Consultant Profile

 

LB Consulting Group.

Stenkullavägen 54,

112 65 Stockholm.

Tel +46 (0)8 – 656 30 72

Cell: +46 (0)709  – 56 58 43

Email: lars.broden@esoftpatterns.com

 

 

Consultant:

Lars Broden

Role:

Principal Consultant

Specialisations:

Project &Change Management, Requirements Management, Business Engineering, Project Estimation, Iterative Development & SOA, CMII

 

Overview

A Senior Consultant with extensive experience gained over 20 years. Excellent communications and leadership skills with genuine, practical experience of leading large scale programes, projects, change management & process improvements initiatives.

 

Career Summary

2006 - To date  Independent Consultant, Project Management Mentor & Process Engineer at Sony Ericsson, Stockholm, Manchester, Beijing

2005 - 2006       Independent Consultant, Project Management & Process implementation at Lehman

                        Brothers/SPML, London

2003 - 2005       Independent Consultant, Process implementation at Inland Revenue, Telford

2002 - 2003       Independent Consultant, Technical Engagement Manager at Barclays Bank,

                        Manchester

2000 - 2002       European Director of Strategic Services, Rational Software, Paris

1997 - 2000       Consulting & Project Manager, MSC Konsult, Stockholm

1995 - 1997       Chief Executive, PdT, Stockholm

1993 - 1995       Chief Executive, dB Optimizer, Stockholm

1989 - 1993       Development Group Manager, Siemens Elema, Stockholm, Erlangen

1985 - 1987       Developer, Ecolab/Soilax, Stockholm

Specialist Skills

Process Improvements

11

Years

Business & System Engineering

11

Years

Change Management

12

Years

Modelling Tools

8

Years

Software Development Management

12

Year  years

Project Management

10

Years

Prince 2 & PROPS Project Management Methodologies

8

Years

Skills Summary

·         Disciplines & Techniques:  Project Management – Risk Management, Business & System Engineering, Leadership and Organisational Development, Estimation and analysis, COCOMO II, software project metrics and analysis

·         Process, Methods, Standards: Rational Unified Process, SLCRAY, Prince 2 & PROPS, CMM, CMII

·         Tools & Applications: Borland Together, CaliberRM, StarTeam, Rational Rose Requisite -Pro, Rational Project Console, Clearcase, Clearquest, Rational Visual Modeller, Erwin, Microsoft Project, PMW

 

·         Sectors: Telecom, Investment Banking, Public Sector Banking, Insurance, Building Societies, Equities and Derivatives, Automotive

 

Recent History

Organisation

Dates

Responsibilities and Assignments

Independent Consultant

Stockholm, Sweden

Manchester, UK

Beijing, China

2006 – To date

Principal Consultant, Sony Ericsson Mobile Division

Project Management Mentor & Process Engineer for HB107, the next generation of Symbian-OS based mobile smart-phones. One of the major software development projects in Scandinavia 2006/2007 aiming to develop an entirely new product family of mobile smart-phones hitting the world wide market in Q4 2007.

Independent Consultant

London, UK

2005 – 2006

Principal Consultant, Lehman Brothers/Southern Pacific Mortgage Limited

Lead Project Management & Requirements Management Consultant/Mentor/Practitioner/Trainer for the Synergy

“Electronic Data Platform” – Project, implementing software development Process & SOA with Borland Tools on a .NET technical development platform.

Independent Consultant

Telford, Newcastle, London, UK

2003 - 2005

Managing Consultant, Inland Revenue/Cap Gemini partnerships

Lead Project Management Consultant to Cap Gemini on the Inland Revenue programme change management programme.

Managing and delivering Strategic Consulting, Mentoring & Training for the MPPC Project Infrastructure project (DotF).

Lead Process Engineer for Construction Industry Scheme project (CIS) Pensions Simplifications Online (TPSS)

Independent Consultant

Manchester, UK

2002 - 2003

Technical Engagement Manager, Barclays Bank.

Implementing an iterative software development process and a new software development strategy including the mentoring of key stakeholders.

Rational Software

Paris, France

2000 - 2002

European Director of Strategic Services, Paris.

Activities included leading:

Large scale RUP implementation at Inland Revenue, U.K.

Project assessments and development of a software development strategy at IKEA, Sweden.

Executive Management awareness programme on Iterative development at Ericsson, Stockholm.

Organisational assessment at Intershop, Jena, Germany.

Implementation of RUP and Rational technology at PostGirot, Stockholm.

MSC Konsult

Stockholm, Sweden

1997 - 2000

Consulting Manager, Consultant

Skandia IT – Stockholm, Sweden Project Manager Mentor and Database Architect in a SQL Server based time accounting system, managed through RUP, Rational Rose, Requisite Pro and Visual Basic.

Academic and Professional

·         MBA Swedish Institute of Leadership

·         MSc System Science University

Certifications and other qualifications

·         IBM Rational Certified Instructor.

·         IBM Rational Certified Consultant.

·         Higher Certificate Administrative Rationalising