Bo Vaaben, Phd Email & Phone Number

Copenhagen, Dk

Copenhagen Area, Denmark

Ops-Analytics is a consulting company focusing on improving operational efficiency for its customers through all stages of the operation from strategic planning to execution and post operational analysis.

Senior Researcher in Boeing Digital Aviation. Overviewing and advising on the competitive landscape for Boeing Digital Aviation. Incubating and exploring future business ideas. The work has primarily been around the integrated, connected and fully optimized airline.

Senior Researcher in the Jeppesen Advanced Research department in Frankfurt. Investigating future products and product integration for all Jeppesen business areas, including navigation, EFB, ATC integration, fleet and crew optimization and disruption management.

Jeppesen did in June 2006 acquire Carmen Systems, while I was still on my expat assignment in Mexico. After my return from Mexico I have been working with technical sales and product management.

Mexico

Out stationed to Mexico as project manager for the installation of a Carmen Integrated Operations Control at Aeroméxico and Mexicana.

Employment in Carmen Consulting (www.carmenconsulting.com), which was a fully owned subsidiary of the Swedish company Carmen Systems AB. (www.carmensystems.com). The company specializes in resource optimization within the transportation industry. The main focus areas are: airlines, railways and a bit of other logistics optimization.Main projects I have been working on at Carmen Consulting:• Project Manager, Carmen Maintenance Scheduling (2001)• Requirements Manager, Fleet Recovery Solver (2003)• Project Manager, Passenger Recovery Solver (2002-2004)• Primary contact person for lawyer when filing patent application for a Passenger Recovery Solver in the States (2004)• Project Manager for implementation of Carmen Integrated Operations Control at Aeromexico (2004).• International Sales of Carmen Integrated Operations Control and consultancy projects.• I am currently a part of Jeppesens Product Management team for Operations Services

Participant in Carmen internal leadership program: “Next Generation”. The program contained:• Negotiation• Conflict Solving• Team Building • Organizational Theory• Project Management• Market analyses• Development of Business Plan

PhD project: Sustainable Disruption ManagementWhenever an operational system is exposed to an event, which interrupts or delays the planned operation of the system we refer to this as a disruption. Managing these disruptions in order to return the system to its planned operation is referred to as disruption management. Many operational systems require complex planning in order to make the system run smoothly and at low cost. Such complex systems with many inter-dependable activities exist in various areas, but are especially pronounced in the world of transportation.Apart from often being complex with many inter-dependable activities, transportation systems do also have the inherent property of requiring large amounts of fuel, which is becoming an increasingly expensive resource. This is the reason for incorporating energy considerations in disruption management decisions. We refer to this as Sustainable Disruption ManagementMy PhD Industrial project regarding Sustainable Disruption Management applies advanced analytics to combine flight planning and disruption management. The approach shows several million USD annual savings for a medium size airline and does at the same time help reduce passenger delays in situations with congested airspace. The PhD project did also show how disruption management principles from the airline industry can be applied to Liner Shipping. This research project was carried out in co-operation with Maersk Line and shows very large savings from applying operations research to handle disruptions in the Liner Shipping industry.

Greater Boston Area

Visiting PhD student in the department of Civil and Environmental Engineering and Engineering Systems. I was invited by Prof. Cynthia Barnhart and worked with her and her group in the area of air tranportation systems. More specifically on integrating flight planning and disruption management to enable informed decisions regarding fuel burn in the disruption recovery process.

Employed in the IT department of Scandinavian Airlines.• System developer and Consultant for Crew Management Systems.

While studying I worked at the company Brüel & Kjær (www.bk.dk) • Software Process Improvement.• Analysis of software-projects to check if they complied with ISO-9001 standards

Internship at Sander Hansen • Development of a more exact method for calculating heat transfer coefficients. • Development of a database for storing and presenting measurements.

While studying I was working in the R&D department of a smaller company (www.sander-hansen.com). My assignments consisted in: • Making measurements and calculating heat transfer coefficients• Improving the procedures for doing this.• Improving their calibration techniques.

Doctor Of Philosophy (Ph.D.), Operations Research

The area of study is disruption management in the airline industry and how airline fuel burn can be improved through a tighter integration.

Doctor Of Philosophy (Ph.D.), Operations Research

Visiting PhD student with Prof. and Associate Dean Cynthia Barnhart, Civil and Environmental Engineering and Engineering Systems

Hd (Gd. Ba), It And Economics

Graduate Diploma in Business Administration. Specialized in IT and Economics. Final thesis was done in "Activity Based Costing".

M.Sc, Operations Research

M.Sc in Computer Science. Specialized in Operational Research. Thesis: ”Airline Crew Assignment using Constraint Programming” Carried out.