IT SUPER USER BRIDGE-BUILDER BETWEEN RESEARCH AND IT DEVELOPMENT Since Mads Molich completed his education as a laboratory technologist in 2006, he has for the most part not had two working days that are the same. Today he works at Novozymes A/S in Bagsværd as a scientific laboratory technologist or as it is known officially: Associate Scientist. Originally, he was employed in an ordinary laboratory technologist position after his practical training in Novozymes A/S, but very quickly his interest and ability in IT took over. Since then his job has all the time developed together with new challenges, so that today he functions as an intermediate link or interpreter between advanced IT developers and research workers in laboratories. I have never looked for another position, and yet today I am in another place entirely. I thrive on continuous changes, and I hate it when things are standing still, he says. Positive bosses It started with new equipment in the department. Advanced software was to be installed and Mads Molich threw himself over the task. And it gained momentum, so that he ended up being a super user. Since then he has attended different IT courses because his bosses are aware that Mads' abilities are a plus for the company. They understand that I really like the dynamics of development, and that I would soon be bored if something new did not happen. So, they have encouraged me to continue along the path I want 8 THE IT SUPER USER to go. Today I spend my time between research and the IT department, where I work with the in-company employees as well as the external consultants. I am also present when new equipment is being installed in the laboratories and software is being run in, says Mads Molich. The best of both worlds He enjoys the best of both worlds and understands the language of both worlds. Therefore, he can disseminate the often difficult presentation of problems and questions which research workers as well as IT experts have for one another and represent the laboratory technologists in relation to the IT developers. Of course, there are people in research who do not know a thing about IT, but they just expect it to function. And today IT is a central part of laboratory work where much of the equipment demands advanced software to function optimately. Here I can be of help by asking the right questions to the IT experts, emphasizes Mads Molich, who often with his expert knowledge can help solve problems before they arise. His interest in IT has not come out of the blue. His father is an IT consultant, so something has rubbed off from home, whilst over the years he has acquired a lot of his own accord. But even if he had not had this special interest, and had worked as an ordinary laboratory technologist he would have become acquainted with IT to a great extent anyway. Laboratory work has moved on a lot over the last ten years, and there is more and more com- puter-related work in the profession. My colleagues also spend some time in front of the screen, and that is why I am happy that I can help optimizing results and understanding the new developments that are taking place. It benefits the company and we get the most out of the expensive equipment, says Mads Molich. IT is driving research forward He is completely convinced that it is the ground work in the laboratories which is creating research results and new products. But it is an interplay because technology means that research can move forward more rapidly and There is more and more computer-related work in the profession perhaps create a head start to the competitors. I feel that its what I am doing when I spar with my colleagues in the laboratories as well as in IT development. Novozymes A/S is a big company with many specialists, and this means that there is a large pool of colleagues with whom I can share knowledge and experience. We can all learn from one another, and therefore, it is so satisfying to be the link which can create greater understanding between the different professional fields, emphasizes Mads Molich, who enjoys his job and could not dream of anything other than a job in continuous development and change. n MEET 9 SPECIALISTS WHO ARE CREATING THE FUTURE THE DEV ELOPER THE IT SUPER USER DITOR THE QUALITY AU THE TECHNOLOGIST THE COORDINATOR THE LOGISTICIA N THE ANALYST THE TRAINER LABORATORY TECHNOLOGIST EDUCATION THE WORLD CITIZEN CONTENTS A PROFESSION UNDERGOING CHANGE In Dansk Laborant-Forening/HK (DL-F) we know that our profession contains a vast number of exciting job opportunities. 03 Preface: A profession undergoing change 04 The Analyst: Guarantor for consumer safety 06 The Quality Auditor: Ensures that quality THE ANALYST ANALYTIKEREN 1 GUARANTOR GARANT FOR FOR CONSUMER SIKKERHED FORBRUGERNES SAFETY THE ANALYST Eva Jørgensen has been a laboratory technologist since 1989 and has worked at the Danish Veterinary and Food Administration's laboratory in Ringsted since 2006. At that time, she was, together w THE QUALITY AUDITOR ANALYTIKEREN 1 ENSURES THAT GARANT FOR QUALITY IS OF THE FORBRUGERNES SIKKERHED HIGHEST ORDER DITOR THE QUALITY AU When laboratory technologist, Susanne Jeppe sen, is doing her job at Novo Nordisk A/S in Bagsværd it is done for the most part at a desk and in front of a compute IT SUPER USER BRIDGE-BUILDER BETWEEN RESEARCH AND IT DEVELOPMENT Since Mads Molich completed his education as a laboratory technologist in 2006, he has for the most part not had two working days that are the same. Today he works at Novozymes A/S in Bagsværd as a scientific laboratory technologist o THE COORDINATOR FLAIR FOR ORGANISING AND GATHERING KNOWLEDGE THE COORDINATOR As a working environment and emergency and security coordinator Henriette Lerche no longer works in the laboratory. Her workplace is the long corridors and offices at the Niels Bohr Institute at Copenhagen University on THE LOGISTICIAN SAY WHAT YOU NEED AND I'LL GET HOLD OF IT Laboratory technologist Heidi Irming is a buyer at DTU Biosustain, Novo Nordisk Foundation Center for Biosustainability (CFB) in Hørsholm. She has recently been extremely busy in connection with the moving of DTU Biosustain to a completely THE TRAINER ANALYTIKEREN 1 THE LABORATORY TECHNOLOGIST TEACHES THE DOCTORS OF THE FUTURE Thousands of young medical students have over the years become acquainted with Helle Dyhrfjeld Jensen's professional guidance in the laboratories of the Panum Institute in Copenhagen. Helle is employed as a pr THE DEVELOPER I LEARN SOMETHING NEW EVERY DAY Lene Odgaard Kamstrup is a laboratory technologist with the Danish-American company CMC Biologics A/S, CMC, in Søborg. The biotechnology company is a customer-based company. This means that they have many different customers which they undertake develop THE TECHNOLOGIST FROM ALARM CLOCKS TO ROBOTS Inge Lise Stripp Petersen has always enjoyed technology, IT and programming. Since she was little she has taken everything apart from alarm clocks to sewing machines. Today she is a laboratory technologist at Novo Nordisk A/S in the API Bio Analysis depa THE WORLD CITIZEN I participate in weekly Skype meetings with the Indian and Polish development departments ALL-ROUND JOB WITH AN INTER NATIONAL PROFILE Weekly Skype meetings with Indian engineers, visits to factories in Germany, France and India, courses in England and meetings with Japanese cust WORTH KNOWING ABOUT THE GENERAL EDUCATION SYSTEM WORTH KNOWING ABOUT FURTHER EDUCATION & TRAINING In Dansk Laborant-Forening/HK(DL-F) we are working on creating a transparent way through the education system. It can be in relation to mem bers, employers as well as the political system. In Dansk L ABOUT DANSK LABORANTFORENING/HK (DL-F) Dansk Laborant-Forening/HK (DL-F) is a cross-union association in HK. We organize approx. 10,000 members whose primary educational background is laboratory assistant, laboratory technologist, environmental engineer or environmental technologist; they are employ