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).

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.

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:

• 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