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

The short story...

Currently I work as a sytems designer in the Tritonia Academic Library. I'm also an assoiciate of a company WasaLab Ltd.

Some other projects from the last few years include:

• During 2003 I worked in Learning Centre, which operates as a part in our local academic library, Tritonia. My main task was to run a web-development project focusing on user administration. Project name was Viikinki and it was part of a national HAKA 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 (like the SMS version of Hessu system built for the University of Vaasa).
• 2000, Research project with Oy L M Ericsson Ab. The work centered around the idea of dynamic content adaptation for the mobile media (yes, you guessed it: XHTML, WML, XSLT - all that stuff...)
• 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. Our students know it as Hessu.
• 1999, I worked for six months with the IT divison of CITEC (SGML/XML consultatioin). BTW, since you obviously are using the Web you should check CITEC's SGML/XML/HTML browser DocZilla.
• 1998, SGML R&D Project with ABB Transmit Relays and Network Control. This was done together with Jari Perkiömäki and we were working for the department of Communication Studies at the time. Our work included the building of an SGML content production and delivery environment for technical documentation.
• 1997, SGML Technology transfer via pilots for SME's. Also with Jari - this project looked at the ways in which SME's could benefit from the SGML and Web-based technologies. One of themes was terminology management, about which we also presented a paper at the SGML Finalnd '97 conference. 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 very interesting project was funded by the ministry of education and collaboration with other universities evolved into RAJU. This project was strongly supported by the University of Vaasa library (nowadays The Tritonia Academic Library, Vaasa)
• 1995, Connecting regional libraries to the Internet and establishing a strong co-operation with academic and public libraries This is still ongoing work, under the name Sukkula. Through the years there has been a large number of talented people all over our region, who has kept this co-operation alive.

OK, that's a short professional summary I guess. When it comes to my personal matters... well they are my personal matters, right? But I will share with you the fact that I do have a wife and two kids (a boy and a girl).

For those who wish to use PGP, my PGP-public key is available.