Curriculum Vitae

PETER KORSGAARD




Personal Information

Address: Boerderijstraat 9, B-8500 Kortrijk
Phone: +32 494768954
Email: peter@korsgaard.com
Homepage: http://peter.korsgaard.com
Date of birth: August 2nd, 1978
Nationality: Danish
Marital status: Married
   

Objective

To extend my skills and develop new ones in an active and challenging environment, while working in a team of like-minded people creating innovative new products.
 

Education

09/1997 - 06/2002 Master of Science in Engineering, Informatics
  Masters degree with specialization in Computer Vision and Graphics at
  Aalborg University, Denmark.
  Thesis entitled ``Handling Occlusions in Augmented Reality'' prepared at Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, Belgium. Final exam at Aalborg University, Denmark.
  Grade: 9.6 (to 13)
   
08/1994 - 06/1997 Technical College
  Higher Technical Examination in electronics at Aalborg Technical College, Denmark.
  Grade: 9.5 (to 13)
   
08/1985 - 06/1994 Primary School
  1st to 9th grade at Gandrup Primary School, Denmark.
   

Work Experience

09/2002 - Embedded Software Development
  Development of embedded control software for rugged display solutions at Barco N.V. Software initially written in C and assembly using no OS (on Philips XA). Led move to C++ based platform on eCos and is now in charge of migration to embedded Linux. http://www.barco.com
   
12/1999 - 10/2001 Software Development
  Development and maintenance of a web-based portal system at ByNet Denmark K/S. Developed using Apache / MySQL / Oracle / Perl / PHP / Qmail and deployed on 8 Linux servers. http://www.bynet.dk
   
02/1998 - 12/1999 Home Office Sales Assistant
  Sale of consumer computer equipment at Super Radio A/S (now ELGiganten
  Denmark A/S). http://www.elgiganten.dk
   
06/1997 - 09/1997 Piccolo
  Piccolo at hotel Royal Court Apartments in London, Britain.

Other Experience

05/2005 - Present Nslu2-linux.org
  Active in community around nslu2-linux.org, and author of Debian on NSLU2 howto (http://peter.korsgaard.com/articles/debian-nslue.php). http://nslu2-linux.org
   
02/2002 - Present Handhelds.org
  Active in community around the HP-sponsored handhelds.org. Author of the
  IpkgFind search engine (http://ipkgfind.handhelds.org) and several small utilities for Linux PDAs. http://handhelds.org
   
04/2001 - Present DotSRC
  Staff member at dotsrc.org (was SunSITE.dk). Member of CVS team and IRC team. http://dotsrc.org
   

Skills

Languages: Danish (native), English (fluent), Dutch (fair), German (fair)
   
Development: Assembler (Armv, Motorola 68k, x86, XA, PPC), C, C++, HTML, Java, Javascript, Lua, Pascal, Perl, PHP, Python, Shell, SQL, TCL, XML.
   
Hardware: Ethernet, Flash, I$^{2}$C, USB.
   
Toolkits: Boost, DirectX, GTK, OpenCV, OpenGL, QT, SDL, STL, VTK.
   
Networking: TCP/IP, IPX, Ethernet, NAT, Iptables.
   
Systems: eCos, Dos, Linux (embedded, desktop and server), Windows 9x/2000.
   
Administration: Apache, Asterisk, CVS, MySQL, OpenSSH, Proftpd, Qmail, Samba, Subversion.
   

Personal Interests

Travelling: Exploring nature and culture around the world.
   
Programming: Developing real-time graphical effects, Open source, Low level programming, Linux on consumer products
   
Reading: Science Fiction, Fantasy, Computer Graphics.
   

References



Kurt Cornelis, Ph.D.    
Supervisor, Katholieke Universiteit Leuven Telephone: +32 16321881
Kasteelpark Arenberg 10 Email: kcornelis@esat.kuleuven.ac.be
3001 Heverlee    
Belgium    
     
Claus B. Madsen, Assoc. Prof.    
Supervisor, Aalborg University Telephone: +45 96358788
Niels Jernes Vej 14, Building 3 Email: cbm@cvmt.auc.dk
9220 Aalborg East    
Denmark    
     
Keld Arenholt Christensen    
Manager, ByNet Denmark K/S Telephone: +45 28446405
Nytorv 5b, 2nd floor Email: kac@bynet.dk
9000 Aalborg    
Denmark    



Peter Korsgaard 2006-03-07