Specialities: software engineering management, mobile, leadership, strategy planning, Start-up, innovation, entrepreneurship, business management, build and retain world class organization, agile project management, agile development, product planning, product development, Lean Startup, distributed teams/developmen.

Director CTO, eBay Classifieds United Kingdom @ From October 2014 to Present (1 year 3 months) London, United KingdomCTO, eBay Classifieds Denmark @ From October 2013 to October 2014 (1 year 1 month) Århus Area, DenmarkHead of Technology Denmark @ Areas of responsibility: Technology/Development, Project Management Office, Information Systems/Business Intelligent, Product Management, Customer Services, Quality Assurance, member of the danish management team. Products; DBA.dk, BilBasen.dk, Mobile apps (DBA and BilBasen), Bilinfo.net and more. From September 2012 to October 2013 (1 year 2 months) DenmarkHead of Technology Motors @ Areas of responsibility: Technology/Development Motors and Project Management Office Products: BilBasen.dk, Bilinfo and related B2B and B2C Motors products. From October 2011 to September 2012 (1 year) Århus Area, DenmarkDirector Of Engineering @ As director of engineering I’m responsible for manage, lead and motivate engineering department in Copenhagen and Boston. Development of our product according to roadmap and release plan, ensuring that our solution is available 24x7, ensure that our solution will scale as we grow, retain and attract top talent for the organization, maintain employee satisfaction, grow team to be able to deliver as requested by the senior leadership team, represent R&D in senior leadership team, agnostic to process/tools and technology, office leader for DK office and more. While having tight deadline delivering new releases, I grow engineering department from 7 to 21 employees, including adding more talent to the DK office but also building Tech teams at headquarter in Boston, which also comprised implementing new org. structure (new roles and responsibilities), Scrum, release management process to improve quality and predictability... From October 2010 to October 2011 (1 year 1 month) Copenhagen Area, DenmarkCTO @ CTO for new started company. Resposible for building community portal for traders. Extending and integration with market leading trading platform. Setting new team. Defining tools and processes. Using Scrum and offshore development team. From May 2010 to October 2010 (6 months) Copenhagen Area, DenmarkTeam Manager, Program Management @ As Team Manager, for Program Management, I had responsibility for four development teams in R&D group with approx. 50 employees, including 15 at an offshore development center in Kiev. In addition to support and guiding development teams/Program managers(Scrum Masters), I had the responsibility to implementing Agile (Scrum) project management (ScanJour previously used a more waterfall-like project management style), rethink Product Planning Process, Participate in the management team, key person in recruitment (Copenhagen and Kiev), redefined the way we work with our colleagues in Kiev(distributed scrum), replaced the Project Manager role with Program Manager role, implemented new release model including new milestones like Scope Complete, Feature Complete, Zero Bug Bounce and Release To Manufacturing. New tools and processes like Test Driven Development, Team Foundation Server, Pair Programming, Source tree modes (Ask vs. Tell mode) was also adopted in the teams. Ensure that all production teams had the proper balance between features, user experience, schedule and technical challenges, always with the customer in focus. From May 2009 to May 2010 (1 year 1 month) Copenhagen Area, DenmarkProgram Manager II @ At Microsoft, I worked on the release Dynamics Mobile product through four versions(started as Developer in May 2006), starting with version 1.0. As a result of these releases, I gained a unique insight and understanding of the phases a product can and should go through before its release. In connection with the releases, I had a great deal of interdisciplinary cooperation with our leadership team, developers, testers, release team, documentation, and security team. I have learned through my experience that there are many factors that must come into play in order to be successful and ensure a high quality product. This has made me quite conscious of the phases, along with any potential pitfalls, around a product release. As a program manager, I set a huge price on SCRUM and agile project management. I have held many internal seminars explaining the advantages of using SCRUM as opposed to waterfall project management. In Bella Centeret 2007, I also held a lecture around Scrum, entitled “A Pig’s View on Agile Development with Scrum”, for Microsoft employees in Europe and the Middle East. As Program Manager and Scrum Master, I had responsibility for various feature areas and teams. My teams consisted of up to 9 people from countries around the world, including USA, Argentina, Germany, Russia, China, Italy, and Australia. This diversity has taught me what it takes to lead and guide individuals of different backgrounds in order to get the team to deliver. I also had responsibility over diverse external consultants and resources. From January 2008 to April 2009 (1 year 4 months) Copenhagen Area, DenmarkSoftware Development Engineer II @ As a software developer at Microsoft (Dynamics Mobile), I became a strong supporter of test driven development and pair programming, which in my opinion, contributes to a considerable improvement in quality. Working as Software Development Engineer in the Mobile Applications Group. Our product, Microsoft Dynamics Mobile, powers easy-to-use Windows Mobile-based devices that enables mobile user increasing productivity, open new business opportunities and reduce costs. Have a key role in development of our Server Components, and drives quality assuring initiatives like Test-Driven Development , Scrum and Theat modeling. From May 2006 to September 2008 (2 years 5 months) Copenhagen Area, DenmarkFounder @ Creating various mobile applications to optimize mobile user’s productivity. Created solution for textile, field service, warehouse, sales force and more. Running the company with a partner. Mobile custom solution to be use by Arriva and DSB. From January 2003 to January 2007 (4 years 1 month) Founder @ Created various mobile applications to optimize mobile user’s productivity. Created solution for textile, field service, warehouse, sales force and more. Created PoS solutions in c++, which today is installed in many eu countries with different need like fiscal printing, credit card payment etc. Running the company with a partner until 2003. From December 2000 to January 2007 (6 years 2 months) Founder/partner @ Creating Standard Mobile Business Solution, primary for field service, sales force and warehouse. Sold company in 2007 to Munk IT. From January 2005 to May 2006 (1 year 5 months) Software Development Engineer @ Primary resource on Windows Point Of Sales Solution. C++, C and Java. From February 1999 to December 2000 (1 year 11 months) Software Development Engineer and Architect @ Key role in design and development of Point Of Sales solutions. From February 1994 to February 1999 (5 years 1 month)

Software development, management and more @ Courses From 2006 to 2013 Flemming Laugesen is skilled in: Scrum, Agile Project Management, Software Development, C#, Start-ups, Entrepreneurship, Strategic Planning, Product Development, Product Management, Lean Startup, Mobile Product Development, Cloud Computing, .NET, Agile Methodologies, Plowing