Curriculum Vitae / Resume – Bjarte S. Karlsen

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Personal Details

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Passionate and engaged developer who likes to explore new languages, techniques and methodologies to constantly improve myself. A pragmatic mindset when it comes to applying new knowledge in day to day work. Thrives in an environment where I can interact with exciting people and give the customer value.

Selected Technical kills

Scala, Java, PHP, Bash, SQL, Javascript, UML, AJAX, Spring, Maven, Jetty, Lift, Zend Framework, Doctrine, Git, Linux, Mac, Win32, XML, HTML, CSS, PHPUnit, Cruisecontrol, JUnit, Obj-C, iPhone-dev, jQuery, JBoss Seam, Mule

Educational History

• Aug 2003 → Jan 2006 » Master of Science/Informatics – NTNU
• Jan 2002 → Jun 2003 » Bachelor in Informatics – NTNU
• Aug 2000 → Jun 2001 » Extension to IT and Information System – Agder College
• Aug 1998 → Jun 2000 » IT and Information System – Agder College
• Aug 1997 → Jun 1998 » Mandatory Military Service. Medical orderly
• Aug 1994 → Jun 1997 » High School

Note that Agder College is now The University of Agder.

Employment History

Aug 2010 → » Senior Consultant – Know IT Objectnet AS

Consultant. Hopefully going to concentrate on the JVM and mobile applications.

Feb 2010 → Jun 2010 » System Developer – Elsmart Solutions AS

Part of the team developing workflow systems using Seam,jBPM, Drools, JBoss AS.

Sept 2009 → Februar 2010 » Webdeveloper – Barlind Sollutions AS

Created the webshop uniqueide.no and did some other minor work.

Dec 2007 → Mai 2009 » Senior System Developer – Go Mobile As

Additional responsibilities and tasks

• developing native iPhone applications for some of our products
• responsibility for process and development documentation
• migrating all applications from old production servers to new production server.

May 2006 → Dec 2007 » System Developer – Go Mobile AS

Started at Go Mobile in May, 2006. Worked on various web applications with a standard LAMP stack.

Created and maintained a set of services (Restful/HTTPRPC) to ease development of web content for mobile terminals.

• inbox → receive SMS/MMS from mobile terminals
• outbox → send SMS/MMS and other messages to mobile terminals
• terminal → get a terminals capabilities. screen size, technology support etc.
• imageproxy → convert images to correct screen dimentions easily
• ad → customize ads from Finn.no/Tinde.no to mobile terminals

Some stand alone applications

• mailing list with SMS as transport for Team Expert
• location-based raw material balancing for Massebalansen

Responsibilities

• installation and maintenance of internal development LAMP server
• trac/subversion on the dev server
• phpUnderControl / CruiseControl on the dev server

Jan 2006 → May 2006 » System Developer – Intermedium AS

I started at Intermedium AS after I finished graduating from NTNU in January of 2006. At Intermedium I was part of a small 3 man IT department that supported the main operation of the business. In May the company moved to Oslo so I started at GoMobile.

I worked with the following technologies while at Intermedium: Java SE, Maven, Spring, Hibernate, MySQL, Nutch

Jun 2002 → Jan 2003 » Web developer – Steinhaug Web deign

I worked as a web developer in PHP during the summer of 2002 and also did some work part time during the fall of 2003.

Jun 2000 → Jun 2001 » Web developer – Interweb AS

I started working for Interweb AS as a web developer during the summer of 2000. During the school year 2000/2001 I worked 50-80% part time on the team that created the Sense.no web portal. I left Interweb to move to my girlfriend in Trondheim.

Sep 1998 → Jun 1999 » Boxer Technologies

I worked part time during my first year at College, and during the summer vacation. The work was mostly creating educational software in Macromedia Authorware.

Volunteer Work

My volunteer work are either related to my hobby as a role-playing/board-gamer or to organizing groups for computer professionals/students.

• Aug 2008 → present » Member of the board javaBin Sørlandet
• Jan 2006 → Jan 2009 » Leader of Alea Legio
• Sep 2004 → Aug 2005 » Secretary / Storekeeper Hexagon
• Nov 2004 → Oct 2005 » Secretary Hexcon
• Sep 2002 → Sep 2004 » Web Editor Hexagon
• Jan 2002 → Aug 2005 » Member of the board Waarcon
• Aug 2000 → Jun 2001 » Web Editor Systématicus
• Aug 1999 → Jun 2000 » Leader Systématicus

References and other attachments

Available upon request