Project management, SaMD (Software as a Medical Device): Development and service operation of SaMD solutions in a regulated environment; responsible for project plan, budget and deliverables, as well as system engineering responsibilitiesProject leadership: Project managing project team of 10 full time employees (system engineers, SW developers, SW architects, business analysts; QA; UX/UI design, testers)Consulting and stakeholder management: Close collaboration and negotiation with customer and partners to align project development tracks across App SW, HW development, IoT device integration; cloud services; analytics and algorithm development Consulting and stakeholder management: advising on potential product improvements to deliver value to overall product on both short and long term; consulting on opportunities for digital health/SaMD solutions with customersRequirement management and QA: Responsible for adhering to QMS in compliance with relevant industry standards (e.g. ISO13485; ISO14971; IEC62305).Agile development and SCRUM master: Facilitating and maintaining an environment for a team of 15+ people to work under agile principles and achieve efficient and effective results.Working processes: Defining, facilitating and adapting ways of working to combine agile principles with regulated and quality driven approaches across the organisation and in projects

Project management: Execution and timely management of large cross-disciplinary research and innovation projects with focus on the value chain from academic research, proof of concept, validation in health care practice, and business models for implementation.Design and validation of products: Co-creation process with HCP’s, patients and commercial stakeholders towards designing digital health solution for people with type-2 diabetes. Planning, execution, and evaluation of two user studies and a clinical pilot.Business case development: Mentoring and supporting researchers with entrepreneurial potential and interest within deep tech, early stage technologies based on state-of-the-art research. Helping researchers secure 3 grants for attaining proof of concept for technologies.Strategic partnerships: Identifying areas of mutual value and interest between technical researchers, clinical researchers, HCP’s and commercial stakeholders resulting in 3 new projects defined and in planning.GDPR and clinical safety compliance: Ensuring proper and structured execution of studies and other stakeholder involving activity to adhere to GDPR, clinical safety requirements and ethical concerns.

Project- and portfolio management: Definition, execution and hand-over of 5+ collaborative projects involving commercial, healthcare, and other partners; responsible for the management of projects in the lab according to strategy.Strategy, design and business development: Defining strategy, value propositions and work processes for the lab. Start-up of innovation lab: Starting up a lab, including positioning in the ecosystemStakeholder engagement: Engagement and motivation of stakeholders for participation in innovation projects and activities.Business case development: Demonstrating the value and business viability of new solutions through qualitative and quantitative data from project activities.Hackathons: Providing cases based on healthcare needs. Mentoring and sparring for hackathon in collaboration with large international consultancy.

Programme management: Start and execution of innovation programme, including the definition and start of 25+ digital health innovation projects with academic research partners and start-ups/SMEs.Hackathon: Recruitment of 4 industrial partners and 80+ participants; defining digital health cases; mentoring participant team.Events and conferences: Planning, organising and execution of 2 conferences and 8+ seminars and events.Forming new projects: Identifying new research and innovation opportunities, forming new project teams and achieving fundraising for 2 new research and innovation projects.

Achievement of PhD degree: PhD project focused on researching creative behaviour and reasoning in design teams with emphasis on showing empirical evidence of ‘design thinking’ activity in practice.Scientific dissemination: 2 publications of research results in peer-reviewed scientific journals and 4 presentations at conferences.Design & facilitation: Facilitation of idea- and concept generation sessions for 5+ Danish SME’s.Development of industrial innovation process: Development of product development toolkit focusing on applying a combination of user insights, idea generation and prototyping as a means to provide valuable products.

Design method development: Development of method and scientific publications on prototyping as a ‘generative’ method applicable for user research and insights generation.Scientific dissemination: Publication of articles and presentation at 2 academic conferencesTeaching and supervision: Co-teaching courses within innovation, product design and development and user centered design; supervising 4 master thesis student groups.

Visiting iDREEM Lab lead by Dr. Julie Linsey at the George W. Woodruff School of Mechanical Engineering, Georgia Tech.

Project title: Staging Co-creation and Prototypes in Concept InnovationTranslating and transforming user knowledge into new and innovative concepts for fire fighters.