Education

08.03 - 02.09 University of Tromsø.Master of Computer Science.
Focus:Information Retrieval and Distributed Systems, with Thesis on improving the usefulness of multimedia archives by applying data reduction techniques.

08.01 - 06.03 University of Tromsø.Medicine (2 out of 6 years).

08.00 - 06.01 University of Tromsø.Medicine, Chemistry, Biology.

08.99 - 06.00 Bjørklund Gymnasium, Ålesund.Preparation for Medicine Study.

08.95 - 06.98 Volda High School, Volda.High School Diploma.

Work experience

07.09 - present Norwegian College of Fishery Science. Programmer
Did:Developed a graphical game/simulator showing various effects of the environment and fishery on the fish population.
Used: Silverlight, .NET, C#, R.

02.09 - 07.09 University of Tromsø. Research Assistant
Did:Researched and developed rich interfaces for personalized and social video composition and playback. Full time work at iAD (http://www.iad.cs.uit.no).
Used: Silverlight, .NET, C#, Web Service, MySQL, solr.

01.07 - 12.09 University of Tromsø. Research Assistant
Did:Research, prototyping and development of a distributed framework for context-aware image management at the CAIM project (http://caim.uib.no). Development of web interface as a framework client and image management tool. Part time work.
Used: Java, JSP, HTML, CSS, Javascript, AJAX, SOAP, MySQL.

06.07 - 08.07 Telenor R&I.Internship
Did:Researched / developed a framework for image context management..
Used: Java, JSP, XHTML, CSS, SOAP, MySQL.

07.06 - 09.06 Telenor R&I.Internship
Did:Research on group collaboration web services for organizations.
Used: Java, JSP, JBoss, Seam, Hibernate, XMPP.

03.01 - 06.03 Hvilhaug Home for Elders, Tromsø.Weekend Assistant

06.01 - 08.01 Volda Home for Elders.Summer Assistant

08.98 - 06.99 Royal Norwegian Navy.

Technical Summary

Dev. Languages C#, Java, Python, C, Javascript, PHP

Web Languages Silverlight, JSP, HTML/XHTML, CSS, XML, ASP.NET, .NET

Technologies AJAX, SOAP, XMPP, Web Services

Software Microsoft Visual Studio, Microsoft Expression Studio, Eclipse, Subversion, CVS, Emacs, LAMP, Photoshop

Databases MySQL, PostgreeSQL, SQLite

Operating Systems Microsoft Windows 95/98/2k/XP/7, Linux (Debian / Ubuntu / Gentoo), Microsoft Server 2003/2008

Language Skills

Mother tongue Norwegian

Second language English:Exellent understanding of spoken and written English.

Second language German:Some understanding of spoken and written German.

Recent Volunteer Activities

01.07 - 02.09 Web / Computer Manager, Foreninga (Science Students Association, UiT)

08.05 - present Leader, Tromsdalen Scout group, Tromsø

02.05 - 09.08 Board member of TD (Assoc. of CS Students at UiT).

01.05 - 08.07 Deputy and instructor, Student-KRIK Tromsø (ball sports group)

Publications

IEEE ICDIM 2008 Tjalve Aarflot, Cathal Gurrin, Dag Johansen: A framework for transient objects in Digital Libraries. ICDIM 2008: 138-145

JDIM 2009 Cathal Gurrin, Tjalve Aarflot, Sorin Sav, Dag Johansen: Addressing the Challenge of Managing Large-scale Digital Multimedia Libraries. Journal of Digital Information Management (JDIM), 2009, Volume 7 Issue 5.

IEEE CIT 2009 Cathal Gurrin, Tjalve Aarflot, Dag Johansen: GARDI: A Self-Regulating Framework for Digital Libraries. Ninth IEEE International Conference on Computer and Information Technology, 2009, vol. 1, pp. 305-310.

ACM Multimedia 2009 D. Johansen, H. Johansen, T. Aarflot, J. Hurley, Å. Kvalnes, C. Gurrin, S. Sav, B. Olstad, E. Aaberg, T. Endestad, H. Riiser, C. Griwodz. DAVVI: a prototype for the next generation multimedia entertainment platform. Proceedings of the seventeen ACM international conference on Multimedia (ACM MM), Beijing, China, October 2009, pp. 989 – 990.