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Simon Byholm

Simon was born a long time ago in a small village on the west coast of Finland. After graduating with a degree in telecommunication from Swedish Polytechnig (Svenska Yrkeshögskolan) in the year 2000 he has been developing software for smart energy meters.

Simon works as a team leader for the software team at Telenor Cinclus, one of the leading service providers for smart metering in Northern Europe.

Simon has been operating a small scale "online business" since 2003 where he makes money doing marketing for various companies and organizaions. He also maintains a couple of information mini-websites that generate advertising revenue.

Photos From Finland

Secret Search Engine Labs

Call me mad or something, but I'm developing a search engine, a "real" Internet search engine indexing pages from the web. It's not like I'm going to take on Google, I'm still only at 250,000 pages indexed, but it's a fun project and has so far more than doubled the number of indexed pages every year. Find it at Secret Search Engine Labs

Complete CV

Simon is an expert in software development with skills in team management and software architecture and experience in most well known programming languages.

Simon has training and practical experience in hardware design and debugging wich is an invaluable asset when working with embedded sofware thats tightly linked to the hardware it runs on.

Simon's skills include marketing products and services on the Internet using paid search and search engine optimization. He also has experience in setting up and maintaining for-profit websites.

Simon's daily work includes communication in Swedish, Finnish and English, he also has training in German and basic Spanish.

Simon's interests includes playing the piano, snapping photos of nice landscapes and playing with model trains.

Timeline

2009 - Simon aquired the title Certified Scrum Master (CSM) from the Scrum Alliance as can be verified from the profile here.

In 2006 Simon became team leader for the software group at Telenor Cinclus Oy which includes couching team members, keeping trac of scedules and being lead architect for the software products.

In 2000 I was employed by Comsel System as a Software Engineer working mainly on the embedded system platforms but also on protocols and windows tools.

In 2000 I graduated with a B.Sc in Electrical Engineering from Swedish Polytechnic, Finland where I studied programming, electronics and electrical distribution networks. I attended this school from 1996-2000.

From 1999 to 2000 i did my degree work for Comsel System designing a web based interface for the remote data monitoring and control system. I also made a communications library for the in house SPCP data transfer protocol.

In the summer 1999 I worked at the Vasa Centralsjukhus hospital in the service department repairing medical machines and computers. I also had the not-so-inspiring task of checking everything for year 2000 readiness, even coffee makers and nonelectrical tools.

In the summer 1998 I worked for Wärtsilä Diesel Finland doing project related CAD Design of Engine Electrical Systems and development of software tools for the Medusa CAD system.

Years 1993-1995 I went to high school in my hometown of Vasa in Western Finland.

Specific Skills

In management: Team-Leader, Certified Scrum Master (CSM)

In software development: C/C++, Java, PHP, HTML, SQL, mySQL, Javascript, Assembler, Embedded Systems, Windows Applications, Unix/Linux Applications, Drivers, Pascal, Bacis, Basic, Perl, XML

In online marketing: PPC Advertising, Search Engine Optimization (SEO), AdWords, AdSense, Keyword Research.