BEKK's project manager program

BEKK's leadership development program

Bachelor Information Technology

Informasjonsteknologi

Artium

https://radar.bekk.no/ BEKK Technology Radar (BEKK Teknologiradar) for 2018 is a snapshot of how we look at the technology landscape now, with a perspective to technology's potential, maturity and available expertise - all in a Norwegian context.

The project was to remake the old radar application into a more modern stack, and to implement new design that made it easier to get a grasp of the emerging/disappearing trends and technologies.

The team consisted of two frontend developers and one interaction designer.

The technologies used was React, Redux, OpenGL, Webpack and Docker. The codebase was hosted on GitHub.

As a frontend developer, Alexander developed the GUI for the application.

Frontend Developer for BEKK Open Radar

Mandatory military service. Stationed at FTVR,FOHK/JHQN (NATO) Jåttå, Stavanger.

Chaffeur

Part-time Technical support. First line. Windows, ghosting, hardware upgrades, outlook administration.

Technical Support

Participated in activites to promote the school

Member of the schools PR-team

Co-founder, co-owner and General Manager of UMedia DA. A company focusing on selling IT Hardware, Web Development and contributing with technical support. We deliver hardware for businesses and  for the private market. Express or normal delivery. Personal delivery when possible.

First year we had an annual turnover on 250 000 NOK. 

We had to temporarily hibernate the startup from 2005 to present time due to lack of time vs education and income.

Co-founder, Chairman and General Manager

Held meetings, wrote meeting minutes, informed the school of social activities

Deputy Chairman of the social committee

Platoon representative in the recruit part of my mandatory military service. Stationed at KNM Harald Hårfagre.

Representative

If is an insurance company in the Nordic and Baltic regions with over 3.2 million customers.

MyBusiness is the project aimed at developing and managing the web application for businesses holding insurance with If. The goal was to create a dashboard providing a comprehensive overview of insurance policies, invoices, and communication between the customer and If. This was designed to be a self-service solution.

The team consisted of two frontend developers, four full-stack developers, two interaction designers, a service designer, a designer, and a product owner.

Alexander was responsible for the GUI and implemented it as a Single Page Application (SPA) in React. The codebase was hosted on GitHub, and CircleCI was utilized. The project followed an Agile methodology, with a Continuous Delivery approach.

The value in the project lay in simplifying the customer relationship for end-users through the self-service solution that was developed.

- Developed and was responsible for the graph

Consulting Frontend Developer for MyBusiness

I co-founded the committee and it quickly grew to the largest committee at the school

Deputy Chairman of the Linux committee

The Norwegian Directorate for Higher Education and Skills (HK-dir) has a comprehensive, national responsibility for administrative tasks related to higher education, higher vocational education, and competence policy.

HK-dir is tasked with establishing a vocational resource on Utdanning.no. Guidelines have been provided by the Ministry of Local Government and Regional Development, specifying that the resource should contain student- and teacher-adapted information about the role of employees, career guidance, job interview training, and application and CV writing. The purpose is to strengthen students' career learning and contribute to their preparation for participation in the workforce. The project aims to improve three services. Thorough user testing and design adjustments are needed for all three services, particularly in their interaction flow, followed by the implementation of all adjustments.

The codebase for the services is in GitHub, deployed with Docker, and is based on Nex

Team Lead and Senior Frontend Developer

Junior Developer

Member of the student council

The working committee is responsible for the daily operations of the NITH Stavanger student community. 

I was reponsibile to keep the students informed with the activities in the community

Information officer in the working committee

Part-time Receptionist with some logistic responsibillity for the congress center.

Receptionist

Storebrand is a comprehensive Nordic financial group offering services in pension, savings, banking, and insurance.

Alexander played a key role and served as a trusted advisor in connection with the development of frontend systems within Storebrand's system portfolio, including "Fripolise med Investeringsvalg", "Ditt pensjonstall", and more. He consciously worked on making the solutions more accessible and consistent, ensuring compliance with WCAG requirements.

Additionally, he took on the role of team lead in the development of a banking integration between Storebrand and SDC.

- Consulting partner in several projects within pensions, banking, and insurance.
- Led the team for the bank integration between SDC (supplier) and Storebrand Web. Facilitated and set the technical direction of the project while safeguarding the interests of the client and end-users.

Consulting Frontend Developer/Team Lead

Knowit is a Nordic powerhouse for the digital solutions of the future. Knowit's vision is to create a sustainable and humane society through digitalization and innovation. Knowit support customers in the digital transformation, simplify people’s everyday lives and create secure and innovative solutions enabling a sustainable future

- The consultant has participated in business-critical and innovative client projects
- Alexander is looked up to as a professional beacon within frontend
- He is continuously striving to improve the professional environment and how we make ourselves better
- The consultant created and manages the Knowit Internal Design System project
- The consultant created and manages the Knowit Internal Developer Platform
- Alexander is also a part the committee for Knowit's biggest internal event, dot.festival (previously known as Knowit Developer Summit (KDS)), reaching out to 4000 people, facilitating program, venue and other relevant issues.

Principal Engineer

The Urban Environment Agency in Oslo municipality is responsible for planning and development, management and operation of municipal urban spaces in Oslo. The urban space includes common areas such as roads and streets, squares and meeting places, parks and open spaces. The area of ​​responsibility also includes municipal sports facilities and outdoor facilities, as well as municipal landscape spaces in the fields and inner Oslofjord.

The Urban Environment Agency is also responsible for areas that are regulated for roads, pavements, pedestrian streets or squares in the city centre, as well as Stortorvet and Youngstorvet. Responsibility for environmental health protection (air, noise, water, soil), which is not of a medical nature, also lies with the City Environment Agency.

Frontend Developer

Created, developed and maintained web applications, web services and whole sites. Some design, frontend and backend. Mostly frontend. The job also included web support, bug fixing, project management, project ownership and training/education of system users.

- Created where2go.no, a short lived online version of the free magazine
- Created Stat.Sys, an internal statistical analytics engine and GUI for editors to keep track of article statistics
- Created Ad.Sys, an app to select, display and change articles via a Flash ad on other sites, live.
- Created a drag and drop interface for the editors to manage articles and to keep a real time view of the articles on a given magazine front page, with live tracking of impressions and clicks.
- Created Trendtoppen, a "hot or not" clone for the outfits of the celebrities.
- System Administrator and Technical Lead in implementation of Invision Power Board as a main forum for all our sites, especially ITavisen.
- Technical Lead in implementation 

Web Developer

https://radar.bekk.no/ BEKK Technology Radar (BEKK Teknologiradar) for 2018 is a snapshot of how we look at the technology landscape now, with a perspective to technology's potential, maturity and available expertise - all in a Norwegian context.

As a member of the editorial board, Alexander was responsible to collect data on emerging/disappearing trends and technologies, and prune them into a consumable overview for the public.

Editorial Board Member for BEKK Technology Radar

SiO is the welfare organisation for students at 27 educational institutions in Oslo

The project involved implementing a new design and new solutions on their website, with a specific focus on the rental of student housing.

The service was based on Enonic, with developed JavaScript applications. Other technologies used was HTML5, CSS, gulp and node. The codebase for the applications was hosted on GitHub.

The value in the project was a more targeted design for end-users, as well as simplified solutions to facilitate the process of finding student housing.

- Alexander developed parts of a new web-solution for the client, with focus on self-service and information.

Consulting  Frontend Developer

The Norwegian Public Roads Administration (NPRA) strives to provide a smart and continuous road transport system for all of Norway.

The transformation program FRAM is the Norwegian Road Administration's muscle for improvement, streamlining and organizational development, and since 2019 has been one of the director of roads' central initiatives to enable the company to deliver even better on its top targets. A major deliverable within FRAM in 2021 and 2022 was the preparation of a holistic service model for the business that describes services per unit, and division of responsibilities in the form of a "HUKI matrix" that maps roles and responsibilities across the business. The service model will be central to further development of the organisation, strategy realization and business management. 

The project aimed to further develop and redesign the service model to make services and departments more visible, and to simplify the process of finding the right responsible individuals with

Senior Frontend Developer for FRAM: Digital tjenestemodell

Team Leader for the Jutul Hockey 2011 team. 

Team Leader

Senior Consultant for clients and specific projects.

Participated in these annual research groups:

- 2014: Frontend: A group dedicated to explore TypeScript, Multi Screen Responsive Web Design, Typography, Innsights and analytics, Editorial Design etc.
- 2013: Web Architecture: A group to explore the current state of Web Architecture.

Senior Frontend Consultant

If is an insurance company in the Nordic and Baltic regions with over 3.2 million customers.

A design system is a system composed of various design elements, functional components, rules, and guidelines. The design systems were intended to deliver consistent design across all platforms, both internal and external.

The system utilized Azure DevOps, Azure Artifacts, and Azure Services for deploying code, design tokens, and documentation.

The If Design System team consisted of 7 members, with 6 from the client, and the client's members were located across the Nordic and Baltic regions.

Relax, the If Internal Design System team had 2 members.

The design systems delivered value in the form of consistent design across 8 countries, in 10 languages, for over 50 designers, over 100 application teams, and over 900 developers.

Alexander played a pivotal role in driving the design systems and conducted presentations and workshops related to the design systems at international, national, and 

Founder and Technical Lead for If Design System

Manager (Frontend Developer) for clients and specific projects.

Participated in these annual research groups:

- 2022: Design and Technology: A group dedicated to research and prototype virtual/physical installations, that crosses two different disciplines, to be used in public.
- 2021: Assignment management: A group dedicated to train and to bolster the competence we use at our clients in regards of projects and assignments. Keywords here is: argumentation techniques, team management, human resources, feedback cycles etc.
- 2020: Rock solid: A group dedicated to build rock solid and sustainable web applications.
- 2019: Open Source: A group dedicated to contribute and learn about Open Source.
- 2018: Open Source: A group dedicated to contribute and learn about Open Source. 
- 2018: (same year) Data visualization: A group dedicated to learn and create inspiring data visualizations.
- 2017: Design Engineering: We worked interdisciplinary with issues within the user experience - creatin

Manager

Entur AS is a Norwegian state-owned company established to provide sales and ticketing solutions for the railway sector and a journey planner for public transportation throughout Norway. Entur also establishes a national data platform for the public transportation sector.

The Product Team is responsible for the development and management of all Entur products across all operators.

I worked on the further development of a web application for the registration, modification, and deletion of products and product data. During that time, the application was only used by data managers at Entur, but it was intended to be used by the operators themselves in the future. My main focus from day one had been refactoring and cleaning up the codebase.

The frontend is designed following a microservice architecture, runs with Docker containers in Kubernetes, is deployed with Harness, and uses CI/CD with CircleCI.

The team operated in an agile manner, and he has contributed to knowledge sharing thro

Knowit is a Nordic powerhouse for the digital solutions of the future. Knowit's vision is to create a sustainable and humane society through digitalization and innovation. Knowit support customers in the digital transformation, simplify people’s everyday lives and create secure and innovative solutions enabling a sustainable future.

- Due to merging with another daughter company, the company shifted from positions to roles, so all employees are now without title, and are employed as Consultants.

Consultant

Connecting the Cross-Disciplinary Dots Between Knowit Employees!

dot.festival (previously known as Knowit Developer Summit) is the Knowit's biggest internal event, targeting over 4000 employees! We arrange and plan it, we are its speakers and we make up for its audience. In short, it is organized for us, by us.

Alexander facilitated meetings, was responsible for the program, and organized the budget and venue.

Member of the Knowit Developer Summit/dot.festival committee

For over a decade, I've been an Open Source maintainer and developer for several projects.

Open Source Maintainer

Driving Growth Through Technology & Leadership | Technology leader and Frontend expert with nearly 30 years of experienc

github

medium

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