Introducing Our New Team Members

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Welcome to new Haltians!

Haltian new team members sitting down

Kari Kananen

Kari joined our team as a Project manager for Customer projects.

Before Haltian, Kari was a RD and Product manager for Lumous Lighting, developing wireless intelligent lighting solutions with cloud based management for public sector and industry. Major part of Kari’s career has been with Nokia where he lead mobile phone and technology programs, and was in charge projects related to quality improvements.

Tanja Kemppainen

Tanja started with Haltian in February as a Specialist, Supply Chain. Tanja’s work includes, for example, the handling of customer orders and deliveries.

Tanja has a lot of familiar faces here at Haltian from her time in Nokia. Her other previous work includes Cajo Technologies, Varjo Technologies and Orbis Systems Oy.

Joe Nguyen

Joe, full name Dung Nguyen Tuan, joined Haltian as a SW designer. Joe is a third-year IT student at OAMK (Oulu University of Applied Sciences) and he also has a bachelor degree in Electrical Engineering. Joe will “live on the cloud” and work with our Thingsee IoT platform.

Before Haltian, Joe worked at Softgram as a Full-Stack Software Engineer. He has also done an internship at Vielina, Vietnam, integrating various electronic components (LED, motors, sensors, etc.) with microcontrollers.

Sami Nurmenniemi

Sami is our new Senior Specialist, SW. He will be doing embedded SW development.

Sami has 15 years of history of  embedded software development. Mainly embedded Linux, but also different RTOSes and bare metal. Sami has a M.Sc., Physics from the University of Oulu.

“I’m looking forward to working in the exciting projects of Haltian. I could not resist joining the company because of the super cool products you have implemented. From the couple of days I’ve been sitting here I’ve noticed there is a good buzz going on and a lot of things are happening, looks nice.”

Warm welcome to all!