Alexis Riise-Birger
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Professional Status
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About Me
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Business Driven IT Professional
ROLES
SPECIALITIES
Develop and manage IT-infrastructure. Procurement processes. Project management. Organisational development. Process management and development. Develop methods and ways of working.
EXPERIENCE
Experience from both the private and public sectors; from manufacturing industry to the service sector; both international and local business; Security, Telecom, Healthcare, Consulting and Consulting Engineering industry; from corporations to family businesses...
PERSONALITY
I am a passionate contributor and I embrace change. My perspective is one of open and transparent dialogue. I am not afraid to take a position but I am always listening for - searching for - good reasons to develop or change my standpoints.
My preferences are for working with other passionate and skilled individuals in situations with great challenges - turning something around from failure is so much more satisfying than moving through a process with very few obstacles. I have learned so much more from mistakes; mine and other's.
To share and seek knowledge is my foundation - I am always trying to find and provide that special know-how, method or technology which will address my customer's issues in the most effective manner.
Business Driven IT Professional
ROLES
- Leader.
- Manager of Operations, Change, and Projects.
- Analyst.
- Method-, and Technology Evangelist.
SPECIALITIES
Develop and manage IT-infrastructure. Procurement processes. Project management. Organisational development. Process management and development. Develop methods and ways of working.
EXPERIENCE
Experience from both the private and public sectors; from manufacturing industry to the service sector; both international and local business; Security, Telecom, Healthcare, Consulting and Consulting Engineering industry; from corporations to family businesses...
PERSONALITY
I am a passionate contributor and I embrace change. My perspective is one of open and transparent dialogue. I am not afraid to take a position but I am always listening for - searching for - good reasons to develop or change my standpoints.
My preferences are for working with other passionate and skilled individuals in situations with great challenges - turning something around from failure is so much more satisfying than moving through a process with very few obstacles. I have learned so much more from mistakes; mine and other's.
To share and seek knowledge is my foundation - I am always trying to find and provide that special know-how, method or technology which will address my customer's issues in the most effective manner.
Infantry company, Bohusbrigaden, IB 17 (IB 66 M).
Project Manager, Västra Götalandsregionen IT
Västra Götalandsregionen
Since October 2012
- ROLE - Project Manager/Coordinator; healthcare projects.
- CHALLENGE - inherited dozen+ overdue projects, in general badly prepared not conducted in compliance with regional strategies and policies. Customer is 2nd largest region in Sweden and consequently one of the largest employers and producers of healthcare. Other issues include:
- » Organisational difficulties pertaining to the fairly recent merger of three county council organisations into one region.
- » Legal constraints pertaining to patient security legislation and regulations, integrity legislation, legislation and regulations pertaining to public tenders etc.
- » Differences of perspective between the Medical profession and Information technology experts.
- METHOD - identified "easy wins" to quickly weed out as many projects as possible while simultaneously getting to know the organisation and the governance structure, regional strategies, and policies. Reorganised remaining projects according to current project model and regulations. All project teams organised cross-functionally from start, aiming for agile, incremental, delivery.
- OUTCOME - TBD.
- CASES:
- » Prepared, established and managed new project introducing new regional information domain for instruments (primarily - but not only - POCT) promising net savings of more than SEK 250 million over five years. Includes regional implementation and integration of:
- > Blood Gas monitoring and analysis from Siemens (RAPIDComm),
- > POCT process management and data governance from Conworx (POCcelerator).
- » Regional implementation and integration of Patient Monitoring from Philips (Intellivue).
- » Maintenance/upgrade activities for LIMS from Tieto (Flexlab). Pushing to restart all activities on this platform to maintain and develop it regionally until new regional LIMS platform is established.
- » Consolidation/upgrade activities for POS/PTM from Atronic (Atronic PTM).
Consultant
Bolero Aktiebolag
Since April 2011
- Management consulting, traditional project management, agile project management. Sales, pre-sale. Networking for the Gothenburg office. Liaising with partners.
- Project Manager @ Västra Götalandsregionen
- Team Leader @ Ericsson AB
Technical Teamleader, Engineering IT HUB, ITTE (R&D)
Ericsson
April 2011
to May 2012
- ROLE - Team Leader.
- CHALLENGE - Insufficient/unreliable Service Delivery. Team-leading role undefined/unestablished. Customers lacked faith in team.
- METHOD - Consistency, Empowerment, Transparency, and Trust. Created peaceful working environment/structured methods of contact; cordoned off team but made sure to encourage non-disruptive contacts with customers. Introduced Agile methods as a complement. This entailed breaking with established practices that did not increase efficiency.
- OUTCOME - Predictability, Increased Performance, and Shorter Decision Cycles.
- DESCRIPTION: my team supported R&D globally with services based in the Lindholmen Data Centre.
- OTHER ROLES/TASKS:
- » Restructuring/stabilising team work-flow and customer ordering/communication (liaising with/organising customer PO-teams). Through the team's concentrated efforts, in close conjunction with our customers, we established new routines.
- » Advanced/developed ITS, changing method from Ericsson's single-step waterfall model (PROPS) to more agile approach (KANBAN/SCRUM hybrid).
- » Managed change from consultants (primarily) from out-sourcing partner (HP) to consultants (mostly) directly contracted.
- » Agile project with four work-flows and two empowered self-organised teams (cross-functional with regards to all aspects of our operation: analysis-design-implementation-testing-operations-support); project took two (2) weeks from conception to start.
- » Coordinated team effort for monthly Change Weekend and managed Change Weekends for the HUB.
- » Meetings with the customers to streamline the order process and to escalate and troubleshoot delays.
- » Participated in the organisation of Change-, Incident-, and Operational aspects of the HUB.
- » Supervised team efforts, in part by removing obstacles, taking responsibility, creating consistent and transparent work-flows and not the least by creating a less stressful working environment (in agile terms by reducing "thrashing" by customers).
Event Coordinator, Beverage Evangelist, Editor/Translator
Self employed
Since January 1981
- Manages beverage samplings for hotels, restaurants, conferences and private parties. Mainly Porter and Stout but also other types of Beer.
- Lectures on Beverage history, local history, and military history.
- Manages other types of events/activities, e.g.:
- » Coordination and support for Barista Cup (2003).
- » Coffee samplings with Cafè Espresso (2001-2003).
- » Coordination of War-gaming and Role-playing activities, especially for the annual "Konvent/GothCon" event (1981-1987).
- Editor/writer/translator/proof-reader: Swedish English. Fanzines, manuals, articles...
Member of the Consumer Policy Committee
Göteborgs Stad
November 2004
to December 2012
- The city of Gothenburg in 1990 organised a consumer committee with seven members and three alternates in an independent administration - "Consumer Göteborg". Committee duties and responsibilities are regulated in the Standing Orders of the City of Gothenburg Consumer Committee.
- The Consumer Committee is tasked with:
- » conducting general consumer policy activities and to promote, support and coordinate the consumer activities of the city providing individual advice and support to the people of Gothenburg, and in simpler cases, help them in claiming their rights.
- » conducting energy advice.
- » conducting financial and debt counselling
- » performing other duties that the City Council assigns the Committed, including responsibility for Certifying the City of Gothenburg as a Fairtrade City.
- The Consumer Committee sets goals, guidelines and frameworks for Consumer Administration and decides on other matters of more general or fundamental nature. The board meets about eight to ten times per year.
Operations- and Project Manager
Akademihälsan i Göteborg AB
November 2010
to March 2011
- Supported and managed IT-operations for organisation producing Primary Care for students. Participated in steering group.
- Projects:
- » Upgrade of POS's.
- » Upgrade of Healthcare ERP and gradual introduction of more functionality in modules (e.g. e-prescriptions).
- » Phasing out of IP-telephony platform replacing it with Centrex and smart-phone solution.
- » Acting IT-manager during recruitment process of new IT-manager.
- » Technical support and contact in the procurement of premises security system and security supplier.
- » Introducing and managing web-based polling and e-mail marketing software for CRM-purposes.
Consultant
IceSQL AB
February 2010
to November 2010
- Projects:
- Business development for Small/Medium Businesses (various clients).
- Pre-study for POS-upgrade (Fysiken Friskvård i Göteborg AB).
- Upgrade of ERP-system. Managed cut-over from old platform and completed removal of last elements of legacy system. Supported organizations transition to newer platform (Fysiken Friskvård i Göteborg AB).
- IT-infrastructure development for Small Businesses (various clients).
- IT-support for industrial systems (various clients).
CIO and CTO
Ib Industries International AB
February 2007
to July 2009
- CIO and CTO of International company (Sweden, Brazil and China [PRC]) trading in the building materials sector.
- IT operations and development.
- Premises and Security manager for HQ.
- Procurement of hardware, software and services.
- Project manager for the development of the ERP (VB in MS Visual Studio 2000)
- Project manager for the re-building of the HQ.
- Out-sourcing of IT-operations.
Project Manager - IT
Fysiken Friskvård i Göteborg AB
August 2006
to January 2007
- Managed server & IT-infrastructure upgrade project.
Project manager and administrator
Socialdemokraterna
January 2004
to December 2004
- Party Project manager, central Gothenburg, for the European Parliament election, 2004.
- Administrator for the party's national membership database (Mysoft).
Instructor
Aventus AB
February 2002
to December 2002
- Instructed, coached, and supervised IT-students.
Business Engineer and Project Manager
Iftech Network AB
January 2000
to May 2000
- Pre-sale support.
- Business development.
- Pre-studies, e.g. for a client in the Chemical Industry.
- Seminars and courses.
Business Engineer and Team Leader
Datapoint Svenska AB
January 1999
to January 2000
- IT-consultant, project manager, team leader, pre-sale support...
- Mainly towards various municipalities in the southern half of Sweden (between Gothenburg and Sundsvall).
- CASE - Public Sector Organisation
- ROLE - Project Manager.
- CHALLENGE - New project hindered by Legacy infrastructure, Unmanageable and unwieldy system for Identity management, and Lack of funding for Change.
- METHOD - Integration of Physical Structures by Logical separation: Integration of Organisational Silos through Directory Service, and Consolidation of infrastructure and services enabled by VLAN.
- OUTCOME - Increased Operational Efficiency, Funding found outside original organisational scopes (Win-Win), Radically Renewed Infrastructure; Enhanced Managerial Awareness.
Manager IT operations, Network Manager, and regional IT-coordinator.
SWECO
May 1995
to December 1998
- ROLE - IT manager Gothenburg.
- CHALLENGE - Rebuild IT Service Delivery. Old Service Delivery organisation disbanded years earlier together with the Mainframe systems it supported. Company now suffered from unmanaged PC-systems ("distributed anarchy").
- METHOD - "Internal Outsourcer” - reconstituted IT steering committee, developed departmental Product Owner teams, consolidated-, concentrated-, and upgraded IT infrastructure.
- OUTCOME - growth in performance and capacity, successfully merging, and doubling in size. Mature IT organisation.
- OTHER ROLES/TASKS:
- » Manager IT operations, Network Manager, and regional IT-coordinator (Göteborg, Vänersborg, and Uddevalla).
- » Expanded/upgraded NetWare, NDS, and Windows NT; disbanded VAX, and AIX.
- » Managed the IT-related projects for the co-location of all SWECO companies in Gothenburg.
- » LAN upgrade Gothenburg office. 10BASE2/10BASE5 > 100BASETX over CAT5. VLAN separation.
- » IT-transformation from flat access control lists (Bindery) to Directory Service (NDS); delegating control over projects and data to production units. This required upgrade from NetWare 3 to NetWare 4.
- » Design and implementation of new NDS-design for the VBB-group (55 branch offices connected by everything from ISDN to T1 WAN-connections).
- » Design and implementation of regional DR-strategy. Introducing DR/DA-solution with HA-solution (VINCA), and backup and archiving solution.
- » Upgraded older CAD document Management system; changed ways-of-working from LAN to WAN-based.
- » Fleet printer management - streamlining queues, standardising on platforms and print servers.
- » Replacement of old rented Alcatel PBX w. more capable system from Phillips.
- » Participated in project to merge IT-departements of the VBB-Group and FFNS.
Security Guard
Securitas
April 1989
to December 1996
- Security Guard, mostly static position; offices, jails, industries, refugee quarters, industries etc.
- Fire Guard.
Systems manager and Head Teacher (Computer Science)
Kunskapskretsen AB
December 1994
to August 1995
- IT-operations, head teacher (Computer Science).
- Projects:
- Migration from Windows 3.11 workgroup network to NT 3.51.
- Development of courses in Networks, OS and General IT.
Teaching assistant: Computer Technoloy, CAD and Software Development
Chalmers University of Technology
August 1989
to June 1993
- Computer administrator/technician in charge of maintaining student computers at the section for Civil Engineering (Väg & Vattenbyggnad).
- MS DOS, Windows (1-3), Lan Manager, HP-UX.
- Managed the computer introduction course for first year students.
- Assistant teacher in CAD (AutoCAD) and programming (Fortran77).
Store Manager
LE Consult
January 1981
to December 1987
- Helped operate Science Fiction & Fantasy stores "Wizard" and "Daggskimmer", selling books, games, posters and other paraphernalia.
