Family: Married. Children: Son born in 2002, daughter born 2006.
Year | Employment | Notes |
2023 - | IT Operations Specialist at Sweco. |
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2022 - 2023 | System administrator/chief advisor at the Danish National Genome Center. | Positioned in the high performance computing operations & support group, doing:
- Postgres database setup, including replication
- project work, assisting development group with ETL and table design
- Ansible and script coding
- ESXi system administration
- SIEM (enterprise security/event management) system administration
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2018 - 2022 | Deployment & support engineer at Vital Images (being renamed to Canon Medical Informatics). |
Role: Assisting customers in robust setup and execution of Vital Images' products for handling and visualization of medical imaging data, including being part of a 24x7 on-call team.
Involves interfacing with
- customers' IT and radiology departments
- the company's development department
New experiences gained with
- the Cassandra an Elasticearch NoSQL database systems
- the Git version control system
- tooling and troubleshooting around the DICOM standard
- writing tools in Rust
- operation of ZooKeeper and NiFi
- standards, quality management systems, and regulatory frameworks within healthcare IT and medical equipment
- being the teacher in internal courses on Linux, Git, Ansible, and DICOM applications
Further experiences gained with
- Ansible
- DB2, in particular HADR
- failover clustering
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2014 - 2018 | Database administrator (special advisor) at the National eHealth Authority which was in 2015 re-organized into the Danish Health Data Authority Since 2016: Chief advisor. |
Employed in a division for infrastructure development and projects in the IT operations department. Areas of responsibility, activities, experiences:
- DB2
- Syslog centralization + anomaly detection
- Check_MK
- ETL using Python+SQL
- AD integration: SSH, sudo, NFS, databases
- Ansible
- MSSQL
- HPE 3PAR
- Fibre channel
- iSCSI
- Red Hat Virtualization (RHEV/RHV)
- The Slurm workload manager
- Tomcat installations
- Operation of Atlassian's Jira and FishEye
- ITIL Foundation certified
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2011 - 2014 | High performance cluster (HPC) administrator & engineer at MAN Turbo & Diesel. |
Areas of responsibility/activities/experiences:
- Rocks cluster and Red Hat/xCAT-based clusters, involving the Grid Engine scheduling system and IBM/SuperMicro hardware
- Infiniband troubleshooting
- Storage: Panasas (completed Panasas' System Administrator Training and Certification), Oracle ZFS storage appliance, fibre channel work, basic NetApp operation
- Veritas Cluster operation
- Windows Cluster operation
- Documentum backend operation
- Basic Oracle tasks (completed Oracle courses: Oracle Database Administrator I and RMAN Backup & Recovery)
- Symantec NetBackup troubleshooting
- Systems monitoring with Check_MK
- Taking part of a 24x7 on-call rotation, involving troubleshooting of numerous systems
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2007 - 2011 | Database administrator at the Danish National Board of Health. As of 2010: Special Advisor. In 2011: Re-located to the National Board of e-Health (NSI), with unchanged duties. |
Responsibilities/activities:
- DB2 on unix: Installation, fixpak-application, monitoring, tuning and troubleshooting; backup management using TSM; federation; GIS
- Design of database tables/views/routines
- Python programming: ETL routines and specialized monitoring utilities
- MSSQL: Installation, backup/restore, service pack installation
- Oracle: Installation, minor troubleshooting, patch installation
- Informix: Installation, basic configuration, backup/restore
- AIX: Software installation, monitoring, LVM-handling, HMC-tasks
- Storage: IBM XIV, IBM ESS/DS4000, and Hitachi AMS storage handling; Fibre Channel zoning, monitoring
- System administration of SAS installations
- Network: SNMP-based monitoring, VLAN handling
- Xen- and KVM-based virtualization of & with Linux; PowerVM virtualization af Linux
- ESX: Monitoring, troubleshooting, minor configuration tasks
- Specification of a K02 tender, and subsequent collaboration with winning company
- Completed a 10 day project-manager course and exam
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2005 - 2006 | System administrator and release manager at XPonCard (now: Idema). |
Responsibilities:
- High availability setup of software configuration management system, involving Linux, Apache, Tomcat, PostgreSQL
- Administration/documentation/customization of Subversion (version control system) and JIRA (an issue tracking system)
- Programming software development helper tools, using SQL, C, C++, Python, C#, and shell scripts
- Network/service monitoring, and performance measurements
- Documentation and development of release management process, focusing on traceability and reproducibility
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2005 | System administrator at Department of Animal- and Veterinary Basic Sciences at the Royal Veterinary and Agricultural University (now: Department of Veterinary and Animal Sciences at the University of Copenhagen). |
Time limited employment.
Responsibilities:
- Administration of servers used for bioinformatics, including cluster technology, such as OpenPBS.
- Query handling, e.g. BLAST jobs.
- Database administration
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2002 - 2004 | On and off: Freelance jobs for various companies. |
Experiences with
- E-commerce
- Development with MSSQL
- Mail-server administration, including anti-virus/-spam
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2001 - 2002
| System administrator and web developer at TV 2/INTERAKTIV. | Formal job title: Chief programmer.
Experiences included
- Mass operation of Linux servers (and a few Windows NT servers) with special focus on security and performance
- Systems monitoring
- Development and operation of PHP web sites
- Systematization of developmental and operational routines
- Load balancing and and proxy-based HTTP acceleration
- Development for, and operation of, MySQL and PostgreSQL database systems
- Micro-payment handling
- operation of network related software, including Postfix, Sendmail, thttpd, FTP-servers, and OpenSSH
- basic Cisco router and load balancer configuration
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2000 | Web developer and system administrator at dipCard.com. |
(Part-time.)
Experiences included
- Technical coordination of programming and deployment
- Web-development with PHP
- Linux server installations, database optimization, DNS configuration
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1999 | Web developer at the Enterprise Interactive web agency (current name: "Brandhouse") |
Experiences included
- Web-development with PHP+MySQL
- Implementation of Internet-based credit card solutions
- SSL certificate handling
- DHTML
- Creating of RPM packages
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1996 - 1999 | Various part-time IT jobs. |
Mainly employed at organizations related to the University of Copenhagen
Work included
- configuration and maintenance of Windows hosts
- Netware/Linux server-integration
- basic Linux server operation, focusing on the Apache web server
- teaching (MS Word course, Internet course for medical doctors)
- HTML, HTTP
- Government Standard for Electronic Publishing
- perl programming
- configuration of Linux "thin clients"
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Speech & writing: Danish and English.
Speech: Danish, English, Norwegian and Swedish.