CURRICULUM VITAE OF NILS JACOB BERLAND

Personal information

Name: Nils Jacob Mohr Berland
Born: October 24th 1961
Nationality: Norwegian
Marital status: Unmarried
Title: Dr. Scient.
Profession: Consultant and  business owner
Present employer: Pantarei AS
Private address: Ø. Bergveg 34, 5152 Bønes, Norway
Telephone: +47-408 00 410 (mobile)
E-mail: njb@pantarei.no
Languages: Norwegian, English and some German

Education

Cand. mag. (B. Sc.) Faculty of Mathematics and Natural Sciences, University of Bergen, Norway, 1986.

Cand. scient. (M. Sc.) in informatics, University of Bergen, Norway, 1990.Thesis title: Improving bounds for the expected duration in probabilistic activity networks using hypercube multiprocessors.

Dr. scient. (Ph. D.) in informatics, University of Bergen, Norway, 1993. Thesis title: Stochastic optimization and parallel processing.

Course in project management at The Norwegian School of Management, Centre for Executive Education, Management program. 1994.

Work experience

1986 - 89. Part-time work at Group for Advanced Computing, Chr. Michelsen Institute, Bergen, Norway.1985 - 89. Teaching Assistant at Dept. of Informatics, University of Bergen, Norway.1990 - 93. NAVF scholarship at Dept. of Informatics, University of Bergen. Most of the time was spent at Norwegian University of Technology and Science, Trondheim, Norway.

1993. A two month post-doc scholarship at the University of Edinburgh, Scotland.

1993 - 1996. Research scientist at Telenor Research and Development. Project leader from January 1994, working on industrialisation of Trusted Third Party software for electronic commerce, secure electronic mail and EDI. Group leader for "Security" from October 1994 to June 1995. From July 1995 to March 1996 group leader for "Corporate strategy and scenario planning".

March 1996 - October 1996. Senior advisor for Telenor Privat AS. Responsibilities included strategy and scenario-based planning.

October 1996 - February 1999. Senior executive advisor for new business development, Telenor Privat AS.

October 1996 - August 2001. Part-time Associate Professor at the Department of Industrial Economics and Technology Management, Norwegian University of Technology and Science, Trondheim, Norway. Responsible for a Ph.D. course in system dynamics and systems thinking.

August 1998 – 2007. From March 1999 to 2006 fully employed by Pantarei AS. Pantarei AS is a consulting business doing technology, strategy, project management and new business development.

April 1997 – present. From April 2007 fully employed by Smart Management AS. At present CTO and responsible for development of the Tag-hub system.

August 2002-present. Part time position as associate professor at Molde College - primarily in the area of logistics.

Published papers/works

The teleservice goldrush? In Conference proceedings from INDC 1996; Sixth IFIP/ICCC Conference on Information Network and Data Communication. Chapman and Hall. 1996.

Mixing Stochastic Dynamic Programming and Scenario Aggregation. With Kjetil Haugen, Department of Managerial Economics and Operations Research, The Norwegian Institute of Technology, University of Trondheim, Norway. Annals of OR, 1996.

Load balancing in hypercubes solving stochastic optimization problems. ORSA Journal of Computing, 1995.

Sikker elektronisk meldingsformidling. DataZ. Information Systems Audit and Control Association. 1, 1995.

Nøkkeladministrasjon basert på tiltrodde tredjeparter. With Øyvind Eilertsen, Pål Kværnerud, Espen Pettersen, Eva Skipenes and Sverre Walseth. Televerkets Forskningsinstitutt. R 41/94. Confidential.

Evaluering av kort i relasjon til telekommunikasjonsanvendelser. With Eva Skipenes and Halvor Nafstad. Televerkets Forskingsinstitutt. N 22/94. Confidential.

SENSUS - et system for verifisering av tegnstrenger mot brukerdefinerte, kontekstfrie grammatikker. With Rune Espelid, Mette Larsen, Kåre Lunde and Ditlef Martens. CMI report no. 862324--1 and CMI report no. 862324--2. December 1986.

Interests

Professionally I am interested in systems thinking, strategy, distributed systems, computer science and science in general.

My personal interests are tango, outdoor activities, reading and travelling.

References

Professor Jan Audestad, Telenor Corporate University, Telenor AS, Oslo, Norway. Tlf. +47 90 04 98 17.

Roald Boge, Svorka Aksess AS, Surnadal, Norway. Tlf. +47 91 68 91 20.