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Drammen, Viken, Norge

Working on realtime information from buses to customers, SIRI integration with national travel planner Enter. Responsible for several mobile application on Android and iOS.

Board member, representing The Society for the Preservation of Norwegian Ancient Monuments, section Buskerud. The Krøderen is a 26-km railway connecting Lake Krøder in Buskerud, Norway, to the town of Vikersund. The Krøderbane Foundation (Stiftelsen Krøderbanen) and the Norwegian Railway Club (Norsk Jernbaneklubb) now jointly operate steam train services.

Oslo Area, Norway

Responsible for flytoget.no, wifi in the trains, travel planner, real time system, disruption information and much more.

Drammen Area, Norway

Consultancy work on realtime information systems and creating the first innovation contest in the use of open data in public transport in Norway. The second version of Travelhack in 2014 included 3 different tracks: Open, NSB Widget and NSB Pro.

Oslo Area, Norway

Project manager for the purchase of 2700 tablets to all train staff. Responsible for the new layout of stations display in Norway.

Project Manager for new layout for departure and arrival display at Norwegian stations. LCD displays with actual train composition in real time, working with NSB, the Airport Express Train as the project manager hired by the Norwegian National Railway Administration. The first implementation was at Nationaltheatret station in Oslo from November 2011.

Project manager for the new trafikanten.no, award with serveral prices for design and interaction. Responsible for creating Trafikanten's mobile portifolio with over 300 000 downloads on iPhone, Android, Java and Symbian. Opened up the webservice data of Trafikanten for all to use.

Working on new cross platform features in the Opera Browser, including my.opera.com, Opera Mini, Opera Desktop and Opera Mobile. Focus on Ajax, widgets and applying knowledge in HCI on user centered design and usability.Projects included Opera Link and the initial stages of Opera Unite.

Delivering the Opera Browser on Mobile Phones, projects include Nokia 9300/9300i/9500, Nokia 7710, Motorola A1000, M1000, Windows Mobile phones, Kyocera phones in Japan.Experienced the full life cycle of making a browser for mobile phones, from project initialization until finished project and maintenance.Working on widgets on mobile phones, special.

Responsible for the first version for Opera for Mac, build up the Mac team and all the processes around making releases including translations, help files and press releases. Master of changelog, release information and test groups. Responsible for contact with Apple.

Creating web based processes for customer registration and authentication. Integration with billing systems.Manage processes in organizations with extreme growth. Merger of ISPs in Austria and Slovakia.

One of the fist local ISPs in Norway. Created the company after writing four full pages about the Internet in the local newspaper in the fall of 1994. The company was merged into Orkla Media.

Bachelor'S Degree, Public Transport & Logistics

Activities and Societies: Editor of the student newspaper. I focused on reservations system in public transport and EDI. My favorite.

Fulbright Student, Human Computer Interaction, Public Transport, Web

One of the first things I did in Minnesota was to meet the developer behind Gopher, I system I used to access information about UofM.

Traffic Psychology

Activities and Societies: Promoted the use if Internet before it was known in Germany. I was finally able to study Traffic psychology.

Master'S Degree Studies, Human Computer Interaction, Traffic Psychology, Internet

Activities and Societies: Created the first training class for Internet in 1992. Wrote the first article about Internet in the NTNU.

Cognitive Psychology

Activities and Societies: Board member of the Psychology students union. I specialized in cognitive psychology, working on expert.