# Wolf (@njyo.eurosky.social)

Profile: https://sifa.id/p/njyo.eurosky.social
Headline: Product Architect | Designer, engineer, initiator and idealist pushing for equal empowerment.
Website: https://njyo.net

## About

Curious kid with an architectural mindset, combining software architecture and interaction design to work on digital organisations, systems, platforms and products. Currently focussed on transforming organisations (alive, decentralised and agile) through digital modelling as to industrialise software (predictability, quality and scale).

We are living through the complete convergence of offline and online as this digital revolution advances. As we shape this transformation, we carry responsibility for the profound impact of its outcome.

I want my life’s work to have contributed to a more just, sustainable, free and vibrant world for all. I hope to achieve this by creating systems that treat all humans with respect, are interoperable and agile, open and distributed, sustainable and thus a positive contribution to progress. I enjoy exploring and solving meaningful, complex and unconventional problems in diverse environments by fostering people.

Global perspective. Local actuation. Nomadic spirit.

## Experience

- **Engagement Lead at PebbleRoad** (2022 – 2023)
- **Co-Founder and Interaction Designer at Extra Thought** (2010 – 2013)
  Consulting services for organisations, products and services for interaction design, user experience (UX), usability and user research. Design and prototyping of a range of digital products: applications for web and mobile, data visualisations.
- **Senior Interaction Designer at Gumbuya Inc.** (2013 – 2014)
  Building the next generation cloud platform for digital engagement, my responsibility was:  – Envision, design and product-manage the platform’s system-level analytics capabilities – Creation of proof-of-concept analytics visualisations – Design of developer tools and templating – UI/UX design and iteration on various aspects of the platform
- **Advisor for Design at Gumbuya Inc.** (2017 – 2019)
- **Software Engineer at IBM Zurich Research Lab** (2004 – 2005)
  Creation of a flexible reporting tool to convert data from files, databases, etc. into finished reports in PDF, HTML, etc.
- **Programmer at Actinium Software GesmbH** (2003 – 2003)
  Adapting a CMS system to the companies needs and als deploying created templates for a customer in the rollout phase. Installation of a VoIP system and configuration of it (SWYX)
- **Research Assistant at Usability Lab, Vorarlberg University of Applied Sciences** (2003 – 2003)
  Developing a biometric data visualisation tool.
- **Shop Assistant at Niedermeyer Fotohandel** (2002 – 2002)
  Sales and customer service for the whole range of 2000s electronics.
- **Co-Founder and Head of Product at SeaBoard Technologies** (2022 – 2025)
  SeaBoard empowers seafarers from underbanked countries to receive and hold their wages in USD and transact and convert as better rates than with traditional banks. The basic offering allows holding USD, spending overseas via debit card, transferring to banks in 40+ countries.
  
  Conceptualised and led the development of the digital platform (mobile apps, backend, back-office and admin console) to deliver this on top of different banking-as-a-service (BaaS) partners. Set up and led an in-house product and engineering team to launch and extend a proof-of-concept to serve 2000 seafarers transacting 2M USD total.
  
  As co-founder in this 0→1 corporate venture journey, involved in setting culture and processes, building team business, deal with partner platforms, own internal systems, support customers and engage with investors for fundraising.
- **Product Owner / Design Lead at PebbleRoad Pte Ltd** (2017 – 2021)
  Leading business through digital transformation projects with vision and strategy, agile, lean and design thinking delivered through product leadership:  Leading a digital transformation project at a 170,000 staff (5,000 management) Indonesian agricultural business delivered through a performance dashboard; recasting the company operations from siloed and fragmented to collaborative decision making: – Developing an agile business operation and mindset – Leading approach, methodology, toolkit & delivery sprints via multi-party teams to customise & deploy Domo dashboards – Design and product-managing an org-wide dynamically generated dashboard system based on multi-dimensional business models  Strategic product ownership and coaching for a team multi-organisation team focussing on governmental healthcare transformation: using lean startup sprints to understand, define and test value propositions for a platform for more holistic and longitudinal elderly care.
- **Interaction Designer at Opera Software** (2006 – 2009)
  Interaction design to improve the user experience for the users of Opera's solutions mainly ranging form desktop and mobile widgets, partner app stores and developer tools.
- **Head of Design at Gumbuya Inc.** (2014 – 2017)
  Gumbuya is a semantic computing platform to build and run applications on a semantic graph. A fundamentally different paradigm, it allows for an industrialised software build approach making the long tail of SaaS applications feasible: Like constructing a building, an architect creates a model together with the domain experts. This model is a bill of materials and allows for straight-forward assembled by IT resources—compared to traditional approaches, where a spec has to be interpreted by craftspeople.
  
  This approach lowers cost and time to market and increases predictability, consistency, reliability and flexibility. Gumbuya has built the platform from ground-up, created tooling, methodology and service offering to deliver client projects.
  
  Working as a team, I lead and/or am heavily involved in: – UI/UX design: Our SaaS platform and tooling, customer products – Product design: Customers products from inception to modelling, to delivery – Development of our industrialised build methodology  – Product management of the platform’s analytics capability – Design & content: Go-to-market materials like website, pitches, templates, etc. – Onboarding and training for partners and customers – Technical sales support
- **Project Manager and Interaction Designer at Opera Software** (2009 – 2010)
  Design and management of the product deliveries by the fully integrated 10-person web application development department. Delivered client projects (mobile and TV applications), company products (developer tools), grew the team and improved the quality of the team output.

## Education

- **FH Vorarlberg** — Dipl. Ing. (FH) (2001 – 2005)
- **Linköpings Tekniska Högskola** — - (2004 – 2004)
- **Chalmers University of Technology** — MSc (2005 – 2007)

## Skills

- Corporate Venture
- Lean Startup
- Team Building
- Product Design
- Product Strategy
- Interaction Design
- Human-Computer Interaction
- User Experience
- User Interface Design
- Wireframing
- Usability
- Design Specifications
- Photography
- Wireframes
- Connecting People
- Conceptualisation
- Project Management
- Ultimate
- Idea Generation
- Design Thinking
- User Research
- Information Architecture
- User-centered Design
- Usability Testing
- User Interface
- HTML 5
- Mobile Applications
- Usability Engineering
- Wire Framing
- Web Development
- User Scenarios
- HTML5
- Consulting
- Customer Service
- Digital Transformation
- Design Analysis
- Product Architecture
- Product Management
- Task Analysis
- Experience Design
- Human Computer Interaction

## Certifications

- ICAgile Certified Professional — ICAgile (https://www.icagile.com/Certification/Verify-Credentials/ctl/UserDetails/mid/697/uid/2a9e5faa-b811-4b40-9380-27880de8ae66)
- ICAgile Certified Professional - Agility in HR — ICAgile (https://www.icagile.com/Certification/Verify-Credentials/ctl/UserDetails/mid/697/uid/2a9e5faa-b811-4b40-9380-27880de8ae66)
- Digital Product Management — University of Virginia Darden School of Business (https://www.futurelearn.com/certificates/dilbkts)
- Professional Scrum Master I (PSM I) — Scrum.org (https://www.scrum.org/user/794209)

## Publications

- eMotion - Estimation of User's Emotional State by Mouse Motions — FH Vorarlberg; VDM Verlag, Saarbrücken (http://download.njyo.net/pubs/Maehr-2005-eMotion.pdf)
- Mobile Internet User Experience — MobileHCI, Singapore 2007 (http://download.njyo.net/pubs/Maehr_et_al-2007-MobileHCI-Cost_Value.pdf)
- User Experience of Mobile Web Browsing — IT University of Gothenburg (http://download.njyo.net/pubs/Maehr-2007-User_Experience_of_Mobile_Web_Browsing.pdf)
- Tabletop Interaction: Research Alert — NordiCHI, Oslo 2006. (http://www.t2i.se/pub/papers/p499-mahr.pdf)
- Control vs. Convenience: Critical Factors of Smart Homes — SIDeR, Gothenburg 2006 (http://www.cse.chalmers.se/research/group/idc/studentpapers/pdf/control_convenience.pdf)

## Volunteering

- Board Member an SOTG Commission Chair at World Flying Disc Federation
- SOTG Commission Member at World Flying Disc Federation
- Head of Communications & IT at Ultimate Players Association of India
- Founder, Captain, Coach and Elder at Appendix Ultimate Club
- Creator & Curator at DestrActions
- Lab Manager at t2i Lab
- President at PASD - Plattform Aktiver Studenten Dornbirn
- Administrator at Ultimate Players Association of India
- Board Member and SOTG Commission Chair at World Flying Disc Federation

## Languages

- Norwegian (professional_working)
- Finnish (limited_working)
- Spanish (elementary)
- French (elementary)
- German (native)
- English (full_professional)
- Swedish (professional_working)

## Other profiles

- website: https://njyo.net
- linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/wmaehr/
- fediverse: https://mastodon.social/@njyo
- fediverse: https://codeberg.org/njyo