Lars Pind's Resume

___PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE______________________________________________

FOUNDER AND CEO 2002
Collaboraid ApS, Copenhagen, Denmark
- Founded Collaboraid (http://www.collaboraid.biz), a software
  consulting company specialized in collaboration and learning software,
  based on the OpenACS platform.
- Clients include MIT Sloan, Greenpeace International, and Heidelberg
  University.
- Currently 3 people and profitable

CHIEF UI ARCHITECT 2001
ArsDigita Corp., New York City/San Francisco, USA
- Designed the user interface for the entire ACS product, including a
  web content management system, personalization system, and the
  product catalog.
- Defined a framework for the entire user interface of the application,
  based on goal-directed design, personas, goals, and classic usability
  engineering principles.
- Defined and coached a process of user interface and interaction
  design, used by software developers and program managers throughout
  the company.
- Worked with graphic designers to design a compelling and effective
  graphic appearance to the interaction design.
- Helped define a new collaboration software product from scratch.

SENIOR DEVELOPER 1999-2001
ArsDigita Corp., New York City, USA
- Extended ShareNet, one of the most successful knowledge management
  solutions ever, for Siemens, along with a very small team of other
  developers.
- Designed and implemented a highly praised workflow system, including
  a web-based graphic editor.
- Designed major parts of several major architectural overhauls of the
  ACS web application toolkit.

PROJECT PROGRAMMER 1998
Department of Computer Science at University of Aarhus, Denmark
- Research project in Open Hypermedia Systems for the Web.
- Programmed an asynchronous, multi-threaded inter-process
  communication infrastructure, tying together the 3-tiered
  architecture, in Java.
- Programmed the core of two key modules in the architecture in Java.
- Developed a simple web server in Java to query the database.

CONTRACTUAL SOFTWARE DEVELOPER/ANALYST 1994-1997
Dansk System Inventar A/S
- Developed mission-critical product planning and control system
  for Dansk System Inventar A/S, Svendborg, Denmark.
- Analyzed the field of production planning and control.
- Designed a flexible software architecture and database.
- Managed the development project with two fellow programmers.
- Developed the system as lead developer.
- Still being maintained and used - more than 6,000 items.

SYSTEMS CONSULTANT 1992-1993
Dansk System Industri A/S, Kokkedal, Denmark.
- DSI developed the market-leading Danish office suite, DSI-SYSTEM.
- Solved specific problems for clients on location, often under
  tight time constraints.
- Designed and developed tailor-built and off-the-shelf database
  systems.

FREELANCE SOFTWARE DEVELOPER 1988-1992
- Developed system for Dansk System Inventar A/S, Svendborg, Denmark to
  let their customers worldwide place orders electronically; translated
  to several languages, distributed to customers worldwide,   still in
  daily use as of today.
- Developed DemoMaker, an early text-based presentation program; sold
  to several clients, used at fairs and shows.

___EDUCATION____________________________________________________________

UNIVERSITY OF AARHUS, Denmark
B.S., Computer Science., GPA 3.8.
- Research project in Open Hypermedia Systems for the Web.
- Programmed the core of two key modules in the architecture.

UNIVERSITY OF AAHURS, Denmark
Minor at Department of Information Studies

___COMPUTER SKILLS______________________________________________________

- Languages  : C, C#, Java, Perl, Tcl, PHP, SQL, HTML, JavaScript,
               Pascal, Delphi/Object Pascal, (La)Tex.
- Internet   : AOL Server, Apache, IIS, HTTP, TCP/IP, XML.
- Platforms  : Unix (Solaris, Irix, Linux), Windows, MacOS.
- Databases  : Oracle, PostgresQL, IBM DB/2, MySQL, InterBase, Access.