| Name: |
Arto Teräs |
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| Address: |
Takametsäntie 17 D
FI-00620 Helsinki
Finland |
| Telephone: |
(please ask by email) |
| E-mail: |
ajt@iki.fi |
| Date of birth: |
24 September 1977 |
| Marital status: |
living in a partnership (not married) |
Education:
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June 2004
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Master of Science degree from Helsinki
University of Technology, Department of Computer Science and
Engineering. Graduated with distinction. (thesis)
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Oct 2002 - Sep 2003
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Research Student in Image
Information Science laboratory at Kanazawa University, Japan.
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Sep 2000 - May 2001
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Exchange student at INSA,
Lyon, France
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| May 1996 |
Graduated from Suomalainen
yhteiskoulu upper secondary school.
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Military service:
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| 1997-1998 |
Riihimäki, military rank sergeant. |
Work experience:
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Oct 2007 ->
Oct 2003 - Jun 2006 |
CSC, the Finnish IT Center for Science:
Application specialist (Grid computing, data storage, digital preservation). See also my staff page at CSC.
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| 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).
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| 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
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Helsinki University of Technology: Assistant
(Basic Course in
Programming T1).
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| Jan - Jun 1998 |
Finnish army: Researcher (C++ programming, user interface design).
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| occasionally |
Writing articles on
freelance basis.
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Other experience:
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| Jun 2006 - Jun 2007 |
Traveling by bicycle in Eastern Europe, India, Thailand and Cambodia.
Travel diaries from the trip.
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Scientific and other publications:
See my writings page.
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Languages:
Finnish (native), English (excellent), French (excellent), Japanese (good), German (good), Swedish (good).
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Hobbies and interests:
Computers (since 1987): Networked communities, Internet, the GNU/Linux operating system and Free software.
Active member in Finnish Linux User Group
(several positions as a board member since 2001, including chairman 2005) and
in Electronic Frontier Finland.
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Sports: Cycling, hiking, yoga.
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Traveling: Bicycle tours, hospitality exchange, foreign cultures and languages. Active in Finnish-Japanese friendship organization Japania ry (board member
2004-2005, webmaster 2004->). Hospitality Club,
CouchSurfing,
BeWelcome and
Warm Showers List member.
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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 contact information of my
ex supervisors available on request.
Last update 2011-12-23.
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