Dennis Kayser

Dennis Kayser

IT Architect

Copenhagen Area, Denmark

Current
Past
Education
  • Københavns Universitet
  • Handelshøjskolen i København
  • Salem State College
  • Rungsted Gymnasium
  • Trørødskolen
Connections
128 connections
Industry
Computer Software
Websites

Dennis Kayser’s Summary

I'm a dedicated young, driven and independent professional that always strives to be the best. Always eager to learn and help people with new technologies and push them to their limits. I am also very interested in innovation and consider myself an entrepreneurial spirit.

Experienced in RUP, agile development, continuous integration, estimation theories, Java/J2EE and web development, entrepreneurship and business planning.

I also love running, biketrials, snowboarding, cross-country skiing, hiking, movies and traveling.

If you're interested in knowing me better or obtaining my full resume visit my website at either www.elektronramp.com or www.keisari.dk .

Dennis Kayser’s Specialties:

Programming/Markup:
Daily use:
Java, J2EE, SQL, ECMAScript/JavaScript, XML, CSS 2+, xHTML, PHP, LaTeX

Seldom used:
C#, ASP.Net, SML, Actionscript 2, C, Kreds, Assembly (MIPS), MATLAB, VBA

Platforms/OS:
Linux
Solaris
Microsoft Windows.

Software:
Office, Eclipse, Apache, Glassfish, Adobe CS 2, SPSS, SubVersion, TortoiseSVN, Wordpress, Drupal, Clear Case, Maven 2 and more...


Dennis Kayser’s Experience

  • Co-founder and CEO

    Wölwa Group

    (Privately Held; Information Technology and Services industry)

    September 2008Present (11 months)

    Working with developing the start-up mainly in regards to the business/sales side but also the technical.

    The product, EMP, is a project cost estimation platform leveraging agile methodologies and built as a Software as a Service (SaaS). It is simple, user friendly and incorporates historical data to provide highly accurate estimates very early in the project life cycle.

    Created the complete cloud-based technology stack for the company and the service utilizing: EC2, Gigaspaces XAP, Java EE 5, GWT 1.6, SmartGWT 1.0, MySQL 5 and FusionCharts

  • Assistant IT Architect

    IBM

    (Public Company; IBM; Information Technology and Services industry)

    March 2008Present (1 year 5 months)

    Working primarily on the Maersk Line eCommerce project at A.P. Maersk Moller. Analysis of system architecture and development of migration plans, primarily concerning the Maven 2 build system and the J2EE platform. Development of components in J2EE. Environment built on BEA Weblogic Server and Portal solutions. Also responsible for assessing scalability of the eCom applications.

    Student Network steering committee member.
    Part of the IBM Elite program (Top 3%)

  • IT Architect Intern

    Nordea

    (Public Company; 10,001 or more employees; NDA.F; Banking industry)

    February 2008June 2008 (5 months)

    Bachelors project in collaboration with Nordea IT. Designing and developing a project estimation tool based on PM4U and SDP. PM4U is based on PMBOK and SDP is Nordea ́s System Development Process, based on IBM ́s RUP (Rational Unified Process). Thorough theoretical and practical knowledge of IT project effort estimation.
    Grade: 12

  • Tester (Part time)

    Deadline Games A/S

    (Privately Held; Computer Games industry)

    January 2005April 2008 (3 years 4 months)

    Beta testing and QA on various projects for different next-gen platforms (Xbox 360, PS2/PS3), e.g. Total Overdose. Focus group participant on new projects.

  • Developer

    IMT Labs, Inc.

    (Privately Held; 11-50 employees; Computer Software industry)

    February 2006June 2007 (1 year 5 months)

    Development in xHTML, CSS, JavaScript, ASP.Net, C#, XML and Actionscript 2.0. Creation of graphics and Flash content. Development of activities for MSN Activity Window.

  • Developer Intern

    Varien

    (Privately Held; 11-50 employees; Internet industry)

    September 2006December 2006 (4 months)

    Primarily developing E-Commerce modules on the open source osCommerce platform. Technologies used include PHP (primary), JavaScript, SQL, general database buildup, XML, xHTML, CSS and more.

    I've also been involved in project management, QA and development from basic prototype (wireframe) to complete solution.

  • System Coordinator

    Det Berlingske Officin A/S

    (Public Company; 1001-5000 employees; Newspapers industry)

    January 2005February 2006 (1 year 2 months)

    Daily operations, maintenance, coordination of development on the sale to non-subscribers platform, testing of new modules for the system (Java based). Designed a substantial amount of new modules to the system and increased overall system speed/response by about 40%.

  • Business Coordinator

    Det Berlingske Officin A/S

    (Public Company; 1001-5000 employees; Newspapers industry)

    January 2004December 2005 (2 years)

    Responsible for daily operations and management of the business department at BBS A/S (around 25-30 people). Added new processes and workflows to increase overall efficiency in the department.

  • Servicepartner

    Det Berlingske Officin A/S

    (Public Company; 1001-5000 employees; Newspapers industry)

    August 2002December 2003 (1 year 5 months)

    Service employee in their Call-Center function (Both private and business customers).


Dennis Kayser’s Education

  • Københavns Universitet

    Stud.scient.dat , Computer Science , 20042010 (expected)

    Awarded a scholarship by KU to represent innovation and attend Stanford University Eship conference in 2009.

    Bachelors project in collaboration with Nordea IT with regards to estimating large scale software projects using SDP and PM4U.

    4 month internship at Varien in Los Angeles, CA.

  • Handelshøjskolen i København

    Business Economics & Computer Science 20012002

  • Salem State College

    Computer Science 20002001

    Activities and Societies:
    Dean's List of top students - Spring 2001
  • Rungsted Gymnasium

    19961999

  • Trørødskolen

    19861996


Additional Information

Dennis Kayser’s Websites:

Dennis Kayser’s Interests:

new technology, programming, games, snowboarding, running, marathon, mountainbiking, hiking, computers, software, internet, ai, artificial intelligence, development, graphics, 3d, animation, extreme programming, agile development, robotics, movies

Dennis Kayser’s Groups:

DIKU

  •    International Association of Software Architects
  •    The Greater IBM Connection: IBM's alumni program for past and present IBM employees
  •    DABGO Denmark
  •    Agile Alliance
  •    Venture Cup
  •    Denmark Entrepreneur Network
  •    Drupal Users Group
  •    Berlingske Media Alumni

Dennis Kayser’s Honors:

Dean's List of top students at Salem State College - Spring 2001

Awarded a scholarship by KU to represent innovation and attend Stanford University Eship conference in 2009.

Regional and national finalist in Venture Cup 2008/09.

Venture Cup 2009 2nd place winner.

Part of the IBM Elite program (Top 3%)


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