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Jacob Taarup-Esbensen

Communication and Economics degree from Copenhagen Business School. Founder of a company specialized in Freelance process and communication consulting.

Headline: Entrepreneur
Skills: Business, Danish, Editing, Entrepreneurship, German, Guerrilla marketing, Languages, Leadership, Management, Marketing, Negotiation, Norwegian, Public Relations, Recruitment, Swedish, Writing
Location: Copenhagen
Groups: StudieVirk
Interested in: Brainstorming, Finding business partners, Finding cofounders, Finding team mates, Meeting new people, Professional opportunities, Promoting my startups, Recruiting for my startup
Tags: communication, political philosophy, pr, quality management

WORK EXPERIENCE

Employer: Identitas
Position: Consultant
Time period: January 2006 - Present
Description: In 2007 I started my own company, which is specialized in Freelance process and communication consulting.

Employer: DHL Aviation
Position: PM Operations Manager
Time period: January 2002 - December 2006
Description: Responsibility for all DHL’s Export from Nordics and Baltic. Manager for 5 Sub-departmental supervisors and to specialists.
The department as a whole had a budget of 4 M Euro and employed app. 100 staff.
- Network Control Group (NCG).
The department is mainly working with local operation communication, where information is gathered from various sub-departments and forwarded to the rest of DHLs network and the other way around. The department employs 7 staff.
- Ramp.
Off-loading and loading flights/trucks aprox. 420 per. month. 40 Staff.
- Sort International.
Sorting of DHLs products from the Nordic and Baltic to the rest of the world. 40 staff.
- Sort Domestic.
Sorting and acceptance of freight from Denmark to the rest of the world. 22 staff and 420 vans/trucks per month.
- Customs and Airfreight.
Clearance of export freight from Denmark. 14 staff.
Projects:
- Transport Management program (TMP): An BPR type program to insure optimization of processes and productivity for HUBs and Gateways within DHL Aviation.
- Head of operational training in Copenhagen and coordinator of between project groups and training implementation.
- Initiatives to explore opportunities and synergies after merger of DHL with several other big transport companies.
- Group leader of the Middle Management steering group with the responsibility for review of strategic objectives.

Employer: DHL Aviation
Position: AM Sort Supervisor
Time period: January 1998 - December 2002
Description: - Leading and developing 8 teamleaders. Which in-turn lead 67 Sorters.
- Responsible for development and implementation of various quality systems in the department.
- Transport Harmonisation (THP), A quality system that has the purpose to standardise work procedures across DHL Network
- Pipelinevisibility, Program to optimise routing and logistics for express shipments in the DHL network.
- ISO9002. (Work instructions and procedures)
- ISO14001. (Work instructions)
- Responsible for implementation of IT systems used for warehouse control and customs clearance. (AHS - Aviation Hub System, CDS - Customs Declaration System
- Daily leader of the safety workers counsel.
- Auditor for Internal quality systems THP and ISO.
- Responsible for development and management of different projects and organisational efforts :
- Process improvement in CPH-HUB in assertion with process engineers from headquarters in Brussels.
- Development of Team Service Quality Index that links process improvement and targets to team efforts.
- Development of training programs for blue-collar workers in association with local government and union.
- Development of policy on staff welfare.
- Development of reporting and documentation systems to be used in process improvement.
- Y2K program in CPH-HUB.
- CPH-HUB expansion with 2000m2 of sort area and development of new sort system.

Employer: DHL Aviation
Position: General Freight Sales Co-ordinator
Time period: January 1997 - December 1998
Description: Working in close relation with other DHL stations in the Nordic to optimize the logistics for DHL products General Freight Sales (GFS)..

Employer: DHL Aviation
Position: Sorter/facility assistant/Customs clerk
Time period: January 1995 - December 1997

INFORMATION

Memberships: • Dansk Forening for Kvalitet: Danish Quality association.
• Member of the Danish Professional Communication Association.
• Member of Young Danish Entrepreneurs.
• Member of the board of directors in Stardust CBS the entrepreneurs association at Copenhagen Business School.
• Roundtable group for leaders with diploma degrees.
• Head of local homeowners association.

Jacob's Startups (2)

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  • Buzztheater

    Online movie theater for independet film. Actively supporting independet filmmakers and lovers.

  • Identitas

    Project and Communication management

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  • IndieGoGo

    IndieGoGo is an online social marketplace connecting filmmakers and fans to make independent film happen.

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  • Martin B. Justesen

    Danish, 38, majoring in Social Science, Danish Language and Educational Studies. Founder of crossuniversity network StudieVirk. Selfemployed and openminded about new projects.