Experience

Mojang Studios

• Sweden
• Computer Games
• 400 - 500 Employee

• Operations Director

  • Jul 2022 - Present

  Stockholm, Stockholm County, Sweden

• Leadership Program Trainer and Coach

  • Jun 2021 - Jun 2022

  Stockholm, Stockholm County, Sweden Custom designed a leadership training for Mojang Studios in collaboration with the Leadership Team and my colleagues Michael Göthe and Jennie Mårtensson. The training runs over multiple cohorts for 3-4 months and includes an individual leadership coaching series for each participant. We trained 6 cohorts (72 leaders) over the course of a year.

• Senior Organizational Coach

  • Jan 2021 - Jun 2022

  Stockholm Worked with the Vanilla Game Team that develops Minecraft in Stockholm. Coaching the leadership team in their work to support a fast growing organization with the challenges and opportunities that arise. Facilitating team discussions, helping clarify expectations, define direction and enable high performant team work.



Y&D Sundman AB

• Sweden
• IT Services and IT Consulting

• Organization and Team Coach and Trainer

  • Jan 2007 - Present

  Organizational and team coaching. Working with organizations to facilitate and improve collaboration for better outcomes! Clients worked with: King, LRF, Ray Search, Trust Weaver, SVTi, ComHem Product Management program: Customized training program for your organization to help Producers/Product Owners/Product Managers grow and develop as individuals and in their roles to better help the organization. Programs completed for: Volvo, Star Stable, Paradox Coaching skills program:… Show more Organizational and team coaching. Working with organizations to facilitate and improve collaboration for better outcomes! Clients worked with: King, LRF, Ray Search, Trust Weaver, SVTi, ComHem Product Management program: Customized training program for your organization to help Producers/Product Owners/Product Managers grow and develop as individuals and in their roles to better help the organization. Programs completed for: Volvo, Star Stable, Paradox Coaching skills program: Helping team coaches/engineering managers/scrum masters level up by providing them with a learning environment where they learn theories and experiment and get feedback. Program completed for: Folksam Professional individual coaching. Helping individuals define and reach their goals and successfully overcome impediments. I've also published a set of resources to help teams stop managing bugs and start focusing on quality www.fixitnowordeleteit.com Show less



ClimateView

• Sweden
• IT Services and IT Consulting
• 1 - 100 Employee

• VP Special Projects

  • Oct 2020 - Jul 2021

  Stockholm I worked with the leadership team to get the company strategy ready for a series A funding round. I supported the product leadership in defining their strategy and ways of working, and headed the Transition Project and the work to define Climate View's future path into open data.



Paradox Interactive

• Sweden
• Computer Games
• 300 - 400 Employee

• Product Manager Training Leader

  • Apr 2020 - Jun 2021

  Stockholm, Stockholm County, Sweden Creating and leading a training program for Product Managers at Paradox Interactive. With a focus on strategy, leadership and decision making in complex situations.



Crisp AB

• Sweden
• IT Services and IT Consulting
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Team Coach & Teacher

  • Jan 2018 - Dec 2020

  Stockholm, Sweden Coaching teams, leadership groups and product owners. Internal and external workshops to help address the needs of team leads/ engineering managers/ scrum masters/ team coaches/ product owners/ game producers Customers I've worked with: Volvo, Swedbank, ICA, King, Paradox, Doctrin, Nordea, Wooga, Star Stable

• Partner and Consultant

  • Sep 2009 - Dec 2020

  Stockholm, Sweden Board member: September 2011 - December 2012



King

• Sweden
• Entertainment Providers
• 700 & Above Employee

• Agile Coach

  • Feb 2020 - Sep 2020

  Stockholm, Stockholm County, Sweden Supported the leadership team transition a game team from preproduction to production. Helped and coached the team in working from home. Organized a remote game jam, facilitated a remote "offsite". Visualized and followed up on team health. Helped the team set up and improve a release process.



Star Stable Entertainment AB

• Sweden
• Entertainment
• 100 - 200 Employee

• Consultant: Product owner trainer

  • Nov 2019 - Aug 2020

  Stockholm, Stockholm County, Sweden A four month training program in product management skills for product owners at Star Stable, with follow up facilitations to help the product team work.

• Consultant: Coach

  • Nov 2018 - Dec 2019

  Stockholm, Sweden Working with the Star Stable Online teams and leadership team, as well as the executive management team to set strategy and evolve the teams' ways of working.



RaySearch Laboratories

• Sweden
• Medical Equipment Manufacturing
• 200 - 300 Employee

• Consultant: Agile Coach

  • Sep 2018 - Dec 2018

  Worked with the RayStation project management team to make improvements to the development and release process. Facilitated discussions for Functionality Owners, Scrum Masters and Testers to clarify the vision for the roles. Facilitated discussions with the nine development teams to converge on a common way of working.



LRF Media AB

• Sweden
• Media Production
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Consultant: Agile Coach

  • Aug 2018 - Dec 2018

  Stockholm, Sweden Coached the implementation of an agile work process for the development of digital content. Worked with one distributed delivery team and an organization with many stakeholders to enable alignment in vision and delivery. Supported the product management team and the delivery team in their new way of working.



Sovos EMEA

• United Kingdom
• Information Technology & Services
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Consultant: Coach

  • Mar 2018 - Jun 2018

  Stockholm, Sweden Helped create more clarity for the organization in leadership, prioritization and processes. Leadership coaching for Engineering, Operations and Support. The assignment included setting up a more structured way of working with product development and one on one coaching with the leadership in the technology department.



King

• Sweden
• Entertainment Providers
• 700 & Above Employee

• Consultant: Agile Coach / Team Coach - Candy Crush Friends

  • Dec 2015 - Dec 2017

  Stockholm, Sweden Worked as a team coach for a game team in the Stockholm studio. Coached the game team as they grew from 8 people to 45+, split into 5 sub-teams. Facilitated workshops with stakeholders to help them clarify ways of working with the teams. Worked with the production team (producers, business performance managers, team coaches) to define the direction for the game team. Helped the team through several changes in product direction. Focused on creating a living inclusive team culture that evolved as… Show more Worked as a team coach for a game team in the Stockholm studio. Coached the game team as they grew from 8 people to 45+, split into 5 sub-teams. Facilitated workshops with stakeholders to help them clarify ways of working with the teams. Worked with the production team (producers, business performance managers, team coaches) to define the direction for the game team. Helped the team through several changes in product direction. Focused on creating a living inclusive team culture that evolved as the team grew and the direction changed. Coached the other team coaches, introduced new team members into the group. Supported the team in merging old processes that worked with new ways of working based on our team needs. Worked closely with the producers to ensure transparency for all the teams, including facilitating self-selection workshops as we grew, as well as weekly team meetings, whole team retrospectives, team building days, creative workshops and conversations with external partners. Facilitated or presented and participated in several internal Agile community conferences. Hosted a biweekly Lean Coffee for the internal Stockholm Agile community. Contributed to the internal blog. Mentored and coached other team coaches. Presented King's way of working at external conferences including Agila Sverige.

• Consultant: Agile Coach / Team Coach - Candy Crush Soda

  • Nov 2013 - Dec 2015

  Stockholm, Sweden Worked as a team coach in the Candy Crush Soda team. Helped the team (25 - 35 people) find direction, and set achievable working goals to produce a game that was ready for release. Continued working with the team as they transitioned to a new phase with a successful live game. Facilitated several self-selection workshops as the team and the purpose and goals changed. Coached developers, artists, designers, testers and producers. Helped identify what the team's needs were and actively engaged… Show more Worked as a team coach in the Candy Crush Soda team. Helped the team (25 - 35 people) find direction, and set achievable working goals to produce a game that was ready for release. Continued working with the team as they transitioned to a new phase with a successful live game. Facilitated several self-selection workshops as the team and the purpose and goals changed. Coached developers, artists, designers, testers and producers. Helped identify what the team's needs were and actively engaged external parties to enhance our cooperation. Active in making sure that the team had working continuous integration builds and automated deploy builds. Helped make sure that the whole team was responsible for releasing by simplifying the release process, and increasing knowledge transfer by setting up a rotating release role each sprint. Built a simple JavaScript system to support an Earth Hour campaign and a donation link for the Nepal Earthquake survivors. In the fall of 2015, worked on a virtual team to create a portal to help with the refugee crisis in cooperation with the UNHCR and Red Cross and Red Crescent. Co-facilitated a Candy Studio game jam for 130+ people.



SEB

• Sweden
• Banking
• 700 & Above Employee

• Consultant: Agile Coach / Scrum Master

  • May 2013 - Oct 2013

  Stockholm, Sweden Worked as a scrum master on a proof of concept web project using .net. Facilitated a story mapping workshop to create a backlog for the project. Mentored the team in continuous integration and delivery and TDD. Facilitated sprint planning, retrospective and daily scrum meetings. Coached the team in Scrum methodologies, and automated testing. Coached other coaches working with their teams, and eventually was coaching several teams moving to Agile, or improving their current delivery… Show more Worked as a scrum master on a proof of concept web project using .net. Facilitated a story mapping workshop to create a backlog for the project. Mentored the team in continuous integration and delivery and TDD. Facilitated sprint planning, retrospective and daily scrum meetings. Coached the team in Scrum methodologies, and automated testing. Coached other coaches working with their teams, and eventually was coaching several teams moving to Agile, or improving their current delivery processes. Participated in a day long Agile Inspiration day, providing one on one agile coaching. Methodologies: Agile, Scrum, Kanban, TDD Technologies: MS SQL, C#, .net Operating systems: Windows Tools: Visual Studio 2008 and 2012, TFS Show less



Projectplace

• Software Development
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Consultant: Software Developer

  • Nov 2012 - Mar 2013

  Stockholm, Sweden Implemented a new Kanban board in the ProjectPlace application. Responsible for the development of features from the database queries to the CSS styles. Implemented front-end design with JavaScript and JQuery. Introduced a responsive solution for a burn-up diagram using Google Charts. Developed in Python using TDD. Mobile First and Responsive Design mentor, and scrum process coach. Methodologies: Agile, Scrum, Kanban, TDD Technologies: Python, CSS, Less, JavaScript, JQuery, Grunt… Show more Implemented a new Kanban board in the ProjectPlace application. Responsible for the development of features from the database queries to the CSS styles. Implemented front-end design with JavaScript and JQuery. Introduced a responsive solution for a burn-up diagram using Google Charts. Developed in Python using TDD. Mobile First and Responsive Design mentor, and scrum process coach. Methodologies: Agile, Scrum, Kanban, TDD Technologies: Python, CSS, Less, JavaScript, JQuery, Grunt, Selenium, Lettuce, MS SQL Operating systems: MacOSX, Windows Tools: Mercurial, BitBucket, Jenkins, IntelliJ Show less



SVT

• Sweden
• Broadcast Media Production and Distribution
• 700 & Above Employee

• Consultant: Scrum Master and Developer

  • Dec 2011 - Oct 2012

  Stockholm, Sweden Scrum master for the "Children's programming" team (barnkanalen.se and bolibompa.se). Made sure the delayed project to migrate the websites from Polopoly to Escenic got back on track, and delivered successfully. Worked with the program producers to put together a realistic backlog for the team. Developed and implemented a solution to deploy the Escenic site incrementally while the Polopoly site was still live. Worked within a smaller team to implement Akamai as a CDN and site acceleration… Show more Scrum master for the "Children's programming" team (barnkanalen.se and bolibompa.se). Made sure the delayed project to migrate the websites from Polopoly to Escenic got back on track, and delivered successfully. Worked with the program producers to put together a realistic backlog for the team. Developed and implemented a solution to deploy the Escenic site incrementally while the Polopoly site was still live. Worked within a smaller team to implement Akamai as a CDN and site acceleration engine. Active in feature development using Java, JSP and CSS (SASS). Developed automatic regression tests in Selenium. As a member of the virtual DevOps team iteratively improved the release process to enable continuous delivery, and an automatic deploy once a week. Introduced release retrospectives. Made sure that the stakeholders were available to make release decisions. Clarified the branching and roll-forward code strategies and improved them to allow for controlled releases. Restructured the Jenkins setup to allow for continuous integration and automatic deploy. Introduced a new system for managing content in the test environments. Methodologies: DevOps, Continuous Delivery, Agile, Scrum, TDD Technologies: Java, JUnit, CSS, Sass, JavaScript, Selenium, SpringMVC, JSP, Fabric, Python, Escenic Operating systems: MacOSX, Linux Tools: Mercurial, BitBucket, Solr, Maven, Jenkins, Akamai, Tomcat, IntelliJ Show less



Com Hem AB

• Sweden
• Telecommunications
• 100 - 200 Employee

• Consultant: Scrum Master

  • Aug 2010 - Dec 2011

  Stockholm, Sweden As scrum master, worked with the team responsible for migrating ComHem’s website from a legacy WebLogic application to the CoreMedia CMS. Supported the team in self-improvement by introducing structured retrospectives. Defined clear “Definitions of Done” for each step in the development process, and introduced conditions of satisfaction on the user story level. Managed the product backlog for several months when the team did not have a product owner. Worked closely with the stakeholders on… Show more As scrum master, worked with the team responsible for migrating ComHem’s website from a legacy WebLogic application to the CoreMedia CMS. Supported the team in self-improvement by introducing structured retrospectives. Defined clear “Definitions of Done” for each step in the development process, and introduced conditions of satisfaction on the user story level. Managed the product backlog for several months when the team did not have a product owner. Worked closely with the stakeholders on requirements and introduced weekly grooming meetings. Improved the communication between the development team in Stockholm and the product support team in India. Involved the support team in our development process and set up interactive handover meetings as part of the demo, ahead of each release. Development: Introduced a 0 downtime deploy, which allowed us to switch from the old application to the new system on comhem.se during working hours. This also allowed us to move our middle of the night deploys to morning deploys. Placed the HTTP configuration for the Apache Web Server in the version control system, and automated the deploy of the configuration. Made sure that all the environments were using the same configuration. Took on the role of Configuration Manager for the team, and worked with the delivery team on a branching strategy, tagging guidelines and release schedule. Increased the release frequency to every other week, down from once a month. Decreased the release time from 4-6 weeks to 3 days. Methodologies: Agile, Scrum, TDD Technologies: XML, Java/J2EE, Junit, Apache, Bash script, Spring, Soap, JSP, Grails, CoreMedia Operating systems: MacOSX, Linux Tools: Tomcat, IntelliJ, Subversion, Maven, Ant, Hudson/Jenkins Show less



Sony Mobile Communications

• Japan
• Telecommunications
• 700 & Above Employee

• Consultant: Software developer

  • May 2008 - Jun 2010

  Stockholm, Sweden Responsible for the technical proof of concept implementation of SiteSpect (a tool for multi-variate testing). Put together a project plan, coordinated the work between SiteSpect and Akamai. Used KeyNote to gather performance data related to using SiteSpect. Worked on finding conversion values to be used during the test, and presented the findings from the proof of concept trial. Designed and implemented an Ajax solution to replace a the SOAP implementation used to communicate with… Show more Responsible for the technical proof of concept implementation of SiteSpect (a tool for multi-variate testing). Put together a project plan, coordinated the work between SiteSpect and Akamai. Used KeyNote to gather performance data related to using SiteSpect. Worked on finding conversion values to be used during the test, and presented the findings from the proof of concept trial. Designed and implemented an Ajax solution to replace a the SOAP implementation used to communicate with the search engine Inquira. The solution converts the XML representation to JSON using XPath and JSONLib. The UI was developed using jQuery, CSS and Velocity. Methodologies: Scrum, TDD Technologies: JSON, AJAX, JavaScript, XPath, CSS, Java/J2EE, Junit, Spring, Velocity, SOAP, Polopoly Operating systems: MacOSX, Linux Tools: Akamai, Tomcat, Eclipse, JQuery, Subversion, Maven, Ant, TeamCity, Inquira Show less



Avega

• Sweden
• IT Services and IT Consulting
• 100 - 200 Employee

• Senior Java Consultant

  • May 2008 - Sep 2009

  Stockholm, Sweden Worked as a developer on Sony Ericsson’s website. The site was based on the content management system, Polopoly. Delivered high quality technical implementations. Handled right-to-left language issues, and solved Chinese text display problems. Worked closely with the team in Mumbai, India, and was the primary contact person for requirement clarification, architectural concerns and programming questions. Introduced a new process for branching and code management. Enabled the offsite teams to… Show more Worked as a developer on Sony Ericsson’s website. The site was based on the content management system, Polopoly. Delivered high quality technical implementations. Handled right-to-left language issues, and solved Chinese text display problems. Worked closely with the team in Mumbai, India, and was the primary contact person for requirement clarification, architectural concerns and programming questions. Introduced a new process for branching and code management. Enabled the offsite teams to influence the development processes and helped them gain control over their development environments. Methodologies: Scrum, TDD Technologies: Java/J2EE, Junit, Spring, Velocity, SOAP, Polopoly, JSON, AJAX, OAuth, JSP, CSS Operating systems: Windows, Linux Tools: Tomcat, Eclipse, MySQL, Lucene, Subversion, Maven, Ant, TeamCity, JProbe, Trac, LuntBuild Show less



SAP Ariba

• Germany
• Software Development
• 700 & Above Employee

• Software Engineer

  • Sep 2003 - Jun 2005

  Mountain View, CA Worked with Ariba’s “Buyer” product. Redesigned the e-mail notification system. Various different owners had worked on the system throughout the years, and it was difficult to manage and extend. The project also included introducing new security solutions per the customers’ requirements. Introduced unit tests for the existing functionality before starting new development. Implemented new functionality with proper language support as “Buyer” was used internationally and included support for… Show more Worked with Ariba’s “Buyer” product. Redesigned the e-mail notification system. Various different owners had worked on the system throughout the years, and it was difficult to manage and extend. The project also included introducing new security solutions per the customers’ requirements. Introduced unit tests for the existing functionality before starting new development. Implemented new functionality with proper language support as “Buyer” was used internationally and included support for Chinese and Japanese. Responsibilities also included training new developers as they joined Ariba’s Bangalore office in India. Methodologies: Agile Technologies: Java/J2EE, SMTP, JSP, JUnit Operating systems: Windows, Linux Tools: IntelliJ, Perforce, Ariba’s internal framework Show less



Determine Software

• Software Development
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Software Engineer

  • Nov 2000 - Mar 2003

  San Francisco Bay Area Designed and implemented “Personalized User Interfaces”, functionality that allowed customers to personalize the user interface to easily integrate into their own websites. Worked closely with a web developer to generate new CSS files and implement a new system for storing images, also gave the customers the ability to modify the settings while the system was live. Designed and implemented the “Leasing Decision” module. The project involved extracting leasing calculations from an Excel sheet… Show more Designed and implemented “Personalized User Interfaces”, functionality that allowed customers to personalize the user interface to easily integrate into their own websites. Worked closely with a web developer to generate new CSS files and implement a new system for storing images, also gave the customers the ability to modify the settings while the system was live. Designed and implemented the “Leasing Decision” module. The project involved extracting leasing calculations from an Excel sheet and implementing the logic in the product. Worked with JProbe to identify performance bottlenecks, improved the performance by modifying the database interface layer, optimizing SQL queries and performing database tuning. Introduced JUnit and set up a framework for unit testing. Improved and automated the build process using BASH and Ant. Introduced a new strategy for exception handling, and helped introduce coding standards. Methodologies: Scrum, XP Technologies: Java/J2EE, XML, XSL, CSS, JUnit, JSP, Servlets Operating systems: Windows, Linux Tools: Ant, Oracle 8i, JProbe, Toad Show less



Niku

• Software Development
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Software Engineer

  • 1999 - 2000

  Redwood City, CA Used Java, JavaScript, JSP, Java Beans and Servlets. Mentored junior team members in Java, object oriented programming and the company’s development process. Developed both server and client side functionality, from the database to the business logic, to the service layer and the user interface. Took the lead in various projects including globalization and validation on the client-side. Organized monthly brown bag lunches enabling developers to knowledge-share in an informal… Show more Used Java, JavaScript, JSP, Java Beans and Servlets. Mentored junior team members in Java, object oriented programming and the company’s development process. Developed both server and client side functionality, from the database to the business logic, to the service layer and the user interface. Took the lead in various projects including globalization and validation on the client-side. Organized monthly brown bag lunches enabling developers to knowledge-share in an informal setting. Methodologies: Process, UML Technologies: Java/J2EE, XML, XSL, JUnit, JSP, Servlets Operating systems: Windows, Sun Solaris Tools: Rational Rose, Visual SourceSafe, Oracle 8, ISS, Sybase, JRun Show less