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