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ABB Scandia

Scania Bus Manufacturing DK

Vest-Busscar

ACO Funki

Danfoss

Siemens Wind Power

Siemens Gamesa

Relevant project highlights

Leader in renewable energy (2010 – 2020):

Established function “Project Portfolio Optimization” securing transparency, availability and optimized utilization of critical key resources for execution of Offshore Projects delivering significant reduction of risk accruals
Global Owner (responsible to develop, implement and optimize) of Core-process governing interface between BUs and Operations
Established “Engineering Portfolio Management” – standardization of customized solutions, NPI & ECM governance
Established “Engineering PMO” – Resource/Competence planning, tools, Stage Gate Model and supporting processes, KPI’s & performance monitoring
Structured and globalized Project Management function, establishing regional offices in EU, US & China.

Customer Engineering Solutions (2005 – 2009):

Fully restructuring of unprofitable BU. Redefined business case, implemented strategy with new product focus. Significantly reduced product portfolio, merged acquired competitor and simplified manufacturing footprint incl. closing German factory. BU profitable in Y2 – and better than budget in Y3.

Suppliers of livestock equipment (2003 – 2005):

Introduced S&OP, LEAN- tools and KPI’s in Operations and the interface to Sales. Relocated ~50% of manufacturing as part of merger with new owner

Automotive manufacturing (2002 – 2003):

Established new business segment incl. full setup to ordering, customizing, assemble and delivery busses in EU with order-specific bus-bodies produced at JV-partner in Brazil. Relocated setup and facilities to Norway following Group restructuring

Automotive manufacturing (1996 – 2002)

Transformed company to an integrated part of the company’s global logistics- & manufacturing structure. Stocks reduced >85%, deliveries stabilized at >99% “on-day” (from <20% “in-week” )
Executed Turnaround Program in ‘01 incl. significant outsourcing of components manufacturing and subassembly in preparation for divestment.

Career

2020 – | ZILLION Consulting Group, Associate Partner

2017- 2020 | Siemens Gamesa, Sr.Director, Offshore Projects Portfolio Optimization

2010 - 2017 | Siemens Wind Power, VP Offshore Engineering, Project- & Portfolio Management

2005 - 2009 | Danfoss, Director, BU Control Solutions

2003 - 2005 | ACO Funki, Group Head of Operations

2002 - 2003 | Vest-Busscar, Project Director. JV startup

1996 - 2002 | Scania Bus Manufacturing DK, Head of Engineering, Logistics & Procurement

1988 - 2096 | ABB Scandia, Sr.Project Manager

Experience

Turnaround & Cost-Out Programs: Experience

Post Merger Integration: Substantial Experience

Cultural Change Programs: Experience

Process analysis & improvement: Expert

Performance mgt., KPI’s & reporting: Expert

Engineering, PMO & Portfolio Mgt: Expert

Offshore Wind Industry: Substantial Experience

Org. analysis & development: Subst. Experience

Operations & Value Chain Mgt: Expert

Transformational Change Mgt: Subst. Experience

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Edwards Deming: “Without data, you’re just another person with an opinion” Stephen Hawking: “Intelligence is the ability to adapt to change” Bill Copeland: “The trouble with not having a goal is that you can spend your life running up and down the field and never score.” Henry Ford: “Coming together is the beginning, staying together is progress, and working together is success” Jeff Daly: "Two monologues do not make a dialogue" Robert Collier: “Success is the sum of small efforts – repeated day in and day out.” Fujio Cho: “We get brilliant results from average people managing brilliant processes – while our competitors get average or worse results from brilliant people managing broken processes” Jack Welch: “Before you are a leader, success is all about growing yourself. When you become a leader, success is all about growing others” John Wooden: “Do not let what you cannot do interfere with what you can do” Tom Peters: “The Marketplace is so demanding that we burn the policy manuals and knock off the incessant memo writing; there’s just no time. It also demands we empower everyone to constantly take initiatives. It turns out stories are a – if not the – leadership answer to both issues” Caterina Fake: “So often people are working hard at the wrong thing. Working on the right thing is probably more important than working hard” Sam Walton: “The goal as a company is to have customer service that is not just the best but legendary” Edewede Oriwoh: "The Internet of Things is not a concept; it is a network, the true technology-enabled network of all networks" Dwight D. Eisenhower: “Planning is everything. the plan is nothing” Jeff Daly: "Two monologues do not make a dialogue" Steve Jobs: “It doesn’t make sense to hire smart people and then tell them what to do; we hire smart people so they can tell us what to do” Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe: “Knowing is not enough; we must apply. Wishing is not enough; we must do” Mark Hurd: "AI and its offshoot, machine learning, will be a foundational tool for creating social good as well as business success" Caterina Fake: “So often people are working hard at the wrong thing. Working on the right thing is probably more important than working hard” Steve Jobs: “It doesn’t make sense to hire smart people and then tell them what to do; we hire smart people so they can tell us what to do” Socrates: “The secret of change is to focus all your energy, not on fighting the old, but on building the new” W. Edwards Deming: “Without data, you’re just another person with an opinion” Warren Buffett: “It takes 20 years to build a reputation and five minutes to ruin it. If you think about that, you’ll do things differently” Leo Tolstoy: “Everyone thinks of changing the world, but no one thinks of changing himself” Jeff Daly: "Two monologues do not make a dialogue" Jeff Bezos: “Your brand is what people say about you when you’re not in the room” Wade Boggs: “A positive attitude causes a chain reaction of positive thoughts, events, and outcomes. It is a catalyst, and it sparks extraordinary results” Henry Ford: “If you always do what you always did, you’ll always get what you’ve always got.” Steve Jobs: “It doesn’t make sense to hire smart people and then tell them what to do; we hire smart people so they can tell us what to do” Theo Gold: “You cannot become stronger without resistance” Dave Waters: “Deep learning will revolutionize supply chain automation” Caterina Fake: “So often people are working hard at the wrong thing. Working on the right thing is probably more important than working hard” Stephen Hawking: “Intelligence is the ability to adapt to change” Henry Ford: “If you always do what you always did, you’ll always get what you’ve always got.” Taiichi Ohno: “Standards should not be forced down from above but rather set by the production workers themselves” Henry Ford: “If you think of standardization as the best that you know today, but which is to be improved tomorrow; you get somewhere” Aristotle: “We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence then, is not an act, but a habit” Buddha: “The mind is everything. What you think you become” Fujio Cho: “We get brilliant results from average people managing brilliant processes – while our competitors get average or worse results from brilliant people managing broken processes”

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