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Curriculum Vitae

Name: Jacob Sparre Andersen
Date of birth: 21st of February 1972
Citizenship: Danish
Address: Jægerparken 5, 2. th., 2970 Hørsholm, Denmark
Phone: (+45) 21 49 08 04
E-mail: [email protected]
Web siste: https://www.jacob-sparre.dk/

Current activities

  • Independent consultant,
    • delivering software innovations with a focus on high reliability;
    • implementing and delivering specialised data analysis for scientific experiments;
    • doing contract based research in analytic models of investments and the financial system; and
    • giving courses on development of reliable software systems, on topics in complex systems, and on Open Source software.
  • Associate, Niels Bohr Institute, University of Copenhagen.
  • Board member, AdaHeads K/S.
  • Regular presenter at software engineering and computer science conferences.
  • Board member in Ada Denmark.
  • News editor for Ada User Journal, the software engineering journal published by Ada Europe.
  • Industrial Committee member, Ada-Europe International Conference on Reliable Software Technologies.

Employment

  • Self-employed software architect and software developer, 2009-.
  • External examinator for the Danish software engineering schools (datamatikeruddannelsen), 2006-2011.
  • Teaching assistant, Niels Bohr Institute, University of Copenhagen, 2008-2010. Physics of complex systems.
  • Financial Analyst, Analytic Support Unit, Nykredit Asset Management, 2008-2009. Oracle PL/SQL, C++, VBA, Ada, analytical models of finance. Managed to replace a Monte Carlo simulation with a simple formula, allowing interactive use of a mathematical model.
  • Lecturer in software engineering and head of system administration, DMU-Syd, 2006-2008. Software design, systems programming, game programming, Ada, Java, SPARK, UML, Linux.
  • Lecturer in statistics, CEUS Business School, 2007.
  • Bioinformatics Researcher, CRS4, 2003-2006. Analysis of DNA arrays.
  • Teaching assistant, University of Copenhagen, 2002. Mathematics for biologists.
  • Scientific programmer, Danish Institute for Occupational Health, 1992-1994. Developing software for quality control of laboratory measurements.
  • Research assistant, Joint European Torus, 1993. Designing and building parts of an x-ray spectrometer.
  • Scientific programmer, Geologish-Paläontologish Institut, Kiel, 1992-1993. Oceanography.

Professional activities

  • SattStore: A Warehouse Management and Control System used by the three major Danish supermarket chains. My primary responsibilities have been to improve the development infrastructure and to take part in preparing the application for another 30 years of development.
  • Command-Line Parser Generator: A tool which derives a command-line argument parser for a program. It generates a complete command-line driver for an Ada library from an ordinary Ada package specification, without any need for manual handling.
  • Worked on the development of a PBX and reception management system. My primary responsiblities were development of the management server, development of automated tests, and supervising other Ada programmers. Constructed a compiler, which could compile user-readable use-case descriptions to runnable integration tests.
  • Identification of cracks in a submerged section of an oil production platform using video inspection, 2013. Performed quality assesment of the work of a primary inspection team. Found a crack in the construction, which the primary inspection team hadn’t found.
  • Project Koparo: Developing real-time data-acquisition instruments and software for measuring and improving golf swings, 2011-2013. Constructed firm-ware for a high-speed video camera.
  • Coordinator for Føroyska orðalistin til rættlestur (Faroese spell checking dictionary).
  • Coordinator for Den Store Danske Ordliste (Danish spell checking dictionary).
  • Development of a low-cost local positioning system with a customer in Mauritius. Created a positioning algorithm based on signal-strength with built-in attenuation corrections.
  • Co-founder of AdaHeads K/S, a software development company.
  • Crimeville: Part of the production team for an on-line detective-riddle game, 2009-2010. Developed a real-time swear-word detector, which even catches word-plays on swear-words.
  • Project Asian Social Web with the Scandinavian Tourist Board and Copenhagen Business School. We created a text-mining tool to find blog entries, which can be used to make Asian tourists interested in travelling to the Nordic countries, 2009-2010.
  • Harmonised data access, 2009. Development, testing and documentation of a common interface to inhomogeneously organised financial data.
  • Developed a Faroese hyphenation table and other Faroese localisation for LaTeX, 2004.
  • Developed Lydbaseret opslag (a dictionary look-up application prototype targeted at users with spelling difficulties), 2002-2003.
  • Studied business economics (HD 1. del) at Copenhagen Business School, 2001-2002.
  • ENAM cruise with H/S Dana (oceanography), 1997.
  • An application of simulated annealing: Optimisation of programs for parallel computers, 1996-1997.
  • ENAM cruise with R/V Pelagia (oceanography), 1995.
  • Experiments on 2D turbulence, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, 1994-1995.
  • Sorø-dage (teaching assistant/physics summer school for high-school students), Sorø akademi, 1994.
  • Flying Circus of Physics, Copenhagen, Sevilla, and Amsterdam (physics in the street shows), 1992-1994.
  • Poseidon cruise 194, Faroe-Iceland-Ridge (oceanography and integration of data acquisition and navigation information systems), 1992.
  • Cornell University, Medical College, New York (programming, bioinformatics), 1991.

Education

  • PhD in physics with a thesis titled Experimental study of turbulent diffusion using particle tracking at the Niels Bohr Institute and Risø National Laboratory, 2002. A part of the thesis project was done at Laboratoire de Physique Statistique de l’Ecole Normale Supérieure (Statistical Physics Laboratory of ENS), Paris. Thesis supervisor: Mogens Høgh Jensen.
  • Management of Research and Innovation, Copenhagen Business School and Risø National Laboratory, 2000.
  • MSc in physics with a thesis titled Measurements of Relative Diffusion in turbulence, 1997. A part of the thesis project was done at University of Pittsburgh. Thesis supervisor: Mogens T. Levinsen.
  • BSc in mathematics and physics, 1993.

Awards and scholarships

  • First prize in the Nokia Open 2010 developers’ competition, for the design of a location-aware calendar for the Nokia N900 (2010).
  • Ph.D. scholarship from Forskerakademiet (1998).
  • The Lørup scholarship for students at the Niels Bohr Institute (1994).
  • Fourth prize in the young researchers competition, JP-Forsker ’93, and participation in the conference Science and the Media at CERN, for the design of a new programming language (1993).

Grants

  • Grant for the project Asian Social Web from Nordisk InnovationsCenter (2009, NOK 1’814’000). With Søren Leerskov and Ana Marìa Munar.
  • Grant for the project Udvikling af professionsbachelor i digital interaktiv underholdning og entrepenørskab (developing a new undergraduate education in information technology) from Vækstforum Sjælland (2007, DKK 973’000). With Jens Lautrup Nørgaard and Erik Kristiansen.

Lectures, conferences, etc.

Invited talks

Presented tutorials

Presentations

Volunteer activities

Miscellaneous

Cultural experiences:

Lived 6 years in the Faroe Islands (until I finished high-school).

Worked 5 months in USA (part of my studies).

Worked 7 months in France (part of my Ph.D. project).

Worked 3 years in Italy (postdoctoral position).

Worked in Germany, England, Mauritius and USA for shorter periods.

Languages:

Danish, English, Faroese (fluent), Italian (good, fluent in technical topics), German, French (limited), Norwegian (nynorsk and bokmål), Swedish, Icelandic (only reading).

Programming:

Ada, SPARK (professional, my favourites)BASIC, Bourne Again Shell, C, C++, COMAL, Java, Oracle PL/SQL, Pascal, Perl, Postscript, Python (professional)Fortran (my first programming language, 1985)… and many others.

Operating system administration:

Linux

Operating system use:

Unix (AIX, HP-UX, OSF/1, Solaris, FreeBSD), Linux, OS/2, DOS, Windows XP.