Curriculum Vitae
2.7.2008

Samuli Sorvakko Viherlaaksonranta 15 B 25 02710 Espoo Finland samuli@sorvakko.net Tel: 0440-942 762 Born 15.05.1980 Single

Education

• M.Sc. (Eng.), 2007, Helsinki University of Technology, Computer Science department (Major: Telecommunication software, Minor: Industrial automation)
• 2nd school grad, matriculation exam taken 1999

Work experience

• May 2005 - : Nixu Ltd, Network Security Specialist, member of sysadmin team
  • Project management
  • Customer relations
  • Application, network and platform security assessments
  • Threat and risk analyses
  • Network element security analyses
  • Service product development
  • Secure software engineering
  • Secure architecture design and review

• January 2007 - June 2007: Helsinki University of Technology, Laboratory of Telecommunications and Multimedia, Research assistant (Master's Thesis worker)
  • Research of low-power WLAN connections and security

• September 2002 - May 2005: Helsinki University of Technology, Laboratory of Telecommunication and Multimedia
  • Head assistant: (T-110.300 Telecom architectures, T-110.400 Labwork on telecom software, T-110.498 Programming of mobile systems)
  • Course assistant (T-110.250 Fundamentals of Network Media, T-110.350 Computer Networks, T-111.300 Computer Graphics)
  • Research assistant (SESSI project)

• April 2001 - August 2001: Adcore Oy, Systems Specialist
  • Linux system administration
  • Building test environments for Content Management Systems
  • PostgreSQL server administration

• Own company (Samnetcon) since 1999, network consulting and maintenance

• October 1999 - June 2000: Command, Control and Communications school, Finnish Air Forces, Communications sergeant
  
• May 1998 - October 1998: Satakunnan Internet-Palvelut SIP Oy, Pori: Network administrator
• June 1997 - August 1997: Lammela Oy, Kiukainen: Gas station worker
• June 1996 - August 1996: Euromaski Oy, Rauma: Assembly worker

Skills and competences

System administration on several Unix platforms (Linux, Solaris, OS X)
System administration on Windows platforms
System architecture planning and design
Security architecture design
Test development and design
Project management

Network infrastructure components (firewalls, IDS, routing)
Networking protocols (TCP/IP, mobile networks)
Automation systems

Language skills

• Finnish, native
  
• English, fluent
  
• Swedish, good
  
• German, passable
  
• C, fluent
  
• Java, fluent
  
• C++, good
  
• Perl, good
  
• LaTeX, good
  
• Tcl/Tk, good
  
• Scheme, good
  
• Prolog, passable
  

Other

• Part of Assembly Organizing since 2001. Primary interest and responsibility in TV production and Hall AV technology.
• Military duty done at C³ school of Finnish Air Force on 1999-2000, rank reserve sergeant