Björn Torstensson Email & Phone Number

Stockholm County, Sweden

Stockholm, Sverige

One of four founding members of Frank & Fred Casino, a multi-market white-label casino operator launched in the summer of 2018. In 2019 I lead the launch of our second brand, Klirr, and I now act as a hybrid Product Manager/Owner of both brands. Hence it's my responsibility to make sure we deliver a kick-ass Casino experience. This includes:✔ Creating and maintaining the product roadmap from an operator perspective and liaising with the platform provider to align the visions of both parties.✔ Owning and grooming the backlog (frontend, back-office, and 3rd party tools).✔ Defining and following up on product KPI's and feature/bug prioritization metrics.✔ Performing market, trend, and competitor analysis as well as analyzing user patterns and data (Hotjar, Google Analytics, AWS QuickSight) - turning findings into roadmap items and features.✔ Writing clear requirements and making sure design is in place before development starts.✔ Designing and implementing A/B tests using Google Optimize and internal tools.✔ Being the first point of contact for the platform's project manager and developers.✔ 3rd-party vendor sourcing and negotiations.Since we are a small team, I also handle or assist in Business strategy, Content and campaign ideation, creation and translation, Facebook and Google advertising, CRM planning, Site maintenance, BI, Internal IT administration, Recruitment, Process improvement and automation.

Stockholm, Sweden

Creator of what is probably the best party game in the world - Listit!

Stockholm, Sweden

Claimony was a community where gamers got rewarded for their in-game achievements.In 2015, Claimony was voted Best In Show during IDD's Internet Discovery Day, listed as Sweden's hottest gaming startup by Internetworld, and was granted funds by VINNOVA for the innovative card game project Allians. Claimony partnered with several of the major players in the gaming industry such as Paradox Interactive, Microsoft, and Warner Bros., over 20 Indie game developers, and esports teams such as Fnatic, Team Dignitas and LGB.We launched Claimony on time using an agile development process where I acted as both Product Manager and Product Owner. This means I owned the product roadmap as well as broke down the high-level vision to user stories, tasks, and design briefs. As the CEO, I was also responsible for business development and strategy, sales & partnerships, financials, recruitment, community management, social media content creation and marketing, preparing and presenting at industry and startup events, as well as filing grant applications.

Solna

PositionProject Manager for implementations of SAS solutions.Main Responsibilities✔ Delivery aspects (resources, estimates, project method descriptions, etc.) during presales.✔ Creation of Statement of Work and other contractual documentation.✔ Creation and ownership of Project Charters (Goal and vision, Scope, Acceptance criteria, Software, and resource estimates, WBS, Gant chart, Project roadmaps, Milestones and deliverables, Assumptions, prerequisites and dependencies, Change, Issue, Risk and Stakeholder management processes, Communication plan, etc.).✔ Internal and client-facing follow-up on time and budget. ✔ Facilitating project, requirement, and risk analysis workshops as well as team meetings, daily stand-ups, project kickoff/out, lessons learned, and steering committee meetings.✔ Implementation of agile techniques where applicable.✔ Preparation of project status and decision basis.✔ Project handover.Selected Projects and Assignments✔ New reporting platform for county council healthcare.✔ SAS Visual Analytics implementation for a large telecom company.✔ Migration project for a bank (Financial reporting).✔ Customer Intelligence solution for a large bank.✔ Customer Intelligence solution for a telecom operator.✔ Fraud detection using Social Network Analysis for a government agency.✔ KPI reporting tool for a bank.✔ Cost and profitability analysis using Activity-Based Management for a paper mill.✔ Technical Account Manager (TAM) at a large Swedish government agency.Other✔ Specialized in Risk Management incl. creation of an internal risk management matrix.✔ Co-creation of agile plugin for SAS Project Management Methodology.✔ Pitched and led an internal Open Data analytics project.

✔ Scrum Master for 2 teams, in total 8 persons, working with development, maintenance, and production support for a large Swedish bank.✔ Successful introduction of Scrum as way-of-work (from previous "traditional" setup). This included internal processes as well as guiding the client.

✔ Full life-cycle development and maintenance of bank sales support system.✔ Application performance tuning (Oracle database response time reduced by ~70%).✔ Mentor for new team members. Conducting interviews of job applicants.✔ Identifying leads for additional sales, involved in Pre-Sales activities.

✔ Providing requirements and technical support for team in India.✔ Responsibility for process description and continuous improvement.✔ Identifying and mitigating process and communication issues.✔ Managing the offshore implementation of an electronic invoice service.

Master Thesis in the area of software security testing. Introducing a framework for software security testing, using high-level, generic Attack Patterns.

Bengaluru Area, India

As a Sales Lead, I was tasked with finding and contacting Nordic companies interested in outsourcing all of or parts of their development. Duties included market research and outreach, travel planning and meeting arrangements, client management during their offshore visit, and planning of a sales event in Finland (proposing speakers, content, timings, and logistics).