Pekka Timonen

As the Country Manager and member of the steering group, I was in charge of operations and production. I was also responsible for building up the start-up company from all administrative tasks to planning and approving the implementation of the IT infrastructure. As the Manager of the Benchmarks BU and member of the steering group, I was in charge of planning and managing benchmark projects, supervising the graphics, benchmark and QA teams, handling customer relations, budgeting, recruiting and outsourcing.

PM of 3DMark and PCMark product families and the supervisor of my teams. I was in charge of specifying, planning, resourcing, managing and reporting of projects. I used to work constantly with the world’s biggest IHVs such as Intel, AMD, Nvidia, Seagate and Hitachi and OEMs such as Dell and HP. At Futuremark Games Studio I was a project manager/associate producer of the Shattered Horizon game being responsible for tools, outsourcing, pre-marketing materials, audio and video production.

Senior programmer in many benchmark products: PCMark04, SPMark04, PCMark05, PCMark Vantage, 3DMark03, 3DMark05 and 3DMark06. I was also in charge of the system info component that collected information from the user’s system. In the beginning of the PCMark Vantage project I was the technical lead being responsible for specifying and designing the project. During the implementation phase I was the project lead and Scrum master. In the final phases of the project I became the project manager.

Theoretical Physics