Anders Lindström

Experience

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  Rauma-Repola Oy

  May 1979 - Oct 1980

  Thesis Worker

  Finalizing the Master's Thesis at the pulp mill, "A model for controlling viscosity when bleaching viscose pulp with hypochlorite". Also developing and programming a system to track and report working hours for the local research department.

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  Rauma-Repola Oy

  Sept 1981 - Dec 1989

  Responsible for IT of the paper and pulp mills and power plant: Manufacturing, Quality control, Purchase and Maintenance systems. Manager for IT-team, 4 persons. Used to be called process computing and controlling department because automation was partly handled by the department. Responsible for inhouse quality system, order- and reel handling of the paper mill. Tasks included programming (assembler, Fortran, PL/1, Cobol).

  • IT Manager

    Jan 1984 - Dec 1989

  • System Designer

    Sept 1981 - Dec 1983
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  Varant N.V.

  Jan 1990 - Jun 1991

  IT Manager

  Responsible for local applications (Import/Export, Customs clearance Warehousing, Logistics and Finance) of Varant (a distribution Company) and data center hosting Supply Chain applications for Benelux and France for Finnpap, Finnish Paper Mill's Association. Manager for IT team, 4 persons. Job included programming using Natural and Adabas from Softwre AG. I was also working as IT coordinator for Finnpap in Central Europe with contacts to distribution companies in Hamburg, London and Rouen.

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  UPM Communication Papers

  Jul 1991 - Dec 2004

  Participating 60% of working hours in SAP SD Implementation Project for Paper business worldwide. Responsible for Variant Configuration and setting up materials for all mills. Responsible for integrating all paper mills (19 mills in 8 countries) to SAP. Responsible for mill IT systems in one of the biggest paper mills in Europe (capasity over 1 miljon tons/year and 1500 employees): Manufacturing, Quality control, Purchase and Maintenance systems. Manager for IT-team, 7 persons. Participating in core team for building a new paper machine, PM4. Project manager for IT responsible for planning, purchase, installation, training and go live for all IT-related investments like Order handling renewal, new wrapping line, servers, workstations, cabling, network and interfaces, co-operation with Automation. Responsible for mill IT systems: Manufacturing, Quality control, Purchase and Maintenance systems. Manager for IT-team, 7 persons.

  • IT Expert

    Sept 2000 - Dec 2004

  • IT Manager

    Jan 1998 - Dec 2004

  • IT Project Manager

    Jan 1996 - Dec 1997

  • IT Manager

    Jul 1991 - Dec 1995
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  UPM - The Biofore Company

  Jan 2005 - Dec 2013

  Test Lead for Paper Supply Chain Applications (SAP and non-SAP applications) in Global Datacenter Program, a strategic program that migrated 4 data centers, 066 peta-bytes and some 1000 servers from one outsourcing vendor to another. It was a complex program divided in 33 sectors dealing with over 30 suppliers in a multi-cultural environment. Application team lead for all affected systems in Singapore Currency Conversion Project. Home currency was converted in SAP and interfaced systems together with local users in China. One European Sales Company project, responsible for Master Data setup and changes when merging 19 Sales Companies into one in SAP. Responsible for managing resources, projects and assignments in own area ensuring successful delivery and handover of IT-projects. Responsible for application development for upgrading SAP from version 4.6B to 6.0. Around 20 resources in Europe and India. Responsible for UPM-Kymmene mill production systems towards Business. 19 mills in Europe, USA, Canada and China.

  • IT Test Lead

    Jan 2013 - Dec 2013

  • IT Application Stream Lead

    Jul 2012 - Dec 2012

  • Master Data Manager

    May 2011 - Jun 2012

  • Regional Manager, North Europe 2, Projects, Competencies and Reasorces

    Jul 2010 - Apr 2011

  • IT Application Stream Lead, SAP upgrade project

    Jun 2009 - Jun 2010

  • IT Business Partner Manager, Production processes

    Jan 2005 - May 2009
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  UPM Pulp

  Jan 2014 - Dec 2014

  Senior IT Expert

  SAP SD run & development tasks. Renewal of mill system for Rauma Cell 01-06.2014SAP Migration expert in Master Data management, implementing portal for Customer Master Data

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  TietoEVRY

  Jan 2015 - Oct 2020

  Senior IT Expert

  SAP and MES consultant10/2015-07/2016 Changing Corporate Structure for UPM-Kymmene Corporate in Finland. Three new subsidiaries have been established in Finland: UPM Energy Oy, UPM Paper Asia Oy and UPM Paper ENA Oy. The personnel and assets of UPM Energy, UPM Paper Asia and UPM Paper ENA (Europe and North America) in Finland were transferred to the new companies on 1 July 2016.Responsible for blueprint, development, testing, cutover and hypercare for Paper Supply Chain systems.09/2016-10/2017 IT Lead for a global company when taking Lavastorm in use to automate repetitive data collection and preparation tasks. The tool is also used for reporting and analyzing data via access direct to data in ERP’s and data warehouses like SAP, Oracle, MS SQL.03-10/2017 Migrating Mill Execution System for Rauma Cell from 1996 to new platform.Acting as Project Manager, application expert and technical expert, responsible for project planning, resources, customer contacts, budget, project reporting and co-ordination with 3. party suppliers. Go-live went smoothly according to plan with good feedback from customer.03/2018-07/2019Ahlstrom-Munksjo Sirius Project. Stream lead for SAP inplementing changes for FICO, Purchasing and Interfaces to legacy systems for 4 mills together with rollout (Tolosa/Spain, Unterkochen/Germany, Arches/France and Dettingen/Germany).04/2019-12/2019UPM-Kymmene Plattling Company Code Merger combining two paper mills in Germany into one legal unit. IT Lead for Application changes supporting Business Project Manager in managing the project as a whole and acting as coordinator towards project supplier(s), run partner(s) and Customers IT organization. Show less

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  Retired

  Nov 2020 - now

  Project Specialist, MES and SAP