Head of Digital Media, Member of the Board at Clausen+Reitsma GmbH. Owner of BlackTar.
Cologne Area, Germany
- Current
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- Head of Digital Media at Clausen + Reitsma GmbH
- Owner at Black Tar
- Past
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- Senior Project Manager and Consultant at Clausen + Reitsma GmbH
- Art Director at Oberon IT AS
- Designer at Media Farm AS
- Education
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- Universitetet i Agder
- Høgskolen i Lillehammer
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Vidar Andersen’s Summary
My experience range from having had the fortune to contribute to groundbreaking educational (e.g. edutainment) and informational (e.g. HSE) productions for big oil, governmental agencies and Norway's leading newspapers through the leader in educational multi media in Norway, Media Farm AS, to defining and building web-based mission critical front and back-ends for leading infrastructure (broadband/energy/IP telephony/IPTV) providers and Triple-Play innovators, major newspapers, big oil and big shipping through the regional leading company for web based mission critical front- and back-ends, Oberon IT AS.
Sometime during the dotcom bubble burst, I even found myself co-founding the very popular enterprise grade open source Content Management System (CMS), Plone.
Currently I am thoroughly enjoying working directly with T-Mobile International and all of the members of the European T-Mobile family through Clausen + Reitsma GmbH, helping shape the future of the highly innovative and progressive brand.
My goals are to put Plone on Mars and direct a full feature movie - not necessarily in that order.
Vidar Andersen’s Specialties:
Making sense, making people talk, making things work, building trust and mutual understanding. Through the years I have been told by my peers that I excel at finding new opportunities and solutions by making people talk to each other, going out of my way to ensure that everyone understand each other, pull in the same constructive direction and truly deliver. As a Norwegian Anglophile living and working in Germany, the language and cultural skills possessed are probably not to be underestimated.
Vidar Andersen’s Experience
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Head of Digital Media
Clausen + Reitsma GmbH
(Privately Held; 11-50 employees; Media Production industry)
October 2007 — Present (1 year)
Customers include T-Mobile, DFL (The German Football League) and the German Red Cross. Member of the Board.
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Owner
Black Tar
(Privately Held; 1-10 employees; Information Technology and Services industry)
March 1997 — Present (11 years 7 months)
Spreading the gospel of usable web-based solutions and services for human beings since 1997. Co-founder of the Plone CMS (www.plone.org).
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Senior Project Manager and Consultant
Clausen + Reitsma GmbH
(Privately Held; 11-50 employees; Media Production industry)
August 2005 — October 2007 (2 years 3 months)
Customers include T-Mobile, DFL (The German Football League) and the German Red Cross. Member of the Board.
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Art Director
Oberon IT AS
(Privately Held; 11-50 employees; Information Technology and Services industry)
August 2002 — May 2005 (2 years 10 months)
Intranets and other live web based mission critical front- and back-end systems for leading shipping companies, big oil, energy and triple play providers and the leading newspapers in Norway. Customers included Lyse Energi AS (largest regional energy provider and early Triple Play innovator), OLF (The Norwegian Oil Industry Association), TeeKay Shipping, Verdens Gang (the largest tabloid newspaper in Norway) and regional museums.
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Designer
Media Farm AS
(Privately Held; 11-50 employees; Information Technology and Services industry)
August 1997 — January 2001 (3 years 6 months)
Interactive educational and infotainment multimedia productions for international big oil, national governmental agencies and national leading newspapers. Customers included The Royal Norwegian Government, Saga Petroleum, Shell, Esso, Statoil, VOX (The Norwegian National Institute for Adult Learning), Læringssenteret (The Norwegian Board of Education), and some of the largest national newspaper publishers.
Vidar Andersen’s Education
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Universitetet i Agder
Philosophy, Logic, Didactics 1996 — 1996
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Høgskolen i Lillehammer
The Science of Film 1994 — 1996
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Vidar Andersen’s Interests:
Plone, advocacy, Change, progress, management, development, GTD, history, psychology, philosophy, usability, art, music, cinema, photography, writing, literature, design, open source, free thinking, evolution, science, empiricism, pragmatism, cynicism, existentialism, squash, technology, science, biology, freedom of speech, open source, free software, civil liberties, human rights, playing various instruments, the global village, web2.0, results.
Vidar Andersen’s Groups:
Plone, Plone Foundation, ACLU
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