Joel Roos

In 2023 I took over as the CEO of GESHDO, where my focus has been on growth, innovation and operational excellence. I am responsible for setting strategic goals, driving business development, and maintaining high standards across all aspects of the organization. My leadership involves guiding the management team, fostering a culture of teamwork and innovation, and ensuring that all business operations are aligned with our core values.

Helped build the team from scratch at the innovation LAB at StepStone Malmö, working with the implementation of a new evaluation protocol of initaitives, and acted as team mananger for the team during their build-up phase. My role meant that i managed both consultants as well as employees. In addition to this I acted as one of the technical experts, helping the team decide what new initatives to focus on to generate the most value for StepStone.

As the Vice President and Team Mananger at GESHDO, I led a team of consultants and was a key part of the senior management team. This role involved project management for differnet solutions, customer interaction, scoping of projects and managment of resources and budget. I helped run the company, guided our team to work together and think creatively, and made sure we did our best work.

Worked in the Edge team as a Solutions Architect Expert, working with the implementation of various systems both as a developer and as a architect.

Worked as an advisory to the VP Digital Technology - Edge Engineering and the CTO at IKEA, working with the fulfilment team with the implementation of a new global fulfilment strategy, where I worked to ensure that different parts of the organization understood their points of intersection, highlighting previously unknown dependencies as well as aid in their implementation by interacting with the development team. My role also included the evaluation of a specific implementation between INTER and INGKA IKEA, where a third party vendor and the implementation team had run into issues that needed to be resolved. This involved both evaluation of the technical implementation as well as the business impact of the current issues.

Worked at EON as a Office 365 architect. The role included two main parts working on both the architecture for a new SharePoint environment that would meet the security standards required by the Swedish government and helped with creation and rollout of educational material for employees, acting as support and educator.

Developed a new CMS for the public websites in Finland and Poland resulting the worlds fastest bank website utilizing a serverless architecture on the AWS platform. Everything is optimized for speed, security and simplicity.

Part of the architecture team tasked with the development of the intranet at IKEA, being responsible for architectural decisions as well as automation. The assignment spanned over multiple projects, involving upgrades of SharePoint versions, integrations with office 365, creation and decomissions of SharePoint farms and incident management.

Founded GESHDO

Responsible for the configuration of the SharePoint farm utilized by all branches of Volvo IT at the time. Worked with the initial setup of the site structures in hosted-sites environments as well as configure the authentication flow using SSO and ADFS.

Responsible for the administration and configuration of the office 365 environment. Also responsible for educating the employees to fully utilize the products.

Worked with the creation of the first version of Blå Appen. A self-taxing tool for youngsters who were in contact with health care professionals.

Continuned my assignment at Axis with a new consultancy firm

Responsible for the administration and development of the Office 365 environment.

Was tasked with migrating their SharePoint 2010 intranet from one domain to another while at the same time updating the environment and resolve a number of issues with its configuration.

Continuned my assignment at Axis with a new consultancy firm

SharePoint consultant

In addition to helping the customer with the development of custom features and solutions the tasks have mainly revolved around being the infrastructure architect of the global implementation of the SharePoint 2010 and 2013 environments. This also involved the migration between the two versions.

Part of the development team for the new SharePoint 2010 social intranet at Skånemejerier. Tasks involved branding, webpart development, custom workflows, and infrastructure adaptations.

Part of the development team for 3L Systems new SharePoint Foundation Intranet. Tasks involved implementation of various custom web parts as well as migration of data from previous intranet.

The assignment involved troubleshooting and fixing an existing SharePoint 2007 Server implementation as well as the development of a new project area in SharePoint 2010. Tasks involved branding, customization, assigning a project structure and general web part development

Part of the development team of a new competence inventory system in SharePoint 2010. Tasks involved SharePoint to external systems integration and general development.

Changes to the existing SharePoint 2007 Foundation implementation were made to fix a number of issues related to servers as well as custom code. Tasks included re-configuring the SMTP servers, workflow customization, and AD Forest modification to work with SharePoint etc.

The assignment was to extend the existing functionality of Consiliums SharePoint 2007 intranet. Main task was branding.

A new student portal for the students at Ekonomihögskolan was developed in SharePoint 2007 and later migrated to SharePoint 2010. Tasks included branding, customization and migration.

Data migration between SharePoint 2007 and SharePoint 2010. Tasks included migrating custom content using PowerShell as well as infrastructure adaptation for the new environment.

Additions to the existing SharePoint 2010 intranet were delivered to meet the organizations changing needs. Tasks included customization of templates as well as creation of custom webparts and branding.

A new public website was implemented in SharePoint 2010 to showcase the organizations SharePoint skills. Tasks included project management, branding, infrastructure adaptation, and development.

Responsible for educating new consultants in SharePoint 2007 and 2010. The goal was to ensure that all new employees would be able to take the SharePoint Certificates for configuration and development provided by Microsoft. Tasks included creation of education plan, teaching and mentoring. All (20+) passed their certificates.