Induction to WebLogic Commerce Servers and its fundamentals of the program. Traveled once again to a different Nokia office location in Mäkkylä.
Then off to another place for the remainder of the week actually working with a live version of WebLogic Commerce Server and learning about the fundamental aspects of the application. I learned a lot from the 5 day course and am looking forward to the future course with other programs that are tied together with WLCS.

Went out for the first time to get a taste of the night life in Helsinki with some of Hanna’s workmates and had a lot of fun with them. Even won some money at the black jack tables. It was a fun night and it was LONG evening.

more to come soon…

Went to our Valimo office of Nokia for my induction to Nokia meeting from 0900 to 1300. It is for the foreign employees to learn more about services offered by Nokia and also to have any of our questioned that we may have regarding our relocation and our curiosity of living abroad. I learned a few new things other than what I have already experienced visiting Finland and also learned vital information regarding the Nokia intranet and how useful it can be in finding general information on just about anything to do with Nokia. I finally met with my relocation consultant, Helka, and it was nice to match the voice, and emails to the face. :)

Went back to Tapiola to make sure that everything went well with the meeting and that Hannu received the files I worked on the night before. Also checked out my schedule for next few weeks regarding my training for WebLogic Commerce Server and Java Beans / Enterprise Java Beans.

Also got my sched. with my induction period which will be a 4 month training period with which Kalle and I went over and discussed regarding the training period.

I AM HAVING LOTS OF FUN WITH THIS JOB SO FAR!

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Went to my first meeting and unfortunately, I can not indulge in what the meeting was about, but it was quite interesting. I had to travel to Lauttasaari where Hanna works at – Stonesoft (only like around the block to be exact where I was) so I was able to commute with Hanna. Met many new people in this meeting and took as much notes as I could. I was, at first, just going to the begining of the meeting, but then was selected by my superiors Hannu and Kalle, to be invovled with this project and to come back in the afternoon to continue with the meeting. So I learned quickly how to get to my office in Tapiola from Lauttasaari and back. And all the while it is very very cold. Like avg temp is below 20’F.

The next morning came into the office to meet my other co worker Maarit K. she also will be involve in our project and I learned my first duties and created a budget plan for this project. It was quite interesting and very exciting to create something from scratch. Though it was stressfull, I managed with lots of help from many people in getting information, along with Maarit, we were able to finish up our proposal for Hannu and Kalle for a meeting the next day. I stayed late in the evening finishing up the last minute revision of the proposal and went home to finish up the presentation.

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Ah, yes. My first day at Nokia.
It was quite nice and met many new people, which by the way, I am so happy we all wear name badges 8w/security keys) or I would forget who is who.
Got my new toys, a moble phone (Nokia 9110i communicator) and a IBM ThinkPad T20 700mhz pIII laptop. Kinda kewl if you ask me.
I just kinda hung out in my new office and found out that my tutor / buddy is also my co worker and secratary too.
I just felt obligated to do something instead of just doing nothing for 8 hours. So I learned as much as I could about Nokia and what they are really about.
So, my coworkers names are Vladimir, Maarit V., Maarit K., Kalle, Hannu, and Jussi.
I am sure I will be meeting more people as the days wear on.

more to come soon..