Here you can read about my professional life, my jobs and my education.
Jun 2018
Feb 2023Keywords:
Cloud (Azure + AWS), IT-Support, Jira, Palo Alto, Cisco Meraki, Inventory management, OKTA, Loxone, Ubiquiti.AviationCloud, later to be known as ForeFlight. Has by far been the most important job in my career so far.
I was lucky, as I was given a chance. The company was growing quickly and needed an extra set of hands to solve the internal network, the general support, and the shopping of equipment. When I started we were roughly 24 at the company. 4 years later we have become more than 70. The company was bought by ForeFlight and later ForeFlight was bought by Boeing.
When a company is growing at such a rapid rate, not to mention the enormous changes, that come with being bought by big American companies. A lot has changed, and I was lucky enough to be part of it.
We went from a small network to being part of something bigger and more secure. We outgrew our office space, and I helped plan and coordinate the new space. The requirement for the network changed and luckily I got help from our American team, but a lot had to be planned and make sure it worked out.
The support changed, as more structure was needed as we grew. I was the only support in Denmark with backup from my colleagues in the US when they got online in the afternoon.
I have had a bunch of exciting and challenging tasks in my time at ForeFlight, far too many to state here, but I take pride in that the office is up and running with extremely low downtime and I have been part of it all.
Aug 2016
Okt 2016Keywords:
MQTT, Laravel, Python, Arduino.The school allowed students to be on a short-term contract with companies, in hopes that the company would take them as apprentices.
My friend and I got to work at a company called Uptime, I was super excited about this as this was the first time I got to work for an IT company.
Even though it was only for a little while, since they couldn’t take any apprentices, I learned a lot.
Why handlers are important, the difference between multi- and single-threaded workloads. How you can build and test something, only to send it to an experienced programmer, who tests and breaks it in 5 minutes. All of it great experience.
We worked on a Skype bot, that could filter webpages cookies and see if they lived up to the new cookie laws that started around this time.
Build a webpage that looked awful, only to be informed of ways to do it smarter and easier.
Figured out that having something centralized can be a good idea for small or basic workloads like listening on an MQTT server, but also why you have to be careful to funnel too much to a single entity.
They both showed me how amazing programming can be, but also helped me choose my field, and learn that it was more in infrastructure than in programming.
Aug 2015
Jun 2021Keywords:
CCNA + CCNP, C#, Windows Server, Linux, Python, Java, MTA – Security, Advanced Academics.Early in my education, I knew that I wanted to work in IT, so it was obvious that I should go to Syddansk Erhvervskole and take the education as a data technician. Since I wanted to clear the requirements should I want to read on a university later, I took it with the “EUX”-line. This meant long days and more classes, but I got a higher level of the more “normal” subjects (Math, Danish, Physics, Chemistry, English, etc.).
The education was six years long with the EUX line and alternates between working at a company for 6 months and studying at school for the other 6 months.
This gave us a lot of practice and hands-on skills from the workplace, as well as learning both fundamentals and advanced skills from school.
Students had to find a company that where willing to teach them and take them as an apprentice. Sadly, this would prove to be very difficult, as there are many rules attached to getting an apprentice. Luckily, the school had a “school apprenticeship” for the students who hadn’t gotten an apprenticeship yet, but honestly, it was mostly a waste of time…
The education was split into programming or infrastructure, I started in the programming classes but later changed to infrastructure as I learned I was more interested in going that way.
Aug 2014
Jul 2015Keywords:
Project Management.In the school year 14/15, I was at Ryslinge Efterskole, an “Efterskole” a kind of boarding school that is usually taken as an optional school year. Since it’s optional they tend to not have a strict curriculum and can focus on more specific topics chosen by the school itself. Ryslinge Efterskole had a focus on project management and social development. The social of course is when you are living away from home, with roughly 150 other students.
The project management part was a focus we had, where we learned how to manage a project (as the name implies), but also what is needed for this project? People have different skill sets how can we make use of that? How do you sell an idea? And how do you form relations with other companies?
We were lucky enough that the school had worked with a lot of different companies, so we could use their network to start and work on a project that was small enough to give to students, yet not important enough that they had to focus their workers on it at the time. We followed the process, had meetings with the companies, and pitched out ideas and drafts and quite a few got used by the companies. This entire process is super important and I still use this thought process today.Erik Menveds Kro
Jun 2013
Aug 2015Erik Menveds Kro was the first job I got away from home. Even though it was a small job as a dishwasher, I still think back fondly about my time there. I learned a lot of the basic stuff: Remember to coordinate with your colleagues, some days are stressful others are not, how do you read a paycheck and the pleasure of earning your own money.
The most important lesson I learned from working at Erik Menveds Kro is that everyone is needed for the place to successfully run. It doesn’t matter if you have a fancy cook to prepare the food if there is no one to serve it or no one to clean the dishes so you have nothing to serve it on.
That gave me a sense of pride, even though I was just a youth worker, I still felt like my work mattered.
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