NAME : VOLLSET, THOR
DATE OF BIRTH : 23rd April 1961
LANGUAGE : Scandinavian languages, English, some French
FAMILY STATUS : Married, three children
EDUCATION :
M.Sc.in Control Engineering The Norwegian Institute of Technology NTH University of Trondheim (1980 - 1985)
POSITION : President, TORDIVEL AS

EXPERIENCE:

Supplementary Activities

1992 - : TORDIVEL A/S, president

Main activities:

1992-
Management of the company, marketing and sales.

1992-1995 :
Autronica A/S responsible for developing the graphical user interface for NK-100 MIP Calculator using Borland Pascal 7.0 and ObjectWindows 1.0. Participating in design of the transputer based embedded controller system doing dataaquisition from the engine.

1992 :
Miros AS : Maintenance of transputer software for MIRIS a personell tracking used on offshore installations.

1992 :
Alcatel Telecom Norway AS : Doing an evaluation of the MS Windows NT platform. Implementing a MS Windows demo of toplogy manager.

1993 :
Moland Automation AS developing MiTS Interface SW.

1993 :
Autronica A/S responsible for porting MiTS Protocol to MS-Windows. This was a project performed together with SINTEF Reguleringsteknikk.

1993-1995 :
Autronica AS : Participating in the MiTS Companion Standard workgroups.

1993-1995 :
Autronica A/S participating in the development of PD-100 Prof Diesel partly as responsible for the user interface. PD-100 is a engine condition monitoring system used together with NK-100. Responsible for developing a MiTS interface to Norcontrol Data Chief DC-2000. PD-100 is developed using Borland Pascal 7.0 for Window and ObjectWindows 1.0 and uses Paradox Engine as database frontend.

1995, 1996, 1997, 1998, 1999, 2000, 2001 : Kongsberg Simrad, working as advisor and system architect in the process of moving their Operator Station from UNIX to Windows NT. Design and implementation of an object-oriented kernel to build an Operator Station using Visual C++ and Microsoft Foundation Classes. Implementation and design of Access Control System.

1996 : Autronica A/S project manager for developing a MiTS Maintenance Data Server to link the Autronica products BS-100 Fire Alarm System and PD-100 Prof Diesel to Spectec's AMOS D system.

1997 : Miros AS : Responsible for development av a NT device driver for the new generation Wavex system based on WinRT. This task is performed as a cooperation between TORDIVEL AS and VITA.

1996, 1997, 1998, 1999  : Autronica AS: Responsible for maintenance and further development NK-100 MIP Calculator

1997 : Storm Elektro AS: Responsible for development, design, system integration and deployment of payment system for self service car wash machine, BIVA.The system involved payment by using a properitary magnetic card design for this application and taking the role as an Electronic Cash Register using Bank Axept.

1997 - 1998 : Bailey Norge AS: Responsible for development and design of MiTS Gateway to an @aGlance tagdatabase server. The system shall be deployed on the new MTB built for the Norwegian Navy by Kværner Mandal.

1988 - 1992 : MIROS A/S, employed

Along with the wave radar MIROS, the company had started development of a personnel tracking system MIRIS.

Main activities:

Software development responsible, doing management and development work on computer systems for personell tracking and data acquisition offshore.

Specification and project managment on sub-supplier of electronics.

1989 : Robit A/S. consultant

Main activities: Configuration of PC's for office use, teaching a concept for software implementation on PC's using Modula-2.

1988 : Hydrac A/S, employed

This company was formed based on the HYAC project, for marketing and continued development on the HYAC system.

Main activities:

Project manager, main responsibility was software developement in Modula-2 and analysis of acquired data from offshore installations.

Specification and project managment on sub-supplier of electronics.

1985 - 1987 : A/S Informasjonskontroll, employed

Software implementation on a project developing a hydro-acoustic crack detection and monitoring system (HYAC).

Main activities:

Hardware specification, development and implementation of software algorithms for signal processing.

1983 - 1985 : Adax Fabrikker A/S, consultant

Producing a total of 1000 hrs on project for control of energy consumption in houses.

Main activities:

Specification of software and implementation using Z80 assembly coding.

1981 - 1983 : A/S Informasjonskontroll, part time job

Working for three periods totalling 8 months, on project developing a radar (MIROS) for measurement of ocean surface waves and currents.

Main activities:

Programming in Pascal, assembly of electronic circuits.

Supplementary Activities
:

2000
Software Development East in Washington DC 31. october - 3. november 2000, USA. The largest independant software developer conference in the USA. 

2000:
Tech-Ed 2000 in Amsterdam, 4-7. july 2000, Netherlands

2000:
The VISION SHOW in Boston, april 2000, USA  
A 4 day conference dedicated to VISION and VISION SYSTEMS.,

1999:
"How to build better Objects Models". 4 day workshop conducted by Peter Coad, Object International in Oslo.

1998:
Java Business Expo and Enterprise,  7.-10.   december 1999, New York.
Travel Report found here

1997:
Software Development 97, Washington DC. A week of lectures with focus on software development.
Travel report found here

1996:
Software Development 96, Washington DC. A week of lectures with focus on software development.
Main elements : MS Windows NT, Win32, Borland Delphi and Visual C++ and MFC.

1995:
Leading Design, 5 day programming course Chicago, Visual C++ and Microsoft Fondation Classes

1995:
Software Development 95, Washington DC. A week of lectures with focus on software development.
Main elements : MS Windows-95, NT and OLE 2.0.

1994:
Software Development 94, Washington DC. A week of lectures with focus on software development.
Main elements : MS Windows 3.1, 4.0 and NT,OLE 2.0, Use Case and Object Oriented Design.

1994:
Veritas Classification. Responsible and speaker on one day seminar on "MS Windows in Maritime Instrumetation systems"

1994:
Cap Computas AS in Trondheim. Responsible and speaker on half day seminar on "Presentation of OLE 2.0"

1994-1995 :
Leading the MiTS Companion Standard Workgroup.

1993 :
Nordic Transputer Conference Presentation of paper written by Øyvind Teig Autronica AS and Thor Vollset "Transputer and MS Windows - Case Study of a Development Process".

1993:
Client-Server Programming and Applications using TCP/IP. Interop '93 Fall, San Francisco, Califonia

1993:
Software Development 93, Santa Clara, California
A number of lectures on software development with focus on MS Windows.

1992:
Introduction to the TCP/IP protocol suite at Interop '92 Fall, San Francisco
TCP/IP: Internals and Implementation at Interop '92 Fall, San Francisco

1990:
Object Expo 90 OOP Conference and Exhibition Queen Elizabeth II Conference Centre

1990 :
"Presentation of transputer-network used in MIRIS personell tracking system" Speaker on conference Norwegian Society for Signal Processing, Oslo.

1988 :
One week course on Parallell Processing in London.

1987 :
Offshore safety training, Trondheim Maritime Høgskole

1987 :
"Presentation of HYAC, a Hydroacoustic system for crack detection on offshore oil platform" Norwegian Sociecty for Signal Processing, Horten.

1987 :
One week course on Digital Signal Processing, London Learning Tree International

TORDIVEL AS

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