Robert Jacobsen
Rådyrveien 7
0595 Oslo
Phone: (+47) 468 78965
E-mail: robert@robertjacobsen.net | Twitter: robertjacobsen
Web: http://www.robertjacobsen.net | Facebook: robertjacobsen
You can also check out my profile at LinkedIn and my public code repository at GitHub.
Goals
My short term goal is to acquire a bachelor degree in computer science with an average grade greater than B.
My long term goal is to excel in understanding programming languages and techniques.
Education
2008 - 2011 | Oslo University College, "Computer Science"
2006 - 2008 | University of Oslo, "Computer Science"
2005 - 2006 | University of Oslo, "Physics, astronomy and meteorology"
2002 - 2005 | Meløy Videregående Skole, "Allmenne fag"
Experience
2009 - present | System Developer, My Opera // Opera Software ASA, Oslo
Tasks: Developing and maintaining features for My Opera.
2009 - 2009 | Community Moderator // Opera Software ASA, Oslo
Tasks: Moderating the content and interacting with users of My Opera.
2007 - 2009 | Quality Assurer // Mamut ASA, Oslo
Tasks: Testing and verifying that the products satisfy their specifications and expectations.
2007 - 2007 | Computer Consultant // Aspector ThinCom, Oslo
Tasks: Helping people with everyday computer problems encountered. In addition I configured computers and solved more intricate problems as for instance networking trouble and Vista incompability.
2003 - present | Webmaster // Nærkanalen Radio Meløy, Ørnes
Tasks: Designing and maintaining a system that could present news and information to Nærkanalen's listeners.
2003 - present | Webmaster // nordLAN, Ørnes
Tasks: Coding and maintaining systems to make people able to sign up for the computer party event, in addition to a system which made it possible for nordLAN's administration to publish news and information regarding the event.
2002 - present | Radio Technician // Nærkanalen Radio Meløy, Ørnes
Tasks: I was often in contact with people, and it was my job to make sure the radio transmissions were cut correctly.
2004 - 2004 | Support // multiLAN, Bodø
Tasks: Helping the participants of the computer party with their computer problems during the four days the event lasted. These problems were mostly issues with firewalls, viruses, system crashes and networking.
2002 - 2004 | Leader // nordLAN, Ørnes
Tasks: Making the event go around by planning and delegating the crew to different tasks at different times.
Qualifications
- Programming languages
Approximate time of start in parentheses - (X)HTML (1998) (frequently used)
- C (autumn 2007)
- C# (spring 2008)
- CSS (2000) (frequently used)
- Java (autumn 2005)
- Javascript (autumn 2005) (frequently used)
- Lua (2006)
- MATLAB (autumn 2005)
- Perl (2009) (frequently used)
- PHP (2000) (frequently used)
- SQL (2003) (frequently used)
- XSL (2009) (frequently used)
- Spoken languages
Level of skill in parentheses - English (fluent)
- Norwegian (fluent)
- Written languages
Level of skill in parentheses - English (excellent)
- Norwegian (Bokmål) (excellent)
- Norwegian (Nynorsk) (average)
- Operating systems
- Fedora/RedHat/Gentoo/Debian/Ubuntu Linux (installation and limited debugging and problem solving)
- Mac OS X 10.4 and newer (installation, debugging and problem solving)
- Windows XP/2000/Vista/7 (installation, debugging and problem solving)
- I have a driver's licence of class B, which allows me to drive car-class vehicles.