Education

Norwegian University of Science and Technology (2007)

M.Sc. in Communication Technology (Norwegian title: Sivilingeniør)

The subjects included mathematics, physics, programming, databases, signal processing, networking, information security, cryptography, queue theory, etc.

Work Experience

Yahoo! Technologies Norway (2007-2013)

Technical Yahoo

• Support and engagements for various Yahoo! properties (Flickr, Image Search, Delicious, Kelkoo, etc.), helping them use Vespa (the search technology built by the Trondheim office).
• Maintained and wrote documentation for Vespa, including the 80 page definite tutorial on how to use the search platform.
• Developed utilities for validating the documentation, converting it to LaTeX, and building PDF versions.
• Developed and maintained internal documentation site for Vespa.
• Developed various demos showcasing Vespa.
• Thought up and built various internal tools based on Vespa; Bugzilla Search, iList Search and Employee Search.
• Designed architectural blueprints for search and cloud solutions.
• Created printed material and presentations for YTN (leaflets, ads for recruting, Powerpoint slides, etc.)
• Wrote a complete framework for developing web applications and REST-ful APIs.

FIRST LEGO League Trondheim (2006-2007)

Project Manager, part-time

• Increased the size of the tournament from ~30 to ~50 teams (~600 children), and oversaw moving the tournament from Statoil to NTNU.
• Presenting the project to potential sponsors.
• Following up sponsors.
• Designing the printed material for the tournament.
• Managing volunteers.
• Presenting the project at various schools and events; Technoport, Forskningstorget in Trondheim, etc.
• Thought up and organized events for the FLL participants in Trondheim to visit the university; NTNU Open, the Nano Day (the year FLL was about nano technology), and a Dream Day at NTNU for the winning teams.
• Also engaged in previous years as volunteer, head of the volunteers, responsible for judges, and responsible for sponsors.

IT Department, Faculty of Medicine, NTNU (2002-2003)

Systems developer, part-time

• Designed and implemented complete e-learning solution for use at the Faculty of Medicine.
• Designed and implemented PHP/Zend extension for accessing Oracle Calendar Server.

FAST Search and Transfer (2000-2001)

Front-end developer, part-time

• Implemented and designed the front-end for FAST Multimedia Search 2.0.
• Worked on prototyping and user testing for a never released multimedia player.

IT Department, NTNU (1997-2001)

User support at the Service Desk Section, part-time

• User support services for students and employees at the university.
• Managed Linux servers and services for the support group.
• Designed, illustrated, and wrote the text for Dataguiden, a handout to new students.
• Developed internal, web-based tools.

Qualifications

Operating Systems

• Linux Used since 1995. Debian, Ubuntu, and Red Hat on both desktops and servers.
• Windows Used from versions 3.0 to XP.
• OS X Used as primary desktop OS since 2012.

Programming Languages

• PHP Used frequently since 1997.
• JavaScript Quite a bit, mostly through jQuery and BackBone.
• Java For assignments at NTNU, plugins and for document processing at Yahoo.
• Shellscript Simple scripts every few months.
• Python Developed a few tools now and then, nothing much.
• C Wrote PHP/Zend extension for accessing Oracle Calendar Server.
• C++ Worked my way through tutorials, nothing more.

Technologies and Standards

• HTML In-depth knowledge.
• CSS In-depth knowledge, including SASS, Less, and Bootstrap.

Other

• MySQL
• Apache
• Vespa The search technology built by Yahoo! Technologies Norway, extending the old search technology from FAST Search and Transfer.
• D3.js

Tools and Applications

• LaTeX Written thesis and various papers.
• Adobe PhotoShop Used since version 2.5.
• Adobe InDesign Used since version 1.0.
• Adobe Illustrator Used now and then, basic knowledge.
• Balsamiq Used for building various mockups.
• git, svn, and cvs