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Sylvelin Hartjen

Director

Director at Gritera, accomplished program and project manager with solid interest in IT-architecture. I am very much looking forward to contribute to Gritera continuing being a dream home for Norway's best management and technology advisors!

Sylvelin Hartjen

Main experience

Sylvelin is an accomplished program and project manager with more than 20 years of experience across different countries. She has often combined a project manager role with the role as business developer, functional architect or solution architect. Sylvelin has been responsible for project and portfolio management frameworks of large organization with complex process and IT-landscape. She has also solid experience from controlling in general and project controlling in particular. Sylvelin has led change initiatives using both agile and waterfall methodologies. She has also led a several “hybrid” projects, where some deliveries have been developed according to agile frameworks and other parts according to waterfall methodologies. She possesses solid business and technical understanding.

Sylvelin holds a Cand. Polit. (master's) degree from the University of Bergen, with specialization in Information science and System dynamics. She is PMP accredited from Project Management Institute, and is TOGAF, ITIL, Lean, and Six sigma certified. 

Sylvelin's clients describe her as structured, self-going, solution- and team-oriented. Often she has been praised for her ability to communicate complex matters in an understandable manner to all levels of an organization. 

System thinking is central in all her work, something that helps her to think holistic with focus on continual improvement and benefit realization.

Key competence

  • Program Management
  • Project Management
  • Portfolio Management
  • IT Architecture
  • Digitalization