Mads Nygaard Email & Phone Number

Copenhagen, Dk

København, Hovedstaden, Danmark

Responsibilities:• Management of a development department with ~30 software professionals making the backend for the annual tax statement from Danish Tax.• Leading 4 teams working in a SAFe setup.• Growing department to match the customers needs.Achievements:• Yearly delivery of "Årsopgørelsen".• Net growth of departments capacity of 20%.

Copenhagen Area, Capital Region, Denmark

Responsibilities:• Management of a development department with ~45 software professionals in Denmark, China and Germany making the portfolio of MIKE products (a ~20 M€/year product business).• Leading leaders (3 sections covering Desktop Development, Cloud Development and UX & Design).• Overseeing and coordinating 6 agile development teams.Achievements:• Getting 3 major releases of the MIKE portfolio done on schedule.• Maintaining high productivity in the department throughout the COVID-crisis.

Hørsholm, Denmark

Responsibilities:• Project management for development of flooding related products and features for both desktop and cloud.• Scrum master for multiple teams.• Continuous development and improvement of project management processes and tools for MIKE development. Achievements:• Introduced agile development in MIKE development.• Co-authored MAP (a SCRUM-inspired development process).• Project Manager on large releases such as MIKE URBAN+ (now MIKE+) and cloud applications.• Was a key player in introducing UX as a professional discipline in DHI

Birkerød/Ballerup

Responsibilities:• Development of Tested, Validated, Documented Architectures for the global water & wastewater segment. These solutions were based on products (HW/SW) from Schneider Electrics product portfolio.• People Manager for the lab team members based in Denmark and Spain.• Project management of the projects in the lab.• Responsible for acquiring the needed software and hardware for the lab.• Planning and executing verification & validation campaigns.• Ad hoc programming.Achievements:• Completed 3 solutions on time and on schedule with a short-staffed team.• Recognized as a high performing team, where all team members met or exceeded their goals.

Birkerød

Responsibilities: • Responsible for all activities regarding Build, Test and Release of Aquis and Termis.• Development of new automated tests.• Planning of new department. Achievements: • Released Aquis and Termis versions on schedule.• Planned and executed creation of the Smart Water StruxureLab.

Responsibilities:• Responsible for all activities regarding Build, Test and Release of Aquis and Termis.• Establishing an environment for automated testing.• Development of automated tests.• Internal Project Management.• MS CRM responsible and super user.Achievements:• Matured the test efforts in 7T by introducing automated testing with improved release day quality as a result.• Released a lot of Aquis and Termis versions on schedule.• Lead the projects of migrating from older CRM solutions to MS CRM

Responsibilities:• Developing customizations in Navision for customers in both the private sector and the public sector. Achievements:• Participated in designing an architecture to allow the Navision solution in the Danish Ministry of Foreign Affairs to exchange data with Danish embassies around the world.

Responsibilities: • People Manager for Navision consultants.• Project management of all ongoing projects.• ConsultingAchievements: • Created much needed transparency of resource allocation and availability.

Responsibilities: • Lead the team charged with making the future UI for ERP on Windows platform.• Ownership of features designed together with architects and usability experts.Achievements: • Kept a 12-man team of multi-disciplined experts focused in a time of constant changes.

Responsibilities: • Ensuring corporate governance.• Acquisition process.Achievements: • Eventful year which culminated with Microsoft’s $1.45 billion acquisition of Navision.

Responsibilities: • Lead the User Portal team• Lead a research team investigating scalable ERP UI for different platforms.• Project Management Achievements: • Released User Portal, which was Navision’s first venture into online solutions, and the first professional solution in the world based on Microsoft’s Digital Dashboard.• Analyzed and fixed chemistry problems in a dysfunctional team.

Responsibilities: • C++ programming (C/SIDE).• Feature design. Achievements: • Part of the team that won several Microsoft logos for Navision.• Enabled COM automation in Navision Financials.• Designed and implemented new online help system.

B.Sc., Software Engineering, Electrical Engineering

Activities and Societies: Studienævn, Polyteknisk Forening, StudenterhusetFinal Thesis: "Component software with COM and OLE"

Student, Matematisk-Kemisk Student