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Mika Saarela is a highly experienced Senior Program Manager at Microsoft, having joined the company in July 2014 to enhance product creation processes for Surface products as part of the Microsoft Devices PMO team. Prior to Microsoft, Mika served in various roles at Nokia from June 1998 to June 2014, including Senior Manager of Operational Development for Nokia Lumia Engineering and Head of Product HW Validation & Analysis, focusing on product validation and testing processes. Mika also worked as a Manager for HW Validation, ensuring consistent operations across global productization locations, and held several engineering and quality management positions, emphasizing product reliability and testing. Mika holds a Master of Science degree in Electrical Engineering from the University of Oulu, obtained between 1990 and 1998.
Microsoft
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Founded by childhood friends Bill Gates and Paul Allen in Redmond Washington, Microsoft began its operations as a computer software company. They quickly became a household name within the computer operating system market when it was founded in 1975. With their successful IPO a few years later, they went on to acquire several large operations such as LinkedIn and Skype giving them total market dominance. With the shift to a devices and services strategy and under new leadership, Microsoft went on to become the most valuable publicly traded company in the world. In 2019, they made history as the third US public company to reach 1 trillion market cap, and most recently, they have been valued at over 2 trillion. Today, Microsoft generates revenue by developing, licensing, and supporting a wide range of software products and services, by designing and selling hardware, and by delivering relevant online advertising to a global customer audience. In addition to selling individual products and services, they offer suites of products and services such as consulting to computer system integrators and developers. However, they are mostly known for Microsoft Windows Operating System, Microsoft Office suite, and the Internet Explorer web browser. More specifically, their products include operating systems for personal computers, servers, phones, and other intelligent devices; server applications for distributed computing environments; productivity applications; business solution applications; desktop and server management tools; software development tools; video games; and online advertising. They also design and sell hardware including the Xbox 360 gaming and entertainment console, Kinect for Xbox 360, Xbox 360 accessories, and Microsoft PC hardware products