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Morten Christensen 

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I am a software architect/developer/lead working as an independent consultant. I have a master’s 

degree in Computer Systems Engineering from the University of Southern Denmark. Subsequently, I have 

15+ years of experience with software analysis, design, architecture, programming, testing and 

technical management/leadership in Denmark, Germany and the United States. 

I have comprehensive hands-on experience with most modern technologies for developing commercial 

software. Notably, this includes both J2EE & Microsoft.NET platforms and the object-oriented languages 

Java, C#, C++, Objective-C & Ruby (and much more, see appendix for details). 

My programming specialty is non-trivial development tasks that requires expert level skills such as heavily 

multithreaded code, model & meta-model driven GUI, using code generation techniques, writing (not merely 

using) a compiler, writing a search engine from scratch or producing solutions of extraordinarily high quality. 

I am interested in the many facets of software quality. This includes - but also goes beyond - typical 

developer Q/A subjects like TDD, automated testing, xUnit, mocking etc. Mainly, I am interested in how 

quality (and thus in turn productivity) can be increased by improvements to process, technology, 

design/architecture AND much better co-operation between testers, developers and business 

stakeholders. 

Testing-wise, I specialise in creating highly testable solutions from requirements and architecture to code, 

resulting in lower total costs, higher quality and fewer delays towards the end of the project. My technical 

testing skills include structured (white box) testing, automated unit/integration testing, automated GUI 

testing, stubs/drivers, test/behaviour-driven development and various specialised test tools. Finally, I am 

ISTQB test certified, which helps me act as a go-between for testers and developers. 

Besides the technical aspects of software development, I am interested in the software processes and the 

(technical) management aspects that promote customer satisfaction, good teamwork, quality, 

productivity, decrease in risk, maintainable solutions and timely deliverables. In particular, I like 

working with agile software development processes such as Scrum or Kanban together with BDD/TDD, 

reviews, modern development tools, good configuration-management, etc. 

Finally, I enjoy combining my technical background with the management of teams or projects. I have 

experience managing projects, teams and start-up companies in organizations with about 1-15 developers. 

My management strengths are my broad technical background, my process skills, QA skills, good 

communication skills, good people skills, outsourcing experience and a keen awareness of the human factor 

and how people that thrive are key to success. 

In relation to outsourcing, I am used to working remotely with teams from Denmark, Eastern Europe, 

Germany, Portugal, India and South America, where I have developed my own methodology for testdriven 

outsourcing. A methodology, which eases the onshore work with quality insurance of deliveries, 

which can otherwise easily become a bottleneck when outsourcing. 

Industry Experience


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Construction, Education, Finance/Leasing/Banking, IT, Media, Real estate, Robotics & Sales/Marketing as 

well as solutions for the Danish Government and the EU. 

Employment History (see below for detailed project history) 

2004-now 

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MortenCh H. Aps 

2000-2003 

Navigo Systems 

A/S 

Consultant in software development 

I work as a (freelance) consultant on large software projects when a subcontractor with 

advanced technical skills/experience are needed. In some situations, I have also taken 

in and managed projects in 41concepts directly for customers. In these cases I hire 

temporary developers, join with colleges or outsource work. Finally, I often develop 

small products or prototypes on my own in between consultancy jobs. Some of which 

are releases as open-source projects. 

For freelance work, I have found market demand to be highest for technical skills like 

developing software in .NET, Java or C++ as an architect or developer, so this is what 

I do most. However, often customers also need some degree of technical leadership 

(which I highly enjoy doing), so I have also often worked in various technical lead and 

management capacities. 

Roles: Software Architect, Senior Developer, Technical Test Specialist, Team-Lead, 

Technical Project Manager, Project Manager or CEO (depending on project and 

customer need). 

Customers: Dansk Software, WM-Data, Novo Nordisk, Scholars Resource, IBM, Jeld- 

Wen, 5M Invest, Infotrust/Danske Bank, Sirius IT, Steria. 

Technologies used: Java, C#, C++, Ruby, Scala, SQL/TSQL/PL-SQL, Windows, 

Linux, Mac OS X, Subversion, Git, TFS, MySQL, SQL Server, Oracle, Glassfish, 

Tomcat, BizTalk, Process360, JBoss, Eclipse, JDeveloper, Visual Studio, HTML, XML, 

XSL, CSS, ASP.NET, JSP, Servlets, Portlets, Custom Tag Libraries, Ruby On Rails, 

Lift, WCF, SOAP, Jesey, EJB, Hibernate, NHibernate, Spring, ImageMagick/RMagick, 

DigiMarc, Windows Workflow Foundation, SharePoint 2003, IIS, Hudson, CDI/Weld, 

OSGI, NUnit, JUnit, TestNG, RSpec, Cucumber, Watir, Selenium, Amazon Web 

Services (AWS), Capistrano, CodeSmith, Antlr, Treetop, ANT, Rake and more. 

CTO 

Co-founder and chief technical officer in Navigo Systems, a venture-funded company 

that produced enterprise Knowledge Management software solutions. In addition to 

the 4 founders, Navigo consisted of about 10 developers as well as consultants and 

sales/support staff. 

We started Navigo at a difficult time after the dot-com bubble but we persevered, got 

venture funded when nobody else where able here in Denmark and successful 

produced two innovative enterprise solutions. Ultimately Navigo was acquired by 

Mondosoft. 

Our first released product version was based on a Java/Oracle platform, which turned 

out to be challenging to sell because customers needed Oracle expertise to install and 

evaluate the product. Then we migrated to a more successful version based mostly on 

Microsoft.NET and SharePoint. 

Our product was highly innovative in the development and unique mixture of artificial

1999-2000 

Roseman & 

Lauridsen, Inc 

1997-1999 

Mærsk - 

Odense Steel 

Shipyard (OSS) 


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intelligence, library science, taxonomies, automatic classification and structured search 

to provide the customer with strong benefits in knowledge management and 

information retrieval. 

Customers included Hewlett Packard, Honeywell, Simcorp and the U.S. Congress, etc. 

As a co-founder I was involved in everything like forming the company, establishing 

offices, attracting and hiring developers, talking to customers/partners and 

lawyers/accountants, making key strategy choices, getting venture capital, formulating 

product ideas. 

As the CTO, my primary responsibilities were product design/goals, research and 

management of the GUI development group. In particular, I personally came up with 

the fundamental product idea based on an unfulfilled market need and specialized 

research across disparate scientific fields. I was also the driving force in planning 

product and technology migration in response to market response and finances. 

As a lead architect, I was heavily involved in the overall architecture of the system. I 

also participated in development tasks when something turned out to be particularly 

hard or important to do correctly. In particular, I was responsible for development of an 

innovative query engine for information retrieval, development of an extremely high 

performing embedded search engine and creating an IFilter for text indexing by 

SharePoint. 

Technologies used: Java, J2EE, RMI, Log4J, Eclipse, IntelliJ, Oracle, XML, DB2, C++, 

COM, Microsoft .NET, C# & SharePoint 2003. 

Director of Engineering 

Worked as the technical director for Roseman & Lauridsen (R&L) Inc in USA. R&L was 

a German company in publishing and system integration services, which I helped 

establish a small subsidiary in Silicon Valley. I handled technical presentations, R&D, 

wrote strategic reports, co-ordinated technical work with the mother company in 

Germany and managed or programmed various technical tasks when needed. 

Concurrently, I also studied the practicalities of American high-tech entrepreneurship, 

such as how to think in opportunities rather then problems, formulate business ideas, 

how to form a company, get venture capital, etc. 

Technologies used: Java, XML/XSL, SGML, DocBook, CMS-systems, OO-Databases. 

Senior software developer / Software Centre leader 

Worked for Mærsk at OSS with embedded robotics systems. First as C++/Compiler 

development specialist then as the leader of new software centre. 

As a developer, I worked on an embedded robot controller project. Here I designed 

and developed a compiler that translated from the Industrial Robot Language (IRL) to 

Java byte code, an object oriented concurrency/kernel framework in c++, a robot 

programming SDK for 3 rd party developers and more. 

As the leader of the OSS software center, I co-ordinated development efforts among 

different software development groups, contributed with a more professional software 

development process and introduced new technology like Java (which was brand new 

and unproven at the time). 

Technologies used: C++, Visual/Borland C++, Java, Corba, Win32, JavaCC, Jni, Java 

Bytecode, Jas, AWT, Embedded real-time, Compiler construction.

1995-1999 

Independent 

(CC Vejle a/s) 

1985-1996 

Student 

Freelancer 

(Part time) 

Independent Software Vendor 


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Independently planned and developed a specialised Windows CDROM based product 

selection guide for tiles, wooden floors and more. Product was created for my customer 

CC Vejle a/s and was targeted towards their end-customers, marketing and sales staff. 

Key feature was a custom rule engine that could match complex customer 

requirements to the exact right products (so that for example only water resistant, antislip 

tiles was proposed for a bathroom). 

Worked on everything involved in producing the software from gathering requirements, 

to talking to the sales staff, solution design, technology choices, architecture, GUI, 

database, rule-engine, programming, running live beta-tests, fixing 

errors/misunderstandings, shipping and maintaining the software. 

Technologies used: C++, Win16/32, OWL. 

Student jobs in software development, authoring, teaching, etc. 

All the way through senior years at school, in high school and at the university, I 

worked part-time in various capacities related to software development for: 

* Mikro Værkstedet (writing educational & handicap software plus a computer game), 

* Alt Om Data (writing technical articles about programming and computers) 

* Ramsø Ungdomsskole (teaching kids how to program computers) 

Roles: Programmer, IT-journalist & IT-Teacher. 

Technologies used: 80x86 & 6502 Assembler, Pascal, Basic, C/C++, Win16/32, Dos, 

Concurrent CP/M, Windows 3.1/95/NT, OS2, Amstrad. 

Projects (see above for work history) 

AUG12-NOW 

(Appinux) 

AUG12-NOW 

(FDC) 

AUG12-NOW 

(BRF/RightPeople) 

Performance and functionality testing of educational system 

Testing performance, scalability and overall functionality of a software solution 

targeted towards the educational sector. 

Roles: Test architect 

Technologies used: JMeter 2.8, Java 7, Selenium 2 

QA and development process consultant 

Occasionally advising on technical testing, TDD and more for testers and developers 

at FDC (forsikringens data center). 

Roles: Advisor. 

Technologies used: C#, Visual Studio, xUnit 

Software developer at BRF 

Development and maintenance of back-office solution for banking and real estate 

finance.

MAY12 – (AUG12) 


MAY12 – MAY12 

(Mind4IT) 

JAN11 – NOV11 


(Steria) 

AUG10 – OCT10 


(Sirius IT) 

APR10 – APR11 


Roles: Developer 


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Technologies used: Visual Studio 2012, C# 3.5, WinForms, Moq, CodedUI testing. 

Yet undisclosed native application for iOS mobile platform 

Development of native application for IPhone/IPad for undisclosed customer. 

Roles: Everything from project management and architecture/design to programming 

and most of the testing. 

Technologies used: XCode 4.4, iOS 5.1, Objective-C/C, IPhone/IPad. ARC, 

Storyboards, Code generation. 

TDD workshop for Telia 

Held workshop about TDD/BDD software development for Telia. 

Roles: Speaker 

Technologies used: Java, Cucumber, Ruby. 

Case system for Danish Government 

Worked on development of new work accident case system, ASK, targeted towards 

caseworkers in the Danish Government and replacing an old legacy system. My 

development efforts were focused on design/development of new features, system 

integration and automated unit/integration/gui testing. 

Role: Senior Developer 

Technologies used: .NET 3.5, WCF, C#, NHibernate, SQL Server 2008, Visual 

Studio 2008, Subversion, BizTalk, Process360, White GUI test framework. 

Automated GUI testing of WebReg for Danish Government (E&S) 

The WebReg system was very costly to test and impossible to test automatically, so I 

was called in to help the team. I designed a few minor changes to the existing solution 

in order to increase testability which I then guided the team in implementing. 

Subsequently I lead the development of a suite of automated web GUI tests used for 

regression testing. Simultaneously, I solved a problem with uncertainty in regard to 

exact requirements by introducing executable test scenarios written in a natural 

language that all stakeholders could understand and verify (opposite to normal test 

scripts written in code). 

Role: Test Architect/Developer 

Technologies used: Cucumber, Watir, Ruby, HTML, C++, Java 

Cloud-computing product 

Worked on internal unreleased product for 41concepts aimed at professional use for 

small businesses. Most work was done in Denmark by student developers and myself. 

A smaller part was outsourced to developers in Ukraine and Portugal. 

Roles: Project manager and architect.

MAR10 – AUG10 


(Sirius IT) 

JUN08 - MAR10 


(InfoTrust / 

Danske Bank) 

AUG08 - DEC08 


(5M Invest) 

MAY08 – JUN08 


(Jeld-Wen) 

FEB07-DEC07 


(IBM / ALD) 


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Technologies used: Java EE 6, CDI/Weld, Jersey REST WebServices, Ruby, Scala, 

Lift, JRuby, RSpec, Unit, Hudson, Glassfish 3, OSGI, ANT, Rake, Selenium. 

Process improvement 

Worked on software development process improvements for Sirius IT. Focus on 

Reviews, Analysis, Identify problems, planning and helping with process improvement, 

Automate testing, Configuration Management, Outsourcing. 

Roles: Advisor & Facilitator 

Technologies: Java EE, JBoss, TestNG, Hudson, C++, SQL Server, etc. 

Vendor System 

Worked on vendor sales/leasing system for Infotrust and Danske Bank. The project 

was essentially a system integration project due to the need to integrate with a large 

number of desktop and mainframe systems in and outside the bank. Besides 

integration, the project also involved substantial development of new features in .NET. 

A large part of the work was outsourced to about 10 Indian developers with two 

working onsite in DK and the rest in Bangalore. Remaining work was done here in DK 

by a smaller team of 4 Danish developers. I was responsible for the overall 

architecture and also did most of the technical management for both Danish and 

Indian developers. 

Roles: Architect and technical management 

Technologies used: .NET 2.0, C#, SQL Server 2005, C#, CodeSmith, Web Services 

MBolig real-estate portal 

Worked at Danish real-estate portal for 5M Invest together with two other developers. 

The product facilitated exchange of houses and was deployed as a cloud solution on 

Amazon. I was responsible for customer communication, project/team management 

and deployment to the cloud. 

Roles: Project manager and cloud deployment engineer. 

Technologies used: Ruby On Rails 2.2, Ruby 1.8, HTML/CSS, XML, Amazon Web 

Services (AWS) S3, EC2, Ubuntu Linux, Apache, MySql, Capistrano 

Web-based data-entry system 

Worked on data entry application for Jeld-Wen A/S. I handled communication with 

customer, project management and overall architecture. Actual work was outsourced 

to developers in Brazil and Romania which I managed remotely, I also did testing and 

deployment to the customer site. 

Roles: Project Manager and Architect 

Technologies used:.NET 2.0, ASP.NET, C#, VS2008, SQL Server 2005, IIS 

Vehicle leasing system 

Worked at migration and stabilisation on an existing vehicle-leasing project for IBM at 

ALD Automotive. I develop test suites for old (and new) codebase, maintained, 

refactored and upgraded the project, converted and combined modules written in a

SEP06-NOV06 


(Novo Nordisk IT) 

JUL06-AUG06 


(Scholars 

Resource) 

NOV05-AUG06 


(WM-data) 

JAN06-JUL06 


JAN04-NOV05 


(Dansk Software) 


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legacy language to a new improved C# solution, fixed bugs, implemented new 

features etc. 

Roles: Architect, Senior developer, Team Lead 

Technologies used: NET, C# 2.0, VB, VS2005, SQL Server 2005, Web Services, 

NUnit, Windows Communication Framework (WCF), etc. 

National governmental portal 

Worked on developing new features for governmental portal aimed at Danish citizens 

for Novo Nordisk IT. 

Role: Developer 

Technologies used: Oracle 10g Portal, JDeveloper, PL/SQL, JEE, Java Portlets, 

Java Servlets, JSP, Custom Tag Libraries, Spring, Hibernate, XML, XSL, HTML 

Script components for image processing & watermarking 

Worked remotely on a Ruby/C++ integration project for image processing and 

watermarking. I performed the integration, programming and testing + communicated 

remotely with the customer which was located in the US. 

Roles: Architect and developer. 

Technologies used: Ruby 1.8, C++/GCC 4.0, Linux, ImageMagick/RMagick, 

DigiMarc 

National Visum system and European asylum case processing system. 

Worked on national visa system (NVIS) and European asylum case processing 

system (DublinNet) for WM-data A/S 

Role: Senior developer 

Technologies used: C# 2.0, ASP.NET 2.0, Web Services, SQL Server 2005, Visual 

Studio 2005, Windows Workflow Foundation. 

Eclipse code generator plugin 

Developed open source project for software developers. The project added eclipse 3.2 

IDE support for code generation tool(s) with features such as visual Wizards, Syntax 

highlighting and automatic code generation. The plugin is available at 

CodegenClipse.sourceforge.net. 

Roles: Architect/Developer 

Technologies used: Java 1.5, Eclipse 3.2, SWT, Eclipse plugin Api, Jostraca code 

generator 

Archive, payment and placement solutions for Danish Government. 

Worked on various governmental projects for Dansk Software A/S including the 

development of a new Digital Archive system for documents, development of a new 

asylum seeker placement system and maintaining an existing immigration payment 

system. In addition I worked on customizing, improving and deploying an existing 

open sourced Help Desk solution for internal use. 

Roles: Developer, Architect, Technical lead, Mentor.

MAY04-JUN04 


(Novo Noridisk IT) 


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Technologies used: Microsoft.NET, C#, ASP.NET, SQL Server, Sharepoint 2003, 

Java EE, JSP/Servlets, EJB, Struts, Oracle, XML 

SkoleNet-project administration module 

Working on educational project for Novo Nordisk IT focusing on design and 

development of a model driven gui for new admin module in ASP.NET and 

SharePoint. 

Roles: Developer/Architect 

Education / Certifications 

Technologies used: C#, ASP.NET, SQL Server, ASP.NET, SharePoint 2003 

2012 Prince2 Foundation certification 

2012 ISTQB Foundation v2011 certification (CTFL) 

2009 Scrum master course (3 day Scrum Master certification class) 

2006 Ruby on Rails Pragmatic Studio (3 day Ruby on Rails workshop) 

2004 Building Microsoft BizTalk Server 2004 Solutions 

2003 Building Solutions for Microsoft SharePoint 2003 

1998 The World of Testing (5 day advanced software testing course by Boris Beizer) 

1989-1995 M.Sc. in Computer Systems Engineering 

University of 

Southern 

Denmark 

(Odense) 

University education with a mix of Computer Science and Electrical Engineering – 

Specialising in Computer Science. 

Thesis: Master’s thesis on how to implement effective exception handling in compilers 

with a proof of concept compiler implemented in C++/Assembler & Yacc/lex. The 

thesis proved how it is possible to efficiently implement exception handling with zero 

overhead in object oriented programming languages (despite was what the general 

thinking of the time). 

Personal interests 

Music, Literature, Science/Technology, International Politics, History, Entrepreneurship. 

Personal data 

Male, Born 1969 

Languages: Fluent Danish and English, some German, a bit of French and Spanish 

References 

Available on request.

Skills appendix 


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Latest 

usage 

Years of 

Roles 

Software architect Expert 2010 10 

Software developer Expert 2012 17 

Technical software tester Very experienced 2012 7 

Technical team/project leadership Very experienced 2011 9 

Project manager Experienced 2010 5 

Chief Technology Officer / Director of Engineering Experienced 2003 5 

Fields and applications 

Enterprise systems Very experienced 2010 5 

Governmental systems Very experienced 2011 7 

Cloud computing Experienced 2010 3 

Web internet/intranet applications Very experienced 2010 9 

Framework development Very experienced 2010 6 

Concurrency / Multithreading Very experienced 2010 15 

Databases Very experienced 2011 8 

GUI and frontend development Experienced 2011 7 

Backend development Very experienced 2012 10 

Ontologies, information and metadata modelling Very experienced 2003 3 

Information retrieval/search engines Very experienced 2003 3 

Knowledge management technology Very experienced 2003 3 

Automated text analysis/processing (AI) Experienced 2003 2 

Compiler construction Expert 2008 5 

SOA / Distributed systems Very experienced 2010 13 

Low level system development Very experienced 1999 8 

Embedded real-time systems development Experienced 1999 3 

High-performance systems development Very experienced 2006 6 

Project types 

Development projects Expert 2012 14 

Integration projects Very experienced 2011 8 

Migration projects Experienced 2011 5 

Maintenance projects Experienced 2007 3 

Work and process 

Software process engineering and improvement Very experienced 2010 7 

Scrum Experienced 2012 3 

Kanban Knowledge 2012 - 

Agile development Very experienced 2011 10 

Specifications Very experienced 2008 6 

Analysis Very experienced 2012 12 

Programming Expert 2012 17 

Architecture and design Expert 2010 13 

Testing Very experienced 2012 13 

Object oriented development Very experienced 2012 13 

Design patterns Very experienced 2007 8 

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Outsourcing Very experienced 2010 3 

Databases 

MS SQL Server Very experienced 2011 7 

Oracle Experienced 2006 3 

IBM DB 2 Knowledge 2000 1 

MySQL Experienced 2008 2 

Operating Systems 

Windows (Win7/2003/XP/NT etc.) Very experienced 2012 16 

Unix / Linux / Mac OS X Very experienced 2012 8 

iOS (iphone/Ipad) Experienced 2012 3 

Programming Languages 

C++ Very experienced 2010 10 

Objective-C Experienced 2012


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Oracle App. Server Experienced 2006 2 

Eclipse IDE Very experienced 2011 8 

Eclipse plug-in development Experienced 2006 1 

SWT widget toolkit Experienced 2006 1 

.NET/Windows platform 

.NET 1.0 - 3.5 Very experienced 2012 8 

Win32/16 Very experienced 2003 4 

ASP.NET Very experienced 2011 7 

ADO.NET Very experienced 2011 8 

WinForms Very experienced 2012 6 

WCF Experienced 2011 3 

MSMQ Experienced 2011 2 

Nhibernate Experienced 2011 3 

LINQ Experienced 2012 1 

MS Visual Studio .Net 2003-2012 IDE Very experienced 2012 8 

CodeSmith Experienced 2008 1 

MS IIS Experienced 2011 6 

MS Sharepoint 2003 Experienced 2004 1 

MS BizTalk Knowledge 2011 2 

COM/COM+ Experienced 2003 3 

Other standards & technologies 

Lift Knowledge 2010 - 

Ruby On Rails Experienced 2008 2 

OWL/DAML+RDF etc. Experienced 2003 2 

TopicMaps Knowledge 2003 1 

HTML, XML, DTDs, Schemas, XSLT, XPATH Very experienced 2010 7 

UML Experienced 2002 5 

Soap web services Very experienced 2011 8 

Restful webservices Very experienced 2011 3 

Amazon AWS Cloud Api Experienced 2012 2 

XCode Experienced 2012


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Version control and build tools 

Git Experienced 2012 2 

Subversion and CVS Experienced 2011 10 

TFS Experienced 2012 2 

Hudson build server Experienced 2010 2

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