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Copenhagen, DK

Copenhagen Metropolitan Area

• Lead and manage several major projects with significant impact across the entire Group, including platform integration projects
• Co-creating and building the new PPMO model, shaping how the company operates and executes projects
• Collaborating with C-level stakeholders to align on project management principles and company-wide strategies

• GN Hearing/Resound
• Drive strategic change initiatives across R&D, including planning, implementing, measuring, and anchoring of changes in the culture and processes.
• Secure input and alignment with stakeholders outside R&D, such as product management, quality, HR, IT and finance.
• Definition, management and reporting of KPIs, collecting data that demonstrated the progress of the transformation efforts.
• Alignment of Epics for the R&D quarterly prioritization (SAFe PI events).
• Leading a migration from JIRA to Azure DevOps, coordinating planning, scope, execution, timelines, and stakeholder engagement.

Capital Region, Denmark

• GN Audio/Jabra
• Led the Platform Introductions Team, owning enablers for platform teams, leading the whole lifecycle chipset introduction projects, and integrating processes into the established SAFe structure within the company.
• Maintained the Reference Hardware Roadmap for accuracy and relevance.
• Organized status meetings, demos, and other team-related ceremonies.
• Reported team activities to relevant company-wide stakeholders for transparency.
• Prioritized global support cases for GN Audio’s sites, ensuring efficient resolution.

Copenhagen Metropolitan Area

• Established test approach and strategy, ensuring comprehensive project test coverage.
• Managed and coordinated test activities and phases with a focus on defect and risk management.
• Provided leadership in line management for test engineers and subject matter experts, includingresource allocation and effort optimization.
• Balanced tight timelines, overseeing project scope.
• Produced documentation and reports for internal and external stakeholders, enhancing transparentcommunication.
• Played a key role in release management support, ensuring seamless project launches.

Copenhagen, Capital Region, Denmark

• Co-planning, management, and execution of the test process.
• Ensured test coverage for relevant test phases.
• Conducted risk management and day-to-day coordination of test activities.
• Additionally tasked with defect tracking based on release artifacts and change management.

Copenhagen Metropolitan Area

• Conducted data-driven functional testing (SIT, UAT).
• Created requirement-based test plans/test cases.
• Reported to the relevant stakeholders and managed defects.
• Used tools/platforms like Excel for test case design, JIRA for test assignment and task management, and Sharepoint as the documentation repository.

Coimbra, Portugal

• Overseen the agile project lifecycle, ensuring team compliance to the company quality standards andQMS.
• Initiated the creation and maintenance of essential workflow processes, including release, development,and merging processes.
• Executed comprehensive functional and end-to-end manual testing.
• Implemented functional and regression tests using Robot Framework.
• Coordinated communication channels between the validation team and development/managementteams, ensuring cohesive collaboration.
• Directly collaborated and trained customers on their on-site facilities in Milan and Copenhagen.

Leiria, Portugal

• Preventive maintenance and service of medical devices, in compliance with relevant standards (ISO 9001; ISO 19223; ISO 14117)
• Troubleshooting, reporting, and managing parts inventory

Master'S Degree, Biomedical Engineering - Medical Devices

Bachelor'S Degree, Biomedical Engineering