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Innovative, hands-on software architecture and development executive with throughout experience in Cloud Computing, technology breadth and managing/leading agile product management, software research, architecture and development teams. Experienced in multiple platforms, technologies and software architecture including traditional client-server, multi-tier, SOA, Web, Software as a Service (SaaS), Platform as a Service (PaaS), Cloud Computing, Web 2.0 and social networking...

Innovative, hands-on software architecture and development executive with throughout experience in Cloud Computing, technology breadth and managing/leading agile product management, software research, architecture and development teams. Experienced in multiple platforms, technologies and software architecture including traditional client-server, multi-tier, SOA, Web, Software as a Service (SaaS), Platform as a Service (PaaS), Cloud Computing, Web 2.0 and social networking solutions, ranging from local to global reach. Experienced in management of on-shore and off shore software research and development teams including acquisition, establishment, management, integration and development, managing ~100 employee R&D units in multiple geographical locations including, Western & Eastern Europe, USA and Asia. Heading technical strategy and direction as well as general management.CTO, Mass Hosting @ Managing technical operations, development, research and future platform initiatives. Building extensive automation fabrics both commercial and technical to further leverage our business' commercial processes and technical resource usage. From July 2015 to Present (6 months) London, United KingdomCTO @ OnApp is a leading, global, Cloud Management Platform enabling service providers, data centers and telcos around the work to automate physical and virtual infrastructure, as well as content delivery network (CDN) and participate in a global federated marketplace to build global presence and monetise spare capacity. Manage the entire product life cycle, including product management, Cloud operations, DevOps, and software development units in United Kingdom, Ukraine and Malaysia. Hands-on CTO involved architecting and envisioning products as well as an agile approach. Took over and professionalised young cloud management product and made it into a stabile, structured and increasingly feature-rich product with high quality. Reorganised product, design, and organisation to achieve a structured, agile process across the product life cycle from business input and prioritisation, product management, product development, DevOps, and operations. Spearheaded, designed and delivered a new federated marketplace that enables an instant global cloud compute and CDN resources to be federated across providers to utilize spare capacity and extend reach through partners in a fully automated and managed manner. Enabled delivering predictable, quality releases with an agile mix of long planned features, last minute changes and custom development for clients. Headed technical strategically partnership with VMWare and implemented vCenter and vCloud Director support as well as opening up our platform with AWS EC2 and developing OpenStack support. From February 2012 to July 2015 (3 years 6 months) London, United KingdomVice President, R&D @ Lead Cloud division, responsible for bringing cloud-based technology and offerings to the market including private cloud offerings for enterprises and public cloud offerings for ISV’s. Responsible for the continued innovation and development of PaaS & SaaS enablement & delivery platform and Cloud based versions for both public and private cloud functionality. The platform includes automated virtualized compute infrastructure, firewall, VPN, generic event-driven provisioning, and a dynamic billing engine that enables dynamic billing and pricing at multiple levels in the channel (ISV’s/channel/resellers etc.). Managed both technical and business aspects as well as customers and partners enablement. From March 2009 to February 2012 (3 years) CTO / Chief Software Architect @ Lead & integrated multiple onshore and offshore software research & development units. Implemented Agile and CMMI processed with extended metrics reporting and monitoring. Invented and architected Platform as a Service, a Cloud-based SaaS delivery platform with features such as: automated virtualization and IT Infrastructure, distributed cloud-based rich Internet applications pattern, generic, event-driven SaaS application provisioning and others. Established and managed multiple data centres for 24x7 operations. Instrumental in selling intellectual property rights in form of developed IT Factory software solutions, especially the PaaS/Cloud platform, to GROUP Business Software AG and followed the software with the core cloud team. From January 2006 to February 2009 (3 years 2 months) CTO (consultant) @ “Technology Angel” / CTO during start-up phase. Oversaw and assisted with software architecture, design, and management of Instant Messaging bot (spleak.com). From March 2005 to September 2006 (1 year 7 months) CTO (consultant) @ “Technology Angel” / CTO during start-up phase. Oversaw and assisted with software architecture, design, and management of text messaging (SMS) and later SyncML based mobile services. From January 2005 to June 2006 (1 year 6 months) Founder, CEO / CTO @ Founded, managed and ran a successful software development and IT Company. Architected, developed and implemented multiple SaaS solutions. Established and managed datacentre facilities for running SaaS solutions and IT Infrastructure. Assisted large Danish pension fund company in architecting, implementing and partially outsource .NET based development of member management system. Added Solutions was acquired in 2006 and I followed into acquiring company. From June 2003 to January 2006 (2 years 8 months) Copenhagen Area, DenmarkChief Software Architect / CTO @ Established and managed an off-shore development & support unit. Modernized technologies and development, making offerings current and competitive. From January 2002 to June 2003 (1 year 6 months) Software Development Director @ Architected, designed and developed a CRM system, including an object-relational model. Built and managed a software development and product management team. From January 1998 to December 2001 (4 years) Software Development Manager @ Architected and developed a process, document and workflow solution. Ran IT operations and software development services. From January 1995 to January 1998 (3 years 1 month) Copenhagen Area, DenmarkSoftware Developer @ Chief software developer on reception module for a popular hotel software solution. From January 1994 to January 1995 (1 year 1 month) Copenhagen Area, DenmarkSoftware Developer (consultant) @ Architected and developed an address, subscription, and mailing list management application for managing tourist-oriented content. From 1988 to 1988 (less than a year) Copenhagen Area, DenmarkCBA, Business Administration @ AVT Business School From 2008 to 2009 Software Engineering / Computer Science @ Niels BrockSoftware Engineer @ Roskilde Handelsskole Carsten Sjoerup is skilled in: Cloud Computing, Web Services, C#, Java, Scrum, SQL, Architecture, CMMI, XML, Offshore, .NET, Outsourcing, SaaS, PaaS, SOA