Employed and voluntary work-experience

Superior:	Kristin Halvorsen (Division manager)
Location:	Oslo, Norway
Duration:	Jan 2009 - present
Status:	Full-time

After more than two years working at Computas I wanted to expand my horizons towards the business-side of IT-consulting. I serendiptiously discovered the very interesting and newly created department for Digital Business Development at the consulting company Objectware, and was offered a position with them as a Business Analyst. In this position I am currently working on several business development projects as well as doing supporting tasks for other departments and projects in.

Superior:	Jon E. Thrane (Division manager)
Location:	Lysaker, Norway
Duration:	Sept 2006 - Jan 2009
Status:	Full-time

While writing my masters thesis I applied to and was offered a full-time position with the IT consulting company Computas AS, to start working after having completed my studies. My tasks have included software engineering, interaction design, web-development and planning work on both internal and external projects from my position in the department for Interactive Services and Web-technology. Most notably I was involved with the development of a new business-system for the Norwegian Food Safety Authority, as well as doing development work on the company intranet solution.

Superior:	Lawson Deng (Chief Operating Officer)
Location:	San Mateo, California
Duration:	June 2006 - Aug 2006
Status:	Full-time

As a part of the programme at the Norwegian School of Entrepreneurship I worked full-time as an intern with the upstart company Searchforce in Silicon Valley. There I did some integration work as well as script-programming and application deployment of supporting services for the other developers. I also performed service testing, security evaluations and systems maintenance when required.

Superior:	Erik Gjemble (Section manager)
Location:	Trondheim, Norway
Duration:	April 2005 - May 2006
Status:	Part-time

Since voluntary work won't pay the rent I secured a job with the Computers and Telecom department at Lefdal Elektromarked to have in addition to my studies. The work consisted primarily of sales consulting, providing customer service, and handling returns and complaints for in-store customers at the department store at Lade. In addition to this I had various other areas of responsibility which included deciding on the assortment for some parts of the department, as well as ordering, unpacking and display cleaning of products in those areas. I also did some on-demand preparation and installation of computers and accessories for customers, as well as performing simple maintenance and customer-support to solve problems with customer owned-equipment.

Superior:	Astrid Helland (President)
Location:	Trondheim, Norway
Duration:	Aug 2004 - May 2006
Status:	Voluntary
Positions held: Chief Information Officer Head of IT-department Creative facilitator Organizer of Fantasi: ID IT-manager for StartIT

When I returned to Trondheim I considered to once again join up for ISFiT, but to instead broaden my horizons I applied to and got accepted at the entrepreneurial student organization Start NTNU instead. In Start all members are passionatly dedicated to the cause of innovation and entrepreneurship since this is where our future income will originate when the Norwegian oil runs out. Based on my experiences from ISFiT 2003, me and Jan Helge Maurtvedt designed and developed an extensive intranet-system that is currently (2009) still in use by many divisions of Start Norway. To bring this work into completion I held the position as Head of the IT-department during most of 2005. In addition to working on the intranet-system I was also the IT-manager for the event "Start IT" in 2004. This was an event where 60 students developed mobile services for the new 3rd generation networks during 24 hours in a tent in the middle of Trondheim. I also participated on the event "Fantasi" where about 100-150 students invents new business ideas in a specified field during a single day. For "Fantasi: Søppel" in 2005 I was a creative facilitator for the participants, and for "Fantasi: ID" in 2006 I was a co-organizer. At the general assembly in spring 2005 I was elected Chief Information Officer on the executive board of Start NTNU. There I picked up and continued the ongoing work of my predecessors and also started several new information-related projects.

Superior:	John Lagettie (Project manager)
Location:	Brisbane, Australia
Duration:	Feb 2004 - Aug 2004
Status:	Part-time

Looking for a part-time job in addition to my studies in Australia I got in touch with John Lagettie and joined him in a start-up known by the code-name Meleth Project. I was hired as a Development Coordinator and technical consultant with the task of coordinating the information-flow and development work on a Global Messenger application created at the Universidad de La Habana, with code-review and web-site design for the service performed by Indian and Norwegian students. I also participated in meetings with partners and affiliates as a technical expert on the service, and verified expected functionality and milestones to my superiors in addition to doing website-development, user testing and suggesting feature-improvements.

Superior:	Skjalg S. Arstad (Group manager)
Location:	Trondheim, Norway
Duration:	Sept 2002 - April 2003
Status:	Voluntary

As I wanted to use my energy on tasks more meaningful than just studying I applied for and was accepted in the IT-group of ISFiT 2003. There my tasks consisted of intranet development in PHP and maintaining the festivals external website, in addition to installation and technical suppport of all computer-systems for the entire ISFiT organization. This includes Linux-based database, web, file and print servers as well as a range of Windows and Linux workstations and registration terminals for participants. This work was the important base upon which the festival was organized, with both participant selection, housing allocation and internal communication beeing performed with automated tools created by the IT-group. The IT-group were a part of the PR and Information department and therefore we also assisted on a range of other PR-related tasks in addition to working with IT. In addition we also helped out with many other tasks during the festival itself as most of the IT-work was then completed.

Superior:	Inger Dragland (Office manager)
Location:	Harstad, Norway
Duration:	June-Aug 2001&2002
Status:	Full-time summer

While studying in Trondheim I spent two summers working at Destination Harstad, the tourism agency in my home town. My primary tasks were scheduled guided trips around the WW2 Adolf-artillery Gun and manning the public information service and souvernir sales at the city tourist office. I performed 1-2 hour guided tours of the Adolf-gun and its related museum in Norwegian, English and German simultaneously. In addition to these tasks I also acted as an backup guide for bus-tours of the city and for the 12th century Trondenes Church.

Superior:	Fenrik Lars H. Østevoll (Platoon commander)
Location:	Herdla, Norway
Duration:	Oct 1999 - Jun 2000
Status:	Full-time

As there is general conscription in Norway I enrolled in the armed forces to complete the compulsary military service after finishing high school. I was assigned to the Coastal Artillery unit at Herdla Fortress outside of Bergen, and after basic training I was chosen to join the NBC and Disaster control specialist squad. Beeing top of my class in specialist-school I functioned as an assistant instructor during additional in situ training, and as well an area-commander for the security patrols and gate-sentries in our squad. As part of the training I also completed a civilian watchman course from ISV Bedriftssikring and recived both the badge of marksmanship and the large seahorse badge. While most of the training I recieved is of limited civilian use, I did get proficient in a range of skills that can be valuable in most workplaces, like for example disaster control, search and rescue, firefighting, first aid and security management.
(NBC = Nuclear, Biological, Chemical)

Superior:	Per Lind (Store manager)
Location:	Harstad, Norway
Duration:	July 1998 - Dec 2000
Status:	Part-time + summer

During high-school I worked part-time at To-Foto, a a medium-sized photography store where I did sales and handled customer service. This included selling binoculars, analog and digital still and video-cameras, frames and custom framing, albums, film and prints. The work also included cutting and framing photographs for customers as well as simple servicing of cameras and film-rescue. Later I was promoted to work in the photo-laboratory and perform development, printing and cutting of film and prints in addition to maintenance of the lab-machinery. Owing to my computer-expertise I were also assigned to perform other odd-tasks like image scanning and some Photoshop preparation for book pre-production when it was required.

Superior:	Reidulf Solbakken (Chief Editor)
Location:	Harstad, Norway
Duration:	Sept 1995 - Mar 1998
Status:	Part-time

During middle-school I volunteered at the youth-run radio-station Radio Harstad as a radio-technician. There I got a basic course in broadcasting, as well as the neccessary training for both studio-work and technical tasks along the way. Later I advanced to tape-editing, field-interviews, news-broadcasts, program hosting and show planning. During my time there I also worked on both planned and spontaneous live-shows as well as on taping and editing shows for later broadcasting.