So here's a brief introduction to me...
Language Skills
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- Finnish - native language
This was pretty much decided the moment I was conceived I guess. I'm Finnish and this is my native language.
- English - fluent written and spoken
Movies, music, television... As a young boy you're prone to learn new things so easily. Well for me this was a good thing and I actually spoke decent English before I started it in school on 7th grade.
- Swedish - good written and spoken
I have plenty of relatives living in Sweden and when I was younger, we had the chance to pick either English or Swedish to be our 1st foreign language in school. My parents thought it would be a good idea to start studying Swedish and so I did. I studied it as my only foreign language from 3rd to 6th grade.
- Slovak - beginner written and spoken
During my exchange studies in Bratislava in 2008, we had the chance to take a basic Slovak language course. I didn't hesitate and though I had some troubles in the beginning, I think I did really well. Now I haven't used it too much and I've forgotten most of it, hence the beginner level.
- Spanish - beginner written and spoken
Since I was a teenager, I've wanted to some day live in Spain. I also think Spanish is a lovely language so when we had the chance to select it as one of our couses in high school, I took it. I only took a couple of courses (a long with French actually!), but I always remember the verb test we had and I got an A from it :P
Education
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- Rovaniemi University of Applied Sciences - Bachelor of Business Information Technology
7th of January 2004 – 18th of December 2009
My thesis concentrated on kennel&cattery Jip-Jap. My aim was to create a development plan for the website
owner to enhance the current website while still making sure the website could fulfill the needs as a content
driven website. I designed various web layouts, offered the possibility to use Content Management System as the
technical solution and brought up different web hotel solutions. CMS was the main issue in my work and I
concentrated especially to using WordPress as back-end.
- Comenius University of Bratislava - exchange study
1st of February 2008 – 31st of June 2008
I couldn't pass this oppotunity when I had the chance on my 4th year. Bratislava turned out to be one of the best experiences of my life and I never want to take anything back from it. I can honestly recommend exchange studying to everyone studying in college/university.
- Putaan Lukio - high school, Tornio
1997 - 2001
Surely not the brightest times of my life, but then again, what do you expect :) - grading system
Finnish - A
Miscellaneous subjects - A
Swedish - B
English - C
- Putaan Ylä-aste - middleschool, Tornio
1994 - 1997
When I was young...
Computer Languages
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Ever since I took over the former "notorious" website called CM Mag which was built around the succesful Championship Manager franchise (by SI Games) back in 1996 or so, I've had it in me to build websites. Then came university and here's pretty much what I know nowadays.
- (X)HTML - excellent
- Cascade Style Sheets - excellent
- SQL - good
- PHP - average
- JavaScript - average
- C# - beginner
- C++ - beginner
- .NET - beginner
Computer Programs
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I've been an avid computer user since the early 90's. Along the way I've used hundreds of programs (including the fantastic text editor I'm using to build this website, Notepad++) and there's just no way to list them all here so I'll just name a few.
- Windows 95, 98, 2000, ME, XP, Vista & 7 - excellent
- Microsoft Office 97, XP, 2003, 2007 - excellent
- Adobe Photoshop - excellent
- Adobe Dreamweaver - excellent
- QPR Scorecard - good
- Adobe Flash - average
- Oracle - beginner
Me Elsewhere
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