Kent Dahl - Curriculum Vitae


Contact Information:

Kent Dahl
Sentrumsvegen 40
4700 Vennesla
Norway

Email: kent@rubendahl.no
URL: http://kentdahl.no/


Professional Objective:

    Balancing a Passion for Programming with Managment Responsibilities.
    

Employment History:

    CEO | Manager | Developer
    Rubendahl Consulting AS
    April 2011-Present
    
    Running my own consulting company, focusing on Software Development
    and Management Consulting.
    
    Core IT technologies: Ruby, C++, Linux, Rails, PHP etc.
    
    Core Managment fields: Software Development Process and Project
    Management, Group Dynamics Analysis and Development (SPGR -
    "Systemizing the Person-Group Relationship")
    
    Company Website: http://www.rubendahl.com/
    
    Projects:
    * Debugging and implementing new functionality for a Ruby on Rails
      web-application.
    * Test Automation for industrial controllers in Ruby.
    * Implementing new functionality for PHP web-applications for
      various customers.
    * Internal Ruby on Rails prototype project: Spleisegave.no
    
    
    Software Developer
    Industrial Control Design AS
    September 2008-August2010
    
    Primarily Linux-based development of the CDP platform for industrial
    automation. Also some work on Windows and On-Time RTOS.
    
    Projects:
    * Adapting internal CDP WebServer to support other browsers besides
      Internet Explorer, primarily Firefox, using Sarissa JS-toolkit for
      AJAX and WATIR for testing.
    * CDP2SQL - integrating SQLite3 with CDP platform, including forming
      a generic DBI.
    * Automated build system - expand exisiting systems to provide
      nightly snapshot builds.
    * Automated testing - CDPUnit and ACTIR; general work with
      unit-testing system components, creating a Ruby framework for
      testing CDP from Ruby using both WATIR and more direct HTTP calls.
    
    
    Project Mananger
    Opera Software ASA
    June 2007-July 2008
    
    Responsible for the daily management of several B2B engineering
    projects delivering to Motorola for mobile phones, as well as
    introducing, implementing and following up development process
    improvements in collaboration with the relevant Motorola development
    departments.
    
    Projects:
    * Manage project groups providing Opera web browser to Motorola
      mobile phone deliveries on platforms EzX, LinuxJava and P2K,
      shipping to various regions.
    * Interrim Project Manager for the Opera Unite development during
      critical phase.
    
    
    UNIX Programmer
    Opera Software ASA
    June 2005-June2007
    
    Primarily C++ development and debugging under Linux. Maintaining
    nightly and release builds done on Solaris machine. Utilize and
    expand on existing unit testing and automated testing facilities as
    projects went from alpha stage and into multiple maintenance phases.
    
    Projects:
    * Adapt and develop Opera web browser for use on Motorola mobile
      phones based on the P2K platform, such as MotoRAZR. Also
      responsible for build release process of the P2K deliveries.
    * Preliminary testing and debugging of Opera web browser on OLPC
      hardware.
    
    
    System Developer
    Wide Computing
    July 2004-March 2005
    
    Develop, maintain and debug software designed for crawling and
    indexing web pages for search engines. Primary tools are Perl, C#
    and C++.
    

Education:

    MSc in Financial Economics, August 2010-June 2012. Following a
    two-year Master of Science in Economics program (siviløkonom), which
    is equivalent to an MBA (Master of Business Administration). [Note:
    Master thesis postponed.]
    University in Agder (UiA)
    
    MSc in Industrial Economics and Technology Management (minor in
    Software Development), August 1998-June 2003. Followed the graduate
    engineering program (sivilingeniørutdanningen).
    Norwegian University of Science and Technology (NTNU)
    
      Overall GPA: C (Good)
    
      Subjects: Masters thesis on "Collaborative Relations in Small
      Groups and Virtual Teams" (A).
    

Technical Skills:

    Programming: Ruby, C++, Python, Java, Perl, C#.
  
    Web Technologies: Rails, PHP, jQuery, AJAX, JavaScript, XML.
  
    Unix Knowledge: Linux, Solaris, Apache, MySQL, PostgreSQL, SQLite3.
  

Non-technical Skills:

    Management: Software Development Processs and Project Management,
    Group Dynamics Analysis and Development (SPGR).
  
    Teaching: Informatics, Mathematics.
  
    Languages: Norwegian (native), English (excellent), German (basic).
  

Professional Societies:

    Employee representative
    Tekna - Norwegian Society of Chartered Scientific and Academic
        Professionals
    December 2006-July 2008
    
    Served as union representative and chairman of the local Tekna
    chapter at Opera Software ASA.
    

Miscellany:

    I am an avid Ruby-hacker, random snowboarder and Open Source
    afficionado.
    
    Additional information available at: http://kentdahl.no/
    

Last modified October 2012.