steen madsen

qa manager

About

Experienced international Manager with +9 years of managing complex product development and high-performing teams. Successfully planned, managed and delivered several hearing aid products from early concept platform phase through realization, manufacturing and distribution. Build and lead teams within electro acoustical and mechanical community with focus on customer perceived quality, product reliability and timely deliveries. Managed teams, +10 persons in 3 European sites, in a large international organization with competitive environment. Specialties Project management: Engagement and motivation, Communication, Energy & Drive, People management, Supplier- & partner relations, Working with Poland, Switzerland, UK, DE, NL, F, US, CA, AUS, JP, China, Mission impossible made possible, Ideas creation, Testing & verification, Risk management.

Country

denmark

City

copenhagen

Industry

medical devices

Skill

project management, stakeholder management, manufacturing, medical devices, product design, product development, r&d, design for manufacturing, product launch, embedded software, embedded systems, change management, cross functional team leadership, scrum, injection molding, product management, lean six sigma, coaching, fda gmp, root cause analysis, research and development

Experience

mechanical designer r and d

oticon a/s

1998-1 - 2004-1 · 6 yrs 1 mo

Different product development projects. Establish use cases. Product specification. Technical support to industrial designer. Mechanical realization of design to production. Intensive experience with international distributed development work (Copenhagen, San Francisco) across different professional areas.

r and d engineer

bang & olufsen

1995-7 - 1998-8 · 3 yrs 2 mos

Development of automatic Novopen compatible syringe. Development of HGH pen series. Technical support to industrial designer Steve McGugan. Use cases. Product specification. Mechanical realization design to production.

qa manager

ørsted

2015-3 - Present · 11 yrs 7 mos

director, product support r and d

oticon a/s

2012-1 - 2013-4 · 1 yr 4 mos

* Member of R&D Program Mgmt team to secure the quality in product towards the customer * Drives team R&D engineers for aftermarket support. * Product Support team build up recognition as a high performance team. * The company became in that period more support conscious, more responsive to sister company needs. * Implementation of many succesfull product portefolio improvements. * Sistercompany utilizing Oticon support in marketing. As a sales enabler displaying customer commitment.

project manager r and d

oticon a/s

2007-9 - 2011-1 · 3 yrs 5 mos

* Specific Product Projects Management together with product manager. Project Stage gate management driving project progress across all professional areas involved in Hearing aid development, * Stakeholder management.

coordinator mechanical platform r and d

oticon a/s

2004-1 - 2007-1 · 3 yrs 1 mo

* In platform Development - Daily coordination of 8 Development engineers in Copenhagen and 3 in Switzerland. Covering professional areas industrial designers, PCB design, electromechanical transducers, Electroacoustic, Production. * New product introduction activities like new manufacturing technology, methods, processes. Implementation in production and followup..