
Project Manager Communication and Web at The Norwegian Design Council
Oslo Area, Norway

Project Manager Communication and Web at The Norwegian Design Council
Oslo Area, Norway
Creative project manager/marketing professional who always aspire to work within the context of innovation whether it be for established firms, fresh start up companies, agencies or venture cap.
Interested in new media/web/digital innovations, design management, music/content industries and creating fantastic new products and services which make peoples lives better, easier and more fun!
Strategic consulting, marketing, PR, design management, product development, project planning, project management, new business venturing, concept development, interaction design, new media / web
(Design industry)
October 2007 — Present (2 years 2 months)
Involved as part of communication team to increase knowledge and success of Norwegian design. More specifically; communication/PR, web site specification and IA, brand development, project management of interactives, newsletters, events, web site traffic growth.
(Privately Held; 11-50 employees; Broadcast Media industry)
March 2006 — September 2007 (1 year 7 months)
At Rawflow, my function is to manage the company´s marketing, branding, creative projects, PR and events, as well as overseeing product usability and design. I work with a number of agencies worldwide in order to coordinate these activities on a global basis.
Founded in April 2000, Rawflow Ltd has broken new ground in the infrastructural technology used to broadcast live content over the Internet. Rawflow has developed a software solution that employs P2P to deliver a live broadcast to a mass audience over the Internet without imposing a costly bandwidth requirements and high server load. RawFlow is also set to launch a new live UGC portal, Selfcast.
(Privately Held; 1-10 employees; Online Media industry)
January 2006 — March 2006 (3 months)
Ashridge New Media is a website and new media development company founded in 2003. As account manager for Ashridge New Media my role is to keep in touch with clients and develop new and existing business opportunities.
(Educational Institution; 501-1000 employees; Research industry)
September 2005 — January 2006 (5 months)
The research program The Value Creating board aims to generate research-based knowledge about actual board behaviour in Norwegian companies. The programme runs until 2007 and is co-financed by the Norwegian Research Council, Innovation Norway, NHO - Confederation of Norwegian Business and Industry, Oslo Stock Exchange, the investment management firms Odin and Vital insurance, and the co-operative companies Tine and Gilde. As research assistant my task was planning, administration and finalising of a survey sent to top-level management and corporate board chairs in 3500 firms in Norway.
(Privately Held; 51-200 employees; Apparel & Fashion industry)
September 2004 — December 2005 (1 year 4 months)
www.spreadshirt.de
Spreadshirt is a German personalized merchandising company on a web-based platform. Products are sold mainly to sports, students and music markets, and companies and individuals may open their own web shop. My role has been market entry and development of the Scandinavian market. In addition, the position has involved executing and developing strategies for e-marketing via affiliate programmes and Google Adwords/ Overture etc. Through my work for Spreadshirt, I have gained significant experience in planning, executing and evaluating e-marketing strategy.
(Privately Held; 1-10 employees; Biotechnology industry)
June 2004 — August 2004 (3 months)
www.puramatrix.com
MSc , Business Administration, Major: Innovation & Entreprenership , August 2003 — September 2005
Thesis work to be handed in on september 1st 2005: Studyin the national innovation systems for Biotechnology in the US, Norway and Germany.
The Norwegian School of Management BI is Norway's second largest educational institution and the largest provider of education in economics, business administration and management in Europe. The School has a total of 18 500 students, 9 400 of whom study part-time.
The research carried out by the School`s faculty is of a very high standard, and has among other things, resulted in both the Financial Times and Long Range Planning ranking the Norwegian School of Management BI among the top European business schools.
The school has 9 research departments and 13 research centres, and is the only Norwegian school that has been Equis certified twice.
Exchange programme , Entrepreneurship/Business (fall semester 2004) , August 2004 — December 2004
HHL Leipzig Graduate School of Management, the oldest business school in Germany, offers excellent study facilities for a general management training program of the highest academic standard. Students with leadership qualities are trained to combine good judgement skills and sound business knowledge with their enthusiasm and pleasure to think and perform as entrepreneurs.
Summer programme , Entrepreneurship , June 2004 — August 2004
Included 2 courses: Entrepreneurial Management (Lectured by VC Paul McManus) and Entrepreneurial Practice (Lectured by Consultant Joe LiPuma)
Internship in biotechnology company 3DMatrix (www.puramatrix.com)
Innovation, business and entrepreneurship 2004 — 2004
BSc , Marketing and Management, Major: Small Business Development , July 2003
Upper secondary school August 1996 — July 1999
Music, new media, travelling, innovation, industry changes, fashion, reading and writing, being active outdoors, contemporary art, architecture and design.
Leipzig Graduate School of Management (HHL) Alumni,
BI Alumni, A small world, Open BC, NBCC, London Chamber of Commerce
Class representative in 1995, MOB in Unge Høyre Bergen in 1996 (the Norwegian Conservative Political party’s Youth Organisation in Norway), Class representative in 1998, Completed a travel guide course at BHG lectured by instructors from BHG and travel agency RunWay Unitur AS. MOB/Journalist in BIside (Students’ TV Channel at BI) in 2000 and also in charge of web development /technical equipment, Journalist for BIstikket (Students’ Newspaper at BI) in 2001, Journalist & camera for BIside student TV (2004), started event-group in the student union (2004), Film crew for Landstreff, Stavanger, Norway in May 2005.