Birkir A. Barkarson

Mobile Phone: +81 (0)90 8102 1335
Email: cv { at } stoicviking.net

Employment History

System Engineer
Score / Open-Works Ltd. (Tokyo, Japan)
05 2004-07 2007

Worked for Score, a daughter company of the Japanese Olympic Supermarket chain. Mostly handled maintenance and modifications of old legacy systems and interfaces. Work was mostly in C/C++, along with occasional Java, PHP and more.

Moved internally after one year from Score to Open-Works to participate in a Enterprise Java project for Omron. With more high-intensity projects at Open-Works the move was permanent.

Projects:

Programmer
ProArm http://www.proarm.co.jp/ (Tokyo, Japan)
12 2003-04 2004

Joined ProArm as a part of AIESEC trainee program to Japan. Main task was to program web site applications in PERL/CGI.

Software developer
Anza http://www.anza.is/ (Reykjavik, Iceland)
01 2001-04 2004

Worked in the Integration and Consulting section. Responsibilites included production-level programming, documentation and the evaluation of various systems.

Projects:

Computer Specialist
Icelandic Japan K.K. http://www.icelandic.is/ (Tokyo, Japan)
06 2001-08 2001

Specialist work. Computer assistance and integration work.

Projects:

Software developer
Iceland Telecom http://www.siminn.is/ (Reykjavik, Iceland)
10 2000-01 2001

Member of an in-house software development department. The deparment handled most of the companies development needs. It was later made into a daughter company which later became Anza.

Projects:

Education

Technical skills

Operating Systems: Linux (Red Hat, Centos, Fedora, Debian, Ubuntu, Gentoo, and others), Machintos, Sun Solaris and other Unices, Windows 95/98/ME, Windows NT/2K/XP.

Server installation and maintenance experience: Apache HTTPD, MS IIS, Tomcat application server, Various FTP servers (pure-ftp, Apache FTP, MS-FTP etc), SSHD, VMWare, Subversion, MySQL DB, MS SQL, Oracle.

Various Software (administration and user skills were applicable): Drupal CMS, Gallery, Bugzilla, Mantis BugTracker, MediaWiki, DokuWiki, JBuilder, Visual Studio 6/7/8, Eclipse IDE, Mono, MS Office Suite, Open Office Suite, Lotus Notes, Photoshop, Lightwave 3D, Tibco software (see section below), SAP, and more....

Programming Languages: ADA, ASP, BASIC, C/C++, C# (.Net/Mono), PERL, Delphi, Java, Pascal, Scheme, Visual Basic 4~6 and .Net, Ruby, VBScript/VBA, CGI, CSS, HTML, SQL.

Tibco Software Experience: Message Broker, Integration Manger, Rendezvous, Designer, Hawk, Business Connect, Business Works.

Java Enterprise Development Software Experience: Struts Framework, Spring Framework, Hibernate, JUnit, dJUnit, DBUnit, Checkstyle, Findbugs, Apache Commons, Log4J, Ant, Maven, and more....

Natural Languages

English (Native), Icelandic (Native), Japanese (Advanced).

References

Available upon request.

Interests

Computers, Free and Open Source Software (FOSS), Science, Classical Literature, Science Fiction, Aikido, Squash, Cinema, Linguistics, Gourmet food and wine, Photography