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  15 <h1>Curriculum Vitae</h1>
  16
  17 <blockquote>Petter Reinholdtsen
  18 <br>Gunnar Scjelderups vei 29D
  19 <br>0485 Oslo
  20 <br>Norway
  21 <p>Phone: +47 22713 393
  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: 42
  34 <br>Status: Norwegian, two children</blockquote>
  35
  36 <h2>Area of excellence</h2>
  37
  38 <blockquote>Unix client and server administration.
  39
  40 <P>Porting software to Unix.  I have much experience with FreeBSD,
  41 Linux, Irix, HP/UX and Solaris. I know AIX, Tru64 Unix (OSF/1), NetBSD
  42 and Ultrix fairly well.
  43
  44 <P>Java virtual machine internals.
  45
  46 <P>Designing and implementing web based services.</blockquote>
  47
  48 <h2>Education</h2>
  49
  50 <blockquote>&nbsp;
  51 <table>
  52
  53 <tr>
  54 <td valign="top" rowspan="2" width="20%">2003</td>
  55
  56 <th align="left"><a href="http://www.uio.no/">University of Oslo</a>
  57 <br>Geophysics</th>
  58 </tr>
  59 <tr>
  60 <td>1 study point in fortran programming for geophysics while working.</td>
  61 </tr>
  62
  63 <tr>
  64 <td valign="top" rowspan="2">1992-1997,1999-2001</td>
  65
  66 <th align="left"><a href="http://www.uit.no/">University of Troms&oslash;</a>
  67 <br><A HREF="http://www.cs.uit.no/">Computer Science</a></th>
  68 </tr>
  69
  70 <tr>
  71 <td>Studying for Bachelor of Science with focus on open distributed
  72 computing.  45 study points in computer science, and 20 points in
  73 other classes. Active in many student associations and a student
  74 representative in many university committees.  I had a break from 1997
  75 to 1999 to work and do my civilian service.</td>
  76 </tr>
  77
  78 <tr>
  79 <td valign="top" rowspan="2" width="20%">1998</td>
  80
  81 <th align="left"><a href="http://www.uio.no/">University of Oslo</a>
  82 <br>Astrophysics</th>
  83 </tr>
  84
  85 <tr>
  86 <td>4 study points in basic astrophysics while working.</td>
  87 </tr>
  88
  89 <tr>
  90 <td valign="top" rowspan="2">1989-1992</td>
  91
  92 <th align="left">Frydenlund Videreg&aring;ende Skole, Narvik</th>
  93 </tr>
  94
  95 <tr>
  96 <td>Graduated with General Certificate of Education.</td>
  97 </tr>
  98 </table>
  99 </blockquote>
 100
 101 <h2>Professional Experience</h2>
 102
 103 <blockquote>&nbsp;
 104 <table>
 105 <tr>
 106 <td valign="top" rowspan="2" width="20%">2002-now</td>
 107
 108 <th align="left"><a href="http://www.debian.org/">Debian Project</a></th>
 109 </tr>
 110 <tr>
 111 <td>Debian Developer
 112 <p>Working on the boot infrastructure, the installation system, the
 113 Debian Edu subproject, the Debian GIS subproject and the FreedomBox
 114 subproject.  And much more.</p></td>
 115 </tr>
 116
 117 <tr>
 118 <td valign="top" rowspan="2" width="20%">2001-now</td>
 119
 120 <th align="left"><a href="http://www.skolelinux.no/">The Skolelinux
 121   Project</a></th>
 122 </tr>
 123 <tr>
 124 <td>System architect, lead developer and release manager.  And much more.</td>
 125 </tr>
 126
 127 <tr>
 128 <td valign="top" rowspan="2" width="20%">2001-now</td>
 129
 130 <th align="left"><a href="http://www.usit.uio.no/">University
 131   Center for Information Technology</a>,
 132 <br>University of Oslo</th>
 133 </tr>
 134 <tr>
 135 <td>Overingeniør.
 136 <p>Automating system administration routines.  Setting up request
 137 tracking system.  Configuring monitoring system.  Designing and
 138 implementing framework and environment for research on sensitive
 139 data.  And much more.</p></td>
 140 </tr>
 141
 142 <tr>
 143 <td valign="top" rowspan="2" width="20%">2000-2001</td>
 144
 145 <th align="left"><a href="http://www.opera.com/">Opera Software AS</a>, Oslo</th>
 146 </tr>
 147 <tr>
 148 <td>Senior Programmer.
 149 <p>Porting the Opera web browser to several Unix platforms, with focus
 150 on Linux/Qt, Linux/NanoX and Solaris/Qt.</p></td>
 151 </tr>
 152 <td valign="top" rowspan="2" width="20%">1999-2000</td>
 153
 154 <th align="left"><a href="http://robotics.ee.uwa.edu.au/">Mobile
 155 Robots Lab</a>,
 156 <BR>CIIPS/EE <A HREF="http://www.uwa.edu.au">University of Western
 157 Australia</a>, Perth Australia</th>
 158 </tr>
 159 <tr>
 160 <td>Team leader.
 161 <p>Implementing HW drivers and the control software for CIIPS Glory
 162 robot soccer team to participate in RoboCup 2000</p></td>
 163 </tr>
 164 <tr>
 165 <td valign="top" rowspan="2" width="20%">1999-2000</td>
 166
 167 <th align="left"><a href="http://www.linpro.no/">Linpro AS</a>, Oslo</th>
 168 </tr>
 169 <tr>
 170 <td>Employed as Senior Programmer.
 171 <P>Working on Logbox, an Internet service monitoring project.</td>
 172 </tr>
 173 <td valign="top" rowspan="2" width="20%">1998-1999</td>
 174
 175 <th align="left"><a href="http://www.cc.uit.no/">Computer Center</a>
 176 <br><a href="http://www.uit.no/">University of Troms&oslash;</a></th>
 177 </tr>
 178
 179 <tr>
 180 <td>14 months of civilian service creating computing services for
 181 undergraduate students. Duties includes choosing hw and setting up
 182 web-, authentication-, file and database servers, setting up Linux
 183 client software and maintaining the installation.</td>
 184 </tr>
 185
 186 <tr>
 187 <td valign="top" rowspan="2">1997-1998</td>
 188
 189 <th align="left"><a href="http://www.link.no">Telenor Link</a> / <a href="http://www.games.no/">Games
 190 AS</a>, Oslo</th>
 191 </tr>
 192
 193 <tr>
 194 <td>Employed as Senior Programmer.&nbsp;
 195 <p>This started as an online gaming project at Telenor Link, a part of
 196 Norwegian Telecom, and was later moved into its own company, Games And
 197 Multimedia Entertainment Systems (GAMES). Duties included creating a
 198 framework for our journalists to present gaming news, a download site
 199 for game demos, a games shop selling CDs by web orders, and evaluating
 200 and setting up online gaming sites such as MPlayer and Wireplay.</td>
 201 </tr>
 202
 203 <tr>
 204 <td valign="top" rowspan="2">1996</td>
 205
 206 <th align="left">"NRK2 Spider"&nbsp;
 207 <br><a href="http://www.nrk.no/">Norwegian Television Broadcasting</a>
 208 (NRK)</th>
 209 </tr>
 210
 211 <tr>
 212 <td>Part time job as technician and sub editor while studying.&nbsp;
 213 <p>Spider was the first norwegian television series about the
 214 Internet. Duties included planning program themes, setting up
 215 computers, tuning MBone conferences and informing the host what to say
 216 during parts of the program.</p></td>
 217 </tr>
 218
 219 <tr>
 220 <td valign="top" rowspan="2">1996</td>
 221
 222 <th align="left">Data Consult, Troms&oslash;</th>
 223 </tr>
 224
 225 <tr>
 226 <td>Part time job as Programmer while studying.&nbsp;
 227 <p>I reprogrammed the printer driver to handle more than one printer using
 228 config files, while allowing per-site and per-print overrides.</td>
 229 </tr>
 230
 231 <tr>
 232 <td valign="top" rowspan="2">summer 1995-1996</td>
 233
 234 <th align="left">Origo Project&nbsp;
 235 <br>Telenor Media</th>
 236 </tr>
 237
 238 <tr>
 239 <td>Holiday job and part time job as designer, programmer and network administrator
 240 while studying. Duties included network planning and implementation, designing
 241 and implementing web search engines and internet news service, and administrating
 242 a computer network with ~60 users.</td>
 243 </tr>
 244
 245 <tr>
 246 <td valign="top" rowspan="2">1994-1996</td>
 247
 248 <th align="left"><a href="http://www.rhd.uit.no/">The Norwegian
 249 Historical Data Center</a>
 250 <br>University of Troms&oslash;</th>
 251 </tr>
 252
 253 <tr>
 254 <td>Part time job as web consultant while studying. Duties included suggesting
 255 and implementing new services for making their census information available
 256 via web.</td>
 257 </tr>
 258
 259 <tr>
 260 <td valign="top" rowspan="2">1994-1996</td>
 261
 262 <th align="left">University Library&nbsp;
 263 <br>University of Troms&oslash;</th>
 264 </tr>
 265
 266 <tr>
 267 <td>Part time job as Webmaster while studying. Duties included maintaining
 268 the webserver, and suggesting, designing and implementing new web services
 269 at the library. Projects included weekly news-postings of new journals,
 270 collecting article-orders from web and interfacing article search engines
 271 with web.</td>
 272 </tr>
 273
 274 <tr>
 275 <td valign="top" rowspan="2">summer 1994</td>
 276
 277 <th align="left">Multitorg Project&nbsp;
 278 <br>Norwegian Telecom Research</th>
 279 </tr>
 280
 281 <tr>
 282 <td>Employed as project assistant. Duties included making the Norwegian
 283 Telecom library database (SIFT) searchable from web, create a summary
 284 on Internet protocols for presentation to ITU (International Telecom Union),
 285 making a email2fax gateway and making sure once and for all that Santa
 286 Claus is Norwegian using a web presentation.</td>
 287 </tr>
 288
 289 <tr>
 290 <td valign="top" rowspan="2">summer 1990
 291 <br>and summer 1991</td>
 292
 293 <th align="left">Ballangen Kommune</th>
 294 </tr>
 295
 296 <tr>
 297 <td>Employed as forest worker.</td>
 298 </tr>
 299
 300 <tr>
 301 <td valign="top" rowspan="2">1989-1994</td>
 302
 303 <th align="left">Ballangen S-Lag</th>
 304 </tr>
 305
 306 <tr>
 307 <td>Part time job as shop assistant.&nbsp;
 308 <p>Duties included opening and closing the cash register and driving
 309 when I got my drivers license.</p></td>
 310 </tr>
 311 </table>
 312 </blockquote>
 313
 314 <h2>Publications and papers</h2>
 315
 316 <blockquote>
 317
 318 <p><b><a href="http://www.student.uit.no/~pere/mypapers/friprog-itsikkerhet.txt">Sikker
 319 it-infrastruktur krever bruksrettigheter</a></b>, Printed in
 320 Computerworld Norge 2007-04-13 page 30</p>
 321
 322 <p><b>Skolelinux-prosjektet</b>,
 323 preliminary project report for the Norwegian Department of Research
 324 and Education.
 325
 326 <p><b><a href="http://www.student.uit.no/~pere/mypapers/eyecam-fifo/">Speeding
 327 up a Digital Camera</a></b>, Submitted for RoboCup Workshop 2000.
 328
 329 <P><b><a href="http://www.student.uit.no/~pere/mypapers/eyebot-ip/">Eyebot
 330 image processing primitives</a></b>, Technical report 2000.
 331
 332 <P><b><a href="http://www.student.uit.no/~pere/mypapers/socc-img-calibr/">Camera
 333 calibration for CIIPS Glory soccer programs 1998/1999</a></b>,
 334 Technical report 2000.
 335
 336 <P><b><a
 337 href="http://www.hungry.com/~pere/reports/19990204-lifelines.html">LifeLines
 338 - Open Source genealogy software for Unix</a></b> (Norwegian), printed
 339 in "Slekt &amp; Data" #1 1999.&nbsp;
 340
 341 <p><b>The history of "TD-labben", the <a
 342 href="http://www.td.org.uit.no">computer student association</a> (TD)
 343 computer lab - part 1</b> (Norwegian), printed in "Vinduet" #40
 344 1997.&nbsp;
 345
 346 <p><b><a
 347 href="http://www.hungry.com/~pere/reports/9601.softdist.html">Automatic
 348 software distribution via HTTP</a></b>, submitted to WWW conference 4
 349 1996.&nbsp;
 350
 351 <p><b><a href="http://www.hungry.com/~pere/reports/9605.java-TACOMA.html">Integrating
 352 Java in TACOMA</a></b>, written for distributed computer lectures 1996.&nbsp;</blockquote>
 353
 354 <h2>Major Projects</h2>
 355
 356 <blockquote><b><a href="http://www.japhar.org/">Japhar</a> - <a href="http://www.hungry.com/">The
 357 Hungry Programmers</a> Java Virtual Machine</b>
 358 <p>I'm one of the current maintainers of a multi-platform Open Source
 359 implementation of SUN's Java. It currently runs on Linux, FreeBSD,
 360 Solaris and Irix. It is written in C (and a little bit C++), and
 361 supports native threads, Java Native Interface and Netscape/Mozilla
 362 Open Java Interface.</P>
 363
 364 <p><b><a href="http://www.hungry.com/~pere/gigs/">GIGS - Generic
 365 Internet Games Service</a></b>
 366 <p>I'm one of two designers and maintainers of a Internet games metaserver
 367 project. We want to ease the task of discovering available game servers
 368 for any game on the Internet, and have designed a distributed network of
 369 gigs-servers where game servers can report their presence, and game clients
 370 can query the closest gigs-server to get a list of running game servers.</p>
 371
 372 <p><b><a href="http://www.skolelinux.no/">Skolelinux - Linux for
 373 primary schools</a></b></p>
 374 <p>I am the system architect and lead developer of the project.  The
 375 project was initiated in 2001 by me and a few others.  We want to make free
 376 software more available for the primary schools in Norway, and are
 377 making a turn-key installation for the school networks, with all the
 378 services and desktop applications needed in schools, with the user
 379 programs available in Norwegian Bokmål, Nynorsk and Nothern Saami.</p>
 380 </blockquote>
 381
 382 <h2>Open Source and Free Software Experience</h2>
 383
 384  - Debian, Skolelinux, SANE, KDE, ypserv, etc
 385
 386 <h2>Computer knowledge</h2>
 387
 388  - SQL, Perl, C, C++, Python, Pascal, LDAP, NIS, Apache, Squid, IETF
 389    standards, etc.
 390
 391 <h2>Lectures and Presentations</h2>
 392
 393 <blockquote>&nbsp;
 394 <table>
 395
 396 <tr>
 397 <td valign="top" width="20%">February 2008</td>
 398 <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>
 399
 400 <tr>
 401 <td valign="top" width="20%">June 2007</td>
 402 <td><b>"<a href="http://www.hungry.com/~pere/mypapers/200706-bootseq/200706-bootseq.html">Dependency based boot sequence</a>"</b>, talk at Debian
 403 Conference 2007.</td> </tr>
 404
 405 <tr>
 406 <td valign="top" width="20%">June 2007</td>
 407 <td><b>"hardware detection options and solutions"</b>, talk at Debian
 408 Conference 2007.</td> </tr>
 409
 410 <tr>
 411 <td valign="top" width="20%">May 2007</td>
 412 <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>
 413
 414 <tr><td>...</td></tr>
 415
 416 <tr>
 417 <td valign="top" width="20%">July 2005</td>
 418 <td><b>"<a href="http://developer.skolelinux.no/info/prosjektet/20050716-debconf5-upgrade.html">Debian
 419 Edu - Upgrading a preconfigured CDD</a>"</b>, talk at Debian
 420 Conference 2005.</td> </tr>
 421
 422 <tr>
 423 <td valign="top" width="20%">July 2005</td>
 424 <td><b>"<a href="http://www.hungry.com/~pere/mypapers/enterprise-software/enterprise-software.html">Writing
 425 enterprise ready software</a>"</b>, talk at Debian Conference 2005.</td>
 426 </tr>
 427
 428 <tr>
 429 <td valign="top" width="20%">May 2005</td>
 430 <td><b>"<a href="http://www.hungry.com/~pere/mypapers/free-sw-devel/free-sw-devel.html">Free
 431 software development for beginners</a>"</b>, guest lecture at the Computer
 432 Science department at University of Oslo.</td>
 433 </tr>
 434
 435 <tr><td>...</td></tr>
 436
 437 <tr>
 438 <td valign="top" width="20%">July 2003</td>
 439 <td><b>"<a href="http://www.hungry.com/~pere/mypapers/debconf-install/debconf-install.html">Automated
 440 installations in Skolelinux using debian- installer and
 441 base-config</a>"</b>, presentation at the Debian Conference 2003.</td>
 442 </tr>
 443
 444 <tr>
 445 <td valign="top" width="20%">April 2001</td>
 446 <td><b>"Robocup"</b>, presentation for the Norwegian Unix User
 447 Group.</td>
 448 </tr>
 449
 450 <tr>
 451 <td valign="top" width="20%">April 2000 and <BR>February 2000</td>
 452
 453 <td><b>"CIIPS Glory: Global cross platform robot soccer development"</b>,
 454 presentation for the Western Australia Unix User Group and The
 455 Computer Science Department at The University of Western
 456 Australia.</td>
 457 </tr>
 458 <tr>
 459 <td valign="top" width="20%">February 2000</td>
 460
 461 <td><b>"SANE - Scanner Access Now Easy"</b>, presentation for the
 462 Perth Linux User Group.</td>
 463 </tr>
 464
 465 <tr>
 466 <td valign="top" width="20%">March 1999</td>
 467
 468 <td><b>"MRTG - Multi Router Traffic Grapher"</b>, presentation for the
 469 computer student association (TD) at the University of Troms&oslash;.</td>
 470 </tr>
 471
 472 <tr>
 473 <td VALIGN=TOP>November 1998</td>
 474
 475 <td><b>"Japhar - The Hungry Programmers Java"</b>, presentation at <a href="http://www.nuug.no">Norwegian
 476 Unix User Group</a> yearly general assembly.</td>
 477 </tr>
 478 </table>
 479 </blockquote>
 480
 481 <h2>Other Highlights</h2>
 482
 483 <blockquote>&nbsp;
 484 <table>
 485
 486 <tr>
 487 <td valign="top" width="20%">June 2007
 488 <br>- present </td>
 489 <td>Chair of the board of directors for the SLX Debian Labs
 490 foundation.  Member of the board from 2003 to June 2007.</td>
 491 </tr>
 492
 493 <tr>
 494 <td valign="top" width="20%">summer 2007
 495 <br>- present </td>
 496 <td>Member of the board for Skolelinux Drift AS.</td>
 497 </tr>
 498
 499 <tr>
 500 <td valign="top" width="20%">May 2003
 501 <br>- present </td>
 502 <td>Leader of the Norwegian Unix User Group.</td>
 503 </tr>
 504
 505 <tr>
 506 <td valign="top" width="20%">2003
 507 <br>- present </td>
 508 <td>Debian Developer.</td>
 509 </tr>
 510
 511 <tr>
 512 <td valign="top" width="20%">summer 1993
 513 <br>- summer 1994</td>
 514
 515 <td>Member of the board for Studenthuset AS, Ltd as representative for
 516 the student association of Troms&oslash;.</td>
 517 </tr>
 518 <TR><TD>1993-1996</TD>
 519
 520 <TD>Founder and head administrator for the
 521 <a href="http://www.td.org.uit.no/">computer student association (TD)</A>
 522 computer lab.</td>
 523
 524 </table>
 525 </blockquote>
 526
 527 <h2>Other Interests</h2>
 528
 529 <blockquote>Parachuting, robot technology, space exploration, task
 530 automation and wearable computing.</blockquote>
 531
 532 <h2>References</h2>
 533
 534 <p>Available on request.</p>
 535
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