eholme.dk – Web of Emil Holmegaard

Selected Top 3

Features

Digital

Doing my education and daily work, my digital abilities gets even stronger day for day.

Agile

My prefered style of working is agile, where I have a backlog of tasks, and each task does have a estimate. I love to remove stuff from my todo list or from the backlog.

Content

Give me an introduction to your content, them I am ready to help you with your digital transformation or other software related issues.

Who is Emil

About Me

You can find my curriculum vitae in this section, it is more detailed than what you find on LinkedIn. But remember a curriculum vitae doesn’t tell much about the person…

Introduction

I’m working at 7N, as Management consultant , where I’m responsible for our technical platform and for IPR. Together with the team, we strive to help larger companies to get more out of their IT organization (better products, faster time-to-market, cost and performance optimization). I love to solve complex issues and to explain the solution in a simple way.

I’m married with Gitte and we have been married since April 2016. Gitte and I have two lovely daughters, Ella (from October 2015) and Lea (from March 2018).

Some people are fans, some people are just looking up to someone, and I am definitely in the last category. So I have listed my two favorit quotations here:

If you can’t join them – beat them Uffe Ellemann-Jensen

If the facts don’t fit the theory, change the facts Albert Einstein

The importance of the four P’s

Do not start solving an issue, if you cannot see perspectives for the solution, or at least see a reason for why the issue is important. If you are missing the ‘why’ of the issue, then the solution you find might not be the correct or optimal solution.

One of the biggest gifts, when communicating or talking to people is your personality. If you your person has likeability and your surroundings can feel your commitment, then all tasks can be done.

Things gets easier when you have a passion, for what you do. Whether it is a passion for keeping your lawn green and beautiful or it is helping a million dollar company getting their software right.

Do not solve only 80% of task, or solve the full task with a half solution. Start doing your tasks with perfection – it might take a little bit longer, but you will only touch the task once.

Curriculum Vitae

Experience

2020 - 7N, Management Consultant, started August 2020 2018- University of Southern Denmark, Odense , IMADA Censor Corps, started April 2018 2019-2020 ParsePort, Chief Technology Officer, started October 2019, ended July 2020 2018-2018 University of Southern Denmark, Odense , Supervisor for 4th semester Software Engineering, started February 2018, ended June 2018 2017-2019 Software Improvement Group, Copenhagen, Management Consultant, started September 2017, ended September 2019 2013-2017 University of Southern Denmark, Odense, PhD Student, started November 2013, ended August 2017 2016-2016 University of California, Berkeley, Berkeley, Visiting Research Scholar, started January 2016, ended March 2016 2012-2013 Hedal:Kruse:Brohus, Odense, Developer, started September 2012, ended October 2013 1999-2011 Mogens Bøg, Davinde, part-time Gardener, started December 1999, ended December 2011

Education

2013-2017 PhD Software Engineering, Thesis: Software Tools and Data Processing Methods to Support Software Defined Buildings, Center for Energy Informatics, University of Southern Denmark 2010-2012 Master of Science in Robot System Engineering, Software System Engineering, University of Southern Denmark 2007-2010 Bachelor of Science in Computer Systems Engineering, University of Southern Denmark 2005-2007 Upper Secondary School: Højere Teknisk Eksamen (HTX), Odense Tekniske Gymnasium 2002-2005 Continuation School: Bernstorffsminde Efterskole 1993-2002 Primary School: Ferritslev Friskole

Publications

medium.com - articles about management consulting, technology-driven advisory, architecture etc - by Emil Holmegaard Software Tools and Data Processing Methods to Support Software Defined Buildings - by Emil Holmegaard. PhD Thesis. University of Southern Denmark. 2017 Metafier - a Tool for Annotating and Structuring Building Metadata - by Emil Holmegaard, Aslak Johansen and Mikkel Baun Kjærgaard. Published in Proceeding of the 2017 IEEE Smart World Congress (SmartWorld 2017) by IEEE. 2017. Mining Building Metadata by Data Stream Comparison - by Emil Holmegaard and Mikkel Baun Kjærgaard. Published in Proceeding of the 2016 IEEE Conference on Technologies for Sustainability (SusTech) by IEEE. 2016. Pages 28-33. Towards a Metadata Discovery, Maintenance and Validation Process to Support Applications that Improve the Energy Performance of Buildings - by Emil Holmegaard, Aslak Johansen and Mikkel Baun Kjærgaard. Published in 2016 IEEE International Conference on Pervasive Computing and Communica- tion Workshops (PerCom Workshops) by IEEE. 2016. Pages 1-6. NILM in an Industrial Setting: A Load Characterization and Algorithm Evaluation - by Emil Holmegaard and Mikkel Baun Kjærgaard. Published in 2016 IEEE International Conference on Smart Computing (SMARTCOMP) by IEEE. 2016. Pages 1-8. Status and Challenges of Residential and Industrial Non-Intrusive Load Monitoring - by Ali Adabi, Patrick Mantey, Emil Holmegaard and Mikkel Baun Kjærgaard. Published in Proceeding of the 2015 IEEE Conference on Technologies for Sustainability (SusTech) by IEEE. 2015. Pages 181-188. Demand Response with Model Predictive Comfort Compliance in an Office Building - by Peter Nelleman, Mikkel Baun Kjærgaard, Emil Holmegaard, Krzysztof Arendt, Aslak Johansen, Fisayo Caleb Sangogboye and Bo Nørregaard Jørgensen. Published in Proceedings of the 2017 IEEE International Conference on Smart Grid Communications (SmartGridComm) by IEEE. 2017. OccuRE: an Occupancy REasoning Platform for Occupancy-driven Applications - by Mikkel Baun Kjærgaard, Aslak Johansen, Fisayo Caleb Sangogboye and Emil Holmegaard. Published in Proceedings of the 19th International Acm Sigsoft Symposium on Component-based Software Engineering by Association for Computing Machinery. 2016. Pages 39-48. Energy Efficiency in a Mobile World - by Mikkel Baun Kjærgaard, Zheng Ma, Emil Holmegaard and Bo Nørregaard Jørgensen. Published in Smart Grids from a Global Perspective : Bridging Old and New Energy Systems by Springer. 2016. Pages 249-268. Towards Automatic Identification of Activity Modes in Electricity Consumption Data for Small and Medium Sized Enterprises - by Emil Holmegaard and Mikkel Baun Kjærgaard. Published at NILM Workshop 2014. 2014. Pages 1-4.

Languages

Danish Native English High level, orally and written Programming Languages

C# High level. Knowledge about Windows Presentation Foundation, Windows Communication Foundation, Linq and Entity Frameworks. VB.NET High level. Python High level. Java High level. Knowledge about Java for Android, Java for Google App Engine and Play Framework. Javascript High level, including jQuery, Knockout and D3JS. SQL High level. C Reasonable level, used for creating Linux Device Drivers.

Skills

Communication I am good at converting a technical problem to a problem that people without technical skills can understand. I am good at translating technical solutions to language where everybody can understand. Creative When solving problems, I find new creative ways. Often it can be reusing some code with small modification, other times it can be by using new technologies. Knowledge Management To obtain the most knowledge from those who hold knowledge, so others can respond on this. This was one of the primary subjects for my master thesis. Agile I am used to work in a fast changing environment. I know and can apply SCRUM and Unified Process. Most of my work, is done in sprints of one day, and I keep a backlog for tasks that I would like to create or fix.

Projects

2015- Physical Notes to Cloud Solution In my spare time I have developed a software solution for a transportation company. This solution replaces a physical compendium with delivery notes, with a cloud solution, that can be used offline on tablets or mobile phones. The solution has been developed with C# and MVC4, Javascript Knockout and deployed to Windows Azure. 2014-2017 Prototype for presentation of energy data As part of my PhD study, have I developed a couple of prototypes to present and analyse energy data. Furthermore I have developed a platform, where I easily can add new prototypes, and reuse parts of the existing infrastructure, eg. retrieving data, saving models and so on. The development have been via web technologies. November 2014 Energinet Competition Doing fall 2014, I have been in a competition at Energinet. The obejctive for the competition were to create an overview of the Danish energy system, which the ordinary dane could understand. I got the runner up position, you can read more here. 2012-2013 SuperBest Online Supermarket I have maintained and further developed the SuperBest Online solution. It has been everything from server and database maintance to markup code in the frontend or integration to their ERP systems.

Further Information

2011-2018 Handball Referee, 3. Division 2011-2013 Board Member Rolfhallen 2011-2013 Board Member Rolfhallens Aktivitetsudvalg 2009-2012 Handball Coach Rolfsted IF U14 and U16

Highlights for

Knowledge, Skills and Abilities

Curious

The most undisputed and important skill for an engineer, must be curiosity. When you get some new hardware – start splitting it, and figure out which pieces it is constructed of. When you get some new software, try to push it to the limits. When the task is to develop a new algorithm, understand why it is necessary and how the old one can be improved.

Team Player

Being a team player requires the courage to suggest your own ideas, but also to accept others ideas, even if you disagree.

Constructive feedback and celebration of even the smallest success. Acknowledgement is important to have a winning team. At the moment when the team first recognise that collaboration provides more than the individual can bring, the team can start its growth.

PhD in Software Engineering

From 2013 to 2017 I was a PhD student at SDU Center for Energy Informatics, The Maersk McKinney Moller Institute, University of Southern Denmark. I started the PhD study to obtain more and better skills, but also to get tough challenges in my working life. When I started my studies, I knew that I would not end up being a full time researcher. I did the studies to increase my chances to get a job where I could have impact.

The most difficult part of being a PhD student, it to be focussed and keep the motivation high. When starting the studies, the goal is save the world with help of your research. Then you start scoping the project, and need to cut parts due to the time constraints. Then you end up only touching the surface of what your initial plan was.

Abstract for Software Tools and Data Processing Methods to Support Software Defined Buildings

The future energy system will have fluctuating energy production due to energy production from wind and solar. One solution for the future energy system, will be to integrate buildings as thermal buffers. This promotes applications among others for energy optimization, Demand Response (DR) and intelligent control strategies for HVAC systems. To enable such applications, the challenge is to create an infrastructure where applications are easy to port between buildings. Software Defined Buildings (SDBs) which facilitate a semantic representation (metadata) for buildings, can provide an infrastructure for Portable Building Applications (PBAs). The challenge is to facilitate a semantic representation for buildings, which is simple and powerful. Therefore the overall research question for this thesis is: How to transform energy and sensor data from buildings to knowledge that support Software Defined Buildings?

This thesis has a constructive research approach. The approach combines analysis of existing solutions, prototyping software tools and data processing methods on real data from buildings. The software tool Metafier has been developed to support the task of annotating and structuring metadata from sensors in buildings. Metafier has been evaluated by three subjects with relevant backgrounds within the topic of energy and buildings. Metafier includes data processing methods for semi-automated metadata generation.

Besides Metafier, a study of data processing methods for Non-Intrusive Load Monitoring (NILM) in an industrial has been performed. The data processing methods disaggregate one sensor into a semantic representation of the equipment connected to the sensor. In addition to the semantic representation the data processing methods estimate the power draw for the connected equipment. This research provides preliminary concepts for applications, to provide disaggregated energy consumption with a minimal sensor infrastructure. Such applications could be part of SDB and developed as PBAs.

The task of annotating and structuring metadata for sensors in buildings, brings value to corresponding data stream of the sensor. The metadata provides context for the sensor and data stream. Metadata for sensors provides the semantic repre- sentation which can combine a physical environment to a SDB.

Based on the contributions of the thesis future research will include development of software tools as PBAs. Refinement of data processing methods for automated metadata generation.

Download: Software Tools and Data Processing Methods to Support Software Defined Buildings

Supervisor

I have been a supervisor for groups of students in the project: Component-based Software Development, at University of Southern Denmark. Helping the students on the process part and if they have questions for the technical part as well. The course is for Software Engineering students at 4th semester.
I am a mentor for startup companies at DTU Skylab, where I can challenge their go to market strategy, but also help with technical parts of their products.

Some Fun Facts

+ 365

Said "I love you" to my wife per year

+ 7.988

C# LoC/Year

Pizzas ordered pr year

Updates and Useless Stuff

Latest News

Ikke-kategoriseret / Work

medium.com posts

I have decided to write a set of posts at medium.com, doing the next 2 months, I will publish a set of articles related to my work, and what I …

Work

Management Consultant – again

Time for a change, or actually, back to some well known, with a lot of unknowns. Theis Eichel, my previous manager at SIG, is starting a new department at 7N …