Work experience
agile42, Agile Coach and Trainer (CSC/CST)
March 2012 - Present, Aarhus, Denmark
Coach and trainer at agile42 in Denmark
TC Electronic, Agile Coach, Program Manager
September 2007 - September 2012, Aarhus, Denmark
Personnel manager, responsible for the software department of 20 developers and testers. Responsible for implementing Scrum as software development process and agile hardware development processes in the company as well as in TC Group. For TC Group, more specific TC Applied Technology in Canada and Lab.gruppen in Sweden, the assignment has been training and guiding the companies in their Scrum implementation and serving as coach for their local ScrumMasters and Product Owners.
Agile Coaching DK, Agile Coach, Owner
January 2007 - February 2012, Aarhus, Denmark
Independent consultant specialised in implementing agile development methods (hardware and software), team building and coaching.
Kamstrup, Agile Coach, Program Manager
April 2005 - September 2007, Skanderborg, Denmark
At Kamstrup the primary goal has been reforming the system software group from an organisation with almost anarchistic processes and limited success, to be manned by high performance teams who use Scrum to deliver quality software on monthly basis. Bent has been into program management in the company and has been in charge of projects that included overseas development groups
Systematic Software Engineering, Project Manager
June 1997 - April 2005, Aarhus, Denmark
Bent has primarily been employed as a project manager, but he has also worked as a developer in his first year in the company. In recent years, he was occasionally engaged in business development. Bent took an active part in the company’s effort in climbing the steps of the CMMi ladder by implementing and enhancing process improvement initiatives in the teams he was part of. In a 3-year period Bent was serving as a Working Director in the company.
Danvaegt, Software Engineer
August 1996 - May 1997, Hinnerup, Denmark
Development and implementation of weighbridge systems to customers in the gravel pits and ferry services industry. Bent made a great effort to bring the company into the object oriented world and to use real SQL databases in their solutions.
Gram Equipment, Electrical Engineer
November 1995 - July 1996, Vojens, Denmark
Specification of control panels and development of PLC programs for packaging solutions for the ice cream industry. One of Bent’s professional goals here was to bring aspects of designing software before implementing it into practice of the group he was part of.
Flex Products, Software Engineer
February 1992 - October 1995, Haderslev, Denmark
At Flex Products, Bent was responsible for the system software in the central part of their solution for remote reading of electrical meters. In his years of employment, he moved the system from being implemented in standard C to take advantage of the features that C++ offered. He was also responsible for drifting and maintaining the computer network of the company.
Engineering College of Aarhus, Laboratory Engineer
August 1991 - December 1991, Aarhus, Denmark
In his post educational time at Engineering College of Aarhus, Bent was employed in the area of building up a process control laboratory. This included developing amplifiers for controlling DC motors and research in neural networks.
Bang & Olufsen, Engineering Trainee
January 1987 - January 1988, Struer, Denmark
Bent took part in the development of automatic test systems for the production of television sets. This included the development of diverse electronic circuits for 19" rack systems and programming in Pascal Poly on the CP/M platform.