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

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

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Education

• Beijing Language and Culture University
• Universitetet i Tromsø

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Industry

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Websites

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Bjørn Stabell’s Summary

Business Manager
Entrepreneur
CTO

Bjørn Stabell’s Specialties:

Managing software development efforts
Software architecture
Scalable web applications
Open technologies

Bjørn Stabell’s Experience

• Managing Director

  Exoweb

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

  June 2000 — Present (8 years 3 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

• 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)

• Software Developer

  Kongsberg Spacetec AS

  (Internet industry)

  1996 — 1996 (less than a year)

• 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

Additional Information

Bjørn Stabell’s Websites:

• My Company
• My Blog
• My RSS feed

Bjørn Stabell’s Interests:

Always interested in new technology, with special emphasis on open source

Bjørn Stabell’s Groups:

Beijing Linux User Group in Beijing,
Norwegian Business Forum in China

•    Python Community
•    Beijing Macintosh Union
•    Django
•    Open Source Enthusiasts

Bjørn Stabell’s Honors:

Co-author of XPilot, one of the first action games for Unix computers, and one of the first Internet action games every (1991)

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