Ane Bjerge Damkjer
IT Manager
Copenhagen
Summary
IT Manager, people manager and technology and business analyst working in the intersection of business, technology and people.
Bring a combination of servant leadership expertise and agile development knowledge, stakeholder and people management skills, technical understanding, thorough business understanding and ability to retain a strategic view.
Committed to helping and developing teams and people and consider everyone's issues seriously and prioritize understanding them to be able to make necessary changes or decisions that could remedy.
Overview
14
14
years of professional experience
12
12
years of post-secondary education
3
3
Languages
Work History
Head of IT-Development
Forsia Forsikring A/S (Sønderjysk Forsikring G/S)
02.2024 - Current
- IT manager in Financial Service Industry
- Managed a team of IT professionals, providing mentorship and guidance to boost productivity and ensure project success.
TIA Team Lead
Sønderjysk Forsikring G/S
11.2022 - Current
- Led cross-functional Insurance Platform Development team of 10 people for successful project execution while maintaining strong collaboration among team members.
- Explored new tools and technologies that enhanced capabilities of the team members while enabling seamless collaboration across departments.
- Increased customer satisfaction by ensuring timely completion of projects and adherence to high-quality standards.
- Delivered carve out project of commercial insurance business including upgrading and going into cloud with platform successfully in time.
Strategic Platform Lead | Digital IT-Platforms
Alm. Brand A/S
10.2021 - 10.2022
- Responsible for developing and implementing platform strategies and synergies across the entire system landscape
- I handle the role of Demand Manager for all major technical initiatives in the portfolio management.
- Partnered with stakeholders to gather requirements and translate them into actionable engineering tasks.
Vice President | Salesforce Chapter Lead
Alm. Brand A/S
02.2020 - 10.2021
- Responsible for driving a strategic product vision and outcome-based road map for a CRM platform, that supports the business road map and priorities
- Accountable for the end-to-end development of the Salesforce platform, and managing a high performing team of 20 consisting of (lead) developers, product owners, business analysts and Salesforce consultants
- Helped build trust, stability and confidence in the team again after a time of major organizational changes, and layoffs.
- Negotiated high-value contracts that maximized profitability while mitigating risks for the organization.
- Completed with great success the task of renegotiating the 5 year contract of the CRM platform and ensuring the necessary legal and security requirements.
Salesforce Teamlead | Center of Excellence
Alm. Brand A/S
12.2016 - 02.2020
- Responsible for the development and implementation of governance and support around the CRM platform while also handling the role of Salesforce Administrator
- Implemented tools and processes to govern and support the release pipeline and looking into new tooling to automate and establish continuous integration and delivery
- Part of a team of 4 admins and IT-supporters.
IT-Project Manager
Alm. Brand A/S
10.2013 - 12.2016
Application Designer
Alm. Brand A/S
03.2010 - 10.2013
Senior Project Consultant
Alm. Brand
07.2005 - 3 2010
Education
Master - IT Management and Strategy
IT University of Copenhagen
09.2009 - 05.2011
Export Engineer - undefined
Copenhagen University College of Engineering
01.2000 - 05.2005
Mathematics Student - undefined
Køge Gymnasium
08.1995 - 05.1999
Exchange Student - undefined
Arcadia High School
Phoenix, US 08.1996 - 05.1997
Skills
Servant and Transformational leadership
Specialities
Team Management, Financial Services, Insurance Cores Systems, CRM Platform Management, Salesforce System Administration and Governance, Vendor Management, Agile IT Project Management, DevOps, Deployment Strategy, Financial Services, Product, Process and Application Design, Change Management, IT Governance and IT Strategy.
Timeline
Head of IT-Development
Forsia Forsikring A/S (Sønderjysk Forsikring G/S)
02.2024 - Current
TIA Team Lead
Sønderjysk Forsikring G/S
11.2022 - Current
Strategic Platform Lead | Digital IT-Platforms
Alm. Brand A/S
10.2021 - 10.2022
Vice President | Salesforce Chapter Lead
Alm. Brand A/S
02.2020 - 10.2021
Salesforce Teamlead | Center of Excellence
Alm. Brand A/S
12.2016 - 02.2020
IT-Project Manager
Alm. Brand A/S
10.2013 - 12.2016
Application Designer
Alm. Brand A/S
03.2010 - 10.2013
Master - IT Management and Strategy
IT University of Copenhagen
09.2009 - 05.2011
Senior Project Consultant
Alm. Brand
07.2005 - 3 2010
Export Engineer - undefined
Copenhagen University College of Engineering
01.2000 - 05.2005
Exchange Student - undefined
Arcadia High School
08.1996 - 05.1997
Mathematics Student - undefined
Køge Gymnasium
08.1995 - 05.1999
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