WORK:

Ministry of Economic Affairs and Communications, Department of State Information Systems, head of eGovernment Unit,

EDUCATION:

1983 PhD, Scientific Academia, USSR, Moskva

1970 University of Tartu, mathematics

EXPERIENCE:

1970-1991 Institute of Information, scientist, head of department

1992-2000 State Chancellery, department of state information systems

2001- Ministry of Economics Affairs and Communications, head of eGovernment division

AWARDS

Bronze medal Scientific Academia, USSR, Moscow (exhibition of information systems) -1974

Person of Year 2002 (Association of Estonian Information Technology and Telecommunications Companies) as architect of X-road and eCitizens environment in Estonia - 2003

ACTIVITIES:

Initiator of IT infrastructure projects in Estonia: Single point entry to government resources www.riik.ee, portal tom.riik.ee (I decide today), portals of Estonian government and prime minister, middleware X-tee, eCitizen environment KIT (http://www.eesti.ee/ and https://www.eesti.ee). Coordinator of interoperability framework of Estonia and architect of state information systems.

Member of Pan-European eGovernment Services Committee (European Commission, IDABC), member of eGovernment subgroup (European Commission, INFSO) and member of EC IDABC interoperability expert groups (European Interoperability Framework, European Interoperability Strategy, eID Interoperability, Open Source Software, National Interoperability Framework Observatory).