1970MSc (Mathematics) in the University
of Helsinki
Appointments
1970-1978 Systems Designer and Programming Team Leader in OY
Tietokonepalvelu AB - a centralized computer services provider for Finnish pension insurance institutions - later TKP Tieto Oy
(Tieto Group)
1978-1981 Sales Representative and Account Manager for the
insurance branch in Tietotehdas Oy - a major Finnish software and computer services provider, later Tieto Group
1981-2006 EDP Manager and later CIO in the Finnish Local
Government Pensions Institution, Keva
Principal positions of trust
1965-1969 Various assignments in the Association of the students of mathematics, physics and computer science - Limes ry - in the University of Helsinki (subeditor, editor-in-chief of the associations's periodical, "Kissoidi", treasurer, auditor). Annual reports of Limes ry (in Finnish): 1966, 1967, 1968, 1969
1973-1975 Member of the board of the Finnish Association for Mathematicians, Physicists and Computer Scientists - SMFL, now Academic Scientists, MAL (Matemaattis-luonnontieteellisten alojen akateemiset). 2009-2011 Member of the editorial board for publication of the association's 50th anniversary book
1981-2006 Member of several temporary and permanent committees and other bodies of IT cooperation in Finnish municipalities and the employment pension insurance branch
1996, 1999 Chairman of the Organizing Committee for NordDATA '96 in Helsinki. Organizer: The Finnish Information Processing Association. Chairman of the local organizing committee of Common Europe Congress '99 in Helsinki
2009-2017 Deputy auditor of the Finnish Internet Association, ISOC Finland.
2011-2019 Member of the Board and President of ESLOK, the nearly 100 years old association for the maintenance of the fellowship of the senior former students of the Ressu High School, Helsinki
2013-2019 member of the delegation of Helsinki-Seura (Association for promoting the cityscape and cultural values of the city of Helsinki)
2016-2018 deputy auditor of Wikimedia Finland.
Literary works
2008 Co-author with Antero Uitto in the book Suomea rajan takana 1918-1944. Suomenkielisen neuvostokirjallisuuden historia ja bibliografia. (Finnish on the other side of the border 1918-1944. The history and bibliography of literature published in Finnish in the Soviet Union.) ISBN 978-951-692-705-6.
The Finnish National Library collection consists of some 2,600 titles of this literature published in Leningrad and Petrozavodsk. Almost all publications, 3,600 in total, were destroyed in the Stalin purges of 1937-1938. The National Library of Finland prepared, in 2009, large scale display posters about these books, with a narrative by Antero Uitto both in Finnish and in Russian. They have been exhibited in Helsinki, Turku, Joensuu, and in Russia in the National Library of Karelia, Petrozavodsk, and in the National Library of Russia, St. Petersburg. The posters were on display together with still existing books from each library's stockrooms.
Opening of the display of the 1918-1944 books published in Finnish in the Soviet Union from the collection of the National Library of Russia in St. Petersburg, Sept. 30, 2011. Video by Pauli Kruhse.
2013 Member of the Finnish editorial staff for Dr. Pavel Petrov's bibliography of Russian literature on the Finnish-Soviet war of 1939-1940, known as the Winter War. The book of 354 pages consists of, in addition to the bibliography of the years 1939-2011 itself (4,500 entries), Dr. Petrov's article about how the picture of the Winter War has changed in Russian historiography since 1939 till now, Antero Uitto's article about how the Finnish historiography sees this, as well as other material. The book is in Russian and in Finnish. Русская литература о Зимней войне - Venäläinen talvisotakirjallisuus. Docendo, 2013. ISBN 978-952-5912-97-5.
2015 My article(in Finnish) in the book published on the occasion of the 125th anniversary of my Alma Mater, Ressu High School, describing the roles and fates of its students during certain crucial periods in the Finnish history.