Journey

A career with a long commute.

The full timeline: education and roles, in the order they happened.

OSLOslo, Norway59.91°N 10.75°E

One-Year Program in Business Administration

KRSKristiansand, Norway58.15°N 8.00°E

Bachelor's Degree in IT & Information Systems

Web Developer (Internship)

  • Developed websites for local businesses using HTML, CSS, and JavaScript.
  • Worked with CMS platforms, including WordPress.

Customer Advisor (Part Time)

  • Resolved technical network and billing inquiries in a high-volume, client-facing support role.

Solution Consultant

  • Delivered feature development and bug fixes across a full-stack .NET application (ASP.NET, C#, Entity Framework, JavaScript) supporting sustainability-certification workflows for a national Norwegian foundation.
  • Helped migrate a legacy on-prem application to Azure, gaining hands-on experience with cloud infrastructure and deployment pipelines.
SVGStavanger, Norway58.97°N 5.73°E

Solution Consultant

  • Continued the same role out of Tietoevry's Stavanger office for the final months, closer to family ahead of the move to Australia.
WOLWollongong, Australia34.42°S 150.89°E

Master of Computer Science (Software Engineering major)

Web Developer (Part Time)

  • Built and maintained 30+ client websites across a range of industries, acting as primary client contact and translating business requirements into technical solutions from brief through delivery.
  • Diagnosed and resolved performance and usability issues (page-load times, mobile responsiveness), improving user experience and site reliability.
YEGEdmonton, Alberta53.55°N 113.49°W

Systems Analyst

  • Developing and maintaining a proprietary ERP system serving ~400 agricultural retailers and grain terminals across Canada and the US.
  • Optimizing T-SQL queries and stored procedures over high-volume ERP datasets, improving report execution speed and overall system responsiveness.
  • Built a credit-import integration pulling third-party credit data into ERP workflows, improving data accuracy and reducing manual processing.
  • Designed configurable shipment-scheduling logic to align ERP reporting and inventory workflows with rail-operator shipping calendars.
  • Built B2B eOrder integrations connecting retailers with external suppliers, streamlining purchase-order flows.
  • Reduced production memory usage by ~40% by eliminating data duplication in shared caches and improving object lifecycle management.