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  15 <h1>Curriculum Vitae</h1>
  16
  17 <blockquote>Petter Reinholdtsen
  18 <br>[ask]
  19 <br>[ask]
  20 <br>Norway
  21 <p>Phone: +47 [ask]
  22 <p><a href="mailto:pere-cv@hungry.com">pere-cv@hungry.com</a>
  23 </blockquote>
  24
  25 <h2>Objective</h2>
  26
  27 <blockquote>To become a successful, professional practitioner in the
  28 application of new knowledge and technology to global distributed
  29 information systems.</blockquote>
  30
  31 <h2>Personal Information</h2>
  32
  33 <blockquote>Age: 50
  34 <br>Status: Norwegian, two children</blockquote>
  35
  36 <h2>Area of excellence</h2>
  37
  38 <blockquote>
  39 Free software development.
  40
  41 <p>Unix client and server administration.
  42
  43 <p>Porting software to Unix.  I have much experience with FreeBSD,
  44 Linux, Irix, HP/UX and Solaris. I know AIX, Tru64 Unix (OSF/1), NetBSD
  45 and Ultrix fairly well.
  46
  47 <p>Designing and implementing web based services.
  48 </blockquote>
  49
  50 <h2>Education</h2>
  51
  52 <blockquote>&nbsp;
  53 <table>
  54
  55 <tr>
  56 <td valign="top" rowspan="2" width="20%">2003</td>
  57
  58 <th align="left"><a href="http://www.uio.no/">University of Oslo</a>
  59 <br>Geophysics</th>
  60 </tr>
  61 <tr>
  62 <td>1 study point in fortran programming for geophysics while working.</td>
  63 </tr>
  64
  65 <tr>
  66 <td valign="top" rowspan="2">1992-1997,1999-2001</td>
  67
  68 <th align="left"><a href="http://www.uit.no/">University of Troms&oslash;</a>
  69 <br><A HREF="http://www.cs.uit.no/">Computer Science</a></th>
  70 </tr>
  71
  72 <tr>
  73 <td>Studying for Bachelor of Science with focus on open distributed
  74 computing.  45 study points in computer science, and 20 points in
  75 other classes. Active in many student associations and a student
  76 representative in many university committees.  I had a break from 1997
  77 to 1999 to work and do my civilian service.</td>
  78 </tr>
  79
  80 <tr>
  81 <td valign="top" rowspan="2" width="20%">1998</td>
  82
  83 <th align="left"><a href="http://www.uio.no/">University of Oslo</a>
  84 <br>Astrophysics</th>
  85 </tr>
  86
  87 <tr>
  88 <td>4 study points in basic astrophysics while working.</td>
  89 </tr>
  90
  91 <tr>
  92 <td valign="top" rowspan="2">1989-1992</td>
  93
  94 <th align="left">Frydenlund Videreg&aring;ende Skole, Narvik</th>
  95 </tr>
  96
  97 <tr>
  98 <td>Graduated with General Certificate of Education.</td>
  99 </tr>
 100 </table>
 101 </blockquote>
 102
 103 <h2>Professional Experience</h2>
 104
 105 <blockquote>&nbsp;
 106 <table>
 107 <tr>
 108 <td valign="top" rowspan="2" width="20%">2002-now</td>
 109
 110 <th align="left"><a href="http://www.debian.org/">Debian Project</a></th>
 111 </tr>
 112 <tr>
 113 <td>Debian Developer
 114 <p>Working on the boot infrastructure, the installation system, the
 115 Debian Edu subproject, the Debian GIS subproject and the FreedomBox
 116 subproject.  And much more.</p></td>
 117 </tr>
 118
 119 <tr>
 120 <td valign="top" rowspan="2" width="20%">2001-now</td>
 121
 122 <th align="left"><a href="http://www.usit.uio.no/">University
 123   Center for Information Technology</a>,
 124 <br>University of Oslo</th>
 125 </tr>
 126 <tr>
 127 <td>Overingeniør.
 128 <p>Automating system administration routines.  Setting up request
 129 tracking system.  Configuring monitoring system.  Designing and
 130 implementing framework and environment for research on sensitive
 131 data.  And much more.</p></td>
 132 </tr>
 133
 134 <tr>
 135 <td valign="top" rowspan="2" width="20%">2001-2019</td>
 136
 137 <th align="left"><a href="http://www.skolelinux.no/">The Skolelinux
 138   Project</a></th>
 139 </tr>
 140 <tr>
 141 <td>System architect, lead developer and release manager.  And much more.</td>
 142 </tr>
 143
 144 <tr>
 145 <td valign="top" rowspan="2" width="20%">2000-2001</td>
 146
 147 <th align="left"><a href="http://www.opera.com/">Opera Software AS</a>, Oslo</th>
 148 </tr>
 149 <tr>
 150 <td>Senior Programmer.
 151 <p>Porting the Opera web browser to several Unix platforms, with focus
 152 on Linux/Qt, Linux/NanoX and Solaris/Qt.</p></td>
 153 </tr>
 154 <td valign="top" rowspan="2" width="20%">1999-2000</td>
 155
 156 <th align="left"><a href="http://robotics.ee.uwa.edu.au/">Mobile
 157 Robots Lab</a>,
 158 <BR>CIIPS/EE <A HREF="http://www.uwa.edu.au">University of Western
 159 Australia</a>, Perth Australia</th>
 160 </tr>
 161 <tr>
 162 <td>Team leader.
 163 <p>Implementing HW drivers and the control software for CIIPS Glory
 164 robot soccer team to participate in RoboCup 2000</p></td>
 165 </tr>
 166 <tr>
 167 <td valign="top" rowspan="2" width="20%">1999-2000</td>
 168
 169 <th align="left"><a href="http://www.linpro.no/">Linpro AS</a>, Oslo</th>
 170 </tr>
 171 <tr>
 172 <td>Employed as Senior Programmer.
 173 <P>Working on Logbox, an Internet service monitoring project.</td>
 174 </tr>
 175 <td valign="top" rowspan="2" width="20%">1998-1999</td>
 176
 177 <th align="left"><a href="http://www.cc.uit.no/">Computer Center</a>
 178 <br><a href="http://www.uit.no/">University of Troms&oslash;</a></th>
 179 </tr>
 180
 181 <tr>
 182 <td>14 months of civilian service creating computing services for
 183 undergraduate students. Duties includes choosing hw and setting up
 184 web-, authentication-, file and database servers, setting up Linux
 185 client software and maintaining the installation.</td>
 186 </tr>
 187
 188 <tr>
 189 <td valign="top" rowspan="2">1997-1998</td>
 190
 191 <th align="left"><a href="http://www.link.no">Telenor Link</a> / <a href="http://www.games.no/">Games
 192 AS</a>, Oslo</th>
 193 </tr>
 194
 195 <tr>
 196 <td>Employed as Senior Programmer.&nbsp;
 197 <p>This started as an online gaming project at Telenor Link, a part of
 198 Norwegian Telecom, and was later moved into its own company, Games And
 199 Multimedia Entertainment Systems (GAMES). Duties included creating a
 200 framework for our journalists to present gaming news, a download site
 201 for game demos, a games shop selling CDs by web orders, and evaluating
 202 and setting up online gaming sites such as MPlayer and Wireplay.</td>
 203 </tr>
 204
 205 <tr>
 206 <td valign="top" rowspan="2">1996</td>
 207
 208 <th align="left">"NRK2 Spider"&nbsp;
 209 <br><a href="http://www.nrk.no/">Norwegian Television Broadcasting</a>
 210 (NRK)</th>
 211 </tr>
 212
 213 <tr>
 214 <td>Part time job as technician and sub editor while studying.&nbsp;
 215 <p>Spider was the first norwegian television series about the
 216 Internet. Duties included planning program themes, setting up
 217 computers, tuning MBone conferences and informing the host what to say
 218 during parts of the program.</p></td>
 219 </tr>
 220
 221 <tr>
 222 <td valign="top" rowspan="2">1996</td>
 223
 224 <th align="left">Data Consult, Troms&oslash;</th>
 225 </tr>
 226
 227 <tr>
 228 <td>Part time job as Programmer while studying.&nbsp;
 229 <p>I reprogrammed the printer driver to handle more than one printer using
 230 config files, while allowing per-site and per-print overrides.</td>
 231 </tr>
 232
 233 <tr>
 234 <td valign="top" rowspan="2">summer 1995-1996</td>
 235
 236 <th align="left">Origo Project&nbsp;
 237 <br>Telenor Media</th>
 238 </tr>
 239
 240 <tr>
 241 <td>Holiday job and part time job as designer, programmer and network administrator
 242 while studying. Duties included network planning and implementation, designing
 243 and implementing web search engines and internet news service, and administrating
 244 a computer network with ~60 users.</td>
 245 </tr>
 246
 247 <tr>
 248 <td valign="top" rowspan="2">1994-1996</td>
 249
 250 <th align="left"><a href="http://www.rhd.uit.no/">The Norwegian
 251 Historical Data Center</a>
 252 <br>University of Troms&oslash;</th>
 253 </tr>
 254
 255 <tr>
 256 <td>Part time job as web consultant while studying. Duties included suggesting
 257 and implementing new services for making their census information available
 258 via web.</td>
 259 </tr>
 260
 261 <tr>
 262 <td valign="top" rowspan="2">1994-1996</td>
 263
 264 <th align="left">University Library&nbsp;
 265 <br>University of Troms&oslash;</th>
 266 </tr>
 267
 268 <tr>
 269 <td>Part time job as Webmaster while studying. Duties included maintaining
 270 the webserver, and suggesting, designing and implementing new web services
 271 at the library. Projects included weekly news-postings of new journals,
 272 collecting article-orders from web and interfacing article search engines
 273 with web.</td>
 274 </tr>
 275
 276 <tr>
 277 <td valign="top" rowspan="2">summer 1994</td>
 278
 279 <th align="left">Multitorg Project&nbsp;
 280 <br>Norwegian Telecom Research</th>
 281 </tr>
 282
 283 <tr>
 284 <td>Employed as project assistant. Duties included making the Norwegian
 285 Telecom library database (SIFT) searchable from web, create a summary
 286 on Internet protocols for presentation to ITU (International Telecom Union),
 287 making a email2fax gateway and making sure once and for all that Santa
 288 Claus is Norwegian using a web presentation.</td>
 289 </tr>
 290
 291 <tr>
 292 <td valign="top" rowspan="2">summer 1990
 293 <br>and summer 1991</td>
 294
 295 <th align="left">Ballangen Kommune</th>
 296 </tr>
 297
 298 <tr>
 299 <td>Employed as forest worker.</td>
 300 </tr>
 301
 302 <tr>
 303 <td valign="top" rowspan="2">1989-1994</td>
 304
 305 <th align="left">Ballangen S-Lag</th>
 306 </tr>
 307
 308 <tr>
 309 <td>Part time job as shop assistant.&nbsp;
 310 <p>Duties included opening and closing the cash register and driving
 311 when I got my drivers license.</p></td>
 312 </tr>
 313 </table>
 314 </blockquote>
 315
 316 <h2>Publications and papers</h2>
 317
 318 <blockquote>
 319
 320   <p><b><a href="https://www.aksess-tidsskrift.no/">Et reservoar av
 321         tegn sett fra depotet</a></b>, in Aksess.</p>
 322
 323   <p><b><a href="https://doi.org/10.1108/RMJ-09-2019-0050">A
 324         record-keeping approach to managing IoT-data for government
 325         agencies</a></b>, in Records Management Journal (DOI
 326         10.1108/RMJ-09-2019-0050).</p>
 327
 328   <p><b><a href="https://doi.org/10.1108/RMJ-09-2019-0056">Publishing
 329         and using record-keeping structural information in a
 330         blockchain</a></b> in Records Management Journal (DOI
 331         10.1108/RMJ-09-2019-0056).</p>
 332
 333   <p><b><a href="https://www.arkivrad.no/arkivrad">Åpen og
 334         gjennomsiktig vedlikehold av spesifikasjonen for Noark 5
 335         Tjenestegrensesnitt</a></b>, printed in Arkivråd 2019/3 page
 336     30-33.</p>
 337
 338 <p><b><a href="http://www.arkheion.no/arkheion-2_2019/">Nikita og
 339       Noark 5 tjenestegrensesnitt - en ny måte å tenke arkivering
 340       på</a></b>, printed in Arkheion 2019-10 page 30-33.</p>
 341
 342 <p><b><a href="https://doi.org/10.1007/s41019-017-0050-4">Robust
 343       Cross-Platform Workflows: How Technical and Scientific
 344       Communities Collaborate to Develop, Test and Share Best
 345       Practices for Data Analysis</a></b>, in Data Science and
 346   Engineering (DOI 10.1007/s41019-017-0050-4)</p>
 347
 348 <p><b><a href="https://doi.org/10.15439/2017F549">Information Quality
 349       Challenges for the Preservation of Norwegian Public Sector
 350       Records</a></b>, at Conference: 2017 Federated Conference on
 351   Computer Science and Information Systems (DOI
 352   10.15439/2017F549)</p>
 353
 354 <p><b><a href="http://www.hungry.com/~pere/mypapers/friprog-itsikkerhet.txt">Sikker
 355 it-infrastruktur krever bruksrettigheter</a></b>, Printed in
 356 Computerworld Norge 2007-04-13 page 30</p>
 357
 358 <p><b>Skolelinux-prosjektet</b>,
 359 preliminary project report for the Norwegian Department of Research
 360 and Education.
 361
 362 <p><b><a href="https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.5555/646585.698830">CIIPS
 363       Glory Small Soccer Robots with Local Image Processing</a></b> in
 364   RoboCup 2000: Robot Soccer World Cup IV January 2001 Pages
 365   523-526 (DOI 10.5555/646585.698830)</p>
 366
 367 <p><b><a href="http://www.hungry.com/~pere/mypapers/eyecam-fifo/">Speeding
 368 up a Digital Camera</a></b>, Submitted for RoboCup Workshop 2000.
 369
 370 <P><b><a href="http://www.hungry.com/~pere/mypapers/eyebot-ip/">Eyebot
 371 image processing primitives</a></b>, Technical report 2000.
 372
 373 <P><b><a href="http://www.hungry.com/~pere/mypapers/socc-img-calibr/">Camera
 374 calibration for CIIPS Glory soccer programs 1998/1999</a></b>,
 375 Technical report 2000.
 376
 377 <P><b><a
 378 href="http://www.hungry.com/~pere/reports/19990204-lifelines.html">LifeLines
 379 - Open Source genealogy software for Unix</a></b> (Norwegian), printed
 380 in "Slekt &amp; Data" #1 1999.&nbsp;
 381
 382 <p><b>The history of "TD-labben", the <a
 383 href="http://www.td.org.uit.no">computer student association</a> (TD)
 384 computer lab - part 1</b> (Norwegian), printed in "Vinduet" #40
 385 1997.&nbsp;
 386
 387 <p><b><a
 388 href="http://www.hungry.com/~pere/reports/9601.softdist.html">Automatic
 389 software distribution via HTTP</a></b>, submitted to WWW conference 4
 390 1996.&nbsp;
 391
 392 <p><b><a href="http://www.hungry.com/~pere/reports/9605.java-TACOMA.html">Integrating
 393 Java in TACOMA</a></b>, written for distributed computer lectures 1996.&nbsp;</blockquote>
 394
 395 <h2>Major Projects</h2>
 396
 397 <blockquote>
 398
 399   <p><b><a href="http://www.japhar.org/">Japhar</a>
 400       - <a href="http://www.hungry.com/">The Hungry Programmers</a>
 401       Java Virtual Machine</b>
 402   <p>I'm one of the current maintainers of a multi-platform Open
 403     Source implementation of SUN's Java. It currently runs on Linux,
 404     FreeBSD, Solaris and Irix. It is written in C (and a little bit
 405     C++), and supports native threads, Java Native Interface and
 406     Netscape/Mozilla Open Java Interface.</p>
 407
 408   <p><b><a href="http://www.skolelinux.no/">Skolelinux - Linux for
 409         primary schools</a></b></p>
 410   <p>I am the system architect and lead developer of the project.  The
 411     project was initiated in 2001 by me and a few others.  We want to
 412     make free software more available for the primary schools in
 413     Norway, and are making a turn-key installation for the school
 414     networks, with all the services and desktop applications needed in
 415     schools, with the user programs available in Norwegian Bokmål,
 416     Nynorsk and Nothern Saami.</p>
 417
 418   <p><b><a href="http://www.hungry.com/~pere/publisher/">Translating
 419       and publishing Creative Commons books</a></b><p>
 420   <p>I've so far translated and published five books Creative Commons
 421     licensed books, and curated and published a Creative Commons
 422     licensed dictionary database as three dictionaries.</a>
 423
 424 </blockquote>
 425
 426 <h2>Open Source and Free Software Experience</h2>
 427
 428  - Debian, Skolelinux, SANE, KDE, Nikita, LinuxCNC, etc
 429
 430 <h2>Computer knowledge</h2>
 431
 432  - SQL, Perl, C, C++, Python, Pascal, LDAP, NIS, Apache, Squid, IETF
 433    standards, etc.
 434
 435 <h2>Lectures and Presentations</h2>
 436
 437 <blockquote>&nbsp;
 438 <table>
 439
 440 <tr>
 441   <td valign="top" width="20%">March 2023</td>
 442 <td><b>"<a href="http://www.hungry.com/~pere/mypapers/2023-trans-publ/2023-trans-publ.html">Oversetting og publisering av bøker med fri programvare</a>"</b>, talk at NUUG 2023.</td> </tr>
 443
 444 <tr>
 445 <td valign="top" width="20%">May 2015</td>
 446 <td><b>"<a href="http://www.hungry.com/~pere/mypapers/2015-nuug-civic-hacking.html">NUUGs
 447 plan for Civic Hacking</a>"</b>, talk at OSDC 2015 Nordic.</td> </tr>
 448
 449 <tr>
 450 <td valign="top" width="20%">February 2008</td>
 451 <td><b>"<a href="http://www.hungry.com/~pere/mypapers/200802-bootsequence/200802-bootsequence.html">Reordering the Debian boot sequence for correctness and speed</a>"</b>, talk at FOSDEM 2008.</td> </tr>
 452
 453 <tr>
 454 <td valign="top" width="20%">June 2007</td>
 455 <td><b>"<a href="http://www.hungry.com/~pere/mypapers/200706-bootseq/200706-bootseq.html">Dependency based boot sequence</a>"</b>, talk at Debian
 456 Conference 2007.</td> </tr>
 457
 458 <tr>
 459 <td valign="top" width="20%">June 2007</td>
 460 <td><b>"Hardware detection options and solutions"</b>, talk at Debian
 461   Conference 2007.</td> </tr>
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 463
 464 <tr>
 465 <td valign="top" width="20%">May 2007</td>
 466 <td><b>"<a href="http://www.hungry.com/~pere/mypapers/drafts/openstreetmaporg.html">OpenStreetmap.org - fribrukskart oppdatert av deg og meg</a>"</b>, talk at Bergen Linux User Group meeting.</td> </tr>
 467
 468 <tr><td>...</td></tr>
 469
 470 <tr>
 471 <td valign="top" width="20%">July 2005</td>
 472 <td><b>"<a href="http://developer.skolelinux.no/info/prosjektet/20050716-debconf5-upgrade.html">Debian
 473 Edu - Upgrading a preconfigured CDD</a>"</b>, talk at Debian
 474 Conference 2005.</td> </tr>
 475
 476 <tr>
 477 <td valign="top" width="20%">July 2005</td>
 478 <td><b>"<a href="http://www.hungry.com/~pere/mypapers/enterprise-software/enterprise-software.html">Writing
 479 enterprise ready software</a>"</b>, talk at Debian Conference 2005.</td>
 480 </tr>
 481
 482 <tr>
 483 <td valign="top" width="20%">May 2005</td>
 484 <td><b>"<a href="http://www.hungry.com/~pere/mypapers/free-sw-devel/free-sw-devel.html">Free
 485 software development for beginners</a>"</b>, guest lecture at the Computer
 486 Science department at University of Oslo.</td>
 487 </tr>
 488
 489 <tr><td>...</td></tr>
 490
 491 <tr>
 492 <td valign="top" width="20%">July 2003</td>
 493 <td><b>"<a href="http://www.hungry.com/~pere/mypapers/debconf-install/debconf-install.html">Automated
 494 installations in Skolelinux using debian- installer and
 495 base-config</a>"</b>, presentation at the Debian Conference 2003.</td>
 496 </tr>
 497
 498 <tr>
 499 <td valign="top" width="20%">April 2001</td>
 500 <td><b>"Robocup"</b>, presentation for the Norwegian Unix User
 501 Group.</td>
 502 </tr>
 503
 504 <tr>
 505 <td valign="top" width="20%">April 2000 and <BR>February 2000</td>
 506
 507 <td><b>"CIIPS Glory: Global cross platform robot soccer development"</b>,
 508 presentation for the Western Australia Unix User Group and The
 509 Computer Science Department at The University of Western
 510 Australia.</td>
 511 </tr>
 512 <tr>
 513 <td valign="top" width="20%">February 2000</td>
 514
 515 <td><b>"SANE - Scanner Access Now Easy"</b>, presentation for the
 516 Perth Linux User Group.</td>
 517 </tr>
 518
 519 <tr>
 520 <td valign="top" width="20%">March 1999</td>
 521
 522 <td><b>"MRTG - Multi Router Traffic Grapher"</b>, presentation for the
 523 computer student association (TD) at the University of Troms&oslash;.</td>
 524 </tr>
 525
 526 <tr>
 527 <td VALIGN=TOP>November 1998</td>
 528
 529 <td><b>"Japhar - The Hungry Programmers Java"</b>, presentation at <a href="http://www.nuug.no">Norwegian
 530 Unix User Group</a> yearly general assembly.</td>
 531 </tr>
 532 </table>
 533 </blockquote>
 534
 535 <h2>Other Highlights</h2>
 536
 537 <blockquote>&nbsp;
 538 <table>
 539
 540 <tr>
 541 <td valign="top" width="20%">summer 2007
 542 <br>- present </td>
 543 <td>Member of the board for Sikring, drift og utvikling AS.</td>
 544 </tr>
 545
 546 <tr>
 547 <td valign="top" width="20%">May 2003
 548 <br>- 2013 </td>
 549 <td>Leader of the Norwegian Unix User Group.</td>
 550 </tr>
 551
 552 <tr>
 553 <td valign="top" width="20%">June 2007
 554 <br>- 2019 </td>
 555 <td>Chair of the board of directors for the SLX Debian Labs
 556 foundation.  Member of the board from 2003 to June 2007.</td>
 557 </tr>
 558
 559 <tr>
 560 <td valign="top" width="20%">summer 1993
 561 <br>- summer 1994</td>
 562
 563 <td>Member of the board for Studenthuset AS, Ltd as representative for
 564 the student association of Troms&oslash;.</td>
 565 </tr>
 566 <TR><TD>1993-1996</TD>
 567
 568 <TD>Founder and head administrator for the
 569 <a href="http://www.td.org.uit.no/">computer student association (TD)</A>
 570 computer lab.</td>
 571
 572 </table>
 573 </blockquote>
 574
 575 <h2>Other Interests</h2>
 576
 577 <blockquote>Parachuting, robot technology, space exploration, task
 578 automation, metal machining and wearable computing.</blockquote>
 579
 580 <h2>References</h2>
 581
 582 <p>Available on request.</p>
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