Michael Leire, Snr manager - IT Projects

Michael Leire

Snr manager - IT Projects

danfoss

Location
Switzerland
Education
Master's degree, MBA - Leadership and organisational behaviour - strategy
Experience
27 years, 2 Months

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Total years of experience :27 years, 2 Months

Snr manager - IT Projects at danfoss
  • Germany - Hamburg
  • My current job since June 2019

• 1st phase of Siemens Teamcenter implementation in Danfoss Drives - start digitalization work
• Meeting facilititation
• Coordination between mgrs, architects, developers
• Coordination between, Germany, India, CH, Denmark - Virtual team meetings
• Change review board
• Go-live
• setup of global support organisation after go-live
• Issue/Bug/Ticket handling
• sprint boards, workpackages, trainings, infrastructure
• Management meetings and reporting

Project manager connectivity at sensile medical
  • Switzerland - Zuerich (Kreis 1)
  • May 2016 to February 2019

Sensile medical (NDA) (medical devices) 2016-2019
Project manager. SW system connectivity/requirements/interfaces
• Product Requirements with external partners, UML diagrams
• Supplier and Partner coordination and control - stakeholder management
• 3rd party negotiations on product functionality
• Standards identification, regulations, interface description
• BT system connectivity, Embedded computer (IoT, App, AWS Cloud)
• 3rd party conference calls, tracking of development
• virtual team work

Central PMO EMEA at DePuy Synthes (Johnson and Johnson)
  • Switzerland
  • December 2013 to December 2016

- Process development and documentation
- ressource management
- Management Reporting
- Documentation and educational material

System Program manager at TECAN
  • Switzerland
  • May 2011 to December 2013

- Multi functional team management
- Medical analysis system development
- Requirements description, stakeholder management
- program steering group
- System integration, .NET, C#
- Sw Development, testing, FDA regulation, QA, documentation

Management consultant at Gyldendal - Danish publishing house
  • Denmark
  • June 2010 to December 2010

- Analysis of requirements for offshored software development (Pakistan)
- Establisment of business case for outsourced software development
- Software development with external/offshore developers
- Specifications for offshored Team, governance
- Javascript, .NET, multisystem
- Sitecore CMS development for various portals
- Payment systems, sales systems, business systems

Freelance PM consultant outsourced Application software development (Fujitsu) at Telia Sonera
  • Denmark
  • June 2009 to February 2010

- Identification of system architecture
- Workshop facilitation of system requirements needs, derived from business areas.
- Business System connectivity ensurance
- VOIP networks, system interconnectivity
- Full overview of multi system landscape, (SAP FI/CRM, ERP, .NET Java, Flash etc.)
- Outsourced development with fujitsu services
- CMMI and Governance

Software integration manager at Infineon
  • Denmark
  • October 2008 to March 2009

- Coordination of software development for integration into Nokia platform
- Specification of products requirements, Embedded C
- Release planning
- Cross site development activities

Programme and change management with focus on transformation at KMD
  • Denmark
  • November 2007 to October 2008

- Programme preparation work and architecture and strategy prestudy
- New organisational processes to SAP CRM/ new .NET for the entire organisation,
- Presently of a team of 20 increasing to over 50 in 2009 (over 100.000 mhrs/year)
- Programme documentation, identification of 130 sub projects, resource plans and educational plans.
- CMMI, PMI, Scrum processes

Mgmt. Consulting Project VERTU (Nokia) at VERTU (Nokia)
  • United Kingdom - London
  • June 2006 to April 2007

- Project under Non Disclosure Agreement

Intel Denmark, Technical Programme Manager 10- 40Gb/s Transceiver System development, Responsible f at Intel
  • Denmark
  • October 2003 to January 2006

- Architectural specification, PRD etc for Telecom/Datacom applications.
- Successful integration of R&D, QA, Production, Sales needs and efforts, crossing USA, ASIA, EU
- Delivery on stretch goals, on time for scheduled projects.
- Successful provision for- and training of marketing and sales/distribution.
- Close interaction with customers in EMEA, APAC and North America

Project manager various projects at Intel
  • Denmark
  • May 2002 to September 2003

- After returning from USA, asked sequentially, to debug 3 delayed development projects.
- Within very short time, got projects debugged through stakeholder mitigation, staff training and coaching, change management.
- All projects, though executed with haste, performed well after completion

Programme manager on 10Gb/s Telecom transceiver system in Intel ‘state of the art’ Technology at Intel Oregon/USA (temporary outplacement)
  • United States
  • February 2001 to November 2002

- Trained and coached a team of 5 to understand and execute on homebase IP.
- Mitigated and facilitated training of production, application and quality staff from Oregon through help from Danish site, 12 staff in all.
- Executed project to completion ahead of Intel internal competition team.
- Exceeded success criteria measured on performance design specification for chip after completion.
- Architectural specification, PRD etc. Mixed signal chip design,

Project manager on Flagship project 10Gb/s multi-rate Forward-Error-Correction mux/demux chipset at Intel Denmark
  • Denmark
  • February 2000 to January 2001

- Fully responsible for project, budgeted 20M£ first year revenue from largest customer alone.
- Despite technical challenges, mitigated and met stretch goals from design specification.
- First time success, met production criteria/quality at first attempt.
- Negotiation and mitigation from international customers on technical aspects.
- Architectural specification, PRD etc.

Project Manager/Product line manager 155Mb/s product lines, Chip design at GIGA (later Intel)
  • Denmark
  • February 1997 to February 2000

- Successful Customer engagement for exploring customer needs in EMEA, APAC and USA.
- Development of full product line from scratch.
- Mitigating customer demands and sales push, training of sales- and distributor staff.
- Architectural specification, PRD etc.

Sw developer - computer network tester at Cray Communication
  • Denmark
  • May 1995 to January 1997

R&D computer network Routers/switches, Datacom networks

- Development and test of Routers and switches for computer networks, up to GBE
- Configuration, Creation and Test of Large networks over LAN/WAN.
- Connections over various protocols and physical media, ISDN, ATM, FDDI, PPP X25 FR etc.
- Various protocols and applications, TCP, UDP, RIP, OSPF, NAT, Telnet, FTP, DHCP, SNMP etc.

Education

Master's degree, MBA - Leadership and organisational behaviour - strategy
  • at Ashridge Business Scool
  • March 2007

General management Strategy Leadership organisational behaviour Supply chain HR Marketing etc.

Bachelor's degree, Finance - Micro and macro economics, business Law, management accounting
  • at Copenhagen Business School
  • May 2005

Micro and macro economics Business Law Management accounting more

Master's degree, Ms Sc. Electronics
  • at Technical University Denmark
  • March 1995

Polytechnical degree. Focus on electronics Software Optical communication systems Electromagnetics Chipdesign

High school or equivalent, Mathematics physics
  • at Vordingborg high School
  • July 1987

Mathematics - physics line

Specialties & Skills

Technology
Team Management
Virtual Teams
IT Strategy
Team Building
business case/ROI/Strategy
Highly complex technical systems
Team building
Virtual teams/Remote teams/Multisite teams
Innovation within multiethnic teams

Languages

English
Expert
German
Expert
Danish
Expert
French
Intermediate
Italian
Beginner
Swedish
Intermediate

Training and Certifications

Neurolinguistic Programming I+II (Training)
Training Institute:
Copenhagen NLP House
Date Attended:
August 1999
Duration:
40 hours
IBM full Project Management Training - 3 modules (Training)
Training Institute:
IBM
Date Attended:
August 2001
Duration:
120 hours
Transaction analysis Training (Training)
Training Institute:
Local HR training organisation
Date Attended:
February 1998
Duration:
24 hours
Scrum master Certification (Certificate)
Date Attended:
March 2013
ITILv3 (Certificate)
Date Attended:
February 2014
Prince2 Practitioner (Certificate)
Date Attended:
February 2008
Valid Until:
February 2018
ISTQB software testing Fdn (Certificate)
Date Attended:
February 2014
IREB Certified Professional Requirements Engineer Fdn (Certificate)
Date Attended:
March 2014
various management training, presentation skills etc… (Training)
Training Institute:
INTEL university
Date Attended:
February 2000
Duration:
120 hours

Hobbies

  • Leisure activities: Private pilot, tennis, sailing, films, music, running, cooking
    I do a lot of sports, for the time 5-7 hours weekly of bicycling. I also like to play tennis when I have th opportunity. For handling stress and relaxation, I have taken a yacht sailing certificate allowing me to sail yacths privately up to 15meters.