Companies and government
Details on commerical and government entities I have been working with and for.
Itera Consulting (formerly known as Objectware) is one of Norways leading consulting companies in professional services, and is renown for its competence in component based development and service oriented architectures. It delivers customer value through enterprise portals, BI and CRM, as well as through building custom solutions and providing business consulting. Itera Consulting is fully owned by the scandinavian
Itera Group (
ITE) that through Itera Consulting and its sister companies are offering next generation business solutions for knowledge workers.
Computas AS
Computas is a Norwegian consulting company delivering services, solutions and products for technology-aided knowledge and process-management. The company originally spun out of the computer division of
Veritas in 1985, but are now fully employee-owned and is one of Norway's leading suppliers of knowledge and process administration tools for both the public and private sectors.
The company motto is
share your knowlege.
SearchForce Inc.
| Location: | San Mateo, California, USA |
| Established: | 2004 |
| Employees: | 10 (in 2006) |
| Website: | searchforce.com |
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SearchForce is a privately-held, early-stage venture company based in Silicon Valley, California. Its solutions allow large advertisers to effectively manage large-scale, paid search marketing campaigns across multiple pay-per-click (PPC) search engines through a web-based interface. The centralized management system and automated bidding algorithms eliminate usage of spreadsheets, manual tracking processes and guesswork, thereby providing exponential efficiency gains in ROI and campaign management.
Lefdal Elektromarked A/S
| Org.no.: | 976 850 742 |
| Location: | Trondheim, Norway |
| Established: | 1936 |
| Employees: | Approx. 30 (per warehouse) |
| Website: | lefdal.com |
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Lefdal Elektromarked is a Norwegian chain of retail stores selling consumer electronics, house-hold appliances, audio and video equpipment, computers and mobile phones. The chain has 7 large warehouses in Oslo, Bergen, Stavanger and Trondheim and is an independently operated subsidary of
Dixons Group International and is also in cooperation with the Elkjøp Group, another Dixons subsidary.
The Meleth Project
| Location: | Brisbane, Australia |
| Established: | 2003 |
| Employees: | 6 (in 2004) |
| Website: | N/A |
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The Meleth Project was an upstart company by John Lagettie with the goal of combining instant messaging and online dating services.
An application called the Global Messenger was beeing developed in cooperation with the
Universidad de La Habana, with a planned goal of global deployment.
Destination Harstad AS (previously Harstad & Omland Arrangement A/S)
Destination Harstad is a regional sales and tourism-marketing company for the areas of southern Troms and Ofoten.
The counties covered are Harstad, Bjarkøy, Skånland, Gratangen, Tjeldsund and Evenes.
The company manages the tourist-information office in Harstad and acts as a host for visitors to the region.
It also organizes sightseeing trips and guiding services in Norwegian, English, German, French and Italian, and
coordinates calls at Harstad port by cruiseships.
Royal Norwegian Coastal Artillery
| Location: | Norway |
| Established: | 1899 |
| Employees: | - |
| Website: | mil.no |
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For 103 years this branch of the Norwegian Armed Forces commanded a series of coastal fortresses and other defensible installations along the coast of Norway, and was faced with the task of defending the Norwegian shoreline and act as operational bases for the Navy in case of war. However due to the changing requirements of a modern military the Coastal Artillery were decommissioned in 2002 and its holdings and personnell joined with the Royal Norwegian Navy.
To-Foto A/S
| Org.no.: | 919 995 785 |
| Location: | Harstad, Norway |
| Established: | 1971 |
| Employees: | 17 (in 2000) |
| Website: | tofoto.no |
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To-Foto originally started as a photostore for private customers, but have expanded to also include a
studio for professional photography and advertisements, a framing workshop, and manufacturing of postcards, souvernirs and other products. In addition they operate the largest image archives in northern Norway, and are increasingly providing digital services for all kinds of customers.
Radio Harstad - ungdomsradioen!
Radio Harstad is the only exclusively youth operated radio station in Norway. It is a county-run welfare project to give
teenagers aged between 14 and 18 a meaningful hobby and valuable work experience.
The teenagers perform all the work neccessary to run the station, ranging from development of shows to technical production and presentation of broadcasts.
The only adult supervision is by Reidulf Solbakken, the liable editor for the station, who leaves as much as possible to be decided by those teenagers
running the station. Shows are ranging from news and current event productions, music productions, radio-bingo and thematic competitions.
Other companies
In addition to those mentioned in detail above, I have also been involved with the following companies:
- Telenor ASA
- Norways largest and formerly government owned telecom-operator.
- Harstad Sykehus
- The public hospital in the city of Harstad, part of Hålogalandssykehuset.
- Harstad Tidende
- The major local newspaper for the region around the city of Harstad.
