Curriculum Vitae

John L. Fjellstad
born: 13 April 1974
email: john-cv@fjellstad.org
web: www.fjellstad.org

An accomplished software developer with hands-on knowledge of object-oriented design and development. Experienced with software development processes including analysis, design, development, testing, deployment and maintenance. Expertise in writing multithreaded portable code.

qualifications

  • Strong object-oriented and procedural programming skills, 6+ years of professional experience
  • Software implementation and full production cycle
  • Development of network management software
  • Development of multithreaded and cross-platform software
  • Hands-on knowledge of cross-platform and distributed software, databases, networking, network security, and scripting languages
  • UNIX, GNU/Linux, Java and Windows development experience
  • Supervised development groups in different timezones and across cultures

education

Santa Clara University, School of Engineering Santa Clara, CA

September 2004 – March 2007

  • Engineering Master of Science in Computer Engineering

Santa Clara University, Leavey School of Business – Executive Development Center Santa Clara, CA

27 February – 1 March 2007

  • Management Practices

Santa Clara University, Leavey School of Business – Executive Development Center Santa Clara, CA

29 – 30 November 2006

  • Communication Effectiveness

Santa Clara University Santa Clara, CA

September 1993 – June 1998

  • Bachelor of Science in Computer Science
  • Bachelor of Arts in Philosophy

professional experience

SpareBank 1 Livsforsikring,
Oslo, Norway

System Consultant, April 2008 – present
Development of webservices using BEA WebLogic on Windows and RedHat Linux
Accomplishments include:

  • Introduced Spring framework and Maven into project development in the group
  • Amarta. Developed webservices for SpareBank 1 Amarta project using WebLogic. Responsibility included integration against BBS, installation and release management

ProdEx Technologies,
Saratoga, CA

Software Developer, November 1998 – March 2003
Design and implementation of network management product in Java and C++, on Windows, Solaris and HP-UX. Implemented several network management products as a consultant to companies like HP, Canon and Network Appliance.
Accomplishments include:

  • Designed and implemented next generation network testing framework for HP-UX using C
  • Participated in design and implementation of NetGather. Primary person responsible for porting from Windows to Solaris and HP-UX in C++. Front-end was in Java. Deployed product at customer site
  • Designed and wrote specification for ApplianceWatch, an OpenView NNM plugin, for as a consultant for Network Appliance in C++. Supervised development team in India.
  • Designed and implemented CIM standard based interfaces for Canon Printer Administration PAU in C++
  • Responsible for full product cycle of several SNMP agents on Windows in C++.
  • Implemented OpenView NNM plugin for TopTools in C++
  • Implemented Tivoli Management Environment Plus Module for TopTools
  • Developed a standard cross-platform, thread-safe, logging library for Windows, Solaris and HP-UX in C++

extracurricular experience

Homeserver, 1999 – present

Deployed and managed Debian Linux file-/printserver running DNS (tinydns), Samba and NFS in California and Norway

Homepage, 1999 – present

Deployed and managed Debian Linux mail-/webserver running DNS (tinydns), mailserver (qmail), webmail (squirrelmail), imap (courier-imap) and webserver (apache). Also includes ldap (openldap) for universal addressbook.

technical skills

  • Systems: UNIX (Solaris, HP-UX), GNU/Linux, Windows (NT,2000,XP)
  • Hardware: Sun Workstations/servers, HP servers, PCs
  • Software: VisualStudio, GCC, aCC, SunStudio, GNU Emacs, make/ant, version control (Starteam/cvs/subversion), HP OpenView Network Node Manager (NNM), Tivoli Management Enterprise (TME), HP TopTools
  • Languages: VisualC++, ANSI C++, C, Java, UNIX shell scripts, JavaScript, Perl, AWK, sed, AJAX, XML, (X)HTML, CSS, XSLT
  • Network technology: UNIX sockets, TCP/IP, HTTP, WBEM, SOAP, Web Services, SNMP, SMTP, JAXRPC
  • API: POSIX, Win32, core Java
  • Concepts: Object-Oriented development, cross-platform development, design patterns, networking, multithreading and multiprocessing, security

languages

  • English: reads, writes and speaks
  • Norwegian: reads, writes and speaks
  • Vietnamese: speaks

notes

  • Grew up in Norway. Lived in the US from 1993 to 2007. In Norway from November 2007.
  • Brainbenchwww.brainbench.com/transcript.jsp?pid=7243670
  • References on request

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