Jonas Lind Email & Phone Number

Copenhagen Metropolitan Area

Copenhagen, Capital Region Of Denmark, Denmark

Head of department of 40 software engineers, testers and architects which handle the core trading and portfolio management part of the Saxo Bank Trading Platform - my responsibility is to ensure that our trading platform is operational at all times. That it is continously being enhanced to keep it best in class in the market. And that the people in the department take ownership and thrive in their work. Accomplishments:⦁ Strategy Execution: Rescoped Saxo Banks cloud migration strategy to focus efforts on more narrow deliveries of infrastructure to Cloud. This enabled Saxo to migrate complex services to Cloud and decommission on premise servers to for annual savings of 1M DKK. ⦁ Strategy Development: Re-formed Saxo Banks API strategy alongside the commercial owner of Saxo Banks Open API offering and created a 3-year execution plan which we were still on track with 1 year into it.⦁ Cloud: Improved scaling of the API, to enable Saxo Bank to onboard partner banks with 10 times more clients and 10X flow than previously feasible. ⦁ People Leadership: Took a group of fragmented teams (40 FTEs) across 3 different locations (Copenhagen, Delhi and Amsterdam) and made it a cohesive, collaborative department with higher team engagement (8pts HiPo Score improvement).⦁ Cultural Transformation: Some of my time have been dedicated to facilitate a company wide leadership training program together with the Head of Diversity and Inclusion. The program involved 100 senior leaders in the bank, including C-suites and their management teams, for 4-half day training sessions. #Leadership #Strategy #Execution #Culture #DE&I #Cloud #Agile

As Department Head I of a newly established department, my objective was to anchor the Open API product around a centralized hub of development, consisting of 5 development teams and a group of solution architect. Accomplishments:⦁ Strategy Execution: Rescoped Saxo Banks cloud migration strategy for Open API to focus efforts on more narrow deliveries of infrastructure to Cloud. This enabled Saxo to migrate complex services to Cloud and decommission on premise servers to for annual savings of 1M DKK. ⦁ Strategy Development: Re-formed Saxo Banks API strategy alongside the commercial owner of Saxo Banks Open API offering and created a 3-year execution plan to increase commercial viability, especially for large scale partners. ⦁ Cloud: Improved scaling of the API, to enable Saxo Bank to onboard partner banks with 10 times more clients and 10X flow than previously feasible. ⦁ People Leadership: Took a group of fragmented teams (40 FTEs) across 3 different locations (Copenhagen, Delhi and Amsterdam) and made it a cohesive, collaborative department with higher team engagement (8pts HiPo Score improvement).#Agile #Leadership #DevOps #Cloud Strategy #Culture #IT Strategy

Copenhagen Area, Capital Region, Denmark

In this position I established a Project Management office where I lead a group of 25 Project Managers, Scrum Masters, Business Analysts and Software testers. Together we established new agile ways of working within Technology and with the business stakeholders. We established the first Value Stream in the bank, based around development of Structured Products (CFDs).Accomplishments:⦁ People Leadership: Built up a department over 4 years from 5 to 30 people which matured agile practices in the Bank and became the de facto department for handling complex end-to-end platform technology programs and projects in Saxo Bank. ⦁ PMO Management: As department head, I oversaw the successful delivery of more than 50 larger projects, workstreams, value streams and programs with budgets ranging from 2M DKK to 30M DKK.⦁ Agile Transformation: Created and refined the value stream delivery model which today is the model that is being adopted company wide as the delivery model of choice.⦁ Continous Improvement: As we tracked metrics of our delivery capabilities end to end, we continously optimized our delivery pipeline to ensure better throughput and better accuracy in our delivery estimates#Agile #PMO #Program Management #Leadership

Copenhagen Area, Denmark

As Program Manager my responsibilities revolved around planning, budgeting, ressourcing, communcation and execution of Programs and Projects. As all project management in Saxo Bank at the time Accomplishments: ⦁ Delivered a new Charts for the Trading platform to track shares and other finacial instruments and their performance visually⦁ As Delivery Lead for Client Station, Saxo Banks trading platform for professional traders (at the time), critical commercial improvements where made over the course of 2 years⦁ Program Manager for Nexus. A critical rewrite of Saxo Bank core trading infrastructure, to move from trade based event handling to order management based event handling⦁ Delivery responsibility of Numerous other smaller (less than 5M DKK) projects#Agile #Projects Management #Program Management #Stakeholder Management #Agile Transformation

Copenhagen Area, Denmark

Head of department for 25 software engineers and responsible for the Glacier2 game engine which is the underlying engine and toolchain for Hitman5 and DeusEx: Mankind Divided. My responsibilities was twofold, deliver a world class games engine to be the foundation for Hitman 5, and act as line manager for the department of software engineers to ensure a healthy worksplace, where people were seen, heard and could develop themselves. Key Achievements: - Agile Transformation of the Glacier2 engine department, to follow agile software developement processes rather than traditional waterfall- Establishing a development team in Montreal, Canada- Delivering a world class engine (G2) to a world class game (Hitman 5)- Sold the Game engine to a sister studio (Eidos Montreal) for them to build their next Deus Ex game on#Leadership #Agile Transformation #Culture #Strategy #Deliver Management

Copenhagen Area, Denmark

- Established a company idea pitching process to cultivate and nuture the creating of new game ideas- Successfully incubated multiple game ideas that are now in production- Created proccesses for how to generate, communicate and evaluate ideas- Personnel responsibility such as hiring and appraisals- Manages teams to make dependable deliveries of very creative content

Copenhagen Area, Denmark

- Interface between production and finance- Assisted with Project planning, controlling and reporting- Studio Assignment planning, assignment controlling and assignment reporting- Managed and maintained overview of external project dependencies

Copenhagen Area, Denmark

- Responsible for shipping a critically acclaimed game on time- Managed a production 20 to 30 people with with personnel and organizational responsibility- Defined, planned and executed milestones- Executed the vision of the Game Director and Creative Director- Presented project progress to studio board and executive board- Created, updated and tracked goals, schedules and budgets

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- Desiged the Notoriety system and weapons system for Hitman Bloodmoney- Responsible for gameplay on 4 levels- Coordination of asset flow

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- Developed software applications to biochemists for measurement and computation of research data

Master'S Degree, International Business

Master'S Degree, International Business

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