Experience

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  Statoil

  • Stavanger, Rogaland, Norway

  • Principal Engineer IM DM

    • Sep 2013 - Present
    • Stavanger, Rogaland, Norway

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  Tieto

  • SW Architect

    • Sep 2006 - Aug 2013

    Various engagements and assignments.

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  Statoil

  • Stavanger

  • Staff Engineer - IT project manager

    • 1987 - 2001
    • Stavanger

    Project management, system design, and construction were undertaken to equip Statoil for its role as a multi-field operator company. This involved the delivery and implementation of the second-generation offshore personnel transportation, tracking, and preparedness planning system for the Statfjord and Gullfaks oil fields. Additionally, a stable and operational project planning and scheduling system, featuring resource management, was delivered and implemented specifically for Statfjord projects and ongoing facility maintenance with work orders.Other various and diverse projects and responsibilities, including: Technical related solutions like system and data integration, software features verification, workflow solutions including development of true collaboration systems enabling problem solutions with vendors of petroleum related analytic services.Organisational and project management support in IT related business areas.Systems responsible of a systems portfolio managing hydrocarbon prospects and its master and reference data in exploration business area.Retiring from Statoil 30. April 2001: starting new adventures of continuing education in professional area and other areas of interest. ("self-realisation" ?)

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  Mobil Exploration Norway Inc

  • Stavanger, Rogaland, Norway

  • Systems analyst

    • 1983 - 1986
    • Stavanger, Rogaland, Norway

    Project management responsibility of the deployment, implementation, and continuous improvements of a system designed to support air traffic planning, operations and accounting, preparedness planning, and offshore accommodation management for the Statfjord field.Starting from late 1983, the Statfjord platforms were equipped to establish communication with onshore computers via a 9600 baud rate link. This ushered in an era where personnel mobilization and movements could be tracked, helicopter utilization improved, and offshore preparedness planning underwent digitalization, transitioning from previously paper-based routines. As both a system and project manager, my primary points of contact and stakeholders included helicopter logistics, onshore and offshore dispatchers, offshore safety readiness and training, as well as HR.During the Statfjord development phase, Mobil Exploration operated the field. The operatorship was transferred to Statoil in 1987 following one of the most significant controversies in Norwegian oil policy. As part of this transition, Mobil employees engaged in the development and operations of the Statfjord field were offered the opportunity to transfer to Statoil.

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  Telenor

  • Systems analyst

    • 1981 - 1983

    I provided support to the Norwegian Telecom Directorate, now known as The Norwegian Communications Authority, in overseeing the management of Televerket (Telenor) HR system. During the migration of their system portfolio from the Univac mainframe to the IBM 370 architecture platform, I assumed the responsibility for testing and adapting the system to operate seamlessly on the new platform. Additionally, I developed an online system that empowered the Directorate's HR management to independently handle and execute the core functions of the HR system, eliminating the necessity for intervention from the data processing center staff.

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  Jonas Øglænd AS

  • Sandnes, Rogaland, Norway

  • System Analyst

    • 1980 - 1981
    • Sandnes, Rogaland, Norway

    Redesign of a data model covering one of the sales and marketing part of a major business area, followed by an adaption of application software to fit the consecutive redesigned Codasyl-type database. The needs were triggered by an unexpected increase in demands for products in a marked. The company was a profiled customer of Norsk Data, running computers hosting Sintran OS, Sibas DBMS, development in Fortran 77 for online applications.The company Jonas Øglænd enjoyed success in a diversity of product areas and businesses, including clothing industry, bicycles and bike parts, mopeds, exercise equipment, engineering, robots, and store chains of own brands. The businesses were sold area by area in the late 1980s, today Øglænd System is a successful international corporation and important player in its marketplace of multi discipline support systems. https://www.oglaend-system.com/company/

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  Geco - Geophysical Company of Norway

  • Stavanger, Rogaland, Norway

  • Software developer

    • 1978 - 1980
    • Stavanger, Rogaland, Norway

    Joined a software development team at the Stavanger seismic data processing center, primarily providing support to the interpretation services department. My initial project involved designing and constructing a new software piece aimed at converting digitized seismic sections from digitizing tablets to a representation in coordinate system based on milliseconds and line+shot points. Technology, work process and company history:"Legacy technology" used included coding sheets and punched cards, FORTRAN IV for compiled programs, IBM JCL for scripting, and the modern IBM TSO.The work process in the 1970s involved finalizing seismic sections printed on film media for interpretations on a light table, followed by transferring them to paper along with annotations of seismic interpretation. The digitalization process commenced with time-consuming manual digitization using large-format digitizing tablets, producing output on paper tape representing a rectangle with the graphs of the section's horizons and faults in the tablet's coordinate system.Digitalization of seismic interpretations marked the initial step in a workflow, followed by adding on navigation data, gridding software to generate continuous interpreted surfaces, and various optional steps such as time-to-depth migration and volume calculations. Customer demands were met through mapping services, giving rise to program suites known as "Mapping software" and the "geomodeling software" of that era. Various data formats were also sold as products.Geco played a pivotal role in establishing a full-scale oil and gas industry in Norway during the 1970s. It underwent a series of mergers since 1986, culminating in the formation of WesternGeco, which was fully acquired by Schlumberger in 2006. About the company: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Geco_(Geophysical_Company_of_Norway)