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Søborg, Gladsaxe, Capital Region Of Denmark, Denmark

Ballerup, Capital Region, Denmark

Lead the SW Test Automation department in an agile work environment using scrum. Team consist of 3 developers, 3 Junior engineers and 9 people out of a consultancy firm in India.- Lead company strategic initiative for modernization of how we build, test and promote firmware.- Integrate test in FW build flow and submodules enabling fast feedback to developers - Stabilization of tests and test setups - Enabling visibility and automatic sorting of test results - Standardization of build pipelines enabling easier maintenance- Hosting. reporting and presenting to company Test Automation Steering committee - Awareness and alignment of SW Test Automation happening across R&D to utilize knowledge and setups between departments. - Hosting focus teams for POC’s relating to test automation and build flow. - Introduction of test automation strategy for supporting products in sustaining

Espoo, Southern Finland, Finland

Working from abroad assisting COO.- Improvement of product release tool for production- Incorporated production data into CRM system- Project manager on production test web application.

Soeborg, Denmark

Lead a department of 9 SW developers with a strong focus on how to motivate, coach and challenge them. I ensured a new direction and goals for the department and made sure we work smarter through focus on Agile work processes, automation and visibility of status.Key initiator and driver for implementation of Agile work processes Kanban in Napatech, managing both training, implementation and lessons learned sessions within the R&D.I have driven workshops in order to document work processes and solve the pains in processes and tools used.Successfully improved the score for employee satisfaction in the System Test department from 2.5 to 3.8 (score goes from 1 to 5).

Tobaksvejen 23A, 2860 Soeborg

Driving improvements of tests and manufacturing processes to obtain an efficient process without compromising quality.Ensuring Design for Manufacturing and Design for Production Test in corporation with the FPGA, SW, HW and System Test Departments.Standardized the production test setups making it easier debug and ensuring minimum maintenance.Introduced an RMA process and RMA process tool ensuring an efficient and high-quality process for both internal and external stakeholders. Ensuring that the data needed to make decisions throughout the process is available and easy to find.Daily responsibility- First level Manufacturing Site support (factories in USA and Switzerland)- Creating and drive Manufacturing plan for projects ensuring deliverables to and from Operations are on time.- Maintenance of Test Equipment- Create and drive manufacturing documentation- NPI – BOM exports and factory implementations

Develop SW, HW and fixtures for automated Electrical and Acoustical Test for production in China. Manage Test Platform used both by Test developers in DK and China.Setup of Test Equipment and training in production sites in China and execute Production Audit in China supporting the company’s Sourcing Department.Ensure Design for manufacturing in New Product Development and create and update Test Instructions.

Head of the Hifi department in the last 4 years - with responsebility for stock.

4 Month Course, Finansial Leadership, B

The course content: - Production- and cost theory in a decision analytic perspective - Optimization models in relation to different market.

B.Sc.E.E, Electronics

Den Nye Leder, Organizational Leadership

Coaching, SLII (Situational approach to leadership), Communication, Difficult conversations, Leadership of teams, handling of conflicts.