I love implementing code! I love teaching coding! I love philosophying about different ways to solve problems using code! Most notably I have developed and researched eLearning at university since 2005. I have worked since 2010 on Android phone development and the utilisation within teaching. You can find my academic papers here.

I am available for consultancy jobs. In the past I’ve consulted creating eLearning solutions, competency management and mobile phone apps. Below is my shortened CV.

Work experience:

2016-present: Associate Professor (US Professor) of Software Engineering, Victoria University of Wellington, New Zealand

• Teaching 100-level programming courses and project management courses
• Teaching on conversion Master of Software Engineering in the ICTgrad School
• Course director of SWEN503
• Continued research in
  • Massive Open Online Course (MOOC) delivery
  • Cultural “computing”, i.e. utilising strengths of cultures in computer science
  • Gamification and eLearning

2011-2016: Lecturer and Teaching Fellow, University of Reading, UK

• Awarded as University Teaching Fellow 2015 (The highest recognition of teaching at the University)
• Winner of 5 other different teaching related awards
• Convenor and teaching in modules/courses:
  • Massive Open Online Course: “Begin Programming: build you first mobile game”
    • Taster course into programming
    • Over 180,000 participants to date
    • Been showcased on BBC and ITV
  • Currently convenor of and sole teacher of Java in 2nd year and Evolutionary Computation in the final year, but have taught 8 modules in total at all levels in different teaching teams
    • Flipped Java course to modernise the content
• Research
  • 9 journal papers and several conference papers
  • Supervising 8 PhD Students
  • Named principle investigator on several research proposals
• Special responsibilities
  • International recruitment
    • Over 100% recruitment above targets
    • Introduced online promotion for courses
    • F2F promotion through British Council Educational fairs
  • Outreach
    • Started outreach project with Fire Tech Camp
  • Teaching administration
    • Member of Faculty board for University Technology Colleges
    • Board of Study member

2005-2011: Research Assistant, University of Reading, UK

• Research developer and manager on externally funded projects
  • 7 EU, 4 JISC / UK and 1 internal University projects
  • Project manager on three of the projects
  • Strong technical developer and architect in all of the projects, for instance
    • Ontology-driven chatbot system for analysing web pages. It combined traditional chatbot response trees with ontology driven knowledge bases (Jena, Pellet) Changed Jena to use a closed world paradigm within inferences, as an open world paradigm was insufficient.
    • Ontology driven system for comparison of competencies and competency frameworks in EU (Java, Jena)
    • Tagging based file system, which was underpinned by ontology methodology (Java, Ruby, XXMP, MySQL)
    • Framework for aggregation of web content (Java, Ruby, XXMP, MySQL)
    • Video system for feedback to students (PHP)
    • Secondlife artefacts for education (SLS)
    • Several WordPress and Blackboard plug-ins (Java, PHP, MySQL)
    • Developed the initial underpinning voice recognition system (C and Java)
  • Proposal writing, from idea to finished proposal
    • Awarded £427,000+ in research grants
  • 3 journal papers, many conference papers and awarded research
  • Did my PhD in full-time speed while working full-time
  • Invited expert at 14 different projects, conferences and IEEE workshops
  • Developed one of the earliest Android online tutorials for creating games. I used it to teach and supervise summer term students in Android mobile phone games development
    • Over 10.000 participants who used all pages in a 2 year period
  • Managed and supervised research students (MSc and PhD)
  • Teaching University staff on CPD courses

2000-2002: Logistic manager. Norsk Bokforlag, Norway

• Managed and supervised 4 part-time workers
• Co-managed and supervised 50 part time salesmen
  • Increased sales of £100.000+
• Designed and re-organised the inventory system

1999-2000: Media consultant (salesman). Stepstone A/S, Denmark

• Job ads and banner sales
• Top salesman of the month February 2000
• Consistently top 3 salesman every month

1996-1999: Salesman. Carl F. Junget. Denmark

• Solved specialised tool problems for the furniture industry
• Rose from floor sales to account manager for tools

Education:

2005-2010: PhD in Computer Science at University of Reading

• Thesis title: “Ontology Supported Comparison in Vague Domains”

2002-2005: BSc in Computer Science at University of Reading

• 1st honours – Winner of Hockney Prize for Best Student in Computer Science

1995-1996: Modern apprenticeship in sales. Carl F. Junget

• Sold as much as regular salesmen after 9 months of training

1987-1990: Studentereksamen at Bjerringbro Gymnasium, Denmark

Technical Skills:

• Programming (examples)
  • JavaSE and JaveEE
    • Mobile development (Android including GPS, WP7 and Corona)
    • https://market.android.com/search?q=DrKarsten
    • Jena2, Jetty, JavaCC
  • C / C# / C++ (Both on Un*x and Windows)
  • Traditional web development
    • HTML, CSS, PHP, Javascript, XML, Ruby on rails, SQL
    • XML-RPC, REST, Ajax
    • MySQL
  • Learn and try new languages for fun, for instance
    • CAML, Python, Q, SLS, Prolog
  • Semantic Web
    • RDF, OWL, SPARQL, Jena2, CWS, Pellet
• Strong analytical grounding
  • Object Oriented Programming teacher and practitioner

Other Skills:

• Proven team worker
• Good at explaining difficult solutions in an understandable way
• Happy outgoing personality
• Not afraid of conflicts, but aim to avoid them by diplomacy
• Enjoys learning new concepts
• Keeps problems simple to create better solutions for people
• Speaks English and Danish fluently. Understands Norwegian, Swedish and German