Career
25 years in IT, from tester and project manager to mainframe developer, tech lead and agile coach, and since 2021 full-time web development.
IT Consultant at Topdanmark, Delivery & project management2001–2003
Project Manager at Topdanmark, Delivery & project management2003–2005
IT Developer and Tech Lead at Topdanmark, Engineering2005–2013
Agile Coach and Scrum Master at Topdanmark Forsikring og Pension, Agile leadership2012–2019
Web Application Developer and Scrum Master at Topdanmark Forsikring og Pension, Engineering2019–2020
Web System Developer at Topdanmark Forsikring og Pension, Engineering2020–2025
Web Developer at If Insurance, Engineering2025–today
Roles
2025 – Present
Web Developer
If Insurance
Part of merging the web organisations of If and Topdanmark. I help define the future web architecture and frontend setup for a new insurance web shop, and find the synergies between two existing platforms.
2020 – 2025
Web System Developer
Topdanmark Forsikring og Pension
Built and maintained Topdanmark's public websites, the overall web architecture, UI component library and design system with React, Next.js, vanilla JavaScript and a Java-based CMS, improving both the customer experience and the developer experience.
Examples of templates I built for topdanmark.dk:
2019 – 2020
Web Application Developer and Scrum Master
Topdanmark Forsikring og Pension
Developer and Scrum Master in the web team. Built and maintained web solutions in React and AngularJS while coaching the team in agile practices. The year I moved from coaching to full-time development.
2012 – 2019
Agile Coach and Scrum Master
Topdanmark Forsikring og Pension
Coached and facilitated more than 16 software teams and led agile transformations at individual, team and management level. Certified Scrum Master and certified coach.
2005 – 2013
IT Developer and Tech Lead
Topdanmark
Designed and built output management systems, templates and processes on the mainframe (PL/1, Cobol, DB2). Technical lead for a team of developers and business analysts, responsible for quality and delivery.
2003 – 2005
Project Manager
Topdanmark
Led a combined business and IT project building an insurance sales application, with 6 to 30 members across business, development, design and operations. Responsible for all phases from pre-analysis to roll-out, plus staffing and training.
2001 – 2003
IT Consultant
Topdanmark
Project coordinator and tester on IT projects, where I first learned how business requirements become working systems.