CURRICULUM VITAE

PERSONAL INFORMATION
Name            Jarno Santeri Luoma-Nirva
Address:        Vasamakatu 5 A 8
                15100 Lahti, Finland
Tel             +358 40 584 8782
e-mail          jln@iki.fi
Web		www.iki.fi/~jln/
Marital Status  Single
Nationality	Finnish
Year of Birth   1976

WORK EXPERIENCE
2005-03-14 / present    Senior SW Designer at Flander Ltd
C++ programming for Windows and Linux platforms. UI implementation with 
Trolltech's Qt library.

2000-11-22 / 2004-02-29 Engineer Trainee at Instrumentointi Ltd
Department: Insta Defence/Simulation Systems. Developing military training
simulator systems. C++ programming and object oriented design.

1999-02-08 / 2000-03-10 Research Assistant at Digital Media Institute
Developing software-based MPEG-2 decoder for Pentium III processor.
Optimization and processor-specific programming in C++.

EDUCATION
1996-08-01 / 2004-12-17 M.Sc.Engineering at Tampere University of Technology. 
Degree program in Information Technology. Main subject: Computer Science
GPA: 3.02. Degree thesis: Training Simulator for Optical Range Finder.
Thesis grade: 4

2000-04-01 / 2000-09-30 Exchange student
Kitami Institute of Technology, Japan

1995-07-10 / 1996-03-05 Military training(Artillery)
Rank: Private

1992-08-17 / 1995-06-03 Kauhajoki Senior High School 
Laudatur in all subjects (Mathematics, English, Finnish, Swedish, German, Real)
Grade point average: 8.7/10

TECHNICAL SKILLS
C/C++		Good
Qt		Good
Python		Good
Java		Fair
Assembler	Fair
Unix/Linux	Fair
XHTML		Fair
OpenGL		Basics
Symbian		Basics

I have developed a web-based online voting system, gaining experience in 
Python, CGI programming and XHTML.

LANGUAGE SKILLS
Finnish		Mother tongue
English         Good
Swedish         Fair
German          Fair
Japanese        Basic

ORGANISATIONAL EXPERIENCE
Member of the Board of the Finnish Liberal Party
Candidate in European Parliament Elections 2004

PERSONAL INTERESTS
anime, paintball, politics

More detailed CV can be found at www.iki.fi/jln/cv.html