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Enlightened Minds offers expert consulting to medium and large sized companies in the Nordics wanting to review their existing Software Strategy. Such review is almost always triggered by the fact that the ever growing cost of Proprietary Software Licensing (and Maintenance) is eating its way through the financial resources of the IT department.In recent years, an ever growing number of IT departments at medium and large sized companies has decided to evaluate the combination of Open… Show more Enlightened Minds offers expert consulting to medium and large sized companies in the Nordics wanting to review their existing Software Strategy. Such review is almost always triggered by the fact that the ever growing cost of Proprietary Software Licensing (and Maintenance) is eating its way through the financial resources of the IT department.In recent years, an ever growing number of IT departments at medium and large sized companies has decided to evaluate the combination of Open Source Software (OSS) and Proprietary Software in their business critical environments. This is done in order to handle the demand from the various business units for either reductions in IT spendings or an increased delivery of IT services. The outcome of such evaluations often results in the replacement of Proprietary Software in favour of OSS whenever deemed viable.Enlightened Minds is based in the Stockholm area in Sweden and travel throughout the Nordics visiting customers looking for some serious expert advice on ”How to” go ahead with an Open Source initiative. Depending on customer expectations and goals, and last but not least, the awareness level in the OSS arena, inevitably means that different customers get different advice. Some companies have really good conditions for succeeding whilst others have nearly none.A very important factor when engaging our consultants for expert advice is that Enlightened Minds do not have any partners within the software industry. That, in turn, means that the customer will always benefit from an absolutely ”unbiased” advice when one of our consultants recommends a ”Go” or a ”NoGo” on an OSS introduction project. Show less

Responsible for Maria DBs complete portfolio in the Nordic Region. Portfolio consists of Subscriptions, Remote DBA, Expert Consulting and Training. The position also includes the full responsibility for driving the Channel / Partner Business in the region.

Mainly responsible for Cross Selling offerings based on IT-Operations and Infrastructure Services (Linux, PostgreSQL, Puppet, Varnish). A large portfolio of services with over 40 different offerings.

Responsible for building and managing the Swedish sales team, mainly in Cross Selling. I was also responsible for reporting sales numbers, forecast follow ups, develop sales strategies etc.

Responsible for Cross Selling offerings from the different Business Areas in Redpill Linpro, including IT-Operations, Infrastructure Services (Linux), Document Management Solutions, CRM Solutions. A large portfolio of services with well over 100 different offerings.

Responsible for building and managing a sales team throughout the Nordic Countries. I was also responsible for hiring and coaching Sales Executives whilst jointly visiting customers with each and every team member in their different countries and with their different set of challenges.

Responsible for building a new Open Source offering in Sweden based on the JBoss Application Server product line.

Responsible for managing and developing a number of Compuwares most important accounts in Sweden. Folksam, Volvo IT, Handelsbanken, IBM, Skandia was some of the accounts on my list of Customers.Compuware was a leading Software Vendor of tools for Cobol in mainframe environments (Z-OS). The set of tools included Debugging, Abend Handling, File Management, Performance Management and Test Data Management.

Responsible for New Sales in Sweden of Windows based test management tools from the QA Center Product Line.

Responsible for building a new Swedish customer base by selling security products from the Utimaco portfolio. Products included hard drive encryption, VPN Tunnel technology, Smart Cards & Readers and Network Traffic Encryption.

Responsible for performing Y2K testing on all Windows NT servers in the two largest banks in Sweden and in conjunction with such testing also installing new NT4 servers, if deemed necessary, with all peripherals.