Claus Nyhus Christensen Email & Phone Number

Aarhus, Denmark

At Trifork we challenge the status quo and co-develop state-of-the-art solutions that make a difference. We are passionate about technology and contribute our knowledge through customer projects, start-ups, conferences, blogs and events. We are organised in a large number of small but rather autonomous Business Units (no more than 42 persons in a unit). This allows us to stay agile and focused on our customers and the projects we develop for them.In my Business Unit we primarily focusing on making solutions for Smart Buildings and IoT, Cloud development (with a focus on Azure) and mainly in the manufacturing segment.

Aarhus

At Trifork I am the Team Manager for our team in Aarhus N.At Trifork we challenge the status quo and co-develop state-of-the-art frameworks that make a difference. We are passionate about technology and contribute our knowledge through customer projects, start-ups, conferences, blogs and events. In our team we have a specific focus on Internet of Things, Cloud and mobile app development, mainly in the manufacturer segment.In my daily work I am involved in the whole lifecycle of a project. From identifying the customer needs, coming up with an overall architecture for the solution, project management and at the end; service, support and maintenance of the developed solution.As the Team Manager it is furthermore my job to ensure that we have a challenging and rewarding workplace, both as individuals and as a team. This includes hiring the right people, ensuring that we use the right processes and technologies and give the team space and opportunity to grow their skills and expiriences.

Ålborg Area, Denmark

As Head of Pure Product Development I have the overall responsibility for the development of Elsevier’s Research Information Management System called Pure. This includes maintaining the roadmap, commercial aspects, manage the relationship to internal stakeholders such as sales and marketing, user engagement and both building and managing the Product Development team.In managing the Pure roadmap I have the overall responsibility for creating, maintaining and delivering towards the roadmap for Pure. This includes gatering requirements for the roadmap by engaging with customers, internal stakeholders such as sales and marketing as well as adhering to the strategical goals of Elsevier. Based on these I make sure that we at all times both have a current roadmap as well as thoroughly prepared candidate list.Being the manager of the Pure Product Development team it is my responsibility to both handle the day to day management of the team as well as continously ensure that the team is build to be able to meet the requirements that is posed to them. This have resulted in a cross functional team consisting of Product Managers, UX Designers, Technical Team Leads, Developers, Technical Writers and QA Engineers.While the bulk of the members of the team are located in Aalborg, the team is distributed with team members in Edinburgh, Amsterdam and New York.I am furthermore working closely with the marketing team in creating marketing materials for Pure, both targeted internal Elsevier employees as well as current and potential customers. Finally I am working closely with sales, both in supporting them on concrete sales cases, providing general support on Pure as well as gathering feedback from the market.Finally I maintain a close relationship with the Pure customer community. This happens through direct contact with customers and by participating at the Pure International Conference as well as individual national Pure user groups, of which I have helped launch several.

Ålborg Area, Denmark

As Head of Pure Implementations I was tasked with building an implementation team who could successfully deliver Pure implementations to customers all over the world. A successful Pure implementation typically includes integration of Pure with the customers backend systems, loading of legacy data, supporting the customer in how to best populate and use Pure as well as general management of the implementation project.In building the implementation team I was responsible for defining what a Pure implementation project includes, creating the processes for performing the project as well as ensuring that the appropriate tools and functionalities where build in order to deliver Pure implementation projects in a consistent and scalable manor.This was accomplished by myself initially acting as the customer facing implementation manager, and once the processes where well defined and established I turned my attention to training additional implementation managers and handling over the responsibility to them, while I myself transitions into a position of leadership for these implementation managers as well as the software developers in the team.In my time as Head of Pure Implementations I have contributed to around 100 successful Pure implementations, either as an implementation manager or manger of other implementation managers.

Ålborg Area, Denmark

As Head of Pure Implementations I was tasked with building an implementation team who could successfully deliver Pure implementations to customers all over the world. A successful Pure implementation typically includes integration of Pure with the customers backend systems, loading of legacy data, supporting the customer in how to best populate and use Pure as well as general management of the implementation project.In building the implementation team I was responsible for defining what a Pure implementation project includes, creating the processes for performing the project as well as ensuring that the appropriate tools and functionalities where build in order to deliver Pure implementation projects in a consistent and scalable manor.This was accomplished by myself initially acting as the customer facing implementation manager, and once the processes where well defined and established I turned my attention to training additional implementation managers and handling over the responsibility to them, while I myself transitions into a position of leadership for these implementation managers as well as the software developers in the team.In my time as Head of Pure Implementations I have contributed to around 100 successful Pure implementations, either as an implementation manager or manger of other implementation managers.

Ålborg Area, Denmark

As Custom Projects Manager I had the responsibility for the delivery of custom projects at Atira. This included two primary tasks:1. Being the Project Manager for the actual projects2. Introducing agile development methods, such as Scrum, to the development team and ensuring that the projects where developed in a professional, structured and transparrent wayWhen time allowed it, I actively participated in the projects as an architect and developer.

Århus Area, Denmark

Consultant with at focus on software architecture, project management and agile methods (Scrum master)

Århus Area, Denmark

Worked as a kernel developer of the Trifork T4 J2EE application server. Primary focus: clustering, server management and web services