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Curriculum Vitae for Havard Rast Blok
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Personal
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Swiss address:
8000 Zurich
(Please e-mail for complete address)
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E-mail: 
Web: www.hblok.net
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CV Reference: 08046
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Marital status: not married
Age: 29 years old
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Citizenship: Dutch
City of birth: Sarpsborg, Norway
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| Skills and interests |
Currently, I am a member of the Test Engineering team at Google in Zurich, Switzerland.
My main focus is on development of automated test frameworks and tools for the various
developer teams in Zurich, including GMail and other Google products and technologies.
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| Employment |
October 2007 - |
Test Engineer at Google in Zurich.
Designing and implementing automated tests frameworks for Google's products and technologies.
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| October 2005 - September 2007 |
Quality Assurance Engineer at Altova in Wien.
Design and implementation of automated GUI test framework in Java for Altova's software products,
focusing on the UML tool UModel, and XMLSpy.
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| August 2004 - October 2005 |
Software developer at Searchspace in London.
Maintenance and development in Java and XML on large scale AI systems for fraud
and money laundering detection for top financial institutions.
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| July 2003 - August 2004 |
Researcher at BT Exact in Ipswich.
Developing research and pilot applications using Java, J2EE, Tomcat, Linux and Windows.
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| April 2001 - September 2002 |
Divisional engineer at the Computer Science department of Østfold University.
Team leader for development of Internet broadcasting
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| Autumn 2000 |
Established own business; Blok Computer Services.
Sales and services of computer hardware.
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| 1999 - 2001 |
Teaching Assistant positions at the Computer Science department and
Business, Social Sciences and Foreign Languages department of Østfold University.
Autumn 2001: Machine learning (artificial intelligence); Spring 2001: Object Oriented Programming in Java; Autumn 2000: Algorithms and Data structures in Java; Spring 2000: Object Oriented Programming in Java; Autumn 1999: Basic computer skills including Word, Excel and Power Point.
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| Education |
2002 - 2003 |
Master of Science degree in Natural Computation at The University of Birmingham, UK.
MSc summer project with Fabrice Saffre at BTexact.
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| 2001 - 2002 |
Business English at Østfold University, Norway.
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| 1998 - 2001 |
Norwegian equivalent to Bachelor of Science in Computer Science at Østfold University.
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| 1995 - 1998 |
St. Olav Upper secondary school, Norway. Specialized in maths, physics and English.
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| Publications |
Saffre, F. and Blok, H.R. (2005) SelfService - A Theoretical Protocol for Autonomic Distribution of Services in P2P Communities.
Proceedings of 12th IEEE International Conference on the Engineering of
Computer-Based Systems (ECBS 2005), Greenbelt. April, 2005
Saffre, F. and Blok, H.R. (2004) SelfService - A Theoretical Protocol for Autonomic Distribution of Services in P2P Communities. Proceedings of International Conference on Autonomic Computing (ICAC-04), New York. May, 2004.
Blok, H.R. (2003) Network Survivability Analyses with NetStress Investigator. MSc thesis at University of Birmingham, England. September, 2003.
Blok, H.R. (2003) JBookmarks - managing bookmarks for multiple browsers on multiple platforms. jbookmarks.sourceforge.net
Blok, H.R. (2001) Remember Java - Java Tutorial and Exercises. www.rememberjava.com
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| Technologies |
Programming: Java, Java Servlets, Java Swing, Python, Perl, Unix/shell scripting, Open GL, C, C++.
Testing: JUnit, TestNG, JSUnit, HTTPUnit, Selenium.
Databases: ANSI SQL, IBM DB2, Oracle, MySQL, PostgreSQL.
Web: XML, HTML, CSS, AJAX, web design, Apache, Tomcat.
System administration: Advanced Linux Redhat/Fedora, Unix, hardware.
Applications: UML/Rational Rose, UModel, Eclipse, NetBeans, Ant, Maven,
CVS, Subversion, StarTeam, ClearCase, Perforce, XMLSpy.
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| Languages |
Norwegian: native
English: fluent
Swedish: conversational
German: conversational
Spanish: learning
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| Hobbies |
Other hobbies and interests include open source software, photography, music, travelling, and fitness and winter sports.
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