Who?
Bachelor of Business Information Technology, Bachelor of Fashion and Clothing, tailor, and dressmaker with courses and skills in graphic design and illustrations.
Jack of many traits with an interest on accessibility and User Experience of different solutions in both digital and practical products. I am interested and motivated to learn and design solutions, which are easy and delightful to use. Another point of interest is helping others to succeed and learn.
I’m motivated to learn the skills as I go, currently focusing on web- and mobile development and how to create an accessible and attractive application for a variety of platforms.
Other professional interests include sustainable and ethical business in both clothing and IT industries.
Graphic design and commercial artistic skills have grown hand in hand with other skills. Mostly self-educated, with a handful of courses at each school attended, and a year long course in Community College.
Skills for offer
- 2D assets for games
- Digital and traditional illustrations
- Graphic design: logos, print-materials, websites…
- Basics of UX-design, in a form of thesis
- UI-design, Figma.
- Basic video-editing
- Adobe PS/AI/ID/DW/PR/AN
- 3D-modelling
Skills I want to learn
- MORE UX-design
- The rest of Adobe
- Further improve the skills and knowledge in UI-design
- 3D-sculpting, rigging, animating.
Practical skills in IT consist of the basics of coding (HTML, CSS, JavaScript, Java), a bit of databases, and the understanding and a bit of practical experience with agile development methods.
Design skills in IT consists of the understanding what is User Experience, and how to reach for it. On more practical level I can design graphic layouts for digital services. I can also create a website from scratch or with WordPress or Wix (or any platform, if enough time given to learn to use it)
Skills for offer
- HTML & CSS
- Website platforms like WordPress and Wix
- Basics of JavaScript
- Basics of Java and C#
- Ability to learn more
- Understanding of UX-design
- Knowledge about accessibility design of digital services and products
Skills I want to learn
- Whatever is needed. C#, typescript, a bit of react and angular…
- Improve applying the knowledge about UX and accessibility to practical work
Practical skills in clothes making is the whole process of pattermaking, grading, cutting, sewing, and fitting. The skillset also includes style analysis based on customer needs and wishes. Interest in both industrial and couture methods.
Skills for offer
- Designing and making clothes on demand, fashion fashion to military standard workwear
- Patternmaking and sizing/grading
- Requirements management
- Style consultation
Skills I want to learn
- Nålbinding, traditional weaving techniques, historicaland couture techniques
- Working with special materials like leather and laminated materials
- And many other things, if not as a profession, then as a hobby
Marketing skills consists of fluent face to face customer service in retail, understanding of the structure of marketing strategies and segmentation behind the scenes, basic knowledge of service design and understanding how it corresponds with UX. B2C experience in telemarketing and apparel sales.
Skills for offer
- Basics of Scrum and Agile Project principles as a memeber of a team
- Maintaining documentation
- 4Ps, SOSTAC, marketing communication planning.
Skills I want to learn
- Managing numbers and finances
- Scheduling bigger projects
Gamedev skills consist of 2D art and animation, and basics of 3D modelling and texturing. Next target in 3D is sculpting, rigging and animation, and importing the whole thing to Unity or Unreal Engine.
Other skills include basics of gardening and park maintenance, as well as apparel prints with various methods, and operating a variety of large printers and embroidery machines.
Publications
CLICK TO READ IN THESEUS (in finnish)
The aim of the thesis was to create the designs of three graphic user interfaces for mobile applications. In addition, it was researched how to create a user interface with good qualities of accessibility, user experience and usability. The commissioner of the research had need for designs of map-based user interfaces for mobile applications. In addition, the commissioner had interests to create applications which adhere to the law of providing digital services.
Published 2020
CLICK TO READ IT IN THESEUS !(finnish only)
The aim of this Bachelors Thesis was to expound the current situation of the aircrew clothing used by the loadmaster and machinegun man on the NH90 transportation helicopter, and to find out whether the clothing should or should not be altered or updated.
Published in 2012