Jani Huotari

•          Established vertical transportation consultancy and personal wealth portfolio management company

·        Strengthened and directed 20-member operations team and devised strategic initiatives to enhance operational efficiency and stimulate revenue and profitability growth for AED 20+ million operation.
·        Drove development efforts and actions towards obtaining ISO certification for the organization.

Took a hiatus from the work to recharge batteries and begun offering project and operations management consultancy services on vertical transportation industry.

·        Held full P&L responsibility for an AED 60 million annual revenue, 200+ employee multi-disciplined shipping container MnR operations.
·        Consistently delivered 10%+ year-on-year profitability growth while strengthened vendor/customer partnerships and implemented process improvements.

·        Conceptualized technical and commercial winning bid for elevator and escalator supply for major Infra project in Egypt with contract value exceeding USD 40 million.
·        Conceptualized a technical and commercial winning bid for elevator supply project in Kenya with contract value exceeding USD 10 million; the first major project successfully secured by KONE in the country. As an inte

·        Designed and implemented a comprehensive suite of tracking processes and tools to monitor COT performance and Improved execution timeliness across all five regional branches by 20%+.
·        Provided leadership to 30+ member technical sales support teams across the Middle East region while ensured professional growth by creating and conducting tailored training programmes for each team.

·        Directed timely validation, FAT and implementation process of technical design scope, including customized software and mechanical component designs, for a Hong Kong Metro Line projects valued USD 10+ million.

·        Led and transformed a 20-member engineering department from a distributor setup to a KONE frontline setup with operational processed while effectively managed team performance and output objectives.
·        Supervised team efforts towards multiple, high-profile winning bids with a combined contract values exceeding USD 100 million.
·        Responsible for timely delivery scope validati

Supported successful project executions by organizing timely and correct project scope materials for the site installation.
Supported successful bid processes by analyzing and evaluating the customer technical scope requirements and converting them for cost optimized delivery scopes.

Worked as Project Engineer / Layout Engineer at KONE.

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Issued Feb 2006 · Expired Feb 2009

Thesis: Creation of a Process-Handling Tool for Delivery Projects

Issued Dec 2002 · Expired Dec 2005