Centre for Industrial Cooperation, Managerial training progman in Japan for EU executives, Tokyo 2002
       
    European School Heads Association (ESHA) conference in Tallin, The School Communication System of the Future, lecturer, 2002
       
    Helsinki urban elementary and secondary school; Åshöjdens grundskola, member of the board of the home and school association 2001 – 2002
       
    Tekes, NETS-technology program, new applications and services group: member of the group. 2002-2005
       
    TeleCities 2003 Summer event in Tampere, lecturer
       
    International Telecommunication Union (ITU), project proposal for the next phase of World Summit on the Information Society (WSIS), 2003
       
    The Finnish teacher education development project (VOKKE), active participant, 2003 – 2004
       
    School 2008 development project, founder and co-ordinator of the project, carrying out the international and multi-scientific feasibility studies and partner negotiations, 2003 - 2006
       
    Auditing the operational quality level of Finnish schooling system, co-ordinator of the project, 2004 - 2006
       
    How to use appreciate inquiry type methods in strategic education, member of the development team in the strategic management society, 2005
       
    Helsinki urban elementary school; Kallion ala-asteen koulu, debuty member of the school board 2005 - 2006
       
    Helsinki suburban secondary and high school; Helsingin uusi yhteiskoulu, 7Up-development project, consultant 2005 -2006
       
    New national ‘information society’ strategy development, member of the development group, 2006
       
    Innoplaza, entrepreneurship training program for students from Helsinki Metropolitan area, mentor.
       
    Certain part of my working life I have actively taken part in the activities of following organizations:
  • Project management association of Finland
  • Finnish society for quality
  • Technology Industries of Finland
  • The Finnish Society for Information Services
  • Business mentor service activities of Spinno
  • The strategic management society of Finland
  • Finnish Software Entrepreneurs
  • Electronic Commerce Finland Association
  • Tekes, Technology programs, coordination teams
  • Union Internationale de la Press Elelectronique (UIPRE) (journalist association)
  • The development, training and lobbying project of a school of the future
       
     
     

Contact Information

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Telephone work: int+358-9-142022
Mobile: int+358-9-40-5526030.
Email: reino.westling@gmail.com and reino.westling@tse.fi.

     
     
     
 
     
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