STRAND IT CONSULTING
PROJECT MANAGEMENT
PROFESSIONAL
ACCOMPLISHMENTS
Kåre Strand has over 32 years of experience from working in project management, consulting, software development, education, administration as well as staff management. Kåre has great ability to take initiatives, operates independently, is well-structured and interacts with strong integrity. These abilities have consistently been key factors for making project teams productive, and for delivering high quality project results.
COMMUNICATION SKILLS
Numerous presentations and product demos to customers, prospects and staff with consistently good reviews, increasing belief and confidence in business solutions. Fluent in the English language, both verbally and in writing. Great cross-cultural communication skills, with experience from working in Asia (China and Vietnam) in the US, in EMEA (UK, Holland, Scandinavia) and in Australia.
FUNCTIONAL PROFICIENCY
As a Director has demonstrated effective leadership in establishing and motivating a distributed engineering team. As a Project Manager has delivered high quality product releases. As an ERP System Developer and Consultant has extensive experience from acquiring customer requirements and implementing tailored business solutions.
SUPPLY CHAIN DOMAIN EXPERTISE
Extensive experience from working in a tight team of specialists providing best-of-breed SCM solutions for global customers in the following market segments; Food & Beverage, Grocery, Fashion/Home/eCom, Health Care/Pharma, Industrial Parts, and Third Party Logistics
TECHNICAL PROFICIENCY
Has initiated an HTML5 based next generation device- and platform- independent approach to run applications “anywhere”. Has successfully driven the modernization of a major SCM application including a redesigned WPF/.Net UI, an Output Management migration into JasperReports and an extended Web Service integration architecture.
Has successfully driven a project to provide mobile portal frontend SCM solutions using HTML5/jQuery/PhoneGap architecture.
