Jacob Alex Petersen

Experience

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  Starup Primary School, Haderslev

  Aug 1998 - Jun 2000

  Teacher

  Was teaching primary school children in the subjects of English, Music and IT.

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  Kursuscenter Vest [EUC Vest]

  Mar 2002 - Mar 2003

  IT-Instructor

  Responsible for performing courses in programming and ms. office.

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  APC

  Jul 2003 - Jan 2008

  Software Engineer

  Based in Kolding, Denmark I worked as Software Engineer and SCRUM Master on agile software projects, with focus on Sales configurators, Design and configuration platforms. Main responsibility was to ensure that concurrent service offers were available in the Design- and configuration platforms of APC for 6000+ inside sales reps as well as partner channels and goto markets.Methodologies and processes used were SCRUM and Xtreme Programming.

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  Schneider Electric

  Jan 2008 - now

  Project Management and Business Requirements Management for software projects supporting the end-to-end configuration Sales processes of the 3 phase Secure Power organization.Responsible for the requirements management and program management for the Design- and Configuration tools of all offers within the 3 phase Secure Power organization. Creating strategic roadmaps and action plans for the continued development of the tools within the domain and ensuring stakeholder participation and leadership support. Improving the processes between the offer management organization and the technology organization in order to reduce time-to-market for both the software and hardware offer. Working closely with offshore software engineering teams in Schneider Electric India on parallel projects for Offer support, process improvement and system integration. Acting as Product Owner role in the Scrum process conveying vision and strategy as well as daily support to the scrum teams.Key contributor to a recent Voice-of-Partner survey including 45 select partners across 7 markets with the main goal to build a new selection and configuration experience for the 3 Phase UPS offer portfolio of Schneider Electric, thereby supporting the digital transformation strategy of the company. Show less Based in Switzerland, responsible for Project Management in software projects supporting Engineer-To-Order (ETO) processes of the global organization. In the domains of Design and Configuration Tools, leading integration of configuration processes and systems of Swiss subsidiary company Gutor into main Schneider Electric organization, leveraging offshore custom software engineering capabilities in Schneider Electric India.Supporting all parts of the company Global Supply Chain by providing detailed cost data to ensure accurate margin calculations for use in both pre-sales decision making as well as post-sales project monitoring. Worked closely with key users and system champions globally in all of the companies functions, to improve the performance and quality of both the actual Design- and Configuration Tools, but also contributed to important process change throughout the company. Show less

  • Senior Global Product Manager

    Mar 2022 - now

  • Senior IT Project Manager

    Aug 2016 - Mar 2022

  • Senior Design and Configuration Expert

    May 2013 - Jul 2016

  • Senior Applications Developer

    Feb 2009 - Apr 2013

  • Software Engineer

    Jan 2008 - Jan 2009