Curriculum

Helsinki
Phone: +358 44 34 57 917
E-mail: pekka.tolonen@welho.com

1980-1983, Studies on linguistics, philosophy, phonetics and computer science at Helsinki University.

1983-1991, Journalism, interviews, product tests, special articles on computer and information technology, finance and advertising, contributing editor for Talentum and Sanoma magazines. Misc software projects, too.

1991-2000, Software development in London and Amsterdam, general-purpose information analysis and processing algorithms, data-mapping, pattern matching and searching. Music studio assistant and consult in composition, hardware and software design in UK, Italy, Netherlands, Germany, USA.

1997-2007, Strategic Information Search-Engine development. 2001-2003 News Search-Engine Consulting and Licensing Contract with Talentum Media, developing "Uutisagentti" concept. 2004-2006 Personal Search-Engine Development Contract with Bloodhound Search Technologies Inc, USA. 2007 Developing private Pekanart Search & Analytics.

2001-2006, GeneSynthetic DNA Design Language development in collaboration with Entelechon, Synthetic Gene Company, Germany. GS runs on Lisp on Windows and fuses together mathematics, physics, logic and symbolic operations.

2007, Sabbatical year, studying Digital Photography, Noise Reduction, Computer Animation, Neuron Simulation, 3D Sound, Virtual Social Environments, Avatar Body Language, 3D Sale Bots and 2nd Life. Interviewed by YLE TV about future issues. Computer modeling of Organ (our 70's band) analog synthesizers for a reunion gig at Avanto Festival 2007 Helsinki.

2008, Contract-work for MikroPC, Kameralehti, Kauppalehti VIP Client Magazines and Turvallisuus. Interviewing CEOs and marketing directors of Finnish and USA companies, Tekes, VTT, Cisco, Apple, Fujitsu, Spinverse, UPC Consulting, Accenture, Tieturi, Relevantum, Sofor, Elisa, Ascom, Kocom and Aseko. Writing articles about marketing, business, innovation, company leadership, future trends, software, wireless, mobile, display and power technologies, company security and surveillance, and photography. Interviewed by Sulapinta about virtual social network issues.

Reference: The Who's Who International 2002-2003, Professional Management Edition, page 1-172 Pekka Tolonen.

Skills

Language Skills: Fluent spoken Finnish and English, basic Dutch.

Programming Skills: Lisp, perl, php, mysql, xml, html, vrml, web robots, agents, web data-mining, timed information transfer systems, web cgi interfaces, semantic networks, genetic algorithms, nested interpreters, data mappings, fuzzy parsers, generative systems, automatic summarizing, trend analysis.

Cognitive Skills: Rapid adaptation, enthusiastic on new concepts.

Personal

Hobbies: Music composition, audio modeling, photography, natural gardening, dancing, biking, reading.

Children: Daughter Krista (17).

Residencies: 1991-1992 London, UK, 1992-2000 Amsterdam, Netherlands.