Curriculum vitae
| Name: | Arto Teräs |
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| Date of birth: | 24 September 1977 | |
| Nationality: | Finnish | |
| Address: | Southern Germany (please ask by email) |
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| Telephone: | (please ask by email) | |
| E-mail: | ajt@iki.fi | |
| Marital status: | married | |
Education: |
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| June 2004 | Master of Science degree from Helsinki University of Technology, Department of Computer Science and Engineering. Graduated with distinction. (thesis) | |
| Oct 2002 - Sep 2003 | Research Student in Image Information Science laboratory at Kanazawa University, Japan. | |
| Sep 2000 - May 2001 | Exchange student at INSA, Lyon, France | |
| May 1996 | Graduated from Suomalainen yhteiskoulu upper secondary school. | |
Work experience: |
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| Apr 2019 -> | Leibniz Supercomputing Centre: GitLab Administrator | |
| 2017 -> | Town of Füssen: Official guide | |
| 2013 -> | Freelancer in IT consulting (Digital preservation, web design and development). | |
| 2016 - 2017 | Neuschwanstein castle: Castle Guide | |
| 2003 - 2012 | CSC, the Finnish IT Center for Science: Application specialist (Grid computing, data storage, digital preservation). See also my staff page at CSC. | |
| May 2001 - Sep 2002 | Helsinki Institute of Physics: Researcher (distributed computing, Linux clusters). | |
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Jun - Aug 2000 Jun - Aug 1999 | Helsinki Institute of Physics: Summer trainee at CERN, Switzerland (Perl, FastCGI programming, distributed computing research using the Globus toolkit). | |
| Dec 1996 - May 2000 | MikroPC magazine: System administrator (web server and dial-up nodes for the MikroPC BBS message forum). | |
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Sep - Dec 1999 Sep - Dec 1998 |
Helsinki University of Technology: Assistant (Basic Course in Programming T1). | |
| Jan - Jun 1998 | Finnish army: Researcher (C++ programming, user interface design). | |
| occasionally | Writing articles on freelance basis. | |
Other experience: |
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| 1997 - 1998 | Military service in the Finnish Defence Forces at Riihimäki Signal Regiment, military rank sergeant. | |
| 2001 - 2014 | Several positions as a board member, including chairman 2005, in the Finnish Linux User Group. | |
| 2004 - 2014 | Secretary and board member (2004-2005), webmaster and database administrator (2004-2014) in the Finnish-Japanese friendship organization Japania ry. | |
Scientific and other publications:See my writings page. |
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Languages:Finnish (native), English (excellent), German (excellent), French (very good), Japanese (good), Swedish (good), Spanish (basics). |
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Hobbies and interests:Computers: Networked communities, Internet, the GNU/Linux operating system and Free software. |
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| Sports: Cycling, hiking, yoga. | ||
| Travelling: Bicycle tours, hospitality exchange, foreign cultures and languages. | ||
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Arto Teräs <ajt@iki.fi> Current version of this document and up to date contact information can be found at http://ajt.iki.fi/me/cv.html. Academic records, work certificates and referees available on request. Last update 2019-11-25. |
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