Jørgen Larsen

Current

Director of Engineering at Nuance Communications
Director of Engineering at BeVocal
Director of Mobile Engineering at Nuance

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Past

Director of Program Mgt. at a-la-mobile
Senior Development Manager at Openwave Systems
Sr Manager - Software Engineering at Openwave

Sr. Engineering Manager at Openwave System
Development Manager at Openwave
Product Manager at Phone.com
Director of Engineering at Angelica Wireless
Technical Support at DanNet

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Education

Danmarks Tekniske Universitet

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Industry

Wireless

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Jørgen Larsen’s Summary

• Build a support organization to support core development teams with focus on offshore development center
• Drive all project management and engineering management a large local engineering team (inc Development, QA, Requirements tracking and process)
• Designed and executed over 150 projects over a 3 year period, with shared resources (over 120 people involved). All projects delivered on time. Projects ranged from 1 week to 2 years.

Jørgen Larsen’s Specialties:

• Strong Project Management
• In depth knowlegde of Outsourcing
• Very exprinced in running project between remote locations
• Very exprinced in Customer and support engineering
• Exceptionel People management skills

Jørgen Larsen’s Experience

Director of Engineering

Nuance Communications

(Wireless industry)

2008 — Present (1 year)
Director of Engineering

BeVocal

(Wireless industry)

2008 — Present (1 year)
Director of Mobile Engineering

Nuance

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

December 2007 — Present (1 year 8 months)
Director of Program Mgt.

a-la-mobile

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

November 2006 — October 2007 (1 year)

Create and manage a full team of engineers, QA, Release Mgt, Prj Mgr as well has establise all process, tools and workflow for internal as well as external work.
Responisble for the overall outsourcing interaction and program/project mgt.
Senior Development Manager

Openwave Systems

(Public Company; Wireless industry)

2002 — 2006 (4 years)
Sr Manager - Software Engineering

Openwave

(Public Company; 501-1000 employees; OPWV; Wireless industry)

March 2005 — November 2006 (1 year 9 months)

• Build a CE organization to development teams with focus on offshore development center to support development and support of core products as they get completed.
• Organize and build an offshore development center from the ground up, with process, workflow, local hiring and education.
• Provide critical customer support to field teams.
• Provide dependable and budgeted releases on all products.
• Implement process and work flows between multiple located teams.
• Manage a large +50 development and QA team located in 4 locations
• Build a 40 people strong development team in India with the flexibility to support products.
Sr. Engineering Manager

Openwave System

(Wireless industry)

1999 — 2006 (7 years)
Development Manager

Openwave

(Public Company; 501-1000 employees; OPWV; Wireless industry)

January 2004 — March 2005 (1 year 3 months)

• Direct responsibility for all project management and engineering management issues for the browser team inside the platform engineering group
• Schedule and run multiple projects with shared resources together with external project mangers. Drive and execute on specific customer projects where the customer requires strong project and engineering skills present, both internal and external.
• Drive and implement outsourcing of engineering resource
• Manage a development team of 10 local engineers
• Kept all engineering schedules on time with minimal resources.
Product Manager

Phone.com

(Public Company; Wireless industry)

1999 — 2001 (2 years)
Director of Engineering

Angelica Wireless

(Wireless industry)

1998 — 1999 (1 year)
Technical Support

DanNet

(Wireless industry)

1994 — 1995 (1 year)