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Resumé for Kjell Bitnes

Kjell Bitnes Name: Kjell Bitnes
Occupation: Consultant
Date of Birth: 1949
Email: kjell.bitnes@difo.no
Telephone number: +47 95787772

Consultant Kjell Bitnes has many years of experience and a high degree of competence in IT consultancy, project management for large projects and personnel management, combined with quality control and standardization. He has a good knowledge of the different fields of operation within the municiple and public sector.

Work Experience

2001 - General Manager and Consultant in KBIT AS.

Management of large IT-projects and consultancy for, among others, Baerum Kommune (Baerum Local Council) and Social- en Helsedirektoratet (Department of Social Services and Health).
1999 - 2001 Manager of IT System Development Department in Datakontoret (Information Technology Department) in Baerum Kommune.

Manager of the Development Department with responsibility for technology, personnel and finance. In 1999 the department produced in excess of 12 man-labour years, half of which was carried out by hired consultants. The development tools used were Visual Basic, Delphi, MS SQL server, NT server, and more.
1998 - 1999 Self Employed

Contracted as IT Flyttegeneral (IT Relocation Manager) by Rikshospitalet (hospital), responsible for co-ordinating and quality control of all IT related operations connected with the relocation of the Rikshospitalet to Gaustad.
1995 - 1998 Manager of theTelematics Department in the IT Department (Datakontoret) of Baerum Kommune.

Daily Manager of the Telematics Department of the IT Department responsible for the development and running of the Local Council’s 80 Novell Localnetwork (Token Ring/NetWare 3.12/4.11), 2000 personal computers (Win3.11/Windows 95/NT Workstation) and approximately 100 communication nodes (ISDN/fixed line modem solutions and Cisco routers), including a user support service. The department was also responsible for the local council’s telephone network distributed over 7 telephone exchanges. In 1997 the department produced 13 man-labour years of work.
1992 - 1995 Consultant for the IT Department (Datakontoret) in Baerum Kommune.

Consultancy and project management.
1985 - 1991 Technical Manager of the IT Department (Datakontoret) in Baerum kommune.

Manager of the technical group responsible for system maintainance and the running of the IBM 370 mainframe, communications network and just under 1000 terminals.
1984 - 1985 System programmer - Fjerndata AS.

System programmer responsible for CICS/MVS for IBM3090.
1973 - 1984 Programmer /system developer at the IT Department (Datakontoret) of Baerum Kommune.

Programming and system development using both RPG, COBOL and CICS. In the latter part of this period, also system programming. (IBM/370 DOS/VSE/VM).
1970 - 1973 Programmer at Statens Lanekasse (State Educational Loan Fund).

Programming, Assembler and RPG for IBM/370..

Skills

Project Management and Development
 

Project management for the compilation and acquisition of data processing solutions and equipment for the Community Nursing Service in the Pleie og Omsorg (Nursing and Care)department of Baerum Kommune. The solutions are based on the use of PDA’s.

Project management for the acquisition and implementation of wireless zones and equipment in all the institutions of the Pleie og Omsorg (Nursing and Care) department in Baerum Kommune, to be used for the administration of medication and during consultations.

Project management for the establishment of enterprise  architecture (Virksomhetsarkitektur) in Baerum Kommune. The project includes, inter alia, the establishment of an administration regime for business architecture (virksomhetsarkitektur), a service oriented architecture – SOA (process engine (BPMS) and integration engine (ESB), as well as a security portal for the authentication of external users (the public). The project also creates an automated solution for registration into the Skole Fritids Ordning (Out of School Service), which is the first service to be included in the SOA.

Project management for the acquisition of a new communications solution to a total of 260 locations and a new central network for Baerum Kommune. This contract includes the development of requirement specifications, the vetting of the quotation competition, handling negotiations and planning the introduction and implementation. The solution will be completed before the end of May 2008.

Project management for the development of requirement specifications, the vetting of the quotation competition, the acquisition and implementation of an electronic invoicing system in Baerum Kommune.

Project management for the design and implementation of a system for home and mobile offices.

The development of requirement specifications for the electronic transfer of data from the Bistand and Omsorgsektoren (Support and Care sector) relating to KOSTRA(Municipality State Reporting) and IPLOS(National statistics linked to individual needs for care). Advisory capacity in negotiations with the suppliers of software solutions to be used in a trial project from 1st August 2002 and the ten months following.

Project manager for the project “New IT infrastructure in Baerum Kommune” (Ny IT infrastrastruktur i Baerum Kommune). The brief included, inter alia, the purchase of a new internal broad band network, designing and purchasing a new solution for IT security and converting to Ethernet in all LAN networks. Responsibility for the development of requirement specifications, contract negotiations and the purchase of the solutions.

Hired relocation manager (flyttegeneral) for Rikshospitalet (Hospital) responsible for co-ordinating and quality control of all IT related activities concerning the relocation of the Rikshospitalet to Gaustad.

Project manager for the surveying and millennium analysis of the municipal software systems and technical equipment. A report of risk evaluation, initiatives and the economic consequences was prepared and any necessary system adjustments were made.

System design and architecture
  Developing software for the registration and transfer of IPLOS data from the municipalities, designed on Microsoft.net platform. The Shdir (Norwegian Directorate of Health) will make this solution available to municipalities free of charge.
Consultancy
  Consultant and co-project manager for the acquisition and implementation of a new invoicing system in Baerum Kommune. Quality evaluation of external software. The preparation of a quality control plan and task manual for the system development, network and data departments.
Personnel Management
  Manager of the development department, including the management and supervision of projects.
Tools and technologies
  Project tools: MS Project
Technologies: .NET, COM, MTS, ASP, HTML, XML, ODBC, ADO, UML.
Databases: MS SQL Server, MS Access
Operating systems: Windows 3.1/95/98/NT/2000/XP
Lectures and Courses
  Presentation and user training for systems developed at Baerum Kommune. Various lectures/seminars on computer systems and solutions under Baerum Kommune’s direction.

Education

1984 - 1984 IN105/110 - University of Oslo.

Programming and system design.
1971 - 1972 EDB (Electronic Data Processing) - University of Oslo.

Subject area programming.
1968 - 1970 Psychology - University of Oslo.

Not completed.
1965 - 1968 Exam Artium (Secondary School) - Steinkjer gymnas.

Reallinjen (the 6th form of grammar school).
1970 - Courses and seminars in system development, design and project management.