Bjørn Stabell

Current

Managing Director at Exoweb

Past

CTO / Executive Producer at Ogilvy
IT Manager / Producer at madeforchina.com
Research Scientist at SINTEF Applied Mathematics

Software Developer at Kongsberg Spacetec AS
System Administrator at Universitetet i Tromsø
System Administrator at University of Tromø

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Education

Beijing Language and Culture University
Universitetet i Tromsø

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Connections

500+ connections

Industry

Internet

Bjørn Stabell’s Summary

Business Manager
Entrepreneur
CTO

Bjørn Stabell’s Specialties:

Managing software development efforts
Software architecture
Scalable web applications
iPhone applications and games
Open technologies
Beijing restaurants

Bjørn Stabell’s Experience

Managing Director

Exoweb

(Privately Held; 51-200 employees; Internet industry)

June 2000 — Present (9 years 6 months)

Whatever it takes to keep us ticking and thriving
CTO / Executive Producer

Ogilvy

(Public Company; 5001-10,000 employees; Internet industry)

1999 — 2000 (1 year )

Helped set up and run Interactive department at Ogilvy, Beijing
Main clients included: IBM, Nokia, Motorola, Kraft, AsiaInfo
IT Manager / Producer

madeforchina.com

(Privately Held; 11-50 employees; Internet industry)

1998 — 1999 (1 year )

Guided technical direction while company grew from 2 to 25
Project manager and tech lead for Internet-related projects
Main clients included: IBM, HP, Microsoft, Intel, Ogilvy, United Airlines, Asimco, and Ford
Web design and production
Research Scientist

SINTEF Applied Mathematics

(Public Company; 1001-5000 employees; Research industry)

1996 — 1997 (1 year )

Developed 3d visualization tool for ESPRIT Project 20231 TOOLSHED for numerical simulations run on supercomputers
Web designer and webmaster for department web pages
Software Developer

Kongsberg Spacetec AS

(Internet industry)

1996 — 1996 (less than a year)
System Administrator

Universitetet i Tromsø

(Educational Institution; 1001-5000 employees; Information Technology and Services industry)

1995 — 1996 (1 year )

Ported, compiled, and installed over 500 UNIX software packages
Conducted feasibility study on Internet over cable TV for UNINETT (Norwegian educational network organization)
System Administrator

University of Tromø

(Educational Institution; 1001-5000 employees; Information Technology and Services industry)

1992 — 1994 (2 years )

System administrator for computer science lab, HP-UX (part-time)
Set up one of the first web servers in the world in 1992
Ported, compiled and installed hundreds of UNIX software packages

Bjørn Stabell’s Education

Beijing Language and Culture University

Mandarin Chinese (intensive) 1997 — 1998
Universitetet i Tromsø

Siv.Ing. / MSc. , Computer Science , 1990 — 1995

Thesis was "A Software Prosthesis for Color-Defective Vision". It synthesized how different types of color-defective vision would see a picture, and changed the colors so that significant colors would be more easily discernible.

Activities and Societies:

Co-author of open source Internet X11 game XPilot, Judo