Sami Korhonen

Current

• Technical Director at Avaus Dialog

Past

• Technical Operations Manager at Trainers' House
• Project Manager at Flash Fabriek
• Project Manager at TEQUILA\

• Technical designer at PHS Interactive
• Business sales and support at Saunalahti Group Oyj
• Webmaster at DLC Data Link Connections

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• My Blog
• My Website

Sami Korhonen’s Summary

If you exclude delivering papers as a youngster, and working summers as office assistant, my work career started 1996 at the Helsinki University of Technology, assisting computer department's webmistress.

After that I worked as a webmaster in Finnish internet service provider named DLC, company run by Jaakko and Antti Rytsölä (you might have heard of their Lamborghinis), and after Saunalahti fusion in business support and sales.

1999 my ex-colleagues got me working for top finnish advertising agency, PHS Interactive. Later on the company was integrated with PHS Direct, to form TEQUILA\Helsinki, and my experience and customer relation skills were better used as a project manager.

After eight funny and very educational years, March 2008, I felt I wanted new challenges and accepted invitation from a ex-colleague to join Flash Fabriek (part of Trainers’ House Plc).

Our management didn't feel like Flash Fabriek was part of Trainers' House strategy, and like some of Satama Interactive's other heritage, the business unit was disintegrated. I continued working as Technical operations manager in other units, but felt disconnected and slightly out of place.

Come December 2009 and I've started at Avaus Dialog as Technical Director. It's smaller company than Trainers' House, specialized in customer relations, loyalty programs, marketing and sales opportunities in digital life we live.

Sami Korhonen’s Specialties:

Liaisons with advertising and marketing companies, managing creatives, technical experience, brand understanding, TBWA's Disruption working methods, social media and changes it has brought.

Sami Korhonen’s Experience

• Technical Director

  Avaus Dialog

  (Privately Held; Marketing and Advertising industry)

  December 2009 — Present (1 month)

• Technical Operations Manager

  Trainers' House

  (Online Media industry)

  November 2008 — November 2009 (1 year 1 month)

• Project Manager

  Flash Fabriek

  (Online Media industry)

  March 2008 — November 2008 (9 months)

  I'm a project manager, our company does high profile flash campaign sites. One of our recent campaigns, Earl Jack, was featured on FWA (The Favourite Website Award), check it out http://www.earlyjack.com/
  
  SEK & Grey was the advertising company behind it.

• Project Manager

  TEQUILA\

  (Public Company; 51-200 employees; Marketing and Advertising industry)

  November 1999 — March 2008 (8 years 5 months)

  Digital project management, analyzing technical production companies and partners, developing strategy and tools for digital marketing, db designing, crm implementations. Latest projects included www.f-secure.com/caring www.nenapaiva.fi www.makumuistetaan.fi www.itella.fi/ipost

• Technical designer

  PHS Interactive

  (Privately Held; 11-50 employees; Marketing and Advertising industry)

  1999 — 2003 (4 years )

  Designing concept and technical aspects of web campaigns and corporate sites (for example: Nokian Tyres, Esmerk, Leonia, National Theatre, Ilmarinen, Pohjola).

• Business sales and support

  Saunalahti Group Oyj

  (Online Media industry)

  1998 — 1998 (less than a year)

• Webmaster

  DLC Data Link Connections

  (Privately Held; 11-50 employees; Internet industry)

  1996 — 1998 (2 years )

  Pretty self-explanatory. Work included B2B sales and support functions, writing instructions on web tools etc.

Additional Information

Sami Korhonen’s Websites:

• My Blog
• My Website

Sami Korhonen’s Interests:

Web 3.0, billiards, video production, music, movies, poker

Sami Korhonen’s Groups:

•    NOM - Nordic Online Marketing (+1000 members from Nordics)
•    Trainers' House Satama
•    FWA
•    Creative Mind Finland
•    Web Analytics Association Finland

Sami Korhonen’s Honors:

London International Advertising and Design Awards 2003
Interactive Media, Travel category winner, MEK, Snowflake
http://www.liaawards.com/2003/winners/interactive/22x.html

Vuoden Huiput 2003
Digimedia, Kultahuippu, Säästöpankkiliitto, Auta Anssia
http://www.grafia.fi/vh2003/kategoria/digimediat/

Huippusuora 2007
B-to-B, uusasiakashankinta, kunniamaininta, Radio Tequila
http://huippusuora.fi/tulokset_2007_tequila.html

The Big One 2003:
Paras verkkokampanja, Hopeapikseli: MEK, Snowflake

HuippuSuora 2003:
Paras Sähköinen suora, Veikkauksen Testaa Onnennumerosi ­kampanja
Erikoispalkinnot, Sonera Oyj: Veikkauksen Testaa Onnennumerosi­kampanja
http://www.huippusuora.com/
EFFIE FINLAND 2003
KANSAINVÄLISET KAMPANJAT, MEK, Snowflake
http://www.mtl.fi/cgi-bin/iisi3.pl?cid=mtl&mid=99&sid=3&a=show&id=336

Mindtrek 2003
Kaupallinen -sarja, MEK, Snowflake
http://www.mindtrek.org/

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