Frode (Redigh) Karlsen
Associate Director
Experience
Associate Director
Cognizant Business Consulting
Independent Consultant
- Experienced and reliable consultant who specializes in digital strategies, IT governance, control remediation, process management, marketing, sales, and eCommerce.
- With a strong entrepreneurial mindset and a proven track record of delivering results, helps clients develop and implement new strategies for success.
- Strong industry knowledge: 70 projects, 15 industries, more than 40 clients across 8 countries.
- Worked with clients in Banking & Financial Services such as Deutsche Bank, BonusCard.ch, Experian, LBS München, the Norwegian Postbank (12 projects).
- Worked with clients in Telecommunications such as EWE Tel, Deutsche Telekom AG, Telefonica O2 (VIAG Interkom), Call Norwegian, ITC, BT Ignite, Telenor, TeliaSonera (22 projects).
- Worked with clients in Interactive Media & Services such as Vizzavi, Mobile Innovation AS (6 projects).
- Worked with clients in Other Industries such as IT Services (a.o. DB Systel GmbH), Personal Products (Beiersdorf/NIVEA), Building Products (Saint-Gobain), Health Care Technology (Fresenius Medical Care), and others.
- Strong focus on results and delivery.
- Project management to achieve agreed outcomes within time and budget across different functional areas in multi-cultural environments. Stepping in to turn-around projects that do not meet expectations.
- IT-Audit/IT-Assessments; design and implementation (remediation) of IT-Controls, certified IS Auditor, ISO 27001, IT security, data protection.
- Digitalization/improvement of business processes using packaged- and custom-developed IT solutions, ensuring usable and pragmatic solutions that meet business needs, e.g. Improving B2B selling processes.
- Business Analysis: planning cloud migrations, due-diligence, value chains, redesigning data flows, specifying changes to applications, develop business cases and plans for insourcing/outsourcing of applications.
- Data modelling: Designing and implementing new data models for e-commerce platforms to improve scalability and performance.
- Technical expertise and knowledge: MS Office, Jira, Confluence, and different technologies such as ServiceNow, SAN storage, Oracle, MySQL, AWS, procurement processes (EDI) and integration of customer POs and invoicing over SAP Ariba procurement platform, software development languages and others.
Innovator, Founder, Entrepreneur and MD
Mobile Innovation AS
Principal Consultant
PA Consulting Group
Project Manager
Telefonica O2 (VIAG Interkom)
- Employee of Telenor Norway.
Consultant
Accenture
IT Coordinator
Bjerke Borough of Oslo
Software Developer
Den Norske Hypotekforening
Software Developer
Miros A/S
Summary
Frode is an experienced and reliable consultant who specializes in digital strategies, IT governance, control remediation, process management, marketing, sales, and eCommerce. With a strong entrepreneurial mindset and a proven track record of delivering results, he helps clients develop and implement new strategies for success.
Strong focus on results and delivery.
Project management to achieve agreed outcomes within time and budget across different functional areas in multi-cultural environments. Stepping in to turn-around projects that do not meet expectations.
IT-Audit/IT-Assessments; design and implementation (remediation) of IT-Controls, IT security, data protection
Digitalization/improvement of business processes using packaged- and custom-developed IT solutions, ensuring usable and pragmatic solutions that meet business needs, e.g. Improving B2B selling processes,
Business Analysis: planning cloud migrations, due-diligence, value chains, redesigning data flows, specifying changes to applications, develop business cases and plans for insourcing/outsourcing of applications.
Data modelling: Designing and implementing new data models for e-commerce platforms to improve scalability and performance.
Technical expertise and knowledge: MS Office, Jira, Confluence, and different technologies such as ServiceNow, SAN storage, Oracle, MySQL, AWS, procurement processes (EDI) and integration of customer POs and invoicing over SAP Ariba procurement platform, software development languages and others.
Entrepreneurial mindset: 5 years’ experience as entrepreneur, with an ability to think out of the box and create order out of chaos.
Comfortable working in and leading cross-cultural- and multinational teams: Delivered projects in 8 countries together with people from Europe, India, UK, and USA.
Business and IT liaison: Understanding both sides well and frequently act as the "linking pin".
“Keeping people honest” – formulating- and asking the right questions.
Deep understanding of operational needs and technology capabilities
Balanced understanding of the importance of implementable solutions vs. ideas and concepts
Languages
Education
Bayes Business School
MBA · IT and Management · London, United Kingdom
University of Oslo
MSc · Computer Science · Oslo, Norway
University of Østfold
BSc · SW Development · Norway
Certifications & licenses
ISACA Certified Information System Auditor (CISA)
ISACA
Professional Scrum Master
Prince 2 Practitioner
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