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In my role as CEO at Cloud Bastion, I have spearheaded software development projects for clients in regulated industries, focusing on AI, advanced sensors, and autonomous driving technologies. Engagements have been both short term and longer term interim management positions to achieve project turnaround. • Managed SW development teams and processes to optimize efficiency, iteration time and delivery of high-quality software solutions in regulated industries • Optimized software architectures and ensured aligned project and team setup to enable fast progress with close stakeholder and customer engagement • Built trust with customer senior leadership and project teams. This included reporting and alignment on difficult requirements and project time lines • Successfully managed several task-forces to solve urgent and technically challenging problems • Advised senior management on NIS 2 compliance strategy based on insights from previous CISO and ISO 27001 certification experience. AI supported risk assessment and policy development.
During this assignment Steen delivered project turnaround and SW project management enabling Continental to deliver an advanced long range radar sensor for autonomous driving to a prestigious German Automotive OEM. In the role of Software Solution Manager in a Scaled Agile Framework (SAFe) based project Steen was the overall head of software and responsible for aligning major features and the schedule with the customer, customer suppliers and other project disciplines such as hardware, mechanics and systems testing. Steen successfully coordinated and motivated people in three agile release trains based in Germany, Romania, Hungary and India. As always, Steen promoted agility, customer focus, quality, sense of urgency, continuous delivery and close team level customer contact.
Project turnaround and SW project management enabling Continental to deliver an advanced long range radar sensor for autonomous driving to a prestigious German Automotive OEM. In this project Steen took over the role as Product Manager in a Scaled Agile Framework (SAFe) based project. In this role he enabled an international software development team to become more agile, customer focused and empowered to take more responsibility for features and delivery. Steen also improved relations and integration into the project of external suppliers. Other key areas where Steen supported the project were : customer presentations, build and release management, git branching strategies, use of Jira and setup of Kanban boards, problem report management and most important of all : help deciding what not to do!
On the KAFAS 4 ADAS camera project Steen was a member of the senior task-force team (ZF COO & VP-level) whose primary objective was to turnaround the project and ensure on-time delivery of the Mobileye EyeQ 4 based platform for the BMW X5 series. Steen also took on operational roles, first as software development manager of a 70 person development and integration team. Later he took over the role as incident manager to define the incident management process and coordinate incidents throughout ZF, BMW and Mobileye. The incident management role also included the build-up and management of a new 60 person development team which focused on incident resolution, BMW FAT testing, stability and the re-factoring of key problematic components.
Steen’s key objective was to turn around the performance of the system function team of approx. 50 people based in Romania and a smaller German team. Trust and cooperation needed to be re-established between the system function team, the German project office and the customer. The camera used ethernet for signal output, was based on Vector OSEK and developed according to functional safety requirements in ISO26262 ASIL B. Steen successfully enabled the team to grow personally and professionally, clear a significant development backlog, close a large number of open issues, improve quality, achieve quality process work according to the Continental V-model and implement major architecture changes required to achieve functional safety objectives.
As a senior member of the Xtelligen re-alignment team Steen played a key role in turning around the GENIVI based EntryNav head unit project for BMW. Steen’s primary objective was to manage the previously troublesome relationship with NVIDIA to ensure that their Linux based Tegra platform could meet the very stringent performance and stability targets of BMW. Steen successfully led several task forces to resolve critical problem areas involving multiple project participants, in particular, BMW, Harman, Magneti Marelli and NVIDIA. During a 12-month period, Steen also took the role of feature reference for the GENIVI & Autosar component DLT. As DLT feature reference, he agreed priorities and requirements with BMW, agreed project-wide standards for logging, managed the DLT developers and successfully took this troublesome component into stable production.