Personal qualities

• Sociable
• Cooperative
• Teamworker
• Service minded
• Customer oriented
• Eager to learn and quick study
• Always wanting more knowledge
• Structured, organized and principled
• Forward leaning around technology
• Like to challenge myself

• Fagansvarlig Plattform
• Fagansvarlig Citrix Solutions
• TAM experience
• Member in internal operations project, manager/responsible for sub areas in the project
• Manager and architect for Multitenant Citrix solution
• Responsible and architect for Citrix Solution for enterprise customer
• Experience with Microsoft Intune and Autopilot deployments

My interest in computers, IT and technology in general started from a young age. I grew up in the northwestern part of Norway on an island called Averøy in Møre og Romsdal. When it came to activities to do outside of school, there was never too many options, the basics, soccer, boy scouts etc, which never quite hit the spot for me, although I tried – I settled with skateboarding for a while. 

I got my first actual computer in the 5/6 grade I believe – this soon became something of both an interest, passion and hobby, and of course – to my parent’s frustration – there was a lot of gaming involved as well (and internet costs – good’ol dial-up days). But as a young gamer there was also the need to “get to know” the hardware inside – again to the parent’s frustration – I soon found screwdrivers and started taking stuff apart, upgrading components and so on. 
This evolved to start building computers, keeping up with new products and changes, tweaking, hacking the OS for various needs in the process. This soon became what most of my time went into, and it came naturally for me to go this way for education also. Because I’d been doing so much of this from a young age, getting the education done came easily and I also thought my teachers a lot in the process. 

I got a job straight out from school at a local company and has been going at it ever since – though minus the gaming part. I have a real passion for technology and knowledge around it, today things are changing so quick it’s insane – but this also makes it a lot of fun, but also challenging.Working with technology as a consultant I find very interesting, and as a consultant I always give my straight opinion in the cases I’m involved in. This benefit both the employer and the client. I’m not interested in giving clients false belief in what is getting delivered – I believe honesty is the better way and makes room for a better cooperation with the clients.

I have specialized myself around RDS/mobility, especially Citrix solutions. I’m always looking for ways to make thing better, more effective, less administrative – but in the same time keep the focus on security and to keep customizability for the user’s workspace and keeping the IT control – I don’t like the crazy IT admin total lookdown idea. 

Of course, I also work with other things than this, Microsoft products in general, O/M365, Intune, Windows Autopilot (I love it), powershell, VMWare, infrastructure, getting into more cloud etc, and consider myself to have a broad area of knowledge, but also areas where I excel (Active Directory and Group policy, general structure, and seeing the “big picture” comes to mind. )

I use a lot of my free time to keep up with what is going on and new offerings coming – it’s the only way to keep up to date today. Sharing experience is also something I like and is the reason behind this website.  But of course, I cannot use all my time on work and IT. 

On the personal front I’m a dog owner, I like to stay outdoors and going out in nature or the mountains (Not very big fan of the cold and rain though).
I’m an honest, honorable and principled person (respect is earned - not given), and always enjoy a good conversation about interesting subjects.
I’m a movie, music, and concert lover – when it comes to music, I can admit it’s on the darker side – Norway is home to Norwegian Black Metal after all. 

Technology IT is an everchanging industry, and it’s never boring unless you want it to be!

2018 - Citrix Certified Expert - Virtualization (CCE-V)

2017 - Citrix ShareFile Certified (CC-ShareFile)

2017 - Citrix NetScaler SD-WAN Certified (CC-SDWAN)

2017 - Citrix Certified Sales Professional 2015 (CCSP)

2017 - Citrix Certified Expert - Virtualization (CCE-V)

2016 - Citrix Certified Professional - Virtualization (CCP-V)

2015 - Citrix Certified Associate - Virtualization (CCA-V)

2015 - Trend Micro Certified Professional for Deep Security

2012 - Apple iPhone & iPad Technical Training

2012 - Apple - ASTO Gold Level

2012 - Apple - ASTO Silver Level

2012 - Apple Product Proffessional

2011 - SuperOffice 7 Consultant Customer Service

2011 - SuperOffice 7 Consultant

2011 - APS: Hp Commercial Desktops, Workstations and Notebooks [2010]

2010 - MCTS – Configuring Small Business Server 2008

2010 - Microsoft Certified Technology Specialist

2010 - SuperOffice Technical Consultant

2010 - SuperOffice Technical Consultant

2010 - APS: Hp Commercial Desktops, Workstations and Notebooks

2007 - Fagbrev: IKT-Driftsoperatør (Certificate of Apprenticeship: ICT Operator)  

2018 - Microsoft Azure - AZ-100 - Infrastructure and Deployment

2018 - Microsoft Azure - Quick Start

2018 - CXD-410I - Citrix Virtual Apps and Desktops 7.1x - Assessment, Design and Advanced Configuration

2018 -Citrix  Netscaler - Citrix NetScaler 12.x Essentials and Unified Gateway (CNS-222)

2017 - NITO Intro Del 3 - As union representative

2017 - Citrix Cloud & NetScaler SD-WAN Workshop

2017 - NITO Intro Del 2 - As union representative

2017 - NITO Intro Del 1 - As union representative

2016 - CXD-300 - Deploying App and Desktop Solutions with XenApp&Desktop 7.6

2015 - Trend Micro – Deep Security

2014 - CXD-203I - Managing App and Desktop Solutions with XenApp&Desktop7.5

2013 - Comendo Remote Backup

2013 - TCP_IP - @DataEquipment

2013 - IP_Routing - @DataEquipment

2012 - All courses available on Apple ASTO

2012 - iPhone & iPad Tech Workshop

2012 - iPhone & iPad Technical Training

2011 - SuperOffice 7 Customer Service Certification

2011 - SuperOffice 7 Konsulent Certification

2010 - VMware vSphere: Install, Configure, Manage [V4.1]

2010 - SuperOffice Technical Consultant

2010 - SuperOffice Consultant 2010 - Small Business Server 2008

2019 - Citrix Summit - Orlando, Florida

2018 - Citrix SD-Wan  - Ninja workshop @Citrix Norway

2017 - Citrix User Group Norway - Autumn gathering

2017 - Citrix Cloud &Netscaler SD-WAN Workshop @Citrix Oslo

2017 - Citrix User Group Norway - Spring gathering

2016 - E2EVC Rome

2016 - Citrix: Back together with Microsoft @Citrix Oslo

2015 - Seminar around Citrix, Office 365 and Skype for Business @Microsoft Oslo

2015 - Citrix User Group Norway - Spring gathering

Various SERIT Convention's (Yearly gathering for SERIT employees)
Variuos Citrix User Group gatherings