Independent consultant mainly within product development and product development management. I am open for assignments within project management, interim management, organizational development, strategy establishment, modularization, etc.I have extensive successful experience in product development and leadership at various levels and several industries. Ranging from researcher within product development, staff officer in the Swedish army, mechanical engineer, project manager, program manager, consultant manager, R&D Manager. I am used to work in global companies in positions that require good global collaboration.

Project manager for a variety of projects at the pulp mill Södra Cell Mörrum - Prestudy: Waste water treatment - requirement & technologies - Prestudy: Impact from alternative product ranges - Project: Reduced manufacturing line interference - Project: Improved filtration of fibres - Prestudy: Bark powder as a fossil free fuel for the lime kilns -...

* Manager for Product Development Center REA (Jan 2015- Dec 2015)* Head of standardization office Invacare EMEA (Jan 2016 - July 2016)* Member of Invacare EMEA leadership team* Member of Invacare REA (Diö) Plant Management TeamAs PDC Manager I was responsible for a team of 17 engineers, 2 project managers and one middle level manager and had full responsibility for budget, products councils, process development, etc. PDC REA develops passive wheel chairs, rollators, general walking aids and home care beds. During 2015 the focus was to get the teams to focus on the most important activities instead of trying to solve everything in parallel. This required a lean approach as well as tight coordination with e.g. plant managers, sourcing, product managers. In January 2016 I was appointed Head of standardization office at Invacare EMEA, and my initial mission was to increase efficiency for sustaining engineering in Europe and to be the EMEA R&D representative in the Invacare ERP project.

* Regional manager* Project managerI was fully responsible for the Lund office and to grow our business in the region with new customers. I also worked part time as a consultant at Assa Abloy (project manager for sliding door projects for Italy and Canada) and in the paper mill industry (e.g. project manager for heat exchanger project).

* R&D Manager for R&D Sweden* Member of product council at Assa Abloy Entrance Systems.* Program and Project manager for Besam SL500 sliding door platformAs R&D Manager I was fully responsible for mechanical, electrical, embedded software and testing departments in Sweden but the role also requires much coordination and cooperation with the R&D Departments in China and US and of course with sourcing, marketing and production. I also worked part time managing a large global sliding door project as main project manager for the core project (intial launch for the North America market) and program manager for the complete platform.

* R&D Manager for Ifö, Ido and Sphinx, * Member of Product Council Ceramic Projects within Sanitec* Member of Ifö Bromölla Plant Management Team* Chairman Product Council at Ifö and IdoAt Sanitec I was manager for Technical Product Development at the companies Ifö (Bromölla, SE), Ido (Ekenäs, FI) and Sphinx (Maastricht, NL). I had full responsibility for budget, strategic planning, product councils, development process, e.t.c. It was of course also my responsibility to ensure that we had the required resources with correct competence in order to execute the projects that we centrally within Sanitec decided to start. This position also included managing technical development projects and global resourcing projects.

* Manager Electro Mechanics (Nov 2003 - June 2008)* Global Connector Working Group Leader (Jan 2004 - June 2008)* Mechanical Project Manager (sept 2002 - oct 2003)I joined Sony Ericsson in September 2002 as mecanical project manager but was in 2003 given the task to establish the electro mechanics section in Lund. As manager I had the full responsibility of up to 20 engineers, development of appropriate working procedures, resource allocation, management of technology development projects, salary reviews, etc. I also had a role as global R&D co-ordinator within electro mechanics. My main mission was then to ensure that the different development units (Lund, Kista, Beijing, Tokyo and Raleigh) had a common development strategy, supplier base, processes and test methods within electro mechanics.

* Technical Project Manager for Safety Syringe (as Consultant from Ingenjörsprojekt AB)At BD Medical Systems I worked as technical project manager for intravenous therapy development projects. In this role I was responsible for managing the internal development and verification resources, set up plan for test production and validation of the process and together with the quality department get the product and production process approved by FDA.

Work as a consultant mainly at BD Medical Systems

* PhD student at Linköping University and Junior LecturerMy research project at Linköping University focused on establishing procedures and tools to support the conceptual design of complex products. One important research area was product structuring and modularisation. Another important area was to develop methods and tools for a structural approach of conceptual development.I was also a teacher for undergraduate students within mechanical engineering.