Anders Aarup Poulsen

General manager of the EMEAR technical hub focusing on business, professional, and industrial end-users. Functions: Pre- and Post-sales Support, Software Development and IT Solutions, Repair Workshop, Service Logistics, Spare Parts, Quality Assurance and Testing. 100 people managed in a multi-cultural environment.

Responsible for product/software/manuals localisation for EMEAR markets, development and support of all European product support websites and IT tools, software and network technical support.

I joined a newly established EMEAR regional technical head office based in Paris, established to set direction, coordinate activities between local Epson offices, and ultimately to centralise many activities historically done in each local office. Managed teams of web development and content managers for end-user support websites (more than 35 sites), internal technical support tools and systems.

Website re-developments and e-commerce enablement for The Spice Shop, London, UK Website enhancements, web stratey for Sunway, Aarhus, Denmark Manager Lisbon Bridge Event, The LEGO Group Iberia, Spain and Portigal. Having 20000 Children build the world's longest bridge of 500000 Lego bricks in the Colombo Shopping centre, Lisbon, Portugal

Overall responsible for IT Department. Support rapid growth across Asia Pacific and Europe. Develop and maintain client branded B2B recruitment web portals, and all other online activities. IT infrastructure. IT support.

Manager of IT support department, including help desk, software and hardware support. Support of both very creative ever-changing users and rock-solid live-TV transmission to hundreds of millions of viewers. Based in London. European scope.

The Apple Nordic Assistance Centre was run by British Telecom and based in London. I provided technical telephone support for Danish users of Apple Macs, and liased with Apple Computer Denmark for fault reporting and fixes.

Part-time technical sales and consultancy for Apple Macintosh solutions.

Work Placement at the Chamber of Industry & Commerce (IHK). Prepared reports and statistics for all departments of the IHK, participated in consulting work with SMEs in the services and manufacturing sectors.

Prepared industry and market reports on the Danish & European Dairy and Meat Sectors, which were used for the reorganisation of the Hungarian Dairy Sector

eMBA equivalent. Rising star programme in collaboration between Epson and ESADE. Courses and Projects covering: Strategy, Finance, Marketing, Supply Chain, Management etc.

6 month exchange to study international marketing, strategy and management - and German.

International Business