Dr. Heikki A. Laurila is an experienced consultant with over 10 years of experience in business intelligence, data warehousing, and geographic information systems using technologies like Oracle, SAS, and ESRI ArcGIS. He has a PhD in geomatics from the University of Helsinki and is specialized in data warehousing, GIS, and developing cloud and web-based applications using remote sensing and satellite data. Some of Laurila's projects include developing crop insurance and forestry applications for Finnish companies using satellite imagery and location data.

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Heikki A. Laurila CV
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OWN PROFILE
Dr. Heikki A. Laurila is an experienced DW (Data Warehouse), BI (Business & Location Intelligence), GIS
(Geographical Information System) consultant and data analyst with over ten years of experience for
application design, implementation and testing in different development platforms using Oracle (v. 10,11g,
12c) & SAS (www.sas.com) and GIS (ESRI ArcGIS, www.esri.com , Erdas Imagine) based softwares and
applications. He has wide experience of combining BI & Dataware house domains with GIS Location
Intelligence and DevOps/Robot Framework technologies.
BUSINESS INTELLIGENCE AND DATAWARE HOUSE WORK EXPERIENCE
11/05-03/15 , WM-data Finland, Logica Finland, CGI Finland.
Role: DW/BI and GIS consultant using Oracle (v.10-11g, 12c) and SAS platforms in
projects listed below
Banking and Insurance (OP-Pohjola Group, www.op.fi, www.pohjola.fi ) – dates (01/2014 to
12/2014)
As an Oracle and GIS developer for a pilot project with POC (Proof of Concepts) phase using ESRI
ArcGIS cloud and Oracle (v. 12c) services: A Cloud based crop insurance application for crop loss and
damage estimation for Finnish insurance companies using optical and SAR Earth Observation satellite
imagery data was developed.
Prototype is available at http://bit.ly/OQDIPZ , account: hlaurila, pw: cgidemo1, please use Chrome or
Mozilla Firefox browser).
Different GIS & remote sensing projects with ESA (European Space Agency), MTT Agrifood Research
(www.mtt.fi), Finnish Forestry Research Institute (METLA, www.metla.fi) – dates (10/2012 to 01/2014)
Forestry sector (Metsähallitus, Administration of Forests in Finland, www.metsa.fi ) – dates
(02/2011 to 10/2012)
As an Oracle 11g, SAS Dataware house and FME (www.safe.com) developer on the Metsähallitus
(www.metsa.fi) web-based renting service project for forest areas owned by Metsähallitus, I especially
developed the database of the renting service application.
Energy sector (Fortum Gisela GIS system, www.fortum.com ) – dates (02/2010 to 02/2011)
As an ESRI (www.esri.com ) ArcGIS, Oracle 11g, SAS Dataware house and FME (www.safe.com)
developer on the Fortum Gisela GIS system project for maintaining Fortum’s power plants located on
major rivers in Finland and Sweden, I maintained and updated the data model of the Gisela GIS system
and developed the underlying database system maintaining the water power plants in Finland
and Sweden.
Insurance sector (Fennia Insurance system, www.fennia.fi ) – dates (10/2009 to 01/2010)
As an Oracle 11g, SAS Dataware house (www.sas.com ) developer on the Fennia TIA (The Insurance
Application, www.tiatechnology.com/) project, I especially developed the reporting system conversion of
the SAS Dataware house interconnected with the Oracle based TIA system.

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Insurance sector (Valtionkonttori, Finnish State Treasure http://www.valtiokonttori.fi – dates
(01/2008 to 10/2009)
As an Oracle 11g Deployment Manager on the Valtionkonttori TIA (www.tiatechnology.com/) project for
pensions, I especially maintained the development and deployment cycle of the Oracle based Forms
and pl/sql scripts.
Insurance sector (OP-Pohjola Group, www.op.fi, www.pohjola.fi – dates (11/2005 to 01/2008)
As a senior SAS Dataware house (www.sas.com ) consultant on the OP-Pohjola AKSE Banking &
Insurance Dataware house system, I converted the old IBM mainframe based AKSE system on a new
SAS based system executed on a HP-UX (UNIX) server system.
02/01-08/05 , Helsinki University (www.helsinki.fi), Faculty of Agriculture and Forestry)
Role: DW/BI and GIS developer and senior ADB designer using SAS and Oracle (v. 10-11g) and
ESRI (www.esri.com) platforms.
As a Senior ADB designer, for the IT, Oracle and SAS (www.sas.com ) Services for the Faculty of
Agriculture and Forestry (Helsinki University), my main tasks & projects included: (i) SAS and Oracle
web-based application development, (ii) SAS statistical analysis design and implementation for research
teams.
10/95-02/2001 , Niklas Data,Sweden (www.niklasdata.com , non-operational)
Role: SAS BI & Dataware house consultant
As a Senior SAS Dataware house (www.sas.com) and Oracle consultant with Oracle and SAS Dataware
house, client/server and Intranet/Extranet development, my main tasks & projects included in Retail:
Large Dataware house and reporting system for the Alko Oy (www.alko.fi , major beverage supplier in
Finland), SOK, Ahlström/Åkerlund-Rausing, Maatalouden laskentakeskus.
05/95-10/95 , Ministry of Agriculture and Forestry (www.mmm.fi , www.mavi.fi )
Role: GIS and BI/DW consultant
As a ADB designer & GIS consultant, my main tasks & projects included: (i) Pilot Geographical
Information System (GIS) for the Finnish Land Parcel Identification System (FLPIS, www.mavi.fi ) with
ESRI (www.esri.com ) ArcGIS and ARC/View and SAS/GIS systems (www.sas.com) interconnected
with the Oracle based IACS system (Integrated Access Control System, ec.europa.eu/agriculture/direct-
support/iacs/index_en.htm) for the payment of EU agricultural subsidies.
01/91-05/95 , MTT Agrifood Research Centre (www.mtt.fi, www.luke.fi) ,
Role: GIS and Research Scientist and Data modeler & analyst with SAS tools
As a Senior Research Scientist for MTT Agrifood Research Centre (www.mtt.fi) and the Academy of
Sciences in Finland, my main tasks were: Geographical Information System (GIS) and dynamic crop
simulation model development with SAS software (www.sas.com) and ARC/Info (www.esri.com)
systems.
10/89-12/90 , SAS Institute Finland, (www.sas.com)
Role: SAS BI and Dataware house consultant
As a senior SAS consultant (www.sas.com ), my main tasks & projects included: (i) SAS Data
warehousing and reporting consulting, (i) SAS application development & consultation for Jaakko Pöyry
Oy and Suomen Tupakka Oy (BAT British-American Tobacco Co.).
EDUCATION
06/13 , PhD, D.Sc, Helsinki University, Faculty of Agriculture and Forestry
PhD, D.Sc., Helsinki University, 2013. Geomatics & DW with Agriculture and Forestry.
Specialties: Data warehousing technologies (Oracle, SAS), GIS (Geographical Information
System), Optical and SAR (Synthetic Aperture Radar)/Microwave Earth Observation (EO) and
Remote Sensing Satellite Systems, Agriculture and Forestry remote sensing systems with
generic cloud based web solutions for end users (ArcGIS Online). Cloud based SOA/SAAS
application development using remote sensing and satellite and Lidar based laser scanning
data for 3D modelling.
10/00, SAS Certified Developer for Data warehousing certification, SAS Institute Espoo, Finland.
SAS Certified Developer for Data warehousing certification, 2000, SAS Institute Espoo,
Finland (www.sas.com)

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04/15, DevOps/Robot Framework application development and automated testing education with Agile
& Scrum and JIRA/Confluence (Atlassian) and GIT technologies (Eficode.fi & Saranen Consulting,
Innopoli, Espoo).
CERTIFICATES
SAS Certified Developer for SAS Data warehousing certification, 2000, SAS Institute Espoo,
Finland (www.sas.com).
TECHNOLOGY SKILLS SUMMARY
SUMMARY OF SKILLS NUMBER OF YEARS SKILL LEVEL*
Technical skills
DevOps/Robot Framework application development and automated testing with
Agile & Scrum and JIRA/Confluence (Atlassian) and GIT technologies
1 2
RDBM systems (DB2, Oracle 10g,11g, 12c,Microsoft SQL Server) 4 years 4
RDBM systems (DB2, Oracle 10g,11g, 12c,Microsoft SQL Server) 4 years 4
SAS Data Warehousing and reporting (www.sas.com ) > 10 years 4
Deployment Manager for Oracle (10g, 11g) using Apache Tomcat web and application
servers.
2 3
Pl/SQL,SQL+,SQL Developer, Jdeveloper, Java, JavaScript with Oracle RDBM 4 years 3
Other (C, Perl, Fortran, ADA, Python) 5 years 3
Client/Server application development under Windows Server 2003-2008 with
Microsoft SQL Server, Unix (HP-UX, AIX), Linux (RedHat, Debian) OS’s
5 years 4
Networks (Novell, AD, TCP/IP, LAN,WLAN) 4 years 3
Application knowledge
Oracle based TIA (Insurance Application, www.tiatechnology.com/ ,
deployment manager in the Valtionkonttori project)
2 3
Oracle based IACS/FLPIS (EU Integrated Access Control System,
ec.europa.eu/agriculture/direct-support/iacs/index_en.htm for EU based
subsidies payment system
1 3
IT disciplines
Software development > 10 years 4
Team Leading (research group) 3 years 3
Project Planning 5 years 3
Analysis & Design 5 years 4
DW Data warehousing & BI technologies with RDBMS
Oracle, DB2 RDBM systems 4 years 4
SAS (www.sas.com) Dataware house Systems > 10 years 4
Pl/SQL (SQLDeveloper) and Java (Jdeveloper) with Oracle RDBM 4 years 3
Deployment Manager for Oracle using Apache Tomcat web and application servers 2 3
Cloud service with GIS and Big Data: Generic cloud & SOA service 1 3

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development with satellite based Big Data
Client/Server application development under Windows, Unix, Linux OS’s 5 years 4
Industry knowledge
GIS & Remote Sensing Technologies >10 4
Spatial and Situational Awareness >3 4
Banking & Finance Sector >10 4
Consultation Forestry Sector >5 4
Consultation Food & Agriculture Sector >10 4
Research Agriculture & Forestry Sector >10 4
Retail Sector >5 3
Specialist in:
- DW (Data Warehouse), BI (Business & Location Intelligence), GIS
(Geographical Information System) consultant and data analyst with over ten
years of experience for application design, implementation and testing in
different development platforms using Oracle (v. 10,11g,12c) & SAS
(www.sas.com) and GIS (ESRI ArcGIS, www.esri.com , Erdas Imagine) based
softwares and applications
- Cloud based SOA/SAAS application development using remote sensing and
satellite and Lidar based laser scanning data for 3D modelling.
>5 4 (PhD, D.Sc.)
* 1 = basic, 2 = familiar, 3 = competent, 4 = expert
LANGUAGE SKILLS
Language skills NUMBER OF YEARS SKILL LEVEL*
English 4
Finnish (native) 4
Swedish 3
German 2
French 2
* 1 = basic, 2 = familiar, 3 = competent, 4 = expert
HOBBIES
SAS Technical Club. Regular update of new DW & Java technologies like Hadoop with Big Data and
cloud services (SAS Institute, Espoo, Finland).
ACHIEVEMENTS
CGI Global Innovation competition using new cloud based and SOA (Service Oriented Architecture)
services with new insurance products: Several proposals of integrating insurance BI data with GIS
locations intelligence data based on cloud services.

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Pilot and Prototype Demo using ArcGIS Online cloud service is available at http://bit.ly/OQDIPZ,
account: hlaurila, pw: cgidemo1, please use Chrome or Mozilla Firefox browser).
RECOMMENDATIONS AND FURTHER INQUIRIES
Jukka Korva Aureolis (Jukka.Korva@Aureolis.com)
Dr. Mika Karjalainen Finnish Geodetic Institute (Mika.Karjalainen@FGI.fi)
Stefan Winqvist CGI Finland (Stefan.Winqvist@CGI.com)
CONTACT AND ADDITIONAL INFO LINKS
Heikki Laurila, (PhD., D.Sc.) Specialist in Datawarehouse and GIS Systems
E (private1): halaurila@gmail.com
E (private2): heikki.laurila@pp2.inet.fi
Mobile +358-50-596 83 18
Skype: hlaurila1
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