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Greater Seattle Area

Greater Seattle Area

National Oilwell Varco, Denmark / USA (NYSE: NOV), approx. 45.000 employees, a global provider of technology, equipment, and services predominantly to the oil and gas industry. • Program Manager for international organization responsible for execution of product launches, from technology concept through development to manufacturing and delivery with customers.• Responsible for definition, relevance and budget of R&D programs. Business Requirements, Product Definitions and Market Validation. • NPI Program Manager for optical remote sensing technology including hardware, software and manufacturing• Cross functional management of subject matter experts within several diverse fields• Responsible for tracking risk and performance developments with the development programs• Responsible for technical and commercial proposals of innovative new remote sensing technology to major international oil companies, and interface management during execution phase of first implementation.• Negotiation of contract for co-sponsored development of technology with major oil companies. • Program Manager leading the successful development and qualification of new concept for integrity monitoring of pipelines based on fiber optical remote sensing. • Responsible for definition and development of monitoring system software suite for data retrieval, IT and database infrastructure, data analysis and user interface• Responsible for development of the supply chain of high tech optical equipment and components• Responsible for risk management, performance management and communication within the team, steering committee and external stakeholders.

Copenhagen, Denmark

NKT Photonics, Denmark Based in Denmark w. approx. 100 employees, is the leading supplier of high performance optical fiber lasers and photonic crystal fibers. • Responsible for product definition and market validation of new optical fiber laser products. • Developed new line of super continuum ultra-broadband laser products based on photonic bandgap fibers.• Technical sales to very broad range of product application from bio-imaging applications with confocal microscopy over optical test equipment to food quality control and basic research. • Responsible for setting up a complete new manufacturing line and quality control for novel High Tech super continuum white light laser sources based on nonlinear photonic bandgap crystal fibers. • Driving organization changes in a cross-functional engineering heavy organization• Development of processes with acceptable process parameter windows and statistical process control. • Responsible for transfer of processes and documentation to manufacturing and training of technicians.• Management of specialized High-Tech fiber laser manufacturing with direct responsibility for production engineers and production technicians. Responsible for achieving production goals and increased productivity.• Responsible for product quality, continuous training of technicians, maintenance and development of manufacturing processes.• Management of product design reviews with development team for continuous product improvements for manufacturability and quality.

Piscataway, Nj, Usa

Photuris Inc., USA A startup company w. up to 100 employees, developing optical switching devices and supplying complete terminal equipment for metro/regional optical telecommunication networks.• Successfully developed the optomechanical design of all optical switching devices based on MEMS movable mirrors for optical telecommunication systems.• Responsible for design optimization and process development for optical device manufacturability • Definition and setup of quality lab for testing of high tech optical devices to Telcordia standards. • Successful qualification of all optical Reconfigurable DWDM Add-Drop Multiplexing switch system • Responsible for international outsourcing of development projects for fiber optical subsystems• Identification and selection of suppliers and setup of supply chain management.

Breinigsville, Pa, Usa

Bell Laboratories, Lucent Technologies, USA A multinational telecommunications equipment company w. up to 100,000 employees. Split off from AT&T Corporation of the telecommunications equipment manufacturing business and Bell Laboratories.• Program Manager responsible for concept, design and development of several novel optical components such as optical MEMS variable attenuators, DWDM signal combiners, filters and isolators. • Responsible for establishing Manufacturing Joint Venture between Lucent Technologies and DiCon Fiberoptics. Automated high volume manufacturing of integrated optical components for fiber amplifiers in telecom systems.• Statistical Process Control parameters were used as a design tool for optimizing and predicting manufacturing yield through Monte Carlo simulation of the entire manufacturing process for each new product design. • Developed concept and product design of new class of integrated optical amplifier components.• NPI Management, collection of customer requirements, manufacturing capabilities and final product cost goals.• Cross functional management of subject matter experts within several diverse fields• Responsible for tracking risk and performance developments with the development programs

Institute of Microelectronics, Technical University of Denmark Microelectronics Center (MIC) at the Technical University of Denmark. Research center within semi-conductor component design, integrated optics, Micro Electro Mechanical System (MEMS) and semi-conductor processing technology.• Development of Semiconductor Processing in Silica on Silicon technology• Research in Reactive Ion Etching processes• Design and fabrication of Micro Electro Mechanical System (MEMS) components and integrated optical circuits.

Diploma, Nov Ventures, Technology Commercialization

National Oilwell Varco’s (NOV) one year executive development program on technology commercialization. - New Product Idea Selection.

Ph.D., Electrical Engineering

M.Sc. Ee, Electrical Engineering

Education record

Education record