My greatest strength is people. Across 12 years in the police, the armed forces and emergency management, I have worked in situations where the ability to listen, read people and build trust within minutes decided how things ended. That has shaped how I work today: I meet people as equals regardless of profession, title or organizational layer — and I take the time to understand what is genuinely at stake for the individual.
Professionally, I have moved from the operational front line to strategic planning, crisis management and cross-organizational coordination. I’m used to turning complex or incomplete information into structured, measurable efforts, and to creating the calm and direction an organization can navigate by — even when the frame shifts along the way.
Moving projects and change through to completion rarely succeeds on technical arguments alone. It takes buy-in. I’m good at handling resistance, uniting people around a shared goal and giving them a real reason to come along. That is where I make the biggest difference: as a bridge-builder between disciplines, departments and interests that otherwise struggle to talk to each other.
As a person I’m curious, thoughtful and solution-oriented, and humor comes to work with me. I never promise more than I can deliver, and I care about acting decently and with integrity — including when it would be easier not to. I learn quickly, seek out challenges myself, and would rather leave an organization stronger than I found it.
With 12 years of experience in emergency management and crisis response, I have moved from the outermost operational front line to strategic emergency planning. I’ve stood in the field as a rescue specialist and police officer, and I’ve since built emergency preparedness from the desk as a coordinator, inspector and advisor.
At Beredskab Fyn I was responsible for emergency planning and crisis management for nine owner municipalities — I implemented a shared crisis management system, built a cross-municipal preparedness forum from scratch, and trained the municipalities’ liaison officers. I also serve on an ongoing basis as a resource person for the Disaster and Risk Management program, putting students through realistic crisis management exercises.
My operational background from the police and the military means I understand emergency work from the inside — not just as process and plans, but as something that has to work under pressure, with people who are tired, stressed, or afraid.
I thrive on building structure and resilience in organizations that need to be able to act when the unexpected happens — and on translating that experience into concrete plans, exercises, and cross-agency collaboration.
I stand out by combining a strong technical understanding of IT with well-developed people skills. My background spans 12 years in the police and emergency services — environments where the ability to listen, read people, and build trust quickly through dialogue has been absolutely essential. That has given me a natural ability to get through to people and strong change-management skills, where I’m good at handling resistance, building genuine buy-in, and meeting people at eye level.
My background as an IT support specialist, combined with project management skills, means I don’t think like a narrow specialist. Instead, I function as a trust-building bridge-builder who can bring people together and introduce structure and direction into complex processes.
My drive comes from a strong ability to learn and a personal commitment to always act with integrity and high ethical standards. My foundational IT knowledge was built the traditional way, before the AI wave — as a police officer at the 112 emergency call center, for example, I learned Python during the pauses between emergency calls. Today I use AI strategically to accelerate my learning, broaden my horizon, and pen-test my own setups against current best practice. My approach is thoughtful; I never promise more than the technology can actually deliver.
My single greatest strength is bringing people and organizations together around a shared goal. Moving projects and changes forward rarely succeeds on technical arguments alone — it requires listening to, understanding, and motivating people across professional boundaries, seniority, and organizational layers.
I’ve practiced that at scale at Beredskab Fyn, where I built a cross-municipal preparedness forum from scratch — from idea and structure to actual operation across nine independent municipalities, each with their own culture and priorities. As a police officer, I also helped launch the “Joint Response Team” pilot project from a fragile idea into a functioning cross-disciplinary collaboration between police, psychiatry, and municipality.
In 2025 I formalized that experience with an academy module in project management, and since January 2026 I’ve been running my own consultancy, TJ Resiliens ApS, alongside my full-time role, advising on emergency management and project leadership.
I’m driven by complex challenges and by creating the momentum and buy-in that actually turns things into reality — not just plans on paper.
Family & Free Time
I live in Odense with my partner and our two children, and they are what matters most once the working day is over. We love getting out into nature — hiking, sleeping under open skies, and anything that gets the family away from screens for a weekend.
I’m also genuinely interested in IT, and my curiosity doesn’t stop when I clock out. At home I’m working on a digitalization project meant to make everyday family life easier through automation and artificial intelligence — on a platform I run and fully control myself. It’s both a hobby and the way I keep my professional edge.
