Curriculum Vitae

Personal information

Name: Jon Heggland
Date of birth: 1974-09-04
Marital status: Single
E-mail: dnalggeh.noj@ntnu.no
OpenPGP key: 0xE32C6D7C
Home page: http://www.idi.ntnu.no/~heggland
Mobile phone: (+47) 40 04 09 74

Home address

K. O. Thornæs' veg 6
NO-7033 Trondheim
Norway

Work address

Det medisinske fakultet
Medisinsk teknisk forskningssenter (MTFS)
NO-7489 Trondheim
Norway

Tel: (+47) 73 59 88 52

Education

Doktor ingeniør (Ph.D.) March 1999 to September 2005

Norwegian University of Science and Technology (NTNU), Department of Computer and Information Science (IDI)

Doctoral studies in multimedia databases and digital libraries - metadata modelling, tools and user interfaces (see OntoLog).

Publications:

Sivilingeniør (M.Sc.) August 1993 to December 1997

Norwegian University of Science and Technology (NTNU), Department of Computer and Information Science (IDI)

Computer Science, with focus on programming, graphical user interfaces, data modelling and multimedia databases.

  • Master thesis: Synchronous Playback of Temporal Videometadata, grade 1.0.
  • Final grade: 1.4, "outstanding".
  • Received Elf Aquitaine Norway's 1998 award for outstanding results.
  • Received ABB Technology's 1998 award for best master thesis at the Department of Computer and Information Science, NTNU.

Work experience

Head Engineer August 2007 to present day

Norwegian University of Science and Technology (NTNU), Faculty of Medicine, IT Division

Designing and implementing database systems for the Health Survey of Nord-Trøndelag (HUNT), using Dataphor.

Researcher January 2005 to July 2007

Norwegian University of Science and Technology (NTNU), Department of Computer and Information Science (IDI)

Designing and implementing database systems for the Health Survey of Nord-Trøndelag (HUNT), using Dataphor.

Assistant Professor May 2004 to December 2004

Norwegian University of Science and Technology (NTNU), Department of Computer and Information Science (IDI)

Teaching the course "Database Technology"; designing computer systems for the Norwegian Center for Electronic Health Records (NSEP) and the Health Survey of Nord-Trøndelag (HUNT).

Researcher December 2003 to April 2004

Norwegian University of Science and Technology (NTNU), Department of Computer and Information Science (IDI)

Developing a conceptual model framework for the project "Databases for biobanks", funded by the Research Council of Norway (NFR).

Assistant Professor August 2002 to June 2003

Norwegian University of Science and Technology (NTNU), Department of Computer and Information Science (IDI)

Teaching the courses "Information Systems, Introduction" and "Database Technology".

Research Fellow January 1999 to November 2003

Norwegian University of Science and Technology (NTNU), Department of Computer and Information Science (IDI)

Doctoral studies; Teaching support: assistant in courses "Data Modelling, Databases and Database Management Systems" and "Object-oriented software engineering", creation and evaluation of projects, assignments and exams; assistant advisor for M.Sc. students.

Research Assistant Compulsory military service, March 1998 to November 1998

Norwegian Defense Research Institute (FFI), Kjeller, Norway

Application development in C++ and Java, teaching object-oriented analysis, design and programming.

Application Developer July 1996 to August 1996

Ericsson AS, Arendal, Norway

Developing database solution for software reuse in Perl.

References

At the Norwegian University of Science and Technology (NTNU), Department of Computer and Information Science (IDI); @idi.ntnu.no:

Associate professor Roger Midtstraum
Tel: (+47) 73 59 36 75
E-mail: roger

Professor Kjell Bratbergsengen
Tel: (+47) 73 59 34 39
E-mail: kjellb

Professor Svein Erik Bratsberg
Tel: (+47) 73 55 03 82
E-mail: sveinbra

At the Nord-Trøndelag Health Study Research Centre (HUNT); @ntnu.no:

Associate Professor Arnulf Langhammer
Tel: (+47) 74 07 51 87
E-mail: arnulf.langhammer

Data Manager Bitte Dillan
Tel: (+47) 74 07 51 97
E-mail: bitte.dillan

Skills and interests

Programming (Java, D4, SQL, HTML, CSS, C/C++, PHP, JSP, XSLT); true relational databases; conceptual/semantic modelling; object-oriented analysis, design and programming; design and implementation of graphical user interfaces; design patterns.

Languages

Norwegian; fluent English; some German.

Affiliations

The chamber choir A Cappellissimo: Webmaster and bass, August 1999 to present day.

The student athletic association at NTNU (NTNUI), Taekwondo group: Treasurer and instructor, July 1999 to December 2001.

Non-professional interests

Dancing (Irish step-dancing, flamenco, cha-cha-cha), movies, literature (fantasy and science fiction), music (piano, choir, bodhran, mandolin, flutes), trekking, cooking, bouldering, hang gliding, martial arts (taekwondo, aikido, jojutsu), fencing.