h3. Summary
* 13 years of experience working with software development as a developer, lead developer and technical lead
* 10 years of consulting experience, specializing in web- and portal-solutions
* Extensive experience doing requirements gathering and writing proposals, requirements specifications and technical design documents
* Creative (engineering wise—not design wise) and able to “think out of the box”
h3. Specialties
Web development and database development using Ruby, Ruby on Rails, Oracle, MySQL and PostgreSQL databases, Oracle Application Server, Oracle Portal, Oracle APEX, Linux, Apache, PL/SQL, shell-scripting.
h3. Services supplied
Ruby on Rails Consulting and Application Development, Oracle Web Development, Consultancy on bleeding edge technologies.
h3. Experience
*May 2010 to present*
_Mentor_ at “Startupbootcamp”:http://www.startupbootcamp.org/mentors/. I am a mentor to Startupbootcamp, a European startup accelerator network. I contribute my expertise in technology with focus on software development, architecture, technology platforms and recruiting software developers. See “startupbootcamp.org”:http://www.startupbootcamp.org for more information and to apply for the program.
*August 2005 to present*
_Independent Technology Consultant_ at “productive.dk”:http://productive.dk/. Some of the larger projects are listed below. Also see the “Featured Projects”:http://productive.dk/category/projects page.
*2010*: “bog.nu”:http://bog.nu. A book price comparison site that also aggregates all Danish book reviews. The main app is implemented in Ruby on Rails and the real-time price search engine in EventMachine. The project was done in partnership with “Casper Fabricius”:http://casperfabricius.com.
*2010*: “scrum.dk”:http://scrum.dk. The personal site of scrum trainer Jens Østergaard. Built using “Refinery CMS”:http://refinerycms.com and a few custom engines. Hosted on “Heroku”:http://heroku.com.
*2009/2010*: External Consultant at “DONG Energy”:http://www.dongenergy.dk/. Implemented web-service interfaces for a datawarehouse and developed web-frontends for a masterdata repository and several smaller backend applications for operations and monitoring.
*2009/2010*: “Scrum.org”:http://courses.scrum.org (Ken Schwaber). Site for booking certified Scrum training. Implementation in Rails, managed hosting and ongoing maintenance.
*2008/2009*: “Scrum Training Institute”:http://scrumtraininginstitute.com (Jeff Sutherland et al.). Implementation in Ruby on Rails and ongoing maintenance and hosting.
*2008*: Subcontractor on development of a new danish real estate site. Implemented with Ruby on Rails and hosted on Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2).
*2008*: Interim CTO at Askmebluu. Managed a small Ruby development team.
*2008*: Radiant CMS site for S&J Gruppen/Sundhedsparken Køge.
*2006/7*: Subcontractor at “NNIT”:http://nnit.com. Implementation of “Borger.dk”:http://borger.dk for “the National IT and Telecom Agency”:http://itst.dk and a Proof-of-Concept project testing Federated Identity for “the Ministry of Finance”:http://fm.dk. Roles held: Senior developer, team lead, architect.
*2006*: New “website”:http://vtu.dk for the Ministry of Science, Technology and Innovation in cooperation with DFC-IT.
*2005/6*: Subcontractor at “WM-data”:http://www.wmdata.dk. Working mostly with “the National IT and Telecom Agency”:http://itst.dk and other agencies under “the Ministry of Science, Technology and Innovation”:http://vtu.dk.
*2005*: Subcontractor at Ementor working as Senior Developer on “foa.danmark.dk”:http://foa.danmark.dk.
*July 2003 to August 2005*
_Senior Consultant_ with “Ementor”:http://www.ementor.com, working on enterprise Oracle solutions. Mainly involved in the project startup phases, writing proposals, doing requirements gathering, writing technical design documentation for large public sector accounts. Worked on “denmark.dk”:http://www.denmark.dk, “danmark.dk”:http://www.danmark.dk and “foa.danmark.dk”:http://foa.danmark.dk and other portal projects.
*November 2002 to July 2003 and July 1997 to September 1999*
_Consultant_ with “RAMBØLL Informatik”:http://www.ramboll-informatik.com. Worked primarily with Oracle technology and mobile solutions for large public sector accounts.
*November 2001 to November 2002*
_IT Consultant_ with “Dansk Software”:http://www.dansk-software.dk, working with portal and database development for both private and public sector clients. Took part in pre-sales activities, sales meetings, product demonstrations.
*January 2000 to September 2001*
With “MyPersonal.com, Inc.”:http://web.archive.org/web/*/www.mypersonal.com (now “Synacor, Inc.”:http://www.synacor.com), a portal, messaging and collaboration solution provider based in Emeryville, California. Started as _freelance consultant_ in January of 2000 working on various development projects. Joined MyPersonal in May 2000 as _Senior Web Developer_ and later serving as _Director of System Engineering_ reporting to the “VP of Engineering”:http://www.google.com/search?q=ray+valdes+ckmp+OR+mypersonal.
Managed the operations of MyPersonal’s production and development environments, supervised three System Administrators and planned and supervised software development, maintenance and deployment to ensure 24×7 operations for 100+ portals. Supplied technical expertise in discussions with partners and clients.
Lead the launch of a completely redesigned “version 3.0”:http://www.proseedcapital.com/releases/release_mypersonal_20001016.html platform including the migration of existing clients from two earlier platforms. Established the new development environment and procedures and instructed developers and HTML-coders in the use of the new platform.
Worked as lead developer on the implementation of several high profile web sites, including the “MyHarley”:http://web.archive.org/web/*/http://www.myharley.ws, “MyBudweiser”:http://www.mybudweiser.com and BlueLight.com (Kmart) portals.
Designed and developed the framework to implement wireless/mobile versions of MyPersonal’s existing portals presenting the user with the same content and personalization as on the primary (desktop-based) version of the portals.
Worked with most of the major content aggregators including “ScreamingMedia”:http://www.screamingmedia.com, “iSyndicate”:http://www.isyndicate.com and “YellowBrix”:http://www.yellowbrix.com and several individual content providers including “The New York Times”:http://www.nytimes.com, “Quote.com”:http://www.quote.com, WeatherLabs (now “IntelliCast”:http://www.intellicast.com) and “AccuWeather”:http://www.accuweather.com.
h3. Communication Skills
Excellent verbal and written communication skills in English and Danish.
Communicates well with both technical and non-technical professionals.
h3. Education
*1997*
Graduated from Advanced Computer Studies (a.k.a. the Datamatician educational program) at “Niels Brock Copenhagen Business College”:http://www.brock.dk/changeLocale?locale=en. The education is comparable to a Danish Bachelor of Computer Science.
*1990*
General Certificate of Education, A-Levels from “Metropolitanskolens Gymnasium”:http://www.metropolitanskolen.dk.
h3. Certifications
*2008*
“Certified Scrum Master”:http://www.scrumalliance.org/profiles/44585-jesper-hvirring-henriksen
*2005*
Oracle 10g Database Specialist Sales Champion, Oracle9i Sales Champion, Oracle9i Technical Champion, Managing Oracle on Linux.
*2003*
Oracle9i Technical Champion.
*1999*
Oracle Certified Application Developer (as the first ever in Scandinavia). To learn more about the Oracle Certified Professional Program visit “oracle.com/education/certification”:http://www.oracle.com/education/certification.
Jesper Hvirring Henriksen
hvirring.dk 