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I´m responsible of our new products based on big data, analytics and machine learning at an on-line pan European performance-based marketing company. I make sure we use our increasing amount of data, billions of transactions, to do better business and improve performance. This includes finding the right people, building up a big data analytics platform. All this in close cooperation with the business and our clients. As a person and leader I´m very enthusiastic and positively challenging which is something that passes on to my surroundings and which also leads to concrete results. Specialties: Leadership, Data, Agile management, Agile development, Online marketing, Affiliate Marketing, Display marketing, IT-strategy, PPC, CPM, CPC, CPO, DMP, DSP, SSP, Big data, Analytics, Data warehouse, System Architecture

Head of Data & Performance @ From January 2015 to Present (10 months) Stockholm, SwedenHead of Business Intelligence @ As Head of Business Intelligence I was the initiator and the driving force behind building up and rolling out a new BI-platform. The result was a new Business Intelligence platform created and delivered in record time based on agile methodology. I was responsible for every aspect of the BI-initiative. This included: - Staffing the BI teams - Evaluation and decision of the technical platform - Making sure that value was delivered continuously (no big bang) - Minimizing risks by investing gradually - Business processes for the BI roll-out to ensure usage and value across all markets The end result was a successful BI solution built up from scratch used by more than +300 end users across all markets every day. From March 2014 to December 2014 (10 months) Stockholm, SwedenChief Architect @ I´m head of architecture and are heading our Technical Leads/Architects. I´m also part of the Technology & Product Management team. How do you take your development teams and your development organization to the next level? How do you speed up deliveries, build the right products and build them right? Everyone is talking about agile, but how should an organization really change to make a difference? My vision is continuous delivery of products, providing feedback to product owners and developers all the time, which results in better products faster to a lowered risk. This work includes: - Refine the technical platform so we build the products right. - Work close to the product team so we build the right thing. - Work close with the Technical leads to create a shared vision and strategy. The rate of change is increasing all the time and every company must be ready to change to keep up with the competition. With the combination of new technology and people that shares the same vision you can get really far. Technical areas: Cloud, AWS, VPC, Scalability, High Availability, Continous Delivery, Business Intelligence, Amazon Redshift, Security, Open platform, APIs, Integrations From February 2011 to March 2014 (3 years 2 months) Stockholm, SwedenLead Developer and System Architect @ Lead developer and a system architect in the product development team. Major achievements was: Integration with the world’s leading online advertising management platform for paid search: - My team and I had to drive almost every aspect of this project. - Migration of data and customer information. - Technical solutions including the full architecture. - Getting requirements in close contact with the representatives from US. - Delivered a solid, stable and fully tested B2B solution critical for the business. - Paid Search, Google, Bing, Yahoo, Facebook, Marinsoftware, Technical Lead Technical areas: Spring Batch, Spring, Google Guice, MySql, SSO, B2B Integration, Apache, High Availability, HA, Transaction intensive Delivered a world class geographical targeting platform: - Responsible for design and system architecture - IP targeting, ExtJs, Google Maps Technical areas: Java, Groovy, ExtJs, JavaScript, Ajax, Google Maps, Integration, Real time IP-targeting From November 2009 to February 2011 (1 year 4 months) Stockholm, SwedenConsultant @ Consultant at Avega with focus on system architecture, design and development in java and open source. Experienced with banking and backoffice systems. From August 2006 to November 2009 (3 years 4 months) Consultant @ Consultant at Avega with focus on system architecture, design and development in java and open source. Experienced with banking and backoffice systems. From August 2006 to November 2009 (3 years 4 months) Consultant for AvegaGroup @ Redesign and implementation of the foreign payments in the internet bank. We analyzed the existing solution for the foreign payments. We took the decision to rebuild the whole system due to too much legacy. I introduced a new way of designing products in the internet bank that had not been used before. I also took part in introducing Scrum as methodology as the first project utilizing this. My work included: - Introduced new product support - Mentorship in development - Mentorship around Scrum Technical areas: Java, JavaScript, J2EE, Web, HTML, CSS From 2008 to 2009 (1 year) Stockholm, SwedenSystem Architect, Business Analyst @ All banks had to follow a new EU directive, Mifid. The banks needed to classify all customers who had traded any financial instruments the last five years. The project needed to identify all systems that contained transactions of financial instruments the last five years. My role was to design and build a new system that should load transactions from all systems. From the collected data the system should then classify all customers. We worked with conceptual modeling, Domain Driven Design and used open source frameworks to design and build the new system. We needed to process a huge amount of data in a specific time. The project went very well and we were able to deliver data classification in time. When we were done I also joined another short project as a mentor. The goal was to lift the old persistence framework to JPA. Technical areas: Java, Hibernate, Spring, MySQL, Integration, DDD, TDD, Swing From April 2007 to 2008 (1 year) SwedenSystem developer @ The bank had performance problem in vital parts of the Internet bank. I joined this project to find and implement a new better performing solution. I worked closely with the back end team. We designed good performing solution that was implemented and rolled out. From February 2007 to April 2007 (3 months) SwedenSystem developer @ The bank signed a contract with an important customer. They needed to make changes to the internet bank and also add many new features. I joined to project to develop these new features. The existing platform was used. The work was both in the back end and the front end. From August 2006 to February 2007 (7 months) SwedenSoftware Developer @ Joined a startup to develop a product that was a back office settlement system for after trade management. We started from scratch and built it from the ground in Java on the J2EE platform. The system and the company was later acquire by Digia that is running the system today. My work included: - Development and design in java - Documenting the architecture - Testing - Performance testing - Profiling - Build environment I also gained at lot of knowledge around the financial market and instruments. Technical areas: Java, J2EE, JNI, Delphi, .NET, C#, Ant, OR-mapping, TogetherJ From January 2001 to July 2006 (5 years 7 months) Stockholm, SwedenDevelopement engineer @ Research and developement in telecommunication. Worked with many different solutions because I worked at the R&D department. My work was to come up with new ideas and find new solutions not available on the market yet. - I developed what I know was the first GSM positioning service in Sweden. - I developed one of the first solution that enabled you to pay with your mobile phone directly connected to your VISA card. - Worked with production of Smart Cards and GSM-filesystems - I developed a logistics solution for a leading media company From March 1999 to December 2000 (1 year 10 months) Ljungby, SwedenPhD Student - Bioenergy @ Researching in the area combustion. It was an EU-project called “Increased combustions stability inmodulating biomas biolers for district heating systems”. Mathematical modelling and computer simulation of combustion in mid size biomas boilers. From June 1998 to March 1999 (10 months) VäxjöTeacher in mathematics and physics @ As one of the top students I got the opportunity to work as a teacher in mathematics and physics during my time at the university. From 1996 to 1998 (2 years) Sweden

Mathematics, Physics @ Växjö University From 1994 to 1998 Mikael Hermansson is skilled in: Business Intelligence, Online Marketing, Data Analysis, Technical Leadership, Affiliate Marketing, Agile Methodologies, Team Leadership, IT Strategy, Business Analysis, Software Project..., Software Development, System Architecture, Scrum, Test Driven Development, Java Enterprise Edition, Java, Spring, Architecture, Hibernate, REST, Web Services, Continuous Integration, Integration, JavaScript, Enterprise Architecture, Groovy, MySQL, Web Development, SOA, AJAX, JUnit, Maven, TDD, Subversion, C#, Agile Project Management, Cloud Computing, Ext JS, HTTP, Kanban, High Availability, Banking, Mathematics, ExtJS, Scalability, Leadership, IT Management, Data Strategies, Project Management, Strategic IT Management