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Founded a startup with my colleague to build a platform for making and publishing location aware tour guides and treasure hunt games for smartphones. Our customers use our products to publish their own tours and games using GPS location technology and indoor location technologies. We also offer consulting services for developing location aware apps.

Manage integration activities between different engineering disciplines. Implement a continuous integration environment for all our products with automated system tests, unit tests, component tests and a fully automated build and deployment system for test and release versions of our products.

Manage the quality assurance team for our flagship product - EVE-Online and the release process. Manage various outsourcing partners in terms of testing and localization. Manage teams of QA Engineers, Test Management and release engineers.

Designer and project lead for building an electronic ticketing system for electronic distribution and sales of tickets through POS terminals.

First a programmer in the client team and then quickly became the team lead for a client team of 12 people. The product was iPulse instant messenger which never made it beyond beta test.

I joined Prism Solutions as a software developer to work on the Prism Extraction Transformation and Load (ETL) client software. My focus was primarily on user interface development and later the object model.I was promoted to the team lead of the client engineering team when Ardent Software aquired Prism Solutions and lead the integration of the Prism.

Joined the MIS operations team as a Unix administrator; overhauled the monitoring and implemented BMC and developed code to monitor logs and send text messages to the people on call if critical errors came up.I was then shortly promoted to a junior DBA on Oracle 7.3 and the Oracle Financials application in Operations. Wrote monitoring scripts and a new.

Worked part time with school as the sole developer on making an automated EDI messaging system for purchase orders and customs processing electronically. Utilized the EDIFACT EDI library and wrote the message handling software around that. The product was then put to use by the customs offoce in Iceland and various wholesalers who then were able to.

One year contract to oversee the networking of PCs and the integration of those with the DEC servers and applications running on VAX/VMS (PathWorks). Also managed the training and setup of a financial application (Bústori AKA Navison) at post offices all around Iceland.

My first job in the field of computer science. Handled solutions for integrating PC networks with Digital Network Solutions (Pathworks).Also specialized in character-encoding and mapping between different charactersets to map special icelandic characters between code pages. Wrote software to auto-map Icelandic special characters when transferring and.