Curriculum Vitæ

January 2012

Systematic Software Engineering A/S

In September 2003, I was hired by Systematic Software Engineering A/S at the head offices in Århus, Denmark. Systematic is a software development house specializing in developing mission critical solutions for the defense and healthcare sectors as well as, in select cases, for other civilian industries, using high maturity processes. While at Systematic, I followed the company as its maturity evolved from CMMI level three to CMMI level five (the highest there is), actively participating in level five activities.

I was hired as a developer to work on Systematic's next flagship product, SitaWare, then mearely a prototype, becomming a command and control information system framework designed for multilateral interoperability and high flexibility and modularity. Within a short time of hire, it became clear that I had a lot to contribute and after having designed and implemented the application framework itself, I quickly became the de-facto product architect. After less than twelve month of hire (being his first job, that is less than a year of total professional experience) I officially assumed the role of product architect. My main contributions to the product include

• Design, implementation, and documentation of the SitaWare Application Framework and its API.
• Design and implementationof the GIS integration layer, requiring extensive C (mixed with some C++ and MFC) to .NET interoperability.
• Design and implementation of a security infrastructure harnessing .NET code access security to provide a solid yet flexible security model for the entire application.
• Introducing an overall componentized software architecture, including a domain model abstraction layer.

As product architect (later promoted to lead developer), I was a significant adviser for developers both on the team and in the rest of the house. I developed the critical parts of the system, researched and experimented with new ideas and technologies, and acts as the technical spearhead in international co-operations, specifically with ESRI of Palm Springs, California and the IBM Centre of Excellence in Helsinki, Finland.

Aside from being lead developer, I was a code review leader and the product configuration management responsible. As such I pioneered the implementation of the concept of configuration items, a way of expressing and maintaining software components at the configuration management level, as well as introduced code quality improvement initiatives, such as using code analysis tools (e.g. FxCop). Through these efforts I has helped the product team developers write much improved code.

By the time I left, Systematic had had it's best year, about which Computerworld wrote: "Fremgangen skyldes blandt andet en uventet hurtig succes for virksomhedens kerneprodukt, kommandokontrol-softwaren SitaWare".

Systematic's offensive supplementary training program allowed I to obtain several Microsoft certifications. Realizing that such certifications provides neither relevant education nor appropriate measure of ability, I stopped pursuing them after having acquired two MCP certifications.

Main experiences gained working at Systematic include:

• .NET Development, including native code interoperability, code access security.
• Application framework architectures.
• High maturity development processes.
• Using configuration management to improve product quality.
• Database development (supporting multiple database vendors in the same application).
• Geographical Information Systems.
• Innovative user interfaces.

Last updated: January 4th, 2012.