Ari Hovila, ajh@uwasa.fi - University of Vaasa Home Page

ICT Manager, University of Vaasa

Some history:

• From mid 2004 until late 2011 worked as a systems designer at the Tritonia academic library.
• During 2003 I worked in Tritonia Learninc Centre, main job was to run web-development project focusing on user administration. Project was a pilot of national HAKA infrastructure project.
• From November 2002 to March 2003 I ran the Ericsson Vaasa office. Our team developed and maintained a Web based document managament and delivery system.
• Year 2001 full time with Ericsson Vaasa unit. First some mobile internet consulting, including bluetooth applications and SMS systems.
• 2000, Research project with Oy L M Ericsson Ab. The work centered around the idea of dynamic content adaptation for the mobile media.
• Just before joining the Ericsson team I worked once again for the University of Vaasa - mainly in the Computer Centre. The last major project there was the Web-interface for our exam registration system.
• 1999, six months with the IT divison of CITEC
• 1998, SGML R&D Project with ABB Transmit Relays and Network Control, building an SGML content production and delivery environment for technical documentation.
• 1997, SGML Technology transfer via pilots for SME's. Project looked at the ways in which SME's could benefit from the SGML and Web-based technologies. The project was funded by TEKES and (former) Wärtsilä Diesel Oy.
• 1996, Building a framework for producing and publishing course material for the electronic library. This project was funded by the ministry of education and led to collaboration with other universities (nick named RAJU - rakenteinen julkaiseminen yliopistoissa).
• 1995, Connecting regional libraries to the Internet and establishing a strong co-operation with academic and public libraries