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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>
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  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: 46
  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.skolelinux.no/">The Skolelinux
 123   Project</a></th>
 124 </tr>
 125 <tr>
 126 <td>System architect, lead developer and release manager.  And much more.</td>
 127 </tr>
 128
 129 <tr>
 130 <td valign="top" rowspan="2" width="20%">2001-now</td>
 131
 132 <th align="left"><a href="http://www.usit.uio.no/">University
 133   Center for Information Technology</a>,
 134 <br>University of Oslo</th>
 135 </tr>
 136 <tr>
 137 <td>Overingeniør.
 138 <p>Automating system administration routines.  Setting up request
 139 tracking system.  Configuring monitoring system.  Designing and
 140 implementing framework and environment for research on sensitive
 141 data.  And much more.</p></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.arkivrad.no/arkivrad">Åpen og
 321         gjennomsiktig vedlikehold av spesifikasjonen for Noark 5
 322         Tjenestegrensesnitt</a></b>, printed in Arkivråd 2019/3 page
 323     30-33.</p>
 324
 325 <p><b><a href="http://www.arkheion.no/arkheion-2_2019/">Nikita og
 326       Noark 5 tjenestegrensesnitt - en ny måte å tenke arkivering
 327       på</a></b>, printed in Arkheion 2019-10 page 30-33.</p>
 328
 329 <p><b><a href="https://doi.org/10.1007/s41019-017-0050-4">Robust
 330       Cross-Platform Workflows: How Technical and Scientific Communities
 331       Collaborate to Develop, Test and Share Best Practices for Data
 332       Analysis</a></b>, in Data Science and Engineering</p>
 333
 334 <p><b><a href="https://dx.doi.org/10.15439/2017F549">Information
 335       Quality Challenges for the Preservation of Norwegian Public
 336       Sector Records"></a></b>, at Conference: 2017 Federated Conference
 337   on Computer Science and Information Systems</p>
 338
 339 <p><b><a href="http://www.student.uit.no/~pere/mypapers/friprog-itsikkerhet.txt">Sikker
 340 it-infrastruktur krever bruksrettigheter</a></b>, Printed in
 341 Computerworld Norge 2007-04-13 page 30</p>
 342
 343 <p><b>Skolelinux-prosjektet</b>,
 344 preliminary project report for the Norwegian Department of Research
 345 and Education.
 346
 347 <p><b><a href="http://www.student.uit.no/~pere/mypapers/eyecam-fifo/">Speeding
 348 up a Digital Camera</a></b>, Submitted for RoboCup Workshop 2000.
 349
 350 <P><b><a href="http://www.student.uit.no/~pere/mypapers/eyebot-ip/">Eyebot
 351 image processing primitives</a></b>, Technical report 2000.
 352
 353 <P><b><a href="http://www.student.uit.no/~pere/mypapers/socc-img-calibr/">Camera
 354 calibration for CIIPS Glory soccer programs 1998/1999</a></b>,
 355 Technical report 2000.
 356
 357 <P><b><a
 358 href="http://www.hungry.com/~pere/reports/19990204-lifelines.html">LifeLines
 359 - Open Source genealogy software for Unix</a></b> (Norwegian), printed
 360 in "Slekt &amp; Data" #1 1999.&nbsp;
 361
 362 <p><b>The history of "TD-labben", the <a
 363 href="http://www.td.org.uit.no">computer student association</a> (TD)
 364 computer lab - part 1</b> (Norwegian), printed in "Vinduet" #40
 365 1997.&nbsp;
 366
 367 <p><b><a
 368 href="http://www.hungry.com/~pere/reports/9601.softdist.html">Automatic
 369 software distribution via HTTP</a></b>, submitted to WWW conference 4
 370 1996.&nbsp;
 371
 372 <p><b><a href="http://www.hungry.com/~pere/reports/9605.java-TACOMA.html">Integrating
 373 Java in TACOMA</a></b>, written for distributed computer lectures 1996.&nbsp;</blockquote>
 374
 375 <h2>Major Projects</h2>
 376
 377 <blockquote><b><a href="http://www.japhar.org/">Japhar</a> - <a href="http://www.hungry.com/">The
 378 Hungry Programmers</a> Java Virtual Machine</b>
 379 <p>I'm one of the current maintainers of a multi-platform Open Source
 380 implementation of SUN's Java. It currently runs on Linux, FreeBSD,
 381 Solaris and Irix. It is written in C (and a little bit C++), and
 382 supports native threads, Java Native Interface and Netscape/Mozilla
 383 Open Java Interface.</P>
 384
 385 <p><b><a href="http://www.hungry.com/~pere/gigs/">GIGS - Generic
 386 Internet Games Service</a></b>
 387 <p>I'm one of two designers and maintainers of a Internet games metaserver
 388 project. We want to ease the task of discovering available game servers
 389 for any game on the Internet, and have designed a distributed network of
 390 gigs-servers where game servers can report their presence, and game clients
 391 can query the closest gigs-server to get a list of running game servers.</p>
 392
 393 <p><b><a href="http://www.skolelinux.no/">Skolelinux - Linux for
 394 primary schools</a></b></p>
 395 <p>I am the system architect and lead developer of the project.  The
 396 project was initiated in 2001 by me and a few others.  We want to make free
 397 software more available for the primary schools in Norway, and are
 398 making a turn-key installation for the school networks, with all the
 399 services and desktop applications needed in schools, with the user
 400 programs available in Norwegian Bokmål, Nynorsk and Nothern Saami.</p>
 401 </blockquote>
 402
 403 <h2>Open Source and Free Software Experience</h2>
 404
 405  - Debian, Skolelinux, SANE, KDE, ypserv, etc
 406
 407 <h2>Computer knowledge</h2>
 408
 409  - SQL, Perl, C, C++, Python, Pascal, LDAP, NIS, Apache, Squid, IETF
 410    standards, etc.
 411
 412 <h2>Lectures and Presentations</h2>
 413
 414 <blockquote>&nbsp;
 415 <table>
 416
 417 <tr>
 418 <td valign="top" width="20%">May 2015</td>
 419 <td><b>"<a href="http://www.hungry.com/~pere/mypapers/openstreetmap.html">NUUGs
 420 plan for Civic Hacking</a>"</b>, talk at OSDC 2015 Nordic.</td> </tr>
 421
 422 <tr>
 423 <td valign="top" width="20%">February 2008</td>
 424 <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>
 425
 426 <tr>
 427 <td valign="top" width="20%">June 2007</td>
 428 <td><b>"<a href="http://www.hungry.com/~pere/mypapers/200706-bootseq/200706-bootseq.html">Dependency based boot sequence</a>"</b>, talk at Debian
 429 Conference 2007.</td> </tr>
 430
 431 <tr>
 432 <td valign="top" width="20%">June 2007</td>
 433 <td><b>"hardware detection options and solutions"</b>, talk at Debian
 434 Conference 2007.</td> </tr>
 435
 436 <tr>
 437 <td valign="top" width="20%">May 2007</td>
 438 <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>
 439
 440 <tr><td>...</td></tr>
 441
 442 <tr>
 443 <td valign="top" width="20%">July 2005</td>
 444 <td><b>"<a href="http://developer.skolelinux.no/info/prosjektet/20050716-debconf5-upgrade.html">Debian
 445 Edu - Upgrading a preconfigured CDD</a>"</b>, talk at Debian
 446 Conference 2005.</td> </tr>
 447
 448 <tr>
 449 <td valign="top" width="20%">July 2005</td>
 450 <td><b>"<a href="http://www.hungry.com/~pere/mypapers/enterprise-software/enterprise-software.html">Writing
 451 enterprise ready software</a>"</b>, talk at Debian Conference 2005.</td>
 452 </tr>
 453
 454 <tr>
 455 <td valign="top" width="20%">May 2005</td>
 456 <td><b>"<a href="http://www.hungry.com/~pere/mypapers/free-sw-devel/free-sw-devel.html">Free
 457 software development for beginners</a>"</b>, guest lecture at the Computer
 458 Science department at University of Oslo.</td>
 459 </tr>
 460
 461 <tr><td>...</td></tr>
 462
 463 <tr>
 464 <td valign="top" width="20%">July 2003</td>
 465 <td><b>"<a href="http://www.hungry.com/~pere/mypapers/debconf-install/debconf-install.html">Automated
 466 installations in Skolelinux using debian- installer and
 467 base-config</a>"</b>, presentation at the Debian Conference 2003.</td>
 468 </tr>
 469
 470 <tr>
 471 <td valign="top" width="20%">April 2001</td>
 472 <td><b>"Robocup"</b>, presentation for the Norwegian Unix User
 473 Group.</td>
 474 </tr>
 475
 476 <tr>
 477 <td valign="top" width="20%">April 2000 and <BR>February 2000</td>
 478
 479 <td><b>"CIIPS Glory: Global cross platform robot soccer development"</b>,
 480 presentation for the Western Australia Unix User Group and The
 481 Computer Science Department at The University of Western
 482 Australia.</td>
 483 </tr>
 484 <tr>
 485 <td valign="top" width="20%">February 2000</td>
 486
 487 <td><b>"SANE - Scanner Access Now Easy"</b>, presentation for the
 488 Perth Linux User Group.</td>
 489 </tr>
 490
 491 <tr>
 492 <td valign="top" width="20%">March 1999</td>
 493
 494 <td><b>"MRTG - Multi Router Traffic Grapher"</b>, presentation for the
 495 computer student association (TD) at the University of Troms&oslash;.</td>
 496 </tr>
 497
 498 <tr>
 499 <td VALIGN=TOP>November 1998</td>
 500
 501 <td><b>"Japhar - The Hungry Programmers Java"</b>, presentation at <a href="http://www.nuug.no">Norwegian
 502 Unix User Group</a> yearly general assembly.</td>
 503 </tr>
 504 </table>
 505 </blockquote>
 506
 507 <h2>Other Highlights</h2>
 508
 509 <blockquote>&nbsp;
 510 <table>
 511
 512 <tr>
 513 <td valign="top" width="20%">June 2007
 514 <br>- present </td>
 515 <td>Chair of the board of directors for the SLX Debian Labs
 516 foundation.  Member of the board from 2003 to June 2007.</td>
 517 </tr>
 518
 519 <tr>
 520 <td valign="top" width="20%">summer 2007
 521 <br>- present </td>
 522 <td>Member of the board for Skolelinux Drift AS.</td>
 523 </tr>
 524
 525 <tr>
 526 <td valign="top" width="20%">May 2003
 527 <br>- present </td>
 528 <td>Leader of the Norwegian Unix User Group.</td>
 529 </tr>
 530
 531 <tr>
 532 <td valign="top" width="20%">2003
 533 <br>- present </td>
 534 <td>Debian Developer.</td>
 535 </tr>
 536
 537 <tr>
 538 <td valign="top" width="20%">summer 1993
 539 <br>- summer 1994</td>
 540
 541 <td>Member of the board for Studenthuset AS, Ltd as representative for
 542 the student association of Troms&oslash;.</td>
 543 </tr>
 544 <TR><TD>1993-1996</TD>
 545
 546 <TD>Founder and head administrator for the
 547 <a href="http://www.td.org.uit.no/">computer student association (TD)</A>
 548 computer lab.</td>
 549
 550 </table>
 551 </blockquote>
 552
 553 <h2>Other Interests</h2>
 554
 555 <blockquote>Parachuting, robot technology, space exploration, task
 556 automation and wearable computing.</blockquote>
 557
 558 <h2>References</h2>
 559
 560 <p>Available on request.</p>
 561
 562 </td>
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 564
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