Jari Honkonen
Project Manager at Helsingin kaupunki – Helsingfors stad – City of Helsinki
Helsinki, Finland
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Top SchoolJari Honkonen is a Helsinki-based project manager and innovation lead with 13 years of experience designing and delivering smart mobility, digital services, and customer-centric products for public and private sectors. He combines a background in industrial design with hands-on product ownership and programme management in projects ranging from automated public transport pilots to citywide mobility hubs. Known for translating user insight into operational pilots, he helps companies experiment in authentic urban environments and build repeatable innovation processes. Jari has led open-data and journey-planner initiatives, driven AI- and ML-based service concepts, and built incentive frameworks to embed innovation into organizations. He balances strategic ecosystem thinking with team-level coaching and B2B sales experience, often shaping solutions where transport data, service design, and customer experience intersect. Colleagues describe him as entrepreneurial and curious, with a knack for making complex public-sector projects move from concept to measurable impact.
13 years of coding experience
20 years of employment as a software developer
MA, Industrial Design, MA, Industrial Design at Taideteollinen korkeakoulu - Konstindustriella högskolanIndustrial Design, Industrial Design at Royal College of Art
Finnish, English, Swedish, Norwegian
Github Skills (7)
parking7
hsl6
finnish5
react5
capacity4
typescript3
transport3
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
HSLdevcom/digitransit-site
Nov 2016 - Nov 2016
Digitransit.fi web site
Contributions:16 commits, 16 pushes, 1 comment in 15 days
digitransitweb-site
HSLdevcom/hsl-navigator
Feb 2013 - Feb 2013
Contributions:2 commits in 1 day
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