Responsible for building up and modernising the digital engineering capabilities enabling a secure & sustainable physical meeting point for customers & co-workers, global monitoring of energy and water consumption and effective servicing and management of our buildings / properties. Digital engineering scope also enables improved property investment business decision making and simplifying the development process in all our physical meeting points (IKEA stores, shopping centres and fulfilment units).Key objectives:- Create a better place to work- Increasing speed & quality of Real Estate & Expansion investment decision making - Striving towards electrification, 100% renewable energy and continually improving Real Estate efficiency

Responsible for consolidating and building an organization supporting our Digital Finance & Tax and Procurement capabilities with Service Management, (SAP) Technology Management and Data Management digital products and services in Sweden and India.

Key results:1. coached, mentored and expanded engineering team from 8 to 14 employees2. restructuring of Digital organisation to be able to take responsibility for old and new Finance, Procurement, Real Estate digital solutions3. lead multiple delivery process improvements in Finance & Procurement (SAP) transformation program leading to Go-live of new SAP S/4HANA & Ariba solutions in March 2021 3.1 pilot / intro of GDPR compliant production data (real-time) to speed up integration tests 3.2 de-coupling of integrated test environment with use of 'Int4 IFTT' to speed up regression tests 3.3 improved transparency and tracking of E2E solution quality (defect reporting in Power BI) 3.4 enabled auditability through reporting of E2E reconciliation of Sales Orders in Power BI 3.5 improved go-live decision making through reporting of Cutover readiness in BigQuery / Data Studio

Built and lead 3 teams in the creation and successful go-live of (~40) cloud enabled data pipelines, integrating a cloud hosted SAP S/4HANA, Ariba and Blackline with the rest of the Digital / IT landscape. This covered integrating the customer transaction, direct & indirect procurement, tax, payments and master data data flows. This was done using new cloud enablement technology at the same time as the rest of the Digital / IT landscape was modernizing and moving to Cloud.

Accountable for the E2E functional and non-functional testing of Multichannel business flows within an integrated IT landscape of over 100 systems. Key results:- Lead End to End (E2E) verification of Multi-channel solutions enabling launch to over 15 countries including establishment of eCommerce in South Korea and China with the majority of the launches on time- Lead introduction of automated E2E Multi-channel business critical (test) scenarios to secure continuous monitoring of the integrated test environments necessary to secure the road to production- Lead improvements in the Test Data provisioning focused on data analytics. Results used in new chat-bot based tooling for delivery teams providing for the first time validated test data for use in their development and test cycles

Accountable for the functional and non-functional testing of Multichannel applications from component, application through to end to end testing of Multichannel solution within an integrated IT landscape of over 100 systems. Responsibilities included:- Ensure that stakeholders receive timely information on test progress and quality that enables fact based decisions- Define, lead and continuously improve test team structure, testing strategies, test plans and deliverables related to testing of a large programme- Drive and lead the adoption of recognized best practice and contribute, support ongoing improvement of test and quality assurance methodologies, tools and processes- Secure test sign-off on all major releases into production, investigate to identify testing-related root causes- Leverage central testing services- Actively participate in the activities of the broader QA and Testing communityKey successes:- Built from scratch an in-house IT Delivery test capability for Multichannel applications including End to End testing of integrated solution- Defined, implemented test strategies, processes enabling a reduction of system integration testing from 18 months to 4 weeks through introduction of test architecture, push left of testing, defect management improvements for similar sized release complexity- Introduced software code quality service enabling Multichannel application developers to track and improve their software deliveries which was subsequently launched as company wide shared service- Established an automated device test service for mobile web front-end testing and further establishment as company wide shared service- Built and deploy of a DevOps supporting automated tool chain enabling continuous integration together with automated testing of software enabling fast feedback loops to application development teams- Expanded E2E test automation to secure continuous feedback loop to development teams on E2E integrated solution

Managed agile development teams and portfolio of test and logging tools used by Ericsson Modems customers, internal LTE/HSPA+/GSM development teams and Product Integration and Verification teams. Coordinating with development teams in Sweden, Germany, India and China.● Secured a continuous integration service with unattended automatic regression test on reference and customer HW across Germany, India, China and Sweden. Test environment error rate improved from >15% to < 1% and delivering more than 10,000 automated test suite executions/week ● Drove integration of virtualized HW environment using cloud infrastructure into continuous integration process enabling automated regression test of pre-silicon SW development. ● Introduced a web based remote testing solution with booking, reservation and utilization reporting to enable efficient sharing and management of high CAPEX/OPEX intensive test setups enabling remote test from China, India, Germany to test setups in Lund.● Secured global IT migration of client and server tools from ST-Ericsson to Ericsson within 6 months. ● Delivered improvements to logging tool including change to 3GPP open source decoders and integration of AT command based test tool. Customer feedback communicated that logging tool, LiNS is the customer preferred logging tool compared to Qualcomm QXDM.

Managed a team of customer technical support managers, analysis engineers and IOT test engineers in Sweden, Japan, China, UK and USA. Coordinating with customer project managers and R&D teams in Sweden and India. ● Authored a customer SW delivery strategy balancing needs of customers with efficiency● Integrated a new outsourced Interoperability Test team in Seattle, USA● Secured re-architected Network Signaling training program for R&D

Managed and coordinated customer projects for BlackBerry, Panasonic, Flextronics and customers in Greater China towards GSM, WCDMA and LTE based signaling stack.● Drove Network Signalling delivery of M5730 modem for BlackBerry Z10 for global variant.● Orchestrated smartphone performance monitoring solution for Blackberry Z10● 2 Patent applications, Selection of RAT Selection Methods, Anti-Fast Dormancy

Managed System Test and System Integration units both in Lund and in Bangalore.

Organization was responsible for securing the modem platform quality. Achieved through measuring and documenting the product quality and compliance based on system requirements, non-functional tests, performance and stability KPIs & experience based testing.● Authored new System Test strategy following company restructuring● Secured automated KPI power measurements and extended scope from modem to smartphone● 1 Patent application (granted), Power Saving Operation of User Equipment in a Cellular Communication System● Presentation of industry paper at 2010 QA&Test conference, “Experiences of system levelunattended test automation on mobile platforms”

Delivered as project manager an integrated build and test automation solution including development of HW and SW components. Project was a multi-site, cross-functional organization involving internal and external partners. Managed teams > 30 staff. Managed development and maintenance of a test environment including an embedded test and observability platform, provisioning and sourcing of dedicated core and radio test network, test automation and management tools for both internal and customer needs.● Delivered and deployed unattended test automation solution. Integrated with custom designed HW for UE control, automated build system & test management system● Established outsourced and offshore units in Macedonia and India.● Implemented and deployed automated test reporting solution, e.g. Fault slip through● Managed customer relationship with test tool vendor, Ascom Network Testing AB (formerly Ericsson, TEMS)● Secured successful restructuring of test network delivering 40% savings of between 5-10 MUSD

Managed the product portfolio of tools and suppliers both internal, third party including open source within R&D SW Quality and Assurance. Maintained roadmaps, managed escalations and supported sourcing negotiations. Contributed to research activities. Secured deployment of software tool solutions within development organizations.● Management & deployment of design methods & tool improvement projects● Drove introduction of Coverity and first global license deal with Ericsson● Orchestrated deployment of a TTCN-3 standardized test framework for use with application development using OSE & VxWorks real time OS.● Presented industry papers for Eurostar , SAST, ETSI TTCN-3 and Windriver User conferences. ● Secured vendor evaluation and license deal for Eclipse based debug solution deployed to 2 major Ericsson OSE based platforms.

Technical lead and project management of multi-site, cross functional team responsible for improving efficiency and quality of GSM development projects. Development of GSM BSC node in Plex and C enabling GPRS/EDGE radio network solutions● Successful design and deployment of TTCN-3 solution for Load Module Test of GPRS/EDGE products. Solution integrated with build system and IBM Rational Purify.● Delivery of automated test solution project, integrating a test tool middleware and Java test case framework in partnership with external & internal partners. This resulted in reusable test assets between different Ericsson business and development units. ● Design & deployment of automated SW build solution for complete GSM system node based on IBM Rational’s ClearCase by reducing build production time by 95% from 1 week to 2 hours.

Completed design, test and training assignments for Ericsson and IBM Rational in UK and Sweden.

Design and test of multiple project design cycles in the Ericsson Wireline networking product area. Additional roles as project technical coordinator, customer product support, design & test leader and project manager.● Successful project management and technical coordination of multi-site, cross functional customer project with 3-month lead-time.