Dr. IT kan kontaktes på email: alex@drit.dk.

 

Name: Alex Kappel Kørup, MD
Date of Birth: 17. December 1979
Nationality: Danish
Profession: MD and freelance software developer
Languages: Scandinavian and English

EDUCATION

 

1986 – 1995              Private school in Nykøbing Falster

1995 – 1996              Gunslevholm Idrætsefterskole

1996 – 1998              HF-degree from Nykøbing Katedralskole (Result: 10,5)

1998 – 2000              Datamatiker from Nykøbing Handelshøjskole (Result: 9,1)

2005 – 2011              Medicine at the University of Southern Denmark

 

CERTIFICATION

 

2007
Microsoft Certified Technology Specialist: SQL Server 2005 (Implementation & Maintenance)

 

EXPERIENCE

 

2000 – 2001

ASP Programmer at Balthazar A/S

(Copenhagen, Denmark)

 

This was my first full time job as a programmer. The job consisted of developing, updating and supporting various dynamic websites (business logic, client-side scripting and database management).

 

Among the sites I've worked on in that period are (although there are no guarantees they still exist):

 

-          http://www.dan-ejendomme.dk

-          http://www.pensam.dk

-          http://www.andelsbolig.dk

-          http://www.nykredit.dk

 

Balthazar maintained a simple platform for administering the content of the above sites among others. The platform utilized the authoring of web pages, components and menus. For simple websites it was sufficient but as Balthazars scope of interest moved further along the idea of large enterprise portals the platform lacked the ability to create personalization, advanced administration of portal users, workflow and usability. Furthermore the framework wasn't very intuitive to use and not very flexible.

 

Management decided that the Balthazar Platform should exploit the great potential of the basic ideas on which it was built and created a separate company, Netbloom A/S. The ambition of Netbloom A/S was to develop the best CMS-product on the market.

 

From the very beginning it was decided that all data (ie. content) managed by Netbloom CMS should be handled in XML. Already in early 1999 I found the XML standard very interesting, and I was therefore pleased to be asked to join the development team.

 


2001

Netbloom CMS Developer at Balthazar A/S

(Copenhagen, Denmark)

 

In almost the full year to come we developed Netbloom CMS version 2.0, 2.01 and 2.02, a 100% web based CMS system for personalized internet solutions.

 

Notable things I did in this period:

 

-          Design and implementation of APIs for retrieving personalized content, XML manipulation, user management and more

-          Design and implementation of a component for creating and editing hierarchical menus with drag 'n' drop features

-          Aided the creation of demo sites for promotion or educational purposes

-          Installation Program using Microsoft Installer

 

While the paint was still drying on the 2.02 version Software Innovation ASA (Norway) purchased Balthazar A/S in late 2001, adopting Netbloom CMS with the intention to incorporate the product in their product suite growBusiness Solutions (On the Top 15 list of best CRM products in the world and now sold as the FESD approved product Public 360° or Corporate Public 360°), where it should serve as a management tool for their product by assembling all the products including the CRM part in one fully integrated intranet portal. Netbloom CMS became Portal Services and my boss and I followed our product to Norway.

 

 

2002 – 2003

Portal Services Senior Developer at Software Innovation ASA

(Oslo, Norway)

 

My job as a Portal Services Developer in Norway consisted of further product development, maintenance and integrating Portal Services into the growBusiness Solution Portal. Other jobs involved project estimation, technical design, implementation of new product functionality and technical support to in-house development teams using Portal Services.

 

Notable things I did in this period:

 

-          Porting Portal Services to a SOAP-based application.

-          Implementing new features, among others:

o        Statistics module (COM-object written in C++)

o        Hierarchical tree ActiveX Object, used for categorization of content. (C++ using Windows Common Controls)

o        Various Portal Services core objects using ASP(.NET), C#, XML, SOAP, DHTML/javascript

o        A portal desktop management tool

-          Maintaining and updating various ActiveX Objects (C++)

-          Supporting development teams who was using our product to implement customer solutions

-          Porting ASP (jScript) and COM (C++) code to .NET/C#

-          Building release installation files and patches

-          Writing technical documentation

 

After a year in Norway I moved back to Software Innovation A/S in Denmark, where I continued my work.

 


2003 – 2005

Portal Services Senior Developer at Software Innovation A/S

(Nærum, Denmark)

 

I played a central part in a development team responsible of stabilizing and enhancing the functionality of Portal Services as an individual Content- and Portal Management System. Our development team is also involved in the development of the product Public 360° and Corporate 360° whose portal is implemented on Portal Services.

 

 

2005 - present

Freelance Software Developer

(Fyn, Denmark)

 

In 2005 I began to study medicine at the University of Southern Denmark. This of course meant that I couldn't hold a full time job as a professional software developer. I therefore established myself as a freelance software developer developing all kinds of software solutions as long as the job can be done on a part time basis.

 

SYSTEM KNOWLEDGE


OS/PC:

MS-DOS, Windows 3.1, MS-Windows, Windows/NT/2K/XP


LANGUAGES

C/C++, C#, XML (XMLDOM, Schema, XSLT, XPath, etc.), ASP, ASP.NET, Java, Visual Basic, D/HTML, CSS, jScript/Javascript, SQL, T-SQL

 

COMMUNICATIONS

HTTP, FTP, SMTP, COM, SOAP

 

DATABASES

MS SQL Server 2000/2005/2008, MS Access, Oracle 9i, MySQL


BUSINESS INTELLIGENCE

MS Reporting Services, MS Analysis Services, MS Integration Services


"It's not the hours you put in your work that counts, it's the work you put in the hours."
Sam Ewing