Product Management: Led conception, development and commercialization of Gelato Cloud, a SaaS platform for ordering and delivering printed products to 35 countries
Business Development & Partnerships: Established technology cooperation with Adobe & Monotype, and commercial partnerships with printing companies
General Management: Reporting to the CEO and the board of directors, coordinated Product Development, Customer Support, Procurement & Legal, Production
Project Management: Managed up to 12 developers and 5 testers in 4 countries using agile practices
Implemented improvements to the layout engine of the Opera browser, focusing on interoperability, crash robustness, and implementation of new standards
Negotiated the evolution of key web technology (CSS) as Opera's representative at the industry's global standardization consortium (W3C); Lead the effort on the CSS Media Queries specification, and contributed to many others
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Japan
Lead Software Developer
Opera Software
Led teams of up to 6 developers and 4 testers in multiple countries (Japan, Sweden, Taiwan, Poland) on more than 15 projects for major TV manufacturers and Japanese phone operators; redesigned work-flows to improve quality and to eliminate schedule overruns, established project estimates, and prioritized tasks
Extended and maintained the Opera browser for connected TVs and Japanese mobile phones
Renegotiated the terms of employment with HR, management and employees, and mediated in personal conflicts as employee representative of the Japan office
Certificate of achievement for significant performance in engineering 2008
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Japan
Software Developer
Sharp Corporation
Developed an ebook reading application for mobile phones supporting Japanese typography and manga, as well as associated authoring tools,
wrote the specification of the document format (XMDF) for standardisation at the IEC
