Automotive Surface Material Expert

Technical specialist in surface materials, combined with project management of component development and test planning, as a unique combination.

Special focus on requirements in Retained Newness and Sustainability, including authorship and peer-review of sustainability guidelines and requirements as well as authorship of extensive retained newness methodology
Colour measurements and judgements
Textiles
Foils
Leathers
Decor surfaces
Plastics
Experience from CEVT and Volvo Cars (including Polestar). See specific projects Polestar 2 Cockpit and VCC leather IPs below
Global experience from EU and Asia

Development processes

Material examples

Project Manager for Polestar

Senior R&D project leader for Polestar 2 Cockpit with a team of 15 design engineers where I was main responsible for budget, requirement, planning as well as aligning directions with stakeholders outside team and securing these within the team. System includes airbag lids, wood deco panels, packaged components, functional movable parts, grains on plastics, injection moulding and plastic tech, textile wrapped panels. Agile development (JIRA) methods.

Project management
Coordination in complex settings
Global supplier(s) management; including scenarios where several suppliers need to collaborate together, ship parts globally with time restraints, new suppliers for OEM, install unique OEM designed test equipment as well as most of the common activities relating to supplier management
Requirements alignment and fulfilment
Technical understanding of products and production constraints
Long and short time planning and implementation, timing had to be cut even shorter than previous projects due to the global production set up
Budget and cost model handling
Clear and precise documentation for purchase, contracts and quality processes

Images courtesy of Polestar

Technical Lead of Leather dashboards for Volvo Cars

Technical responsible for product development of leather dashboards (xc90, v/s90, xc60) in the premium segment. XC90 was first out in 2015, with the launch of the new SPA platform, the first mass-produced dressed instrument panel that Volvo produced. Given the product's huge interest and corresponding demand, I was a critical resource to secure quality and capacity.

This compent was especially mentioned in offical statements to the press: "När vi har haft förseningar kan det till exempel ha handlat om att våra leverantörer inte kunnat leverera tillräckliga volymer av material till exempelvis Inscription-varianten, där en av de unika komponenterna är den läderklädda instrumentbrädan. Ett flertal leverantörer har haft utmaningar när det gäller att möta den höga efterfrågan som överträffat alla förväntningar, säger Bjarne Darwall."Aftonbladet. (2015). Får inte fram delar – kö efter nya XC90. 4th november 2015.

Handicraft products at industrial scale
Construction and manufacturing
Adhesion and glue properties
Design vs feasibility balance
Attaining the most information out of testing of time-consuming and limited sample amounts
Various physicals test environments, with special focus on ageing
Task forces for capacity and quality management "crisis engagement", as well as data analysis on quality issues

Images courtesy of Volvo Cars

Project manager, designer and costume seamstress for Chalmersspexet Vera

From costume seamstress (Lucia 2010-11) via designer (Karl XII 11-12) to project manager (Lumière 12-13) with responsibility to direct a group of 35 volonteers as a whole and in sub-commitées.

Historically themed unique plays every year, all fully produced by the troupe
Minimum 10 plays on home scene/year
Minimum 2 tours in Sweden/year (once including Finland)
4 banquets/year with over 100 seated guests