Programming, crane and drilling simulation software, drilling visualisation software

In October 2005 Hitec O was sold to L-3. Continued working as Senior Software Engineer, further extending and improving upon the crane-simulator developed under Hitec O. During this time I also supervised the on-site installation and commissioning of a full-size harbor-crane simulator delivered to PSA in Singapore.

Company branched from Hitec ASA when the drilling-part of Hitec ASA was purchased by NOV in August 2000. Completed the delivery of the first offshore crane-simulator for SMS in Trondheim during the winter 2000/2001. Much of the final work was done on-site in Trondheim during that period.Worked further as designer and programmer on a new harbor crane-simulator, first delivered to STC in Rotterdam. The simulator-framework was re-developed from scratch, using experiences from the previously developed offshore crane-simulator. The new framework was still a distributed system consisting of multiple applications working together, but now it also featured a plugin-system for easier addition of new types of cranes, vehicles and objects in general. Maintenance and improvements on these two simulators followed in the coming years, as well as participating in the installation and commissioning of these simulators at several sites around the world. Development included run-time logging and processing of data post-simulation for further analyzes of the student's performance. The technologies used was C++ for the simulator code. 3rd-party libraries used included Coin's implementation of Open Inventor for 3D-graphics, and a physics-library from Mathengine (later Vortex) for physical calculations. Logging of runtime-data for later review was done to a SQL database.

Worked as software-programmer on what would become the world's first full-size offshore crane-simulator featuring both cabin and motionbase, which was installed at SMS in Trondheim during the winter 2000/2001. Assignments included implementation of a distributed simulator-system, where various applications for instructor-station, physics, rendering, IO, etc. was working together over a LAN. Responsible for the integration of a 3rd-party physics library into the simulator for realistic physical behavior. The software was implemented using C++, while TGS's implementation of Open Inventor was used as the 3D rendering-engine.