Continually-Evolving

Cirriculum Vitae

Personalia

NameTor Magnus Castberg
Date of Birth1974-03-07
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Key Qualifications

10 years of experience in programming, and system & database administration. Good understating of a broad selection of topics, including security practices, network administration and programming, operating systems implementation and usage, database solution implementations and maintenance, and hardware systems. Creative and imaginative with a keen interest in new development and problem solving. Responsible and practiced in managing small groups of people.

Languages

NorwegianFluent, oral and written.
EnglishFluent, oral and written.

Educations and Training

07/07Oracle Application Server 10g R2: Administration II
09/03 - 06/061st class BSc (Hons) in Computer Science at Kingston University
04/99ANSI C programming
03/99Unix Shell programming
02/99Advanced Unix
06/98Oracle7: Installation, operation and optimisation in a Unix environment
05/98First Watch for System Administrators
02/98Solaris 2.6 System Administration 2
02/98Solaris 2.6 System Administration 1
01/98Oracle7: Basic Database Administration
01/98Oracle7: SQL Basics
09/97Citric WinFrame 1.6 Certified Administrator
09/97Internetworing TCP/IP using MS Windows NT 4.0
05/97Supporting MS Windows NT Server 4.0 Enterprise Technologies
03/97Supporting MS Windows NT 4.0 Core Technologies
03/97Administration MS Windows NT 4.0
08/94 - 06/95Selected hich school level classes at Trondheim Private Gymnas
09/93Security guard certification
08/90 - 06/911st. year high school at Gerhard Schønning Skole

Work and Experience

11/08 - PresentFlow Traders N.V. - Unix Specialist
Unix administration focusing on software and hardware maintenance.
Managing high performance, low latency infrastructure and in-house trading software in a time critical environment.
02/08 - 11/08BinckBank N.V. - Unix Specialist
Unix administration focusing on automation and monitoring at BinckBank.
Managing of Nagios for montioring and Cfengine for change management across several sites using IBM AIX, Linux, Sybase and Oracle.
01/07 - 02/08Sapienza Consulting - System Administrator
Unix administration / Oracle DBA focusing on automation, monitoring, high-availability and security at ESA/ESTEC.
Implementation of Nagios for montioring and Cfengine for change management across several sites. Implementation of a high availability architecture for Oracle ContentDB, OCS and Portal using CoreID for authentication on Sun Solaris and Linux.
06/06 - 09/06Ipsotek Ltd - Programming contractor
Designing and developing network, security and interface solutions for Ipsotek Ltd version 10 of their visual surveillance suite running on embedded Windows platform.
07/01 - 10/03FUNCOM AS - Lead programmer, billing team
Development and programming of new billing system for the game Anarchy-Online, using Zope, Python and Oracle on Linux platform. Established and maintained relationships with new and existing payment partners.
08/00 - 07/01PROSEQ AS - Security Analyst / MSS Developer
Unix administrator / Oracle DBA/developer. Applying security knowledge to provide solutions for secure communications between company and customers. Contributing to structuring of new database solutions. Linux and Oracle, installation, tuning and maintenance.
07/00 - 08/00SYSTEM SIKKERHET AS - Unix Administration and Oracle DBA/developer
Unix administrator / Oracle DBA/developer. Restructured IDS database and built new data handling programs for pickup and insertion of IDS data in IDS database.
12/97 - 07/00ICL SORBUS AS - Sun administration and Oracle DBA
Unix administration / Oracle DBA mainly working for NSB Gardermobanen (Airport Expresstrain) in Oslo. Responsibilities included installation, configuration, tuning and upgrading of Sun Solaris servers with Oracle and Sybase on Sun Sparc machines. This also included extensive work with Sun hardware and business relations with several software vendors.
01/97 - 11/97UNISYS NORGE AS - Service engineer
Hardware installation and upgrade, software installation, upgrade and maintenance.Preparation of new PC's for customers and troubleshooting on-site for contract customers using all pre W2k versions of Windows. Updated system for preloading of new PC's.
07/96 - 11/96ARMY BUTIKKEN AS - Salesrep, head of paintball section
Sale of paintball markers and accessories. Establishing and maintaining vendor relationships in USA.
11/95 - 05/96HiST, INSTITUTT FOR KJEMI - Office work
Creating lists, proofreading of reports and development of Access databases.
06/95 - 11/95INTERLINK AS - Various
Sale of internet connectivity and advertising on web. User support for internet customers on all pre Win98 versions of Windows, OS/2 and Linux. Maintenance of InterLinks homepages. Maintenance and upgrading of Intel hardware.
03/93 - 02/94COMPULSORY MILITARY SERVICE - MP, Værnes Airport

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