Curriculum vitae

Matti Nelimarkka
Master of Social Sciences
Student of Sciences

Education

Master of Social Sciences (2009-2011)
Bachelor of Social Sciences (2006-2010)
University of Helsinki
Faculty of Social Sciences
Department of Political and Economical Studies
Political Science

Bachelor of Sciences (2010-ongoing)
University of Helsinki
Faculty of Sciences
Department of Computer Science

Upper secondary school and marticulation examination (2004-2006)
Valkeakoski High School for Adults
Mathematical department of Päivölä gollege

Comprehensive school (1994-2004)
Viikin teacher training school
Helsinki second teacher training school

Prizes and scholarships

Viksu-science competition held by the Academy of Finland
Third place in 2005

Tutki-Kokeile-Kehitä
Mention in 2006

Mathematical contest in modeling
Meritorius Winner in 2006 with Olli Salli and Olli Saarikivi

Publications and presentations

Mobility with MUPE - Developer's Viewpoint
Assembly demoscene seminars 2006

Wireless Education Platform - an Open Source Way to Create Mobile Education (co-authored with Riku Suomela)
Computers and Advance Technology in Education 2007

MUPE as a Rapid Development Architecture – Case Wireless Education Platform (co-authored with Mika Laitinen and Vik Nuckchady)
The Nordic Conference of Serious Games 2008

The Use of Ubiquitous Media in Politics - How ubiquitous life effects into political life today and what might happen in the future
Mindtrek 2008

Ubiquitous Open Participation Platform - Yet Another Push for Deliberative Democracy
Open 2009

An experimental case study of ubiquitous computing in citizen participation
2010 Annual conference of the Finnish political science association

Ubiquitous participation - the next step forward?
mLife Conferences 2010

Measuring Social Relations: Case OtaSizzle (co-authored with Juuso Karikoski)
2010 IEEE Second International Conference on Social Computing

Social activity

Secretary, Valtio-opin opiskelijat ry. 1.2.2007-31.1.2008

Treasurer in the schoolyear 2003-2004, Helsinki Viikki teacher training school students' union
Member of the bord in y 2001-2003, Helsinki second teacher training school students' union

Work experience

Researcher, Nokia Corporation, Corporate Development 1.6.2009-28.2.2011
Trainee, Nokia Corporation, Corporate Development Office 1.9.2008-31.5.2009
Trainee, Nokia Corporation, Services and Software 1.6.2008-31.8.2008
Trainee, Nokia Corporation, Corporate Development Office 1.1.2008-31.5.2008
Trainee, Nokia Research Center 1.1.2007-31.12.2007
Trainee (mainly software desing), Nokia Research Center 1.9.2005-31.8.2006

Research assistant, Helsinki Institute of Information Technology 1.6.2009-30.8.2009
Research assistant, Helsinki Institute of Information Technology 1.6.2010-30.8.2010

Teaching assistant (supporting the SPSS-course), University of Helsinki 19.9.2007-16.10.2007
Teaching assistant (supporting the SPSS-course), University of Helsinki
Teaching assistant (supporting the web publishing course), University of Helsinki

Teaching assistant (supporting programming course), Helsinki University of Technology, fall 2008
Teaching assistant (supporting programming course), Helsinki University of Technology, spring 2009
Teaching assistant (supporting programming course), Helsinki University of Technology, fall 2009
Teaching assistant (supporting programming course), Aalto University School of Science and Technology, spring 2009

Skills

Programming: Java, PHP (basic), Python (basics), (X)HTML, Javascript, CSS (basics)
Office suites: Microsoft Office, Open Office.org, LaTeX
Computer aided mathematics: Maxima (CAS), Octave (Numerical), GNUplot (basics)
Special software: SPSS, Atlas.TI

Languages: Finnish, English