Bård Strøm

Current

Consultant at Reaktor Consulting

Past

Systems Architect at Ementor Consulting
Assistant coach at Cal Poly Football

Education

Massachusetts Institute of Technology - Sloan School of Management
Norges teknisk-naturvitenskapelige universitet
California Polytechnic State University-San Luis Obispo

Universitetet i Bergen

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Bård Strøm’s Summary

Experience with enterprise software and agile development practices. Exploring the field of Enterprise Architecture.

Master of Technology Management (MTM) from MIT and NTNU.

Master of Science in Computer Science (MSCS) from Cal Poly.

Certified and practicing Scrum Master.

Bård Strøm’s Specialties:

Technology Strategy and Management. Agile adaptation and management (Scrum, XP, FDD); Enterprise Web Applications, Microsoft.Net, Java 2 family. Coaching and leadership.

Bård Strøm’s Experience

Consultant

Reaktor Consulting

(Privately Held; 51-200 employees; Information Technology and Services industry)

March 2005 — Present (3 years 6 months)

Consulting and software development for bank / finance and travel industry.

Leading stock / fund technical development for SkandiaBanken.

Scrum Master for multiple software development projects.
Systems Architect

Ementor Consulting

(Privately Held; 1001-5000 employees; EME; Information Technology and Services industry)

January 2003 — March 2005 (2 years 3 months)

Advising, analysing and developing software internet systems. 1) Projecting system for the el. projecting (j2EE, Struts), 2) Internet Banking for Companies (J2EE, EJB 2.0), 3) Different campaign sites for travel and tourist industry (Microsoft C#.net, EPiServer Portal system).

Advising and sales support.
Assistant coach

Cal Poly Football

(Educational Institution; 1-10 employees; Sports industry)

February 2001 — December 2001 (11 months)

Assistant coach for Cal Poly Football 2001 with the running back position and assisting the quarterback position. Coaching 5 players directly, part of 70+ player football team in NCAA Div 1-AA. 6-5 record through 2001 season.

Bård Strøm’s Education

Massachusetts Institute of Technology - Sloan School of Management

Visiting Fellow, Innovation and Global Leadership, 2008 — 2008
Norges teknisk-naturvitenskapelige universitet

Master, Technology Management, 2007 — 2008

Executive masters program. A joint program between NTNU (Norwegian School of Technology and natural sciences) and NHH (Norwegian School of Economics) in Technology Management. Includes a semester at MIT Sloan School of Management. Topics include strategic leadership, change management, financial analysis, and innovation and new product development.
California Polytechnic State University-San Luis Obispo

Master of Science, Computer science, 2001 — 2002

Master thesis: "Organising Mobile Wireless Ad Hoc Networks using Software Agents." Created a multi-threaded simulation environment for RMI java agents. Different parameters were added to simulate error-rate, motion and signal strength to mask the challenges in a real mobile wireless network.

The master program had focus on Software Engineering: including technical project management, Distributed computing, artificial intelligence and (Wireless) Computer Networks.

Activities and Societies:

Upsilon Pi Epsilon
Universitetet i Bergen

Bachelor of Science, Informatics, 1996 — 2000

Main focus on Software development: programming, data structures and algorithms. But also Software Construction using RUP and Computer Networks. Minors where mathematics and economy, as well as environmental study.