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Resume of Sigbjørn Vik

Current Work
Quality Assurance Engineer 2003 - Current
Opera Software, Oslo, Norway; Linköping, Sweden; Tokyo, Japan; Chandigarh, India; Seoul, South Korea

Multiple work roles in multiple departments and locations. I worked on our first Japanese embedded project, and moved to Japan for our second, where I was part of building up our most profitable office. Started our office in India, and currently training employees in Korea. Working in our Core team from abroad, with main responsibilities being security and crashes. Daily work with all kinds of web technologies.

  • Quality Assurance Manager for multiple projects
  • Interviewing, hiring and training of new employees
  • Setting up new offices
  • First point of contact for technical issues with customer projects
  • Speaking at and hosting talks, conferences and barcamps
  • Responsible for handling crash reports in Opera desktop browser
  • Developing solutions for automatic crash testing, and automatic analysis of crash reports
  • Part of the security team, dealing with any security issues in the browser
Education
  • Bachelor of Arts in Computer Science, Mathematics and Physics from Macalester College, St. Paul, Minnesota.
  • Graduated with magna cum laude and honors. Member of Upsilon Pi Epsilon, invited to Pi Mu Epsilon and Phi Beta Kappa.
  • Grade Point Average: 3.83 out of 4.0
  • International Baccalaureate from Red Cross Nordic United World College, Norway.
Computer Related Experience
Technical Software Engineer 2003
Enterprise Solution Consulting, Spain / Falken Document Technologies, Berlin, Germany
  • Development and deployment of document management solutions
  • Running domain, web, dns, network, ftp, backup, CRM and archiving servers
System Administrator 2001 - 2002
Red Cross Nordic United World College, Norway
  • Support, facilities and training for 230 students and teachers
  • Running web, mail, dns, network and backup servers
Software Developer & Tester Summer 2001
Opera, Oslo, Norway
  • Testing web browser, and dealing with customer reports
  • Writing scripts for multi language handling
Software Developer Summer 2000
ColorSpan, St. Paul, Minnesota
  • Developing printer color engine software
  • Developing network applications for packet tracing
College Lab Monitor 1998 - 2001
Database Technician Winter 1997 and Summer 1998
Hardware Technician Summer 1995
Computer Languages
Theory
Knowledge and experience of imperative, functional, scripting, OOP, dynamic web and visual languages
Programming knowledge
Pascal, Basic, C++, Scheme, Mathematica, Perl, PHP, Batch, SQL, Java, Visual Basic, .NET, ASP, XML, (X)HTML and derivatives, CSS, SSI, JavaScript, G, with working knowledge of many more
Web
Expertise in Web technologies, including markup, style, server and client side scripting, networking, security, cross-browser issues and more
Natural Languages
Fluently
Norwegian, English, Spanish, German
Working knowledge
French, Japanese, all Scandinavian, Portuguese and more
Other Jobs
Teacher Math and Physics 2001 - 2002
Sales Consultant Summer 1998
Logistics, Waiter, Construction Work and more Before 1998
Interests
Travel, languages and international relations. I love a good book, a strenuous hike or engaging sports.