Experience

Twelve years, five roles, one direction.

From testing cables at sea to leading the engineering of grid-scale batteries. Every role with what it changed.

Career 2014 — 2026

12 years · 5 roles

2014

2015

2016

2017

2018

2019

2020

2021

2022

2023

2024

2025

2026

Feb 2024 to now

Principal engineer

, Tidemark Energy · Rotterdam

Energised a 400 MWh site 11 days early

Tidemark Energy

Feb 2024 – now

Principal engineer

Voltaic North

Jun 2021 – Jan 2024

Lead engineer, storage integration

Halberg Storage

Mar 2019 – May 2021

Senior commissioning engineer

Kestrel Grid Services

Jul 2016 – Feb 2019

Electrical engineer

Norrvind Offshore

Sep 2014 – Jun 2016

Graduate engineer

Feb 2024 to now

Rotterdam

Tidemark Energy

Principal engineer

I own the electrical and controls design for two battery sites and sign off every energisation plan. I lead eleven engineers across design, commissioning and grid compliance.

PowerFactory

PSCAD

Grid-forming inverters

Vendor management

Results

Energised a 400 MWh site

11 days early

Own design and commissioning for 450 MWh across two sites.

Built and lead a team of eleven engineers.

Passed grid operator compliance at the first attempt on both sites.

Jun 2021 to Jan 2024

Rotterdam

Voltaic North

Lead engineer, storage integration

I ran integration for four storage sites from factory tests to handover. I wrote the commissioning playbook the company still uses.

PSCAD

PowerFactory

Grid code compliance

Python

Results

Cut commissioning from 14 weeks to

8.7 weeks

Commissioned 640 MWh across four sites.

Ran the company's first grid-forming inverter trial on a 40 MW site.

Brought grid compliance testing in house, ending a six-figure yearly consultancy cost.

Mar 2019 to May 2021

Malmö

Halberg Storage

Senior commissioning engineer

I led site commissioning teams on the company's first three utility-scale batteries and trained the technicians who now run them.

BESS commissioning

SCADA and EMS

LOTO

Python

Results

Commissioned

310 MWh

across three sites.

Delivered a 110 MWh battery on an operating solar farm without interrupting its export.

Trained 18 technicians, 12 of whom now hold site lead roles.

Zero lost-time incidents across all three sites.

Jul 2016 to Feb 2019

Hamburg

Kestrel Grid Services

Electrical engineer

I designed protection and control schemes for substation upgrades on a regional network, and stayed on site until each one was live.

PowerFactory

ETAP

IEC 61850

Protection relays

Results

Designed protection for

14 substation

upgrades.

Replaced protection relays at live substations with no unplanned outage.

Cut relay setting review time by a third with a shared calculation template.

Mentored two graduate engineers through their first energisations.

Sep 2014 to Jun 2016

Bergen

Norrvind Offshore

Graduate engineer

I joined the cable team of a 54-turbine offshore wind farm and ran the test programme for its array cables, from the factory to the seabed.

HV cable testing

VLF and partial discharge

AutoCAD Electrical

Results

Tested

48 km

of 66 kV array cable with no rework.

Wrote the site acceptance procedure later reused on two more wind farms.

Found and replaced three faulty cable joints before burial, saving an estimated nine vessel days.

Education

MSc Electrical Power Engineering

Trondheim Institute of Technology

2014

BSc Electrical Engineering

Västerhavn Technical College

2012

Certificates

Project management professional

Certificate

2022

Chartered Engineer

Professional registration

2020

High-voltage authorised person

Safety authorisation

2019

Speaking and committees

Commissioning a battery in 8.7 weeks

Talk, Nordic Storage Forum

2025

Working group on grid-forming requirements

Committee member, European Storage Engineers Network

2024

What technicians wish engineers knew

Talk, Site Safety Days

2023

Mentor, Women in Power Systems programme

Six mentees since 2021

2021

Languages

English and Swedish, fluent. Norwegian and Dutch, working.

Hiring for storage or grid work?

I reply within two working days.

Based in

Rotterdam, Netherlands

Open to

Principal and lead roles

Available

From March 2027

Work mode

Hybrid or remote, site travel fine

Hiring for storage or grid work?

I reply within two working days.

Based in

Rotterdam, Netherlands

Open to

Principal and lead roles

Available

From March 2027

Work mode

Hybrid or remote, site travel fine

Hiring for storage or grid work?

I reply within two working days.

Based in

Rotterdam, Netherlands

Open to

Principal and lead roles

Available

From March 2027

Work mode

Hybrid or remote, site travel fine

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