Johan Nielsen Email & Phone Number

Gothenburg, Se

Gothenburg, Sweden

I am the Product Manager of a SAFe ART within Volvo Cars. The ART consists of 13 agile teams.The ART is responsible for the cloud functionality for products and areas such as* Volvo on Call* Support for B2B functionality such as - Fleet Services, - 3PS, e.g. In Car Delivery and Extended Vehicle* Volvo ID and Polestar ID* Enabling and supporting functionality for the above mentioned areas- This includes migration and refactoring of functionality to new cloudbased and scalable platforms.- This also means that we have close collaboration with our peer ARTS responsible for Car functionality and App / Web functionality.The ART is taking on full DevOps responsibility.This organisation took its first, maiden steps towards Agile and SAFe as I joined the organisation. Hence, a lot of my time and efforts has gone into guiding and coaching the ART, including its teams, how the Agile way of working can be realised, and start reaping the benefits of having high-performing empowered teams. This has included much guidance and coaching towards our external stakeholders regarding how we work within the ART and what is expected /and not expected) from them. This in order to get the ART running as smoothly and efficiently as possible.

I drove the O&M area forward by taking on several leading roles in key projects andstudies within the Radio organisation of Ericsson. My guiding star has always been to automate anddistribute as much relevant O&M functionality as possible, this in order to significantly lower the cost of running the networks, as well as increasing the quality and utilisation of the networks.Furthermore, I participated in two transitions from the Waterfall way of working to the Agile and Scrum way of working, as two of my organisations decided to move to Agile way of working.

Stockholm, Sweden

I proposed, and was given the role as O&M ambassador within Ericsson, between the radio organisation, Ericsson Research, and the organisation i belonged to. In the multi-country organisation Ericsson has tight collaboration and interaction across borders is needed, and my main purpose was to drive and enable engineers to talk to each other rather than escalating issues to senior management.Furthermore I drove some, and participated in many studies to enhance the O&M functionality in Ericsson radio networks as well as OSS. These studies covered aspects like Network and RAN Slicing, SDN/NFV, autonomic networking, Energy Efficiency, and SON.

Stockholm, Sweden

I was handpicked as study driver to define, describe and anchor a new and scalable O&M Architecture for operating and managing radio networks as these were predicted to grow by a factor 10 or 100. We defined a complete and truly scalable O&M system architecture including functional distribution in future radio networks and OSS systems that is highly autonomous and distributed. Ericsson entered a new product segment, where existing O&M solutions did not meet the requirements. To allow a new solution to be realised the Ericsson CTO assembled a small team from the most suitable candidates from all relevant departments, I was one of these individuals. This product segment mandated a completely new O&M paradigm to drastically lower the running cost of the node, and to allow it to be managed by less skilled technicians. Many of our features and proposals were Ericsson-first, later included in all other Ericsson radio nodes.I was also the System Area Responsible for the SON area within PDU WCDMA and Multistandard RAN.

Stockholm, Sweden

I was responsible for developing and driving the O&M area forward within Ericsson Research. This included participating in all phases of multiple EU-funded research projects, from preparation of project proposals, via making sure Ericsson participation in these projects, to transferring the developed knowledge internally Ericsson. The sizes of these external projects ranged from 5+ companies providing 10:ish full time resources, 30+ partners with 100+ full time resources.

Stockholm, Sweden

I was part of the Ericsson team that drove and coordinated pan-European preparation and coordination work leading up to the EU commission releasing their 6th Framework Program for EU-funded research on future mobile systems.

Stockholm, Sweden

My Master thesis project was about implementing and verifying Bluetooth IP network routing behaviour over large networks into a network simulator.

Master’S Degree, Computer Science

High School

I was a visiting high school exchange student in Brussels, IL, US, where I received my High School Diploma