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Curriculum Vitae

Personal:

Name:	Kristofer Ganer Skaug
Citizenship:	Norwegian
Date of Birth:	October 1st, 1967 (Oslo, Norway)
Marital Status:	Married, 2 daughters
Address:	Geerboogerd 63, 2611WZ Delft, The Netherlands
E-Mail:	kristofer@xs4all.nl

Education:

Secondary Education: International Baccalaureate, Berg Videregående Skole, Oslo, 1987
Enrolled at Faculty of Mathematics and Natural Sciences, University of Oslo, 1987-88
B.Sc.E. in Aerospace Engineering, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor (MI), USA, 1991
M.Sc. in Aerospace Engineering, Delft University of Technology, Delft, The Netherlands, 1995
International Space University Summer Session, Vienna, Austria, 1996

Professional Experience: (most recent first):

Software Engineering Manager, Satellite Services B.V., Katwijk (NL) (2006 - present)
- Responsible for the overall Software Engineering activities within the company
- Defining and monitoring Software Quality Assurance and Configuration Management processes
- Conceptualisation and definition of software products and architectures
- Inputs to design and implementation processes
Software Team Coordinator, Satellite Services B.V., Katwijk (NL) (2003 - 2006)
- Responsible for scheduling/coordination of 4-person software developer team
- Internal overall software process management, definition and maintenance of the in-house development environment, software configuration control and test management.
- Lead software engineer for the ALOS-ADEN X-band Station TM Front-End / Level 0 Processor (2002-2005)
- Development of SSET, a generic TM/TC Space-system Simulator for ESTEC's EGSE & Mission Control System (EMCS) (2003-2005)
- Ensured re-use/commonality in software between 6 different Herschel-Planck EGSE subsystems (2003-2004)
- Management of generic Delphi library counting 150+ units of reusable, tested and trusted code (2001-2006)
Senior Software Engineer, Satellite Services B.V., Katwijk (NL) (2000 - 2002)
- Generic Satellite Telemetry and Telecommand (TM/TC) Front End software product development
  (deployed for e.g. GOCE, XKatE, CryoSat, MSG-RDSA, ATV)
- High performance (120Mbps) Image SCOE for ROCSAT-2
- Custom Test applications; e.g. for Rosetta transponder
- Custom Network protocol implementation and API modules
- Customer consultancy, training and third-party testing.
- On-site/off-site customer/product support
Software Engineer, Satellite Services B.V., Katwijk (NL) (1996-1999)
- Responsible for design, implementation and testing of object-oriented, distributed systems for the Windows NT platform:
- TM/TC FEE systems for Rosetta and Mars Express
- Spacecraft I/F Simulators (SIS) for INTEGRAL, Rosetta and Mars Express
- RF Suitcase for XMM and INTEGRAL
Young Graduate Trainee, ESTEC (European Space Agency), Noordwijk (NL), 1995-96
- Project engineer for the ATV Rendezvous Predevelopment (ARP) project in the Directorate for Manned Spaceflight and Microgravity (D/MSM)
- Support for preparing hardware test flights on NASA Space Shuttle missions STS-80, STS-84 and STS-86
- Technical/managerial monitoring of industrial contractors

Technical Skills:

Programming languages: Delphi, C/C++, FORTRAN, Maple V, BASIC, Turbo Pascal
Development tools: Borland Delphi/Kylix and C++ Builder, MagicDraw, Object Domain;
Version Control systems: CVS, SubVersion
Testing/verification tools: CodeHealer (static analyser), Discover (coverage analysis), DUnit (unit testing)
Operating Systems: Windows NT/2000/2003/XP, Linux, Macintosh, Unix, MS-DOS
Networked systems technology: Custom TCP/IP protocols, RPC, XML/SOAP
Contributor to mainstream Delphi open-source projects: GExperts, DUnit
Satellite Telemetry/Telecommand channel coding and packet/service protocols (ESA/CCSDS)
Familiarity with state-of-the-art satellite on-board data buses: OBDH, IEEE-1355, MIL-1553B
Good overall knowledge of orbital mechanics and principles of spacecraft mission analysis
Thesis work on trajectory optimisation techniques for SSTO/TSTO launch vehicles.

Managerial Skills:

Software engineering team coordinator (total team size: 4)
Extensive experience in the European space industry and Agency/Industry relations.
Team leadership in various cross-disciplinary student design/engineering projects
Natural languages: Norwegian, English, Dutch (fluent); Italian, French, German (scholastic level); Russian (basic training).

Publications:

Space-system Simulator for EMCS Testing (SSET), with P. van Duijn and S. Valera
Presentation given at the EGSE Workshop 2006,
ESA/ESTEC, Noordwijk, The Netherlands, 17-18 October 2006
Space-system Simulator for EMCS Testing (SSET), with P. van Duijn, S. Valera and A. Voordijk
Presentation given at the ESA Ground Operation System (EGOS) Workshop 2004,
ESA/ESOC, Darmstadt, Germany, 15-16 June 2004
Rosetta Portable Satellite Simulator (ROSSIM), with P. van Duijn, B.R. Tatman, and G. Sims;
7th International Workshop on Simulation for European Space Programmes (SESP) 2002,
ESTEC, Noordwijk, The Netherlands, 12-14 November 2002.
Trajectory Optimization Using a Modified Weak Hamiltonian Finite Element Method,
M.Sc. Thesis paper, Faculty of Aerospace Engineering, Delft University of Technology, Delft, The Netherlands, 1995
Trajectory Optimization Using a Modified Weak Hamiltonian Finite Element Method,
Paper given at Workshop "Optimalsteuerungsprobleme von Hyperschall-Flugsystemen",
Sonderforschungsbereich 255, Ernst-Moritz-Arndt-Universität Greifswald, 14-15 November 1994

Merits and Awards:

Awarded 1 of 2 Norwegian Space Agency grants to attend the 1996 International Space University summer session.
Finished #1 in GM Sunrayce USA 1990, and #3 in World Solar Challenge, with the University of Michigan Solar Car Team
Graduated Cum Laude at University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, 1991

Hobbies:

Classical music performance (violin, viola)
Running
Genealogy
Digital video recording and photography

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