Experience

muinmos ApS
• Board Member

  • Oct 2014 - Present


KSP Consulting

• Greece
• Legal Services
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Owner and Consultant

  • Aug 2013 - Present

  Freelance Consultant within areas of: Software Program and Project Management, Agile software development and Software development through Nearshoring or Offshoring. Freelance Consultant within areas of: Software Program and Project Management, Agile software development and Software development through Nearshoring or Offshoring.



Saxo Bank

• Denmark
• Investment Banking
• 700 & Above Employee

• Senior Director, Head of Post-Trade Systems

  • Jan 2015 - Apr 2017

  Heading team of 80+ developers based in Copenhagen and Delhi. Component owner and delivery responsible for auto-test tools, release test and all post trade domain applications including outsourcing of critical applications.With direct reference to the CIO and as part of Saxo Bank’s Senior Management team, I have participated in setting direction and strategy for the bank.A very significant part of the 2+ year tenure has been spent on leading and implementing a profound organizational transformation; ranging from building a true global org structure to rekindling of each team member and making significant improvements on: quality, delivery and stakeholder satisfaction.Focus has also been on leadership and performance management to build high performance teams in a world where change is the only constant.Internal vendor and Steering Committee member on multiple large transformation programs spanning across the banks value chain. Show less

• Director, Head of Trading Systems

  • Oct 2013 - Dec 2014

  Heading team of 45+ developers based in Copenhagen and Delhi. Component owner and delivery responsible for auto test tools, release test and low latency business critical trading applications and core trading infrastructure components. Spearheading an internal performance optimization task-forces and a Continuous Delivery initiative bridging across all departments in Saxo Bank.



ScanJour

• IT Services and IT Consulting

• Program Manager

  • Jan 2013 - Aug 2013

  Program Manager and responsible for the ScanJour Platform Team and the ScanJour Case Management backend server system (Workzone Content Server). Team lead and people manager of team of 10 developers. Key achievements: Acquired detail knowledge of the core system and its related products. Developed product roadmap, and ensured product alignment with company product roadmap. Implemented Scrum in the team and worked as a Scrum Product Owner. Acted as escalation point for customer critical issues and exception management in general. Released multiple successful software releases on time. Show less

• Development Manager

  • Oct 2011 - Dec 2012

  Responsible for the entire Software and Auto-test development group and development activities across teams and departments in ScanJour. Talent management and people manager of a group of in total 28 developers in Kiev and Copenhagen. I’ve been primary point of contact in relation to the nearshore based development center in Kiev and to Microsoft related PSFD activities (Premier Support For Developers).Key achievements: I’ve been visible, inspiring and a motivating manager in a company suffering significant financial challenges. Despite numerous mass layoffs, I’ve managed to improve the job satisfaction and kept a low employee turnover both in Kiev and in Copenhagen.I’ve architected a major organizational change, where we changed the organization from matrix to a product line based over a period of 9 month and acted as R&D key stakeholder in the organizational change management process. Show less



Traen A/S

• Denmark
• Building Materials
• 1 - 100 Employee

• SW Development Manager

  • May 2010 - Oct 2011

  Responsible for all product development related activities of Traen’s Case Management system (Acadre). People and talent management of a development department in Kiev with 12 people and 3 copenhagen based teams comprising in total 10 people. Key achievements: I managed to implement significant product quality and stability improvements. I was key in changing coorporation and communication between departments; from a reactive and confronting approach to a proactive and team oriented approach going across the teams and departments who were involved the full product value chain. Scrum were introduced and implemented in the Copenhagen and Kiev based teams. Decision making was changed to be facts and value chain based. Significant communication efforts were made to establish a common understanding of required product quality. I established an architect function to ensure ample focus on forward going activities and quality improvements on an architectural level in the existing code base. A series of releases were delivered on time and with a quality improvement which had a positive effect on customer trust and satisfaction. Show less



Capinordic A/S

• Denmark
• Software Development
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Head of IT

  • Aug 2009 - Apr 2010

  Responsible for all IT in Capinordic A/S Key achievements: Renegotiation of outsourcing contracts, operational excellence including management of external consultants. We passed an IT audit done by Danish FSA.When Capinordic Bank went bankrupt and was taken over by Finansielstabilitet, I orchestrated a complete segregation of all IT systems between Capinordic Bank and Capinordic Holding and established a completely new and independent IT structure for Capinordic Holding based on an outsourced Citrix solution in less than two month. Show less

• IT Program Manager

  • Apr 2009 - Jul 2009

  Responsible for IT projects in the Capinordic A/S Key achievements: I developed a project governance model for IT projects in the Capinordic, with focus on providing transparency in project selection, project priority and execution and management reporting.Day to day management of subcontractors and external consultants. Acted as sparring for Senior Management regarding strategic planning and organizational development.



BridgeIT

• Finland
• Business Consulting and Services

• Consultant

  • Nov 2008 - Mar 2009

  People Manager for 3 software development consultants at BridgeIT and assigned as Senior Project Manager at Capinordic A/S on a CMS migration project. Key achievements: Assigned as external Senior Program Manager on the Capinordic’s internet portal migration from Sitecore to Sharepoint including: Project scoping, requirement specification and project planning, subcontractor and contract negotiations, implementation, test and final production rollout, and organizational change management in regards to this. Show less

• Head of Change Initiatives

  • 2008 - 2008

  Heading a business analyst function with 6 employees, with the objective to strengthening the collaboration between IT and the business. The department was providing Business Analyst or Scrum Product Owners for project participation from the initial requirements gathering phase to commercial launch of projects with IT deliverables. Key achievements:A significant effort was put into creating a high performance team and on strategic and tactical positioning in the organization and on interviewing and hiring candidates primarily from the UK and US.As member of the management and project governance group I was responsible for coordinating, prioritizing and preparing ideas, business cases and projects before they were presented to the Senior Executive Management group for final sign off. Show less

• Senior Project Manager and Head of Data Feed Systems

  • 2007 - 2008

  Heading 16 software developers and one Project Manager in four Scrum teams including an offshore team in St. Petersburg in Russia.My primary responsibilities were: Team and talent management both in Copenhagen and in St. Petersburg. Strategic and organizational development, hiring, project management, vendor negotiations and weekly reporting to senior management.Key achievements:Scrum was introduced in all teams and I acted as product owner on all projects in those teams, and was end to end responsible for business critical zero latency market data distribution applications in this department.Nominated and elected as a Saxo Bank Role Model 2007.28 role models were elected that year out of 700 employees. A Saxo Bank role model is a cultural guardian and a consistent high performer. Show less

• Project Manager for Data Feed Systems

  • 2005 - 2007

  Project manager for all development project in Data Feeds System and for establishing an offshore development team in St. Petersburg.Key achievements: I established an offshore software development team of four developers in St. Petersburg. The objective was to create a team that would be able to act with the same roles and responsibilities as the Danish counterpart teams.Scrum was introduced and implemented at the creation of the team as a pilot study prior to introducing this to the Danish teams in early 2007.Successful roll out of a data feed provider backup system. Show less

• Project Manger

  • 2002 - 2005

  Software project manager on both internal as well as outsourced software projects and technical product specialist on a White Label version of the SaxoTrader platform.Key achievements:Project manager on a range of successful implementations of the White Label trader platform and participated in the pre-sales activities with partners in Europe. I developed a tool for easy configuration and setup of each partner specific trader platform.



i-data International (MPI Tech)

• Senior Manager

  • 2002 - 2002

  Heading a team of 10 software developers and acting as system architect and project manager on a large scale Client/Server printing application for the international banking industry. i-data was closed in 2002 due to bankruptcy. Key achievements: Participation in product planning and pre-sales activities. Heading a team of 10 software developers and acting as system architect and project manager on a large scale Client/Server printing application for the international banking industry. i-data was closed in 2002 due to bankruptcy. Key achievements: Participation in product planning and pre-sales activities.



Oticon A/S

• 1 - 100 Employee

• Project Manager and Senior software developer

  • 2000 - 2002

  Project Manager, team lead and developer on digital hearing aid fitting software projects. Key achievements:Software project manager, team lead and developer on a number of projects ranging from 6 to 8 months in duration with typically 4 to 6 fulltime attached development resources.

• Senior software developer

  • 1999 - 2000

  C og C++ developer of advanced fitting software for digital hearing aidsKey achievements:Participated in successful software and hardware releases and of development and design of object oriented modules for the next generation fitting software.



BG Bank

• Banking
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Senior software developer and system architect

  • 1998 - 1999

  Developer on a Client/Server application. Key achievements: Java development and product release planning. Developer on a Client/Server application. Key achievements: Java development and product release planning.



Purup-Eskofot A/S

• Software developer

  • 1997 - 1998

  C og C++ developer on advanced scanner software targeted the professional printing industry. Key achievements: Participated in development, test and software maintenance. Introduced TFS as source control tool. C og C++ developer on advanced scanner software targeted the professional printing industry. Key achievements: Participated in development, test and software maintenance. Introduced TFS as source control tool.



i-data International

• Belgium

• Software developer

  • 1993 - 1997

  Developer of GUI software for Windows 3.x, 95, NT, OS/2 og Novell. Key achievements: Developed GUI for an IPDS to PCL print server application and defined a company GUI standard. Developer of GUI software for Windows 3.x, 95, NT, OS/2 og Novell. Key achievements: Developed GUI for an IPDS to PCL print server application and defined a company GUI standard.



FOSS

• Denmark
• Appliances, Electrical, and Electronics Manufacturing
• 700 & Above Employee

• Software Developer

  • 1991 - 1993

  Developer of software for chemical analysis equipment. Key achievements: Developed a GUI for configuration and calibration. Developer of software for chemical analysis equipment. Key achievements: Developed a GUI for configuration and calibration.