Welcome to Brazen Careerist!

About Me

Juha Liikala is a Location Independent entrepreneur and a Blogger at NomadCouch.com. At Nomad Couch, he blogs about the challenges of nomadic entrepreneurship & the pro's and con's of the location independent lifestyle.

He's also the co-founder and owner of webVehicle, a Finland based software development company specializing in creating web based solutions to car owners, dealers & workshops around the world. Walking the walk, he's building the company in a way that enables him to travel and manage the business from the road, no matter which WiFi hotspot he happens to bump into next.

If you're into online based resource/product building (ebooks, membership web sites, web application & plugins, etc.) you might also want to check out Juha's latest project: ResourceCreationClub.com.

Work History

• www.nomadcouch.com
• Blogger & Founder
• October 2009 to Present

• Blogger and the founder of the Nomad Couch: A Nomadic Solopreneur's Guide To Online Product Business.

• Luovi vocational college
• IT-consultant
• September 2009 to Present

• Working as a IT-consultant. Building enterprise 2.0 stuff on top of SharePoint and other web platforms.

• webVehicle Oy
• Co-Founder & Owner
• January 2011 to Present

• webVehicle is a Finland based software development company specializing in creating web based solutions to car owners, dealers & workshops around the world.

• CCC Group
• Software Analyst
• May 2006 to June 2009

• Worked with web information systems development on top of MS Sharepoint and WSS technologies. More spesifically, development tasks have included e.g. building roled based web environments (e-desktops) for different enterprise role holders (project managers, client representatives etc.).

  Furthermore, took part of CCC’s internal software project process development by creating a MOSS based custom workspaces and applications (web parts) for project teams. All MOSS & WSS projects have included both application development and server configuring tasks.

  In addition to MOSS projects, took part on Windows applications project, where the tasks included .NET C# development. These applications now control the product line for a large international metal factory.

  First project at CCC dealt with a large web information systems project in LAMP (Linux, Apache, MySQL, PHP) environment. This system now controls one major finnish telecom operator’s broadband provision process.

Education

• University of Finland
• Master of Science, Software Business, Digital Media
• 2001 - 2009

• Currently writing thesis on the subject of "A Study of eCommerce-Business Models of Location Independent Entrepreneurs".