Espen Halsaa Albrektsen

Curriculum Vitae

Espen Halsaa Albrektsen• Master of Science who is thrilled by creating

solutions to complex problems• Enthusiastic team member and project manager• Very strong analytical skills• Solid subject knowledge

– Physics– Software development– Software methodology– Electronics and mechatronics– Project management

Background

• Born in Oslo, August 24, 1972• Grew up in Lillehammer and Gjøvik• Married to Dr. Med Gry Elise (Dr.Med.)• Three children

– Eirik (Born 9.januar 1999)– Thor (Born 29.november 2000)– Ulrik (Born 17.february 2009)

Education

• Tranberg Highschool, GjøvikGrade point average: 5,65 (6 is best)

• One year at college in Georgia, USA on scholarship from Rotary

Grade point average : 4,0 (4,0 is best)

• Norges Tekniske Høgskole (now NTNU) in Trondheim (Master of Science / Siv.Ing)

Grade point average: 1,4 (1,0 is beste)

Skills

• Software development• Electronics design• Project management• System design• Physics

Skills• Software development

– Primary languages: C, C# .Net, C++, VB .Net – Secondary lanuages: Java (J2ME, J2EE), SQL– Realtime systems with and without operating systems

• VxWorks from WindRiver• Linux• 8051

– Standard Windows applications• ASP .Net• SQL 2005

– National Instruments Tools (HW & SW)

• FPGA (PowerPC)• Microcontroller (Atmel AVR)• MSP430

•Windows Forms•MBUnit, TypeMock

Skills• Project management

– Software projects

• Electronics– Can read and

understand schematics– Physics background

very helpfull in faultfinding and debugging

• Methodology– Test Driven Development– Continuous Integration

• CruiseControl• Hudson / Jenkins

• Digital Validation– Developed a streamlined

process for using software testing tools in HW verification

Skills

• System design– Wide experience from both HW and SW

system design from incepcion phase, requirements phase and development phase.

• Physics– Master of Science in physics

• Electronics• Mechanics Sensor

Experience

1996, 1997 Summer Intern SINTEF Oslo1997-1999 Innovative Sensor Products1999-2003 Data Respons AS, Trondheim2003-2004 Flora High School2004-2005 Data Respons AS, Oslo2005-2008 Mercatus AS2008- Albrektsen Innovasjon

Innovative Sensor Products1997-1999

The company:• 1997 startup company• Wanted to develop sensors for navigation and vehicle control• First sensor: Minituarized Fluzgate compass.My tasks:• Hired to develop electronics close to the sensor• Main focus quickly turned to the sensor itself, because it was not

possible to purchase magnetic materials of sufficient quality• Company tried to develop it’s own magnetic material, this became my

main responsibility. This was an exciting phase with close contact with leading research centers at ETH, Zurich and with IBM.

• Company was closed down when we concluded that it was not possible to develop the needed quality within the available budgets.

Data Respons1999-2005

The company• Delivers contracting services and standard off-the

shelf solutions to industrial companies• Focuses mainly on realtime and embedded

systems• 120 employees in Norway, Sweden, Denmark and

Finland• Data Respons executes most tasks in their own

offices – this allows focusing on building strong internal competence

Data Respons1999-2005

My tasks - Software development– Large projects for Q-Free – radio based toll systems.

Involved system design and architecture, development and project management

– VxWorks operating system on Motorola PowerPC and 68k architecture

– FrameGrabber – Linux driver SW for Linux and VxWorks (BT848 chipset)

– TCP/IP – Fault finding for network problems under VxWorks

– LabView / LabWindows test system development

Data Respons1999-2005

My tasks – Hardware development• Project manager for ”PipeScanner” development

– 8 different PCBs– High-energi D/A circuit (600V, 200kHz-2MHz)– High-resulotion, noise-sensitive A/D circuit (12bit@8MHz)– Heavy bandwidth data transfer

• Xilinx FPGA (Virtex2Pro)• GigaBit ethernet

– Extremely complex mechatronichs• Circular design• Minimal area og volume

My tasks were both within project management, design and quality control

PipeScanner• Technology licensed to Breivoll Inspection Techologies

from Det Norske Veritas• Measures remaining metal thickness from the inside,

using ultrasound• Unique technology• Version 2 won the ”

Norwegian Engineering Success of the year” in 2007

Data Respons1999-2005

• SCAP – Scan and Pay– Shopping solution for

mobile phone– J2ME application on

the phone using a barcode skanner.

– J2EE application on central server and in each associated store.

• My tasks– Developed all softare

for the telephone using J2ME, Eclipse and Junit

– Developed 30% of the server code using Jboss and J2EE

– Developed tools to improve development intetration with J2EE server

Mercatus AS2005-2008

• Mercatus makes web based solutions for the Aqua and Agri businesses

• Developed on Microsoft .Net platform

• 20 employees in Florø• 10 employees in Chile

My tasks:• 2005-2007 : Director of Development

Responsible for all new developemnt. Worked a lot with methodology TestDriven, .Net, MBUnit og TypeMockUsed DotNetNuke portal framework

• 2007-2008 : Chief Techical Officer– All developers reported to me– Responsible for all development– Responsible for all production systems– Tightly involved in customer processes

Albrektsen Innovasjon AS• Started April 2008• Offers contracting

services• Based in Florø, travels to

the customer when that is beneficial.

• 100% booking (and more) since start

• Hired services from subcontractor in 2010 in order to meet demands

Customers:2008 : Texas Instruments

(ChipCon)2009 : Texas Instruments,

Q-Free and StatKraft2010 : Texas Instruments,

Q-Free and StatKraft2011 : Texas Instruments and

StatKraft

Texas Instruments• Digital Validation

– 8051-based RF SoC• CC2530 - 2.4GHz ZigBee• CC2540 – 2.4GHz Bluetooth

low-energy

– 2.4GHz 5MBit tranceiver• Writing C firmware to validate

a product• Writing C# to automate testing

process• Using National Instruments to

excercise Device Under Test

• Design Lead PurePath Wireless Audio– CC85xx– Uncompressed audio

(PCM16@44.1kHz) over the air

– One transmitter– 1 - 4 receivers– 1 - 4 audio channels

Q-Free

• Software Architect for next generation SW• Build automation

– Continuous integration server evaluation– Hudson / Jenkins Configuration

• Software support– VxWorks C++ application

• Motorola 68k and MBX PowerPC

– Java log/test/analysis applications

StatKraft• SIRDAS.Net

– Application for findingaverage snow depth by analyzing radar rawdata

– Written in C#– Advanced mathematics for filtering– Image analysis for finding optimal

route (DIJKSTRA)

References

• Trygg Eliassen (Texas Instruments)

t.eliassen@ti.com / 95 21 18 06

• Torkil Brunsvik (Texas Instruments)

t.brunsvik@ti.com / 97 52 52 94

• Ståle Toverød(Q-Free)

Staale.Toverod@q-free.com / 91 35 94 15

• Knut Sand (StatKraft)

knut.sand@statkraft.com / 93 05 85 77