Eirik V Johnsen

Current

Manager, Consulting services at Tarantell

Past

Technology partner at marchFIRST
Technology advisor at Gazette
IT director at McCann Ericsson

IT director at McCann Erickson
Software developer at Dana Systemutveckling

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Education

Universitetet i Oslo
Nordens Fotoskola

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Eirik V Johnsen’s Summary

Eirik moves easily and comfortably between technology and marketing. His background in both computing and arts makes him equally comfortable in technology architecture, user experience and brand architecture.

He is pragmatic, solution oriented and has long and solid experience in designing and building industrial grade solutions.

He has spent equal time in development, consulting and IT management and is a welcome addition to both to the conceptual/analytical phases as well as the execution and management phases of projects.

Eirik V Johnsen’s Specialties:

Business strategy, Process improvement, CRM strategy, Technology and marketing, User Experience, Requirements processes, IT architecture and strategy, Web process management, Enteprise web architecture, usability consultant, User Experience strategist, Information architecture

Eirik V Johnsen’s Experience

Manager, Consulting services

Tarantell

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

February 2004 — Present (5 years 6 months)

Head of consulting services in Tarantell. Also working with Internet and technology consulting, architecture, process design, responsible for partners, strategist and User Experience advocate
Technology partner

marchFIRST

(Public Company; 51-200 employees; Internet industry)

March 1999 — January 2004 (4 years 11 months)

Together with Jostein Borgmo and Odd Martinsen cofounder of the Norwegian instance of USWeb/CKS (later marchFIRST). Special focus on creating a culture that REALLY merged professionals with expertise in brandbuilding, technology and user experience. Also responsibility for partners in Nordic. Additionally focus on consulting, especially conceptually, analytically and process developement.
Technology advisor

Gazette

(Internet industry)

2003 — 2004 (1 year)
IT director

McCann Ericsson

(Public Company; 10,001 or more employees; Internet industry)

June 1992 — April 1999 (6 years 11 months)

IT manager in JBR (30+ employees) - creating a fully integrated agency together with Pål Roppen, Petter Gudmundseth and Per Dahlin. JBR was aquired by McCann i 1993 and the company grew to almost 200 employees locally by 1998. Some European IT work at strategic level, but the special focus on creative technology in Norway made this a much more exiting workplace.
IT director

McCann Erickson

(Public Company; Internet industry)

1993 — 1999 (6 years)
Software developer

Dana Systemutveckling

(Privately Held; 51-200 employees; Computer Software industry)

September 1982 — December 1989 (7 years 4 months)

Dana Systemutveckling developed ERP systems. I worked as a support programmer, technical writer, software developer. While working i studied both liberal arts and photograpy, so the employment was not fulltime through all the years.