Basic data
Born 11 December 1974 in Anjalankoski, Finland
Education Master of science in automation engineering, Tampere university of technology 2000 (Machine automation, software engineering, paper machine automation, production engineering)
Family Terhi & daughters Senja (2001), Sanni (2005) and Venla (2010) & german shepherd Josa
Military service Hamina Air defence regiment 1994-1995, Sergeant (Weapons officer, Anti-aircraft missiles)
Work since March 2002: Cybercom Plenware Oy (Software engineering)
Languages Finnish - English - Swedish (Sorted by lowering skills), C/C++, Delphi/Object Pascal. Also some knowledge in these: Transact SQL, Java and Norwegian (occasionally).
Work experience
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Since March 2002 I've been working for Plenware Oy in Tampere. Our department does embedded control systems for heavy industry. There's only a couple of things that I can think of that can beat the feeling of controlling a very heavy work machine with your own piece of software. Try it if you haven't!
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During the period Mar 2002 - Jun 2004 I was in a team that developed software for a control system that is the heart of Nokian Capacitors' extra-high voltage (500+ kV) power transmission line compensation and protection system.
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Between May 2000 and March 2002 I was working as a consultant for Metso Automation programming software for PaperIQ paper web quality measurement system. Mainly C-programming.
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May 1999 - Feb 2000: An automatic warehouse control system for Fazer Chocolates (Vantaa, Finland) for chocolate covered candy line which outputs products like Dumle, Da Capo and Liqueur Fills. System runs on Windows NT 4.0 Server and controls a time-critical process by operating two warehouse cranes (which move on several aisles), aisle change vagon, conveyors and input/output stations. Application (programmed with Delphi) uses Microsoft SQL Server database and is connected to Siemens Simatic PLCs on field through Profibus.
Tasks: Project management, product handling algorithms, database design, programming, start-up procedures on site. After this project I also wrote my MSc Thesis titled Parametrization and optimization of an automatic warehouse control system.
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1998-1999: Supervisory control and data acquisition system for Nokian Capacitors' high voltage capacitors impregnation process. System consists of 6 independent process units each running a week-long process in very low pressures (nearly a perfect vacuum) and are controlled by Omrom CQM1 PLCs. Upper level system runs on Windows NT Server 4.0 and was done with Omron Sysmac-SCS.
Tasks: Design and implementation of the upper level system and user interfaces. Some PLC programming, which I tried to avoid.
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1997 - 1998: An automatic warehouse control system for Raflatac Ltd. (Scarborough, UK) who produce stickers and label paper. System runs a combined raw material and intermediate storage for paper reels which is served by two cranes running on the same aisle. Customer: AWA Advanced Warehouse Automation.
Tasks: Application programming, some warehousing algorithms, some database procedures, start-up on site.
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During summers 1992-1996 I was practicing as a service electrician at Enso's Anjala paper mill in Anjalankoski. This era taught me thoroughly how wood is turned into that pretty white paper roll, how heavy machinery is controlled and why I should never ever turn that big black lever switch when production is ongoing.
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Hobbies & leisure
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Active member in red wine club Le Club Tinto. There's just no excuse to miss our seasonal meetings.
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My shareware project, internet relay chat (IRC) channel statistics generator
mIRCStats
has eaten a major bit of my freetime since 1998 when I started with it. Thousands of people have liked it enough to register it and
I still have plans to develope it further.
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We like to spend time outdoors and while we're there, we occasionally do some
geocaching.
If you're also into it, see my GC.com profile
here.
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© Mikko 'Ave' Auvinen
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