Soren Nielsen, CSP

* Dedicated and driven manager of technical teams. Thrive in a fast paced environment. Extensive experience in leading / managing Developers, DB Developers, QA and Project Managers.
* Built and grew successful teams that performed strong and were supportive to the corporate strategy, evolving high-potential engineers into effective leaders of today, and novice engineers into strong and efficient engineers of today.
* 25+ years’ experience in IT; web/client software development; 10+ years managing or supervising large and small development teams from multi-national companies to start-ups including off-shore team management.
* Experience with technical/software project management with a focus for overall delivery management and success of a project. Certified Project Manager (PMI).
* Experience with all aspects of technical project development lifecycles as well as commercial software development processes involving software packaging, delivery, sales, marketing and end-user support.
* Directed 20+ reports including application engineers (.NET), web engineers, configuration managers and DB developers for Spot Runner and LAN International.
* Experience managing off-shore teams in China, India and Sweden.
* Worked with and in different cultures and understand that not all people work and think the same way. Lived and worked in 4 different countries on 3 Continents (Denmark, Sweden, USA, Brazil)

I am fluent in English, Danish and Swedish.

Specialties:Agile Software Development, Enterprise Software Development, Program/Project Management, Automated Software, Software Quality Assurance, Process Improvement and Expansion, Team Growth Development, OKR implementation and management, Agile coaching.