Balder Programvare AS: Om selskapet: Sverre

Sverre Kristoffer Furseth
- Curriculum Vitae

Civil status		Born 1972, married to Synnøve, 2 children.

Profile		I am a software engineer with broad commercial experience in system development. Since 1997 I have worked as a programmer, architect, and technical lead. I have experience from a range of fields, including the defence industry, telecommunication, and software consultancy. I have worked on projects with a variety of scopes, everything from long term projects with rigid requirements for analysis and testing to small, fast moving, extreme programming based projects. Focus on and understanding of the business domain is a key factor for success in all projects. KISS - Keep it simple, smartie!

Experience		Okt. 2008 - Sep. 2009: Mediaconnect AS Senior engineer for new subscription system. Architect and programmer working on implementation of modules in the system using tools when appropriate, otherwise creating what is needed to fix the design goals. Have worked on SSO (single sign on) , CTI (Computer Telephony Integration), jobscheduling using Flux, Bankenes Betalings Sentral communication parsing OCR and Cremul messages. Technology: Java, Tomcat, Spring, Informix, DB2, Google Web Toolkit, iBatis, iBator, Asterisk, Apache commons Subversion,Eclipse,Jira,Flux Agile process, Scrum, Sep. 2007 - June 2008: Telenor Telecom Solutions AS Design and implementation of functionality of new Telenor portal site. Implemented new functionality on the J2EE middleware plattform. The main work was to redesign services on a J2EE middleware plattform with to be able to lift up to the web frontend new functionality. Spent quite some time on a filtering mechnism that drained out information that the logged in user was not authorised to see. Spent time on the SSO (single sign on) system on the webservice level using SAML tokens in webservice messages. Technology: Java, Websphere version 6, Spring, Spring, Oracle, Axis2, SAMLv2 (Security Assertion Markup Language), maven Sep. 2007 Senior engineer creating a Cremul to XML application. Created an application that create a XML out of UN/EDIFACT Message CREMUL using Xstream. Technology: Java, Spring, Apache commons, XStream Agile process, Scrum, Sep. 2006 - 2007 Senior engineer implementing business logic in SendRegning.no. I have spent time enriching the service with more funcitonality in close collaboration with the other employees at Balder. Technology: Java, JBoss, Mysql, Apache commons, XStream, JSP, Struts, Velocity ,Apache commons etc. May 2006 - Sep. 2006: Fast Search & Transfer ASA Design and development Technology: MySql, JBoss , Tomcat using JSP, JSTL, Struts, Hibernate, Spring and Java August 2000 - May 2006: Telenor ASA , Oslo System Engineer and technical project manager Systems programming using the languages Java and C++ with main focus on solutions running within a J2EE environment Technical lead of Content on broadband solutions managing the technical solution for future content in a broadband environment (triple play plattform). The solution involved key consepts as streaming plattform, managing requirements high capacity IP network, payment services through invoice and creditcard, traffic priorities and more. Participated in different teams setting up various telecom solutions Participated in team responsible for setting up a ISP with a three layer arcitecture of demilitaized zones (DMZ) where the middleware solution choosen was a Websphere Application Server installation 1997 - July 2000: Thomson-CSF Norcom AS, Oslo Software enginer, security products Support on crypto management system, analysis and implementation of new IP crypto solution for the norwegian defence and NATO This company has changed its name several times since 1997 : Alacatel Forsvar, Thomson-CSF Norcom AS and the name today is Thales Group

Skills summary		Languages: Java (my main language the last 7 years) C++ (my secondary language used in telecom plattforms at Telenor) C (my main language for 3 years some time ago) SQL (main syntax communicating with relational databases) HTML,JSP, Perl (used it in router configuration system at Telenor) Shell scripting Technologies: I have participated in projects in different large companies running large distributed systems. Therefore I have touched guite a few different types of of technologies. Most of them I will rather forget than list on my CV, but it is challenging finding solutions including old systems into a new design whenever needed. Apache Http server Tomcat J2EE (Websphere Application Server, JBoss) Fast Search Technology SOAP (Axis) CAS (Central Autentication Service - JASIG) Asterisk (Telephony integration with web application) Spring JDBC (ORM : Ibatis,Hibernate) Apache components like Maven, Ant, Commons etc. GWT (Google Web Toolkit) JUnit UML Xstream Text templating Various Internet technologies (TCP/IP, FTP, HTTP, XML, etc.) Flux (but prefer using cron ) Modern IP network functionality and protocols used in infrastructure of large service provider networks. Databases: My focus has been in defining tables and indexes, creating sql queries that perform different CRUD (create,read,update and delete) operations in the database. DB2 (big customers often use this) MYSQL (prefer this if requirements allow it.) SyBase Operating Systems: Mac OS X (currently my developer plattform) Linux has been the prefered production environment the last years.(I have installed and used a varity of the different linux distributions like Ubuntu,Debian,SUSE,CentOS(Asterisk) etc.) Windows (Vista, XP, 2000) Project tools I have used quite a lot of tools, but in development I currently prefer : Eclipse Subversion Tomcat Apache JUnit maven jdbc Spring Mysql UML Jira Command line tools and shell scripting

Education		1995 - 1997: University of Newcastle upon Tyne, Electronic Engineering Issued Sivilingeniør diploma in 1997 from NTNU (NTH) 1992 - 1995: Ingeniørhøgskolen i Ålesund ,Telecommunication 1997 - 2003: Various training courses 1979 - 1986: Primary School, Ålesund

Interests		Hunting with my Breton, skiing, soccer, cycling, hiking, etc.

Languages		Native Norwegian English

Personal skills		I am curious and like to learn new things

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