Curriculum Vitae

This is my Curriculum Vitae, that which especially USAsians refer to as a Résumé. I am currently employed as Unix System Administrator at TELMORE A/S. This is only the professional stuff, see elsewhere for the more private me.

Experience

Unix System Administrator at TELMORE A/S (since November 1st, 2004): Mostly working with FreeBSD running our Java applications, but we're moving more and more towards the very nice Solaris 10 OS for new deployments. We use some Linux and HP-UX in production too. I'm responsible for our Linux LVS based load-balancer setup.

This being an IT CV I won't list experience as lab technician, carpenter or forest worker here. See under education, as that was what it also was.

Qualifications

Programming

Ruby, Python and Perl.
Java.
Bourne shell in addition to the usual Unix tools, of course.
HTML/CSS, cross-browser markup, accessibility.
C#, ASP.NET and the .NET framework.

Software

Open source Unix:
- BSD (OpenBSD, FreeBSD).
- Linux.
Linux LVS and Heartbeat+ldirectord loadbalancing and high availability.
Webservers: Apache, Tomcat and thttpd.
Databases: PostgreSQL and MySQL.

Education

Java XML Developer (August 2004 – October 2004)

A course by ITA. Sadly I had to stop because I suddenly got my current job, the course was scheduled to run until March 2005 + 12 weeks of trainee service. It was about:

Business understanding and project management.
Architecture and design.
Professional Java.
XML with Java.
Data security and encryption.

Microsoft .NET developer course (May 2003 – January 2004)

A course by SoftAdvice, 28 weeks including 8 weeks of trainee service. The aim was to develop kompetences in:

Project Management and control.
Using UML and Unified Process.
Design Patterns.
The latest ideas, concepts and products from Microsoft — Visual Studio .NET, C# and others.
Use of MS-SQL (MSDE) and MySQL backends.

First Semester as “Datamatiker” (2002 – 2003)

I took “Basic Programming in C++” and the first part of “System Development 1” at Niels Brock. I learned some pretty nice things about database design.

Lab Technician (August 1998 – September 2001)

A year and a half of school followed by a year of trainee service at Fødevareregion Århus. I learned some quite universally useful things:

Concentrated project based teamwork and exams.
Datacollection, analysis and report writing in Microsoft Office.
Quality Control.
Statistical control of results.
Documentation of procedures and methods.

Other older stuff

I upgraded my HF exam, studied Mathematics and Physics at Århus University from 1994–1998, with a year of working on the harbour as a carpenter. A quite mixed experience.

Way back when I was 17 to 20 I was trained as a skilled forest worker and then conscribed into the Danish Civil Defence and trained as a firefighter, smokediver and trained in first aid in disaster areas.

Less easily categorized things

I am active in the open source movement in Denmark. I used to be on the board of BSD-DK, the Danish BSD User Group, and was a member of the coordination group behind Linuxforum 2003–2005, but since I became a father I've stepped down. Family first.

I did a lot of Triathlon from 1992–1997, culminating in 3 Ironman distance races (3800 m swim, 180 km bike and 42.2 km run) in 1994, 1996 and 1997 in 11:31′50″, 11:17′08″ and 10:07′17″ respectively. The last one was a open Danish and European championship, I made it into the top 25% with a 35.32 km/h bike ride and a just under 3:45 marathon, something I'm still very proud of. For various reasons I never got back to training after that race, but now, after 8 years as couch potato, I'm back in training again.