Fostering a culture of innovation within our GenAI team, encouraging experimentation and leading initiatives to transform cutting-edge AI research into practical, game-changing solutions.

𝐑𝐞𝐬𝐩𝐨𝐧𝐬𝐢𝐛𝐢𝐥𝐭𝐢𝐞𝐬 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐢𝐦𝐩𝐚𝐜𝐭:
• Built from the ground-up and now leading a high-performing, diverse team while fostering a collaborative and inclusive culture.
• Within a year, ran 10 PoCs and pushed two innovative products towards pilot stage, with significant potential value for the gaming- and broader industry.
• Leading teams through the project lifecycle.
• Defining clear objectives and success criteria for projects related to SLMs and AI Asset Generation.
• Developed and executed product strategies that align with company goals and market opportunities, focusing on high-impact projects/products for games as well as broader industry potential initiatives.
• Driving hiring processes for top talent and prioritizing team growth, ensuring each member's development while maintaining work-life balance.
• Responsible for driving business development efforts through proactive engagement with potential partners and industry leaders.
• Established key partnerships with AI Denmark, ITU, and other institutions.
• Secured a PostDoc Grant.
• Working closely with internal stakeholders to align on AI tool development and driving successful experimentation and execution across departments.
• Representing the company at industry forums, contributing to AI legislation groups, have our team represented at conferences.
• Working towards positioning the company as a thought leader in AI and game development.
• Manage budgets.
• Manager responsibility of 10 direct reports.

External editor; reviewing game companies' applications for funding.

Board advisor to the start-up, Affecture. Supporting them in their product discovery process and growth.

As Senior Technical Program Manager, my main focus is on driving for alignment and coaching tech teams and team leads in their planning, product focus, communication and processes, in order to create transparency towards stakeholders and valuable outcomes to our users.

• Responsible for delivery and alignment of complex and cross team initiatives, Programs and Outcomes
• Coaching teams to become more product-led, agile and data driven
• Introducing and working with OKR's
• Enabling better cross-team collaboration and transparency
• Communicating regularly with the program stakeholders
• Risk and dependency management
• Continuous improvement of product development processes
• Change Management

Results:
• Driving a program that will result in significant reductions in support and maintenance, increased profitability, new features, better user experiences.
• Improved ability and visibility of incremental value delivery through introducing OKR's
• Saw a transparency issue for teams and introduced a presentation format that improved communication across a 150 people org.
• Led the implementation of quarterly planning for 13 teams, which improved team focus, planning and transparency across teams.
• Created the concept of- and facilitated an Architecture Review meeting for teams to share, demo and discuss complex technical designs.

Product Manager / Product Owner for one of IKEA's digital solutions. My focus was on developing and innovating the digital co-worker experience at IKEA.

• Developing global co-worker solutions within merchandising and store operations
• Developing product vision and strategy
• Strong focus on innovation, human-centric design and data-driven development
• Working with OKR's, Agile and DevOps mindset
• Managing global roll-outs
• Building high performance teams based on trust and ownership

Impacts:
• Successful global roll-out and adoption of product
• Build a successful co-creation process that empowered co-workers
• Increased efficiency by 25% in different work processes
• Increased sales through introducing a better data-driven decision-making solution
• Increased our release rate from once every two months to twice per week
• Transformed into an empowered product team

• Agile project management
• Business analysis
• Human-centered design
• Team leadership
• Workshop facilitator
• Certified Product Owner
• Certified Scrum Master
• Certified in SAFe 4.5

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Client projects:
17.05.18 - 04.06.18
Agile analysis, workshop and report with focus on high performance teams, agile processes and governance

IKEA 01.09.18 - 31.10.19
Business analyst on two applications; working with agile delivery and development, change management and product strategy, requirements and user experience.

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Other involvements:
Chairman in Fellowship Of Spades (Co-worker event group)
Organizer of monthly Friday bar
Co-host at Capgemini Awards 2019

As project manager at Liva Healthcare, the main goal was to streamline development and business strategy. This was accomplished through close collaboration and communication between teams as well as structuring of the general development, specifying features, creating milestones, aligning team expectations and coordinating with external partners.

• Bridged the communication between development, business and strategy
• Project manager of internal teams and third parties
• Motivate and lead team of developers
• Develop project plans to track progress
• Scrum master
• Create and maintain documentation
• Mock up UI/UX features in Figma
• Use project tools like: Jira, Trello and Team week.

Mindfire's mission is to connect startup enthusiasts with entrepreneurs. We organize events that involve idea pitching, inspiring discussions, matchmaking and guest speakers from various backgrounds. The event concept is based on the idea that 'everyone knows something' and sometimes the solution to a problem lies outside one's normal circles. We believe that people want to help each other and that we together can make the startup scene here in Copenhagen bigger and better.

• Hosted start-up events, to help advise and motivate new businesses to build successful companies.
• Created a specific workshop to help define challenges and actionable solutions.

As a producer I’ve had many responsibilities in relation to the product development process - managing a diverse team of programmers and artists, delivering the product to a deadline within budget, overseeing quality assurance and legal requirements. Furthermore, I’ve been managing client relationships and product-wishes, with respect to the internal team and development cycle.

Besides having project responsibilities, I had an influence on the day-to-day work in the company and helped develop processes and strategic solutions on how to improve our work methods.

Peoples well-being is important to me and I truly enjoy motivating my teams and get my energy from good relations. Engaging with people in general is one of my personal motivations.

Project management
• Managed 10+ projects with teams of 3-10 people.
• Implemented SCRUM to fit the needs of the company which improved planning and communication.
• Defined milestones, visions and goals to the product development process.
• Worked with quality and legal requirements.
• Responsible for recruitment.

Client management
• Point of contact and responsible for client relations.
• Created and facilitated creative workshops and hackathons with clients.
• Negotiated more projects with clients.
• Advised the client about the product, aligned expectations and maintained satisfaction.

Team management
• Created a team workshop that significantly improved performance and motivation.
• Led after-action-reviews to help the team improve and learn from projects.
• SCRUM master

Budget responsibility
• Managed project and change requests in regards to budget, resources and deadlines.

I got a lot of experience with strategy while working at Stifinder, a consultancy with expertise in leadership- and team development. This included building high performance teams, creating graphic game plans, understanding different personality behaviors derived from the “Whole-Brain Model” and a general focus on authentic leadership. This job also inspired me to write my thesis about “Trust and the Fear of Failure”, where we developed a workshop that helped improve team performance through trust.

• Participated in 25+ extensive workshops with clients like LEGO, Novo Nordisk and Jyske Bank as well as international companies.
• Worked with transformative leadership and strategy implementation.
• Used play and games to engage teams and managers towards building high performance teams.
• Used diverse and creative methods, like storytelling, metaphors and graphic game plans to help leaders commit to goals and milestones.
• Many tools helped prepare and equip leaders to manage change.