Søren Peter Nielsen

Current

IT Architect at IT Infrastructure and Implementation Division at National IT and Telecom Agency

Past

Danish Government representative at Liberty Alliance
IT Architect at Center for Service Oriented Infrastructure in National IT and Telecom Agency
IT Architect at Danish Ministry of Science, Technology and Innovation, National IT and Telecom Agency

IT Architect at IBM Danmark A/S, Global Service/Software Group
IT Architect at IBM Global Services
Senior Consultant at IBM Corp, International Technical Support Organization
Advisory Consultant at IBM Danmark A/S, Danish Notes Service Line
Consultant at IBM Danmark A/S, Office Solutions Services
Systems Consultant at IBM Danmark A/S, Office Competence Center
Technical Specialist at IBM Danmark A/S, IBM Personal Systems Unit
Traveller in Himalaya at Personal business (Self-employed)
Brewery worker at Lolland Falsters Bryghus
Traveller in Sahara at Personal business (Self-employed)

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Education

Danmarks Tekniske Universitet

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Industry

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Søren Peter Nielsen’s Summary

During my 20 years at IBM I have built a strong broad technical foundation. However, my primary focus is on understanding the customers needs and delivering full solutions that addresses their needs at the right time and to their satisfaction.
In my work on public sector IT enablement for the Danish government since 2004 I have had rich opportunity to extend a range on non-technical skills, like in communicating IT-related matters in a language that decision makers under-stand, making sure stakeholders are on board, moving forward through consensus building while still maintaining a sense of urgency and creating tangible results.

Søren Peter Nielsen’s Specialties:

I have experience in a broad range of IT disciplines from security infrastructure, enterprise integration, content mgt., workflow, application development (Microsoft & Java) as well as application performance, e-commerce, solution architecture and collaborative solutions.
I have worked on customer projects gaining specific business knowledge in industries like Small and Medium Business, Banking, Insurance, News & Media, Manufacturing, Public Sector, Travel & Transportation, and Petroleum.

Søren Peter Nielsen’s Experience

IT Architect

IT Infrastructure and Implementation Division at National IT and Telecom Agency

(Government Agency; Government Administration industry)

September 2008 — Present (1 year 4 months)

Created cohesive concept for Federated Identity Access Management in the Danish Public Sector identifying supported patterns, and border lines between what is local and what is shared responsibility.
Main driver on creating “Liberty Basic SOAP binding” and associated WS Trust client profile triggered by Danish eGov requirements for identity or claims based web services.
Began working with agile development – attended several agile method (SCRUM) courses.
International speaker and panellist at RSA Security 2008 Conference, and Liberty Day 2008 in Tokyo.
Danish Government representative

Liberty Alliance

(Privately Held; 51-200 employees; Security and Investigations industry)

2006 — 2009 (3 years )
IT Architect

Center for Service Oriented Infrastructure in National IT and Telecom Agency

(Government Agency; 201-500 employees; Government Administration industry)

December 2006 — September 2008 (1 year 10 months)

Co-Author on three year national roadmap for IT infrastructure build out.
Chief Architect in program establishing Danish Public Sector federation for Identity and Access Management. Read case study here:
http://www.projectliberty.org/liberty/content/download/4301/28788/file/denmark_libertycasestudy6.08.pdf
Negotiated agreement with Microsoft about support for SAML 2.0 identity tokens.
Co-Author on Danish Public sector “Implementation Model for Web services”
Responsible for eGov Web SSO (OIOSAML 2.0) interoperability profile and associated open source reference implementations.
International speaker and panellist at RSA Security 2007 Conference, and Burton Group Catalyst Europe 2007 Conference
IT Architect

Danish Ministry of Science, Technology and Innovation, National IT and Telecom Agency

(Government Agency; 201-500 employees; Government Administration industry)

January 2004 — December 2006 (3 years )

Main author on Handbook about Enterprise Architecture for the Danish public sector. Leader of initiatives regarding federated identity and access management. Professional lead on it-assurance work for largest structural reform in 30 years. Worked with EU (IDABC PEGS, GUIDE) Responsible for stakeholder dialogue program. Joined the Open Group/main representative for the Ministry. Initiated collaboration between Denmark and USA (GSA) on federation. Field studies at 5 local governments. Created public sector SOA adoption model. Lead re-evaluation of federation standards – sticking with SAML 2.0. Study tour to Washington meeting OMB, DOI, DOE, IRS, IBM, Booz Allen Hamilton and others. Co-founder of Liberty Alliance eGovernment special interest group. Lead/Main driver for shared public sector login-solution, SOA Roadmap planning pilots. - speaker at various conferences. Co-Founder - “Center for Service Oriented Infrastructure” – with focus to accelerate national IT infrastructure build-out.
IT Architect

IBM Danmark A/S, Global Service/Software Group

(Public Company; 5001-10,000 employees; IBM; Information Technology and Services industry)

January 2002 — December 2003 (2 years )

Returned from USA to IBM Global Services in Denmark.
Architect on proposal for new system landscape to Danish insurance company.
Transferred to IBM Software Group as cross-brand IT architect.
Tender for delivery of PKI digital signatures to Danish government (OCES).
Architected extranet building process portal for major Danish building contractor
IBM certified as IT Architect in December 2002.
Common public tender for electronic document management systems for public sector (FESD).
Worked with public sector customers in the state, regions and local governments.
Performed technical quality assurance (TQA) on proposals, solution assurance for customers.
Educated IBM technical community in all Nordic countries in the IBM On Demand concept and underlying architecture.
Emergency aid on ambitious e-learning portal project gone wrong.
Danish Health Portal (sundhed.dk) architecture council member.
Danish government open source desktop pilots advisory council member.
IT Architect

IBM Global Services

(Executive Office industry)

1996 — 2003 (7 years )
Senior Consultant

IBM Corp, International Technical Support Organization

(Public Company; 10,001 or more employees; IBM; Information Technology and Services industry)

September 1998 — December 2001 (3 years 4 months)

Started assignment with International Technical Support Organization (ITSO) at Lotus headquarters in
Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA;
Worked on knowledge transfer between development labs, fields, business partners and customer as well between different geopraphies
Main product was technical cookbooks (IBM Redbooks) written with assistance from practitioneers coming to the lab on 6-8 week residencies.
Lead authors on 14 Redbooks covering a broad range of topics
Participated in Lotuspheres Orlando and Berlin to collect feedback.
Secured funding for all ITSO Cambridge Redbooks.
Trained Latin American Business Partners at events in Cancun, Mexico (1999) and Puerto Rico (2000)
Spoke at Lotusphere Orlando conference in 2001.
Spoke at IBM Professional Leadership Technical Exchange (PLTE) conferences in San
Francisco, USA and Lyon, France.
Spoke at Lotus DevCon conference 2001 in Las Vegas.
Took a few months parental leave after returning to Denmark later in 2001
Advisory Consultant

IBM Danmark A/S, Danish Notes Service Line

(Public Company; 1001-5000 employees; IBM; Information Technology and Services industry)

March 1996 — August 1998 (2 years 6 months)

Transferred to join in building the Danish Notes Service Line (hiring, establ. tech. foundation, eval. of potential acquistions/partnering agreements, tech.l reviews etc.) - from 0 to >30 consultants in 2 years
Sample of involved projects
- Est. Public sector solutions framework around Icelandic BP solution GoPro.
- Eval. of Statoils Doc Mgt System for joint venture with IBM Norway.
- Paperless recruiting
- Notes-based news service / Joint venture with BP
- Internal foundation project - Stds, procedures, tools etc.
- Nordic tech core team - sharing processes, tools and assets
- Proposal and Arch. for CRM system for Danish bank
- Problematic Web-mail project for 8000 users at large bank
- Building up a Notes development organization in several companies
- Retail-Supplier-solution targeted for SMB market;
- Evaluated solution framework (RIO from IT Factory) ;
Took 4 months parental leave in 1997
Appointed Danish Competency Leader for Notes dev. and infrast. - in 98
Consultant

IBM Danmark A/S, Office Solutions Services

(Public Company; 1001-5000 employees; IBM; Information Technology and Services industry)

November 1993 — February 1996 (2 years 4 months)

Worked in small unit offering Lotus Notes and object-oriented solution services
Became Certified Lotus Notes Specialist (highest level in Lotus Notes certification) in May 1994;
Worked both with Notes development as well as infrastructure planning and deployment services;
Developed ISO9000 Document handling solution in Lotus Notes
Assisted major customers in Notes infrastructure planning; Wrote an article in Computerworld (Danish edition) about Notes Infrastructure planning;
Ran Document management Pilot/Planning project with Denmark's largest Bank (based on IBM Visual Document Library integrated with mainframe S/390)
Prototyped and architected 'Shop-Configuration-Solution' (in Smalltalk) for Bang & Olufsen with unique user interface to match high quality design of B&O's products. This was part of a "mass-customization" solution with an underlying rules engine (SalesPlus from Beologic) and integration to ERP/financials system (Navision).
Systems Consultant

IBM Danmark A/S, Office Competence Center

(Public Company; 1001-5000 employees; IBM; Information Technology and Services industry)

July 1990 — October 1993 (3 years 4 months)

Worked in unit sponsored by IBM Dallas Westlake lab developing the product PM Office/2, which was a client server product giving OS/2 client access to e-mail and other office functions on VM and MVS based mainframes. Coverede job functions as Product Manager, Development Manager, Lead Architect on the client product and also responsible for design and implementation of User Interface. Output was a shrink-wrapped product available in six languages; OO pioneering experience; Client-side programmed in Smalltalk and C++; Developed OO-tools and methodology as required. Shared the pioneering experiences in object oriented development at various conferences - including:
- PM Office-project - OO-conference at Danish Technical Institute in 1990
- Handling of National Language Support in Smalltalk , 1st IBM OO conference at La Hulpe 1991,
- Experience with OO-development - SHARE user group meeting in Davos 1992
Technical Specialist

IBM Danmark A/S, IBM Personal Systems Unit

(Public Company; 1001-5000 employees; IBM; Information Technology and Services industry)

March 1983 — June 1990 (7 years 4 months)

Technical support for PC-dealers; Product preparation and launch (e.g. IBM
Assistant Series); New products testing; Dealer-education (operating systems, programming languages, databases, communication, product-specific); Technical/Marketing briefings for Business Partners and major customers
Traveller in Himalaya
Personal business (Self-employed)

(Self-Employed; Myself Only; Leisure, Travel & Tourism industry)

September 1982 — October 1982 (2 months)

In company of about 20 Danes and Icelandic people I trekked the Annapurna trial in Nepal. The trail crosses the Himalaya range from south to north - goes over the Thorong La pass and then back through the Kali Gandaki gorge to Pokhara.
Brewery worker

Lolland Falsters Bryghus

(Public Company; 201-500 employees; Food Production industry)

May 1982 — August 1982 (4 months)

I worked both in production and distribution learning valuable lessons in customer service. The brewery has since been acquired, and it does not exist anymore. However the flagship product of the brewery "Den Blaa Nykobing" is still being brewed at other breweries.
Traveller in Sahara
Personal business (Self-employed)

(Self-Employed; Myself Only; Leisure, Travel & Tourism industry)

January 1982 — March 1982 (3 months)

Together with other Danes, British, Canadian, US and Faroese people in two Land Rovers I crossed Sahara twice - first going from Tunis through Tamanrasset in Algeria and Niger to Togo - and back to Tunis through Ouagadougou in Burkina Faso, Timbuctu in Mali and the Tanezrouft dessert in Algeria.

Søren Peter Nielsen’s Education

Danmarks Tekniske Universitet

MSc , Chemical Engineering , 1983 — 1990

Master thesis 'Data Acquisition running OS/2' earned 13 on a scale from 0 to 13 where 13 is best.
Worked approx 20 hours a week at IBM while attending the Technical University.
Took a two terms leave during the study (1986-87) to work in an exchange job at leather factory in Rio Grande do Sul in Brazil - while also visiting neigbouring countries and travelling much of Brazil extensively - including going to the Serra Pelada gold mine, sailing up the Amazonas river and exploring the jungle.