Curriculum Vitae: Ilkka Johannes Jormanainen

Personal Information

Ilkka Johannes Jormanainen
Noljakantie 91 B 15
80140 Joensuu
Finland
Mobile: +358 50 367 5577
ilkka.jormanainen@cs.joensuu.fi

Date of birth: 17.07.1979
Nationality: Finnish
Marital status: Common-law marriage

Education

Visiting PhD student, 1.1. - 16.11.2006
Advanced Learning Technologies Research Centre
The Department of Information Systems, Massey University
New Zealand

PhD student, Educational Technology, 2004 -
University of Joensuu, Department of Computer Science and Statistics, Finland

Master of Science, 9/2004
University of Joensuu, Department of Computer Science, Finland
Thesis: A Visual Interface for Concretizing Sorting Algorithms
Degree of the thesis: MCL
Supervisor: Prof. Erkki Sutinen
Major subject: Computer Science (Software engineering), degree Good Knowledge
Minor subject: Computer Aided Instruction (CAI), degree Excellent Knowledge

Matriculation, 1998
Kitee Senior High School, Kitee, Finland

Working Experience

Project Manager, 8/2007
Technologies for Children with Individual Needs project
The Department of Computer Science and Statistics, University of Joensuu, Finland
Project management duties, mainly related to ending processes of the project.

Researcher, 12/2006 - 7/2007
Technologies for Children with Individual Needs project
The Department of Computer Science and Statistics, University of Joensuu, Finland
I am working as a researcher in this project funded by ESF. Beside the normal research, I am also responsible for the software development needed in the project.

Marking Assistant, 5/2006 - 9/2006
The Department of Information Systems, Massey University, New Zealand
Teaching responsibilities in Introduction to Information Systems course.

Teaching Assistant, 9/2005 - 12/2005
University of Joensuu, Department of Computer Science, Finland
Teaching responsibility: Software project course (10 cps).

Research Amanuensis, 6/2003 - 8/2005
Development Project for Technology Education
University of Joensuu, Department of Computer Science, Finland
The main purpose of this project is to give supplementary education bound with the latest national wide curriculum for schools in Finland. The curriculum supports the idea of embedding technological elements in all the subjects taught, not only to technologically oriented subjects. I was working as a technology specialist in this project.

Researcher, 10/2001 - 6/2003
ViSCoS project
University of Joensuu, Department of Computer Science, Finland
The aim of the project is to offer CS studies to high school students in the surrounding province of Joensuu via the Internet. I instructed courses Programming I (3 cps), Programming II (3 cps), Programming project (3 cps) and Design of algorithms (3 cps).

Programmer, 5/2001 - 9/2001
Keypro Oy
Keypro is a Finnish company producing geographical information systems for public infrastructure and telecom networks. I worked in the company as a summer worker developing software mainly to the information systems for public infrastructures with MDL (Microstation Design Language) and Oracle database tools.

Part-time lecturer, 2000 - 2003
University of Joensuu, Department of Computer Science, Finland
Teaching under-graduate courses Introduction to Information Technology, Using Computer Networks, Information Technology Services at the University, Basics for Programming and Elements of Programming.

Language Skills

Finnish: native
English: good
Swedish: satisfactory

Skills

Strong practical and theoretical knowledge about project-based working especially on the field of the educational technology;
Knowledge about the usage of the robotics in the technology education;
Strong knowledge about different programming approaches (especially web-based applications and information systems);
Good knowledge about the organisational and collaborative issues.
Programming languages and related: Java, PHP, MDL, Pascal, Delphi, C, Visual Basic, HTML, CSS, databases (MySQL, Oracle, PostgreSQL), Latex.
Operating systems and software packages: Windows, Linux, Solaris, MacOS X, office applications (Microsoft Office, OpenOffice.org), digital image manipulation (Photoshop), computer graphics (Illustrator, Freehand), desktop publishing (PageMaker, InDesign).

Academic Activities

Scientific Publications and Conferences

2007: External reviewer, The 7th IEEE International Conference on Advanced Learning Technology (ICALT 2007)
Web: http://lttf.ieee.org/icalt2007/
2006: External reviewer, The 4th IEEE International Workshop on Wireless, Mobile and Ubiquitous Technologies in Education (WMUTE 2006)
Web: http://www.ask.iti.gr/wmute/2006/
2006: External reviewer, The 14th International Conference on Computers in Education (ICCE2006)
Web: http://www.icce-2006.org/
2006: External reviewer, Journal of Educational Technology & Society
2006: External reviewer, The 6th IEEE International Conference on Advanced Learning Technology (ICALT 2006)
Web: http://lttf.ieee.org/icalt2006/
2006: External reviewer, DEANZ Conference 2006 (The New Zealand association for professionals working in flexible, open and networked education)
2005: External reviewer, Journal of Advanced Technology for Learning (Acta Press)
2003 - 2005, 2007: Head of the organising committee, Kolin Kolistelut - Koli Calling (Annual Finnish / Baltic Sea Conference on Computer Science Education).
Web: http://cs.joensuu.fi/kolistelut

Other Academic Activities

2004: JoyOodi project: Member of leading and project groups, University of Joensuu
2002 - 2003: Member of the council of the Department of Computer Science, University of Joensuu
2002: European Consortium of Innovative Universities: Producing parts of web-based material about recursion.
Web: http://www.cs.auc.dk/~normark/eciu-recursion/html/recit.html
2001 - 2005: A voluntary tutor in Kids’ Club, which is a collaborative research laboratory and technology club organized by Department of Computer Science and Statistics, University of Joensuu, where children of age 10-15 work together with university students and researchers of Computer Science and Education.
Web: http://cs.joensuu.fi/kidsclub

Grants and Scholarships

2007: Research Scholarship (16 000 €), Finnish Cultural Foundation, North Carelian regional fund
1.4.2006 - 31.3.2007: PhD Scolarship (1150 € / month), Faculty of Science, University of Joensuu
2005: Freemover grant (1400 €), University of Joensuu, Rector
2004: Fast Master grant (600 €), Department of Computer Science, University of Joensuu.

Other Activities

2003 - 2004: Member of the board of the Student Union (University of Joensuu), organisational, cultural and PR issues.
1999 - 2005: Several positions in the organisations of different associations related to student activities and hobbies.
Hobbies: Reading, music, computers, motorbikes, scuba diving, various sports (walking, swimming).

Military Service

Arrival II/98, North Carelia Border Guard District
Time of service: 270 days
Military ranking: Corporal
Special training: Medical course and ambulance driver course

Referees

Professor Erkki Sutinen
Department of Computer Science and Statistics, University of Joensuu, Finland
Email: sutinen@cs.joensuu.fi
Professor Kinshuk
School of Computing, Athabasco University, Canada
Email: kinshuk@ieee.org
FT Meurig Beynon
Department of Computer Science, University of Warwick, UK
Email: Meurig.Beynon@dcs.warwick.ac.uk
Phone: +44 24 7652 3089