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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: 47
  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://doi.org/10.1108/RMJ-09-2019-0050">A
 321         record-keeping approach to managing IoT-data for government
 322         agencies</a></b>, in Records Management Journal.</p>
 323
 324
 325   <p><b><a href="https://doi.org/10.1108/RMJ-09-2019-0056">Publishing
 326         and using record-keeping structural information in a
 327         blockchain</a></b> in Records Management Journal.</p>
 328
 329   <p><b><a href="https://www.arkivrad.no/arkivrad">Åpen og
 330         gjennomsiktig vedlikehold av spesifikasjonen for Noark 5
 331         Tjenestegrensesnitt</a></b>, printed in Arkivråd 2019/3 page
 332     30-33.</p>
 333
 334 <p><b><a href="http://www.arkheion.no/arkheion-2_2019/">Nikita og
 335       Noark 5 tjenestegrensesnitt - en ny måte å tenke arkivering
 336       på</a></b>, printed in Arkheion 2019-10 page 30-33.</p>
 337
 338 <p><b><a href="https://doi.org/10.1007/s41019-017-0050-4">Robust
 339       Cross-Platform Workflows: How Technical and Scientific Communities
 340       Collaborate to Develop, Test and Share Best Practices for Data
 341       Analysis</a></b>, in Data Science and Engineering</p>
 342
 343 <p><b><a href="https://doi.org/10.15439/2017F549">Information
 344       Quality Challenges for the Preservation of Norwegian Public
 345       Sector Records</a></b>, at Conference: 2017 Federated Conference
 346   on Computer Science and Information Systems</p>
 347
 348 <p><b><a href="http://www.hungry.com/~pere/mypapers/friprog-itsikkerhet.txt">Sikker
 349 it-infrastruktur krever bruksrettigheter</a></b>, Printed in
 350 Computerworld Norge 2007-04-13 page 30</p>
 351
 352 <p><b>Skolelinux-prosjektet</b>,
 353 preliminary project report for the Norwegian Department of Research
 354 and Education.
 355
 356 <p><b><a href="http://www.hungry.com/~pere/mypapers/eyecam-fifo/">Speeding
 357 up a Digital Camera</a></b>, Submitted for RoboCup Workshop 2000.
 358
 359 <P><b><a href="http://www.hungry.com/~pere/mypapers/eyebot-ip/">Eyebot
 360 image processing primitives</a></b>, Technical report 2000.
 361
 362 <P><b><a href="http://www.hungry.com/~pere/mypapers/socc-img-calibr/">Camera
 363 calibration for CIIPS Glory soccer programs 1998/1999</a></b>,
 364 Technical report 2000.
 365
 366 <P><b><a
 367 href="http://www.hungry.com/~pere/reports/19990204-lifelines.html">LifeLines
 368 - Open Source genealogy software for Unix</a></b> (Norwegian), printed
 369 in "Slekt &amp; Data" #1 1999.&nbsp;
 370
 371 <p><b>The history of "TD-labben", the <a
 372 href="http://www.td.org.uit.no">computer student association</a> (TD)
 373 computer lab - part 1</b> (Norwegian), printed in "Vinduet" #40
 374 1997.&nbsp;
 375
 376 <p><b><a
 377 href="http://www.hungry.com/~pere/reports/9601.softdist.html">Automatic
 378 software distribution via HTTP</a></b>, submitted to WWW conference 4
 379 1996.&nbsp;
 380
 381 <p><b><a href="http://www.hungry.com/~pere/reports/9605.java-TACOMA.html">Integrating
 382 Java in TACOMA</a></b>, written for distributed computer lectures 1996.&nbsp;</blockquote>
 383
 384 <h2>Major Projects</h2>
 385
 386 <blockquote><b><a href="http://www.japhar.org/">Japhar</a> - <a href="http://www.hungry.com/">The
 387 Hungry Programmers</a> Java Virtual Machine</b>
 388 <p>I'm one of the current maintainers of a multi-platform Open Source
 389 implementation of SUN's Java. It currently runs on Linux, FreeBSD,
 390 Solaris and Irix. It is written in C (and a little bit C++), and
 391 supports native threads, Java Native Interface and Netscape/Mozilla
 392 Open Java Interface.</P>
 393
 394 <p><b><a href="http://www.hungry.com/~pere/gigs/">GIGS - Generic
 395 Internet Games Service</a></b>
 396 <p>I'm one of two designers and maintainers of a Internet games metaserver
 397 project. We want to ease the task of discovering available game servers
 398 for any game on the Internet, and have designed a distributed network of
 399 gigs-servers where game servers can report their presence, and game clients
 400 can query the closest gigs-server to get a list of running game servers.</p>
 401
 402 <p><b><a href="http://www.skolelinux.no/">Skolelinux - Linux for
 403 primary schools</a></b></p>
 404 <p>I am the system architect and lead developer of the project.  The
 405 project was initiated in 2001 by me and a few others.  We want to make free
 406 software more available for the primary schools in Norway, and are
 407 making a turn-key installation for the school networks, with all the
 408 services and desktop applications needed in schools, with the user
 409 programs available in Norwegian Bokmål, Nynorsk and Nothern Saami.</p>
 410 </blockquote>
 411
 412 <h2>Open Source and Free Software Experience</h2>
 413
 414  - Debian, Skolelinux, SANE, KDE, ypserv, etc
 415
 416 <h2>Computer knowledge</h2>
 417
 418  - SQL, Perl, C, C++, Python, Pascal, LDAP, NIS, Apache, Squid, IETF
 419    standards, etc.
 420
 421 <h2>Lectures and Presentations</h2>
 422
 423 <blockquote>&nbsp;
 424 <table>
 425
 426 <tr>
 427 <td valign="top" width="20%">May 2015</td>
 428 <td><b>"<a href="http://www.hungry.com/~pere/mypapers/openstreetmap.html">NUUGs
 429 plan for Civic Hacking</a>"</b>, talk at OSDC 2015 Nordic.</td> </tr>
 430
 431 <tr>
 432 <td valign="top" width="20%">February 2008</td>
 433 <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>
 434
 435 <tr>
 436 <td valign="top" width="20%">June 2007</td>
 437 <td><b>"<a href="http://www.hungry.com/~pere/mypapers/200706-bootseq/200706-bootseq.html">Dependency based boot sequence</a>"</b>, talk at Debian
 438 Conference 2007.</td> </tr>
 439
 440 <tr>
 441 <td valign="top" width="20%">June 2007</td>
 442 <td><b>"hardware detection options and solutions"</b>, talk at Debian
 443 Conference 2007.</td> </tr>
 444
 445 <tr>
 446 <td valign="top" width="20%">May 2007</td>
 447 <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>
 448
 449 <tr><td>...</td></tr>
 450
 451 <tr>
 452 <td valign="top" width="20%">July 2005</td>
 453 <td><b>"<a href="http://developer.skolelinux.no/info/prosjektet/20050716-debconf5-upgrade.html">Debian
 454 Edu - Upgrading a preconfigured CDD</a>"</b>, talk at Debian
 455 Conference 2005.</td> </tr>
 456
 457 <tr>
 458 <td valign="top" width="20%">July 2005</td>
 459 <td><b>"<a href="http://www.hungry.com/~pere/mypapers/enterprise-software/enterprise-software.html">Writing
 460 enterprise ready software</a>"</b>, talk at Debian Conference 2005.</td>
 461 </tr>
 462
 463 <tr>
 464 <td valign="top" width="20%">May 2005</td>
 465 <td><b>"<a href="http://www.hungry.com/~pere/mypapers/free-sw-devel/free-sw-devel.html">Free
 466 software development for beginners</a>"</b>, guest lecture at the Computer
 467 Science department at University of Oslo.</td>
 468 </tr>
 469
 470 <tr><td>...</td></tr>
 471
 472 <tr>
 473 <td valign="top" width="20%">July 2003</td>
 474 <td><b>"<a href="http://www.hungry.com/~pere/mypapers/debconf-install/debconf-install.html">Automated
 475 installations in Skolelinux using debian- installer and
 476 base-config</a>"</b>, presentation at the Debian Conference 2003.</td>
 477 </tr>
 478
 479 <tr>
 480 <td valign="top" width="20%">April 2001</td>
 481 <td><b>"Robocup"</b>, presentation for the Norwegian Unix User
 482 Group.</td>
 483 </tr>
 484
 485 <tr>
 486 <td valign="top" width="20%">April 2000 and <BR>February 2000</td>
 487
 488 <td><b>"CIIPS Glory: Global cross platform robot soccer development"</b>,
 489 presentation for the Western Australia Unix User Group and The
 490 Computer Science Department at The University of Western
 491 Australia.</td>
 492 </tr>
 493 <tr>
 494 <td valign="top" width="20%">February 2000</td>
 495
 496 <td><b>"SANE - Scanner Access Now Easy"</b>, presentation for the
 497 Perth Linux User Group.</td>
 498 </tr>
 499
 500 <tr>
 501 <td valign="top" width="20%">March 1999</td>
 502
 503 <td><b>"MRTG - Multi Router Traffic Grapher"</b>, presentation for the
 504 computer student association (TD) at the University of Troms&oslash;.</td>
 505 </tr>
 506
 507 <tr>
 508 <td VALIGN=TOP>November 1998</td>
 509
 510 <td><b>"Japhar - The Hungry Programmers Java"</b>, presentation at <a href="http://www.nuug.no">Norwegian
 511 Unix User Group</a> yearly general assembly.</td>
 512 </tr>
 513 </table>
 514 </blockquote>
 515
 516 <h2>Other Highlights</h2>
 517
 518 <blockquote>&nbsp;
 519 <table>
 520
 521 <tr>
 522 <td valign="top" width="20%">summer 2007
 523 <br>- present </td>
 524 <td>Member of the board for Sikring, drift og utvikling AS.</td>
 525 </tr>
 526
 527 <tr>
 528 <td valign="top" width="20%">May 2003
 529 <br>- 2013 </td>
 530 <td>Leader of the Norwegian Unix User Group.</td>
 531 </tr>
 532
 533 <tr>
 534 <td valign="top" width="20%">June 2007
 535 <br>- 2019 </td>
 536 <td>Chair of the board of directors for the SLX Debian Labs
 537 foundation.  Member of the board from 2003 to June 2007.</td>
 538 </tr>
 539
 540 <tr>
 541 <td valign="top" width="20%">summer 1993
 542 <br>- summer 1994</td>
 543
 544 <td>Member of the board for Studenthuset AS, Ltd as representative for
 545 the student association of Troms&oslash;.</td>
 546 </tr>
 547 <TR><TD>1993-1996</TD>
 548
 549 <TD>Founder and head administrator for the
 550 <a href="http://www.td.org.uit.no/">computer student association (TD)</A>
 551 computer lab.</td>
 552
 553 </table>
 554 </blockquote>
 555
 556 <h2>Other Interests</h2>
 557
 558 <blockquote>Parachuting, robot technology, space exploration, task
 559 automation, metal machining and wearable computing.</blockquote>
 560
 561 <h2>References</h2>
 562
 563 <p>Available on request.</p>
 564
 565 </td>
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