Curriculum Vitae
SUN Microsystem Joined SUN as a contractor, working as an IT project manager for
their North European facilities managment division. In this position I have been
responsible for all infrastructure changes at all SUN Microsystem headquarters and
divisional offices throughout Scandinavia and Eastern Europe including Russia.
Haddox & Co. Mediakonsulterna AB / Datajouren In December 1999 I resigned to become a consultant and to start up
the company Haddox &Co - an artist booking agency and event marketing company. I also
started up my own consultancy company where I have mainly been working at the Swedish Navy
at Berga Örlogsskolor as their internal IT support engineer. I have also been involved
with contract work for smaller companies in the Stockholm area, such as Clarion Svenska
AB, Indcen Resor, Blue Wings and Tommy's Transport. Trema December 1998 to December 1999 Stockholm, Sweden System Engineer Working with the in-house treasury and risk management system Finance Kit which includes installation, upgrade, maintenance and support. Main tasks includes programming in Perl, Sybase database configuration, Unix configuration and Financial Information support. Glocalnet October 1997 to December 1998 Stockholm, Sweden IT Project Manager and Technical Expert Working with building up the IT department for Glocalnet’s Internal BackOffice and the worldwide Voice over IP network. Been involved with everything from evaluating IP-telephony Gateways and planning deployment of IT infrastructure to hands on LAN maintenance. Also been working as a manager for the WEB project, and being the acting WEB master. American Airlines / SABRE Computer Services July 1994 to September 1997 Hounslow, Middlesex, England Project manager for American Airlines’ European IT department. Responsible for AA´s internal real time computer reservation system (CRS) SABRE, back office SW and HW, WAN-LAN implementation and ongoing maintenance. Including managing 3rd part contracts, negotiation with external companies and local authorities through out Europe. Project end-to-end responsibility with extensive hands on approach and experience. Position involved extensive traveling around the world dealing with customers from all continents. ICL Sorbus AB January 1994 to June 1994 Bromma, Stockholm, Sweden Start-up project manager for third part maintenance contract Including planning for spares, training field engineers and being technical support for Scandinavia . Granada Computer Services AB January 1990 to January 1994 Hägersten, Stockholm, Sweden Field Service Engineer, Technical support and training manager for the PC-service group. Econocom Svenska AB December 1988 to January 1990 Solna, Stockholm, Sweden Field Service Engineer with sole responsibility for maintenance contracts of PC and IBM S/36 customers.
Education 1986 to 1988Katrineholms Tekniska Skola Katrineholm, Södermanland, Sverige Colleague Degree in Computer Science, 4-years education Duveholms Gymnasium 1983 to 1985 Katrineholm, Södermanland, Sverige History and Experience: Graduated 1988 and became an employee at the computer leasing company Econocom as a Field Service Technicians performing on site service and maintenance on IBM mini computers, S/3x and PC LANs. Later on I become manager of that department until Econocom sold the entire maintenance department. In 1990 Granada Computer Services purchased all service contracts from Econocom and I joined Granada and became manager for the PC contracts. This included a major contract with American Airlines Computer Reservation System SABRE - one of the worlds biggest time critical real time reservation systems. The position included:
1994 ICL / Sorbus was handed AA/SABRE contract and I decided to join ICL as a key player to start up the contract. I became responsible for training, spare parts and to face the contract into ICL´s organization and corporate culture, while still working as a field engineer for all PC clients. In mid July 1994 I was offered to work for American Airlines European IT department as a project manager in the European headquarter in London. In this position I was responsible for internal IT projects within the AA international organization. Working throughout Europe and Asia with main responsibility for Sweden, Norway, Denmark, Italy, and Switzerland with London as base. This has meant extensive traveling on an average of once a week for three years to destinations in Europe, Asia and America. Working with American Airlines involved work on a wide variety of computer technologies both on the software and the hardware side. October 1997 I decided to move back to Sweden and was offered to join the brand new
Swedish PTT Glocalnet to help them build up an organization in Sweden dealing with
IP Telephony. I worked throughout the organization as it grow from nothing to 36 employees in a six months period, doing different projects with the purpose to fast create a solid and sound IT department. Main responsibilities included building up network operations and IT infrastructure while having an overall responsibility of the Internet and Intranet solutions.
December 1998 I was approached by TREMA Treasury Management who asked me to join their System Engineer Department as a field engineer dealing with their risk and treasury management system Finance Kit, working with their European installations. This position has meant extensive work on financial instruments and configurations in a propriety Unix / SYBASE / Perl environment. In December 1999 I decided to leave Trema to start up my own IT consultancy company which I am currently dedicating my time to.
Key Achievements and involvement at American Airlines: The Aurora Project. In 1994 Canadian Airlines CRS system Pegasus was converted to SABRE. This was carried out with great success and was the largest conversion projects ever done. This was an extremely time critical "make or break" project where we had 24 hours to convert all Canadian Airlines terminals around the world to SABRE. Dublin Reservation moves In 1996 American Airlines consolidated most major European Reservations Offices into one in Ireland. This included setting up a new office with both Computer infrastructure and phones. This has also been seen as a very successful project throughout the airline industry.
Some of the soft- and hardware I have been working on and which I enjoy a strong competence and knowledge of: OS: Windows NT, 95, 3.x DOS 3.x, 5.x, 6.x, Novell 2.x, 3.x, Solaris
Unix, HP-Unix Skills and Personality: Interpersonal: One of my strongest skills. Ability to communicate with all levels within an organization. Always highly appreciated and well liked by both customers and work colleagues. I enjoy working with people and I have an understanding that people likes to work and deal with me. Work equally good in a team as by myself, but prefer working with a team where I take pride in my contribution to projects I am direct, or indirect, involved with. Highly self-motivated and never afraid to take initiatives. Sound sense of prioritizing and strong urge to be on time and to deliver before or on deadlines. Uses stress to my benefit when it occurs and never afraid to work until a project is finished no matter how time consuming. I always treat all people with great respect and courtesy but can still stand up for things I believe in. Enjoy traveling and consider myself to have a strong skill to deal with people from different kinds of social culture. Technology: In depth knowledge of PC/Intel architectures both on software and hardware. 15 years of experience of PC and networks. Enjoy immensely working with crucial time critical real time system but also enjoying "BackOffice products" and interconnectivity projects. General: Great knowledge and experience of many areas within the Airline Industry, the IT Industry, Government culture and great knowledge and understanding of the Internet Telephony industry. Thanks to my strong interpersonal skills I have managed to build up a big network of friends and contacts all over the world. Interests and private life: At my spare time I am working as a DJ and a club manager for a live rock music venue. Hope this CV have given a positive picture of who I am and I am looking forward to a personal meeting where I can answer any questions you may still have about me. Stockholm ______________________ Hokan Pettersson |