University of Oslo

BI Norwegian Business School

Westerdals Oslo ACT

Chief Product Officer at GrepS and Associate Professor at the University of Oslo

Associate Professor

Bringing research-based skill analyses to developers globally. Devs should have better data-driven analytics for how they evolve their technical skills.

GrepS

Chief Product Officer & Co-founder

Interim CEO and Co-founder

I have an adjunct (part-time) position doing research on programming students and professionals at the Programming and Software Engineering group. I also teach topics related to research methods in software engineering with a specific emphasis on quantitative data.

I worked part-time on publishing the results from my PhD as well as some management of industry collaborations. I have reviewed papers for IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering, Empirical Software Engineering, and the Journal of Individual Differences and I was on the program committee for ESEC/FSE 2015. I have also been an examiner at the advanced measurement theory course (UVMET4050) at the Faculty of Educational Sciences, University of Oslo.

Researcher

Technebies was founded based on my PhD work. During the first couple of years, I was responsible for attracting pilot customers and applying for government funding. The company received about 225,000 euros from the FORNY 2020 programme at the Norwegian Research Council for 2012–2014 period. Additionally, I lead a SkatteFUNN project (Innovation Norway/Norwegian Research Council) for the 2014–2017 period. 

As CEO, I was responsible for everything that does not involve programming (even though I did most of the programming we do in R). Technebies was transferred to a new, commercial company in 2017: GrepS (greps.com).

Technebies

CEO & Co-founder

While on leave of absence from Simula Research Laboratory, I worked full time to get R&D funding for a project on assessing programming skill. The project received about 130,000 euros for the 2007–2008 period from the FORNY programme at the Norwegian Research Council.

Simula Research Laboratory AS

T2M Manager

I was given the opportunity of acquiring a third of this company after having obtained the degree of Registered Public Accountant. At the time I had already worked at the company for quite some years. I was responsible for the accounting for some 100+ clients. The company was sold in 2009.

John Holm AS

CEO and Co-owner

I was employed full time at the Department of Software Engineering during my PhD. The years at Simula Research Laboratory mainly involved collecting and analyzing data on programmers and their performance. I was the main, external supervisor for two MSc students in 2007–2008.

PhD Student

I worked part-time on organizing the efforts of a small team of dedicated developers. At the time, Screen Media was trying to get to the production-stage with its product, the FreePad: a Linux-based thin client with a touch screen.

Screen Media Technology AS

Software Project Manager

I acquired this tiny company to learn what is required to run a small business. Over two years, I was involved in everything from legal, accounting, employee management and sales. The company was sold in 2004 to an employee who runs it today.

Genras AS

CEO and owner

I was the third employee in this start-up. My responsibilities were mainly software development (C++) and setting up research collaboration with NTNU in Trondheim, Norway.

GridMedia AS

Software Architect Lead

I worked part-time on extending the functionality of a 3D multi-user platform. Some of the work involved adding support for JavaScript so that the C++ based platform was compliant with the VRML standard. A start-up company (Octaga) was later spun out of Telenor R&D to commercialize the technical platform.

Telenor Research and Developement

Software Developer

I worked part-time running the IT infrastructure of this small company. I was also responsible for the automation of day-to-day processes.

Gunnar Bergersen