CURRICULUM VITAE

Curriculum Vitae:

Name

Sven Martin Olsen

Date of birth

April 21, 1957

Nationality

Norwegian

Languages

Norwegian, English

Personal status

Married, two girls (15 and 10)

Position

Systems developer/manager,  Smallsoft AS

Education / Courses:

1977 - 1979  Computer Engineer, Department of Computer Science, Trondheim School of Engineering, Trondheim, Norway

1979 - 1981  Teledirektoratets training programme in System development, Project Administration and EDP

1979 - 1980  Several UNIVAC courses (DMS/TIP/U1100)

1983            IBM  DL/1 Application  programming 2                        

1984            IBM  FA12, Gruppen, samarbeid og ledelse
                   IBM  BF22 ISPF Dialog manager Workshop
                   IBM  CA16W CICS Application programming

1985            Hans Schaefer Testing av programvare
                   Frost&Sullivan  Relational Data Bases
                   Per G. Sneen  Prosjektledelse

1986            Ingar Grønstad  Datamodellering
                   IBM FA13 Prosjektledelse / Metoder
                   DND Kvalitetssikring av programvare

1987            ICS PC based tools for software analysis and design
                   Datab  Easytrieve Plus
                   DND    Advanced software Engineering - David Parnas

1988            SUN    SUN System Administration

1989            ICS     C Advanced programming techniques and data structures

1991            SYBASE Several SYBASE courses

1994            IIR     Implementing & Exploiting Billing Systems for the telecom industry

1996 / 1997  Bedriftsøkonomisk Institutt:  Telekom orientert produkt strategi

Several Telenor-internal courses are not listed.  I have also attended Telenors leader-proramme: KILS  (Kurs i Samarbeid og Ledelse), and I have participated on various seminars/conferences in Norway and abroad - examples are: EurOpen (UNIX) and System Development (SD97).

Affiliations

Present affiliation:

• 1998- Systems developer, co-founder and manager of Smallsoft AS, a tiny 2 person software systems development consultants company, 
  owned 50% by myself. (see http://www.smallsoft.com/ or http://www.smallsoft.no/ )

Previous affiliations:

• 1979-81 Telenor: (Norwegian Telecom) Teledirektoratet, Rasjonaliseringsseksjonen, Oslo
• 1981-98 Telenor: (Norwegian Telecom) Televerkets EDB-tjeneste, Telenor 4Tel, Bodø
  
• My job-titles in Telenor: Førstesekretær, Avdelingsleder, Overingeniør, Sjefsingeniør

Work Experience

• SMALLSOFT AS: 

  I founded Smallsoft AS (www.smallsoft.com) together with Nils Halvard Lunde april 1 1998. Smallsoft AS is operating as a consultancy company. Our main customers have been: Telenor 4Tel (www.4tel.no),   MSI International, Miami (www.msimusic.com) and CATCH Communiations (www.catchcom.com) .

Work activities in Smallsoft:

• Responsible for development and support of the RECO Sonera system on behalf of Telenor 4Tel (UNIX / C). RECO is an "export"-version of the norwegian SENTAKS system, which is handling and storing all telephone calls generated (and passing through) all of Telenors norwegian switches.
• Support on different other RECO versions: RECO Great Northern (Denmark), RECO Storm (U.K)
• Responsible for a programmers Technology Transfer programme (4 weeks) for Telekom Slovenia
• TAD - a music CD artist+title matching system developed for the Miami based MSI Music company  (Windows / Sybase / C )
• Responsible for development and support of the interconnect system ACCAR (Powerbuilder / Sybase)  for Telenor Global Serviceson behalf of Telenor 4Tel
• Development of RecoExplorer (A RECO controltable browser) for Sonera AB (Windows/Visual Basic)
• Development and support of RecoAdmin (RECO controltable administartion) for Sonera AB  (Windows / Clarion / MySQL)
• Development of middleware solutions for the communication between Telenors KOF (Customer, Order, Invoice) system (IBM mainframes) and a resource booking / Complaint handling system running on  UNIX (HP/UX). Here I have used IBM’s MQ-series communication software,  in addition to LU 6.2 from C-programs linked to SYBASE/SYSTEMATOR.
• Development support on the BICO system – a system used by Telenor Mobile and Telenor Networks taking care of national interconnect (C / Oracle)
• Normal Manager responsibilities in Smallsoft

• TELEVERKET /TELENOR:

            Work activities in Televerket / Telenor:

• Statistics for the Telegramme service
• Telenors Flexitime system
• PITEL (Human resources system)
• Telsis LK - Line inventory system
• Telsis Database Group
• Telsis Error message system - project leader / developer
• Telsis Order distribution system - project leader / developer
• Method work - Participated in the development of  REIS - Retningslinjer for Systemutvikling (Guidelines for System development in Telenor)
• Development of AUTOTERM - A PC-based test-system for 3270 CICS applications
• Development of xhvor / xvishvor - UNIX-based tools for keeping track of people in medium / big offices
• Responsible for the introduction of UNIX and Workstations in Telenor 4Tel, Bodø. Participated in the work with SUSA - a platform for system development based upon SUN workstations..
• Project leader for the pre-project for Centralized Charging (89).The main project was given a budget of NOK 100 million, and led to the possibility of detailled bills for Telenors customers.
• Project leader for the main project for Centralized Charging (SENTAKS) (90-93).The  SENTAKS system was succesfully put into production just before the Lillehammer Olympics in 94.
• Group leader (Fagenhetsleder - fagenhet for trafikkbehandling) (90 - 94). 15-20 persons, project management & planning and (too much of) development/programming
• Project leader of SenTaks Utland (94-97). This was the start of Telenors international commitment - selling Telecom billing related software products to foreign operators. A close co-operation with Telenor Networks and Alcatel Telecom Norway led to the development of RECO (SENTAKS) versions for several foreign markets in Europe and Asia. 
  I was travelling a lot in this period, and I have experence from marketing / sales / demonstrations / installations / on-site development and training sessions for customers in the following countries: Sweden, Denmark, Lithuania, Russia, Romania, Slovenia, Israel, The Philippines, Indonesia, France and England.
• Project leader for the interface KOF - SenTaks (95-96)

Tools used

Programming / testing / debugging with the following languages / tools:

·         C (UNIX and Windows),  Powerbuilder, Clarion, Visual Basic, various script languages

·         Sybase SQL, MySQL SQL, Oracle SQL 

·         Pascal, different Basic versions, Progress, Cobol,  Fortran (some time ago!)

Platforms:

·         Windows 2000, NT 4.0, -98, -95, 3.1

·         Linux (SUSE, Red Hat, Mandrake)

·         UNIX (Solaris, HP-UX)

Databases:

Sybase, Oracle, MySQL, different IBM mainframe based databases, like DB2  

Interests

My family, my friends, my guitars (and my amateur-band: www.danceon.no ),  music in general, tabletennis, tennis, squash, the nature, travelling, my work.......

Updated June 5, 2001 by Sven Martin Olsen.