Experience

• Technical Expert – Human Factors Engineer

  at Novartis

  March 2019 - at Present

  Kanton Basel-Stadt

  lanning of Summative study. Late stage development of combination product drug delivery devices. Benchmark study of prefilled insuling devices.Development of Instructions For Use. Preparing of filing documentation. Preparation of study material for formative study.

• Human Factors Engineer

  at F. Hoffmann-La Roche

  April 2017 - February 2019

  Kanton Basel-Stadt

  Late stage development of combination products. Planning of Summative study for autoinjector for Rheutoid Arthritis. Preparing training material before launch. Training affiliates in device use before launch. Early phase development of child resistant packaging for tablets. Development of Quick Reference Guide. Preparing of formative study. Close collaboration with Device Team, QA and Regulatory. Close collaboration with external vendors. Preparing filing dossier FDA.

• Device Development and Human Factors Engineer

  at Novo Nordisk

  March 2007 - July 2016

  Region Hovedstaden

  Device Development and Human Factors Engineer Human Factors Engineering for prefilled medical devices. Gather needs from the projects stakeholders, planning user boards, usability tests and feed the input from studies back to the project team and finding the most optimal solution or compromise. Responsible for planning, supervising and documenting formative user studies and usability tests for next generation prefilled insulin devices. Designing an App to be used in future user studies. Coordinating a large number of stakeholders, external consultants, design agencies, tool shops and manufacturers in order to develop prototypes for user evaluation. Facilitator of several creative workshops to solve technical problems across teams for nearly 10 years. Part of a team that designed creative meeting rooms, very popular for workshops.

• Primary packing development

  at Novo Nordisk

  April 2002 - February 2007

  Region Hovedstaden

  Responsible for optimizing launched tablet dispensers and insulin cartridge components with regards to customer satisfaction, intuitiveness and increased yield in large scale production. Updating registration files for primary containers in close contact with Regulatory and QA. Coordinating change requests between stakeholders. Optimizing and test of tablet dispenser at the injection moulder. Updating of Autocad drawings.

• Packaging Designer

  at Superfos Packaging

  February 2000 - March 2002

  Region Sjælland

  Responsible for designing packagings for food and non-food with tamper evident openings. Analysing injection moulded packagings with Tamper Evident openings. Designing a range of openings to test in production and with customers. Presenting the company at Packaging Fairs with a demonstration of the 3D design programme: Solid Designer. 3 months pre-sales assignment at the affiliate in Maryland, US, to clarify user needs. Graphical decoration of the company’s Easter and anniversary packagings.

• Packaging Developer

  at MD Foods (Arla Foods)

  February 1995 - February 2000

  Region Midtjylland

  Designing packaging for 3 butter- and 4 mould cheese dairies. Updating existing packagings, line extensions and new country variants. Coordinate a large number of stakeholders; 7 dairy chiefs, dairy store-managers, employees at the filling and packaging lines, external graphic designers, marketing, label printers, cardboard producers, film- and foil suppliers. Update “Lurpak” butter design in collaboration with the Brand Manager and designers. Approving product quality at print start. Machine test of foil, labels and boxes on packaging lines. Transportation test of product packed on pallets. Designing a new development manual for R&D. Design and construction of an impressive star for the Christmas tree at the reception, made out of foil from all the blue cheese variants.