Name |
Ole Krog Thomsen |
Company |
TDC, Network Division, Automation Department |
Nationality |
Danish |
Date of Birth |
17. September 1946 |
Position |
Project Manager, TMN |
Years with Company |
Since 1984 |
Specialisation in Company |
Strategical planning and development of data communications architecture, Research & Development in the area of Operations Support Systems (OSS), Interworking at network and service level, New technology as basis for business development. |
Key Qualifications |
Management of a group of TMN experts Leader of Network Management/TMN projects Participation in national and international standardization activities Standardized Network Management System (TMN) Protocol systems for data- and telecommunication X.400 and X.500 X.25 and Frame Relay technologyX.25 and Frame Relay services in N-ISDN Broadband-ISDN technology, ATM and DQDB based MAN Broadband-ISDN services, Frame Relay Digital transmission equipment, PDH and SDH Technical and administrative computing Systems integration |
Education |
M.Sc. in Mathematics, Physics and computer science from the University of Århus 1976 |
Country of work experience |
Denmark, Norway, Western Europe, USA, Canada, Korea, Japan, Australia a.o |
01.01.2002 – to date: Associate Professor (part time) Aalborg University |
Teaching network technology, in particular focusing upon carrier scale network, and on Operation Support Systems |
01.07.1996 - to date: Systems Analyst TDC |
Participate in the OSS re-engineering programme (ORION) |
1996 - 30.06.1996: TMN strategist Tele Danmark |
Participate in tendering an negotiation with vendors on TMN support for the network, in particular the introduction of SDH |
1993 - 1995: Project manager Jydsk Telefon |
Jutland Telephone Company was one of the four regional telecommunications companies in the Tele Danmark Group. Participating in the development of an TMN Strategy for Tele Danmark, in addition to the continued participation in the OSI Management Standardization. |
1984 - 1993: Project manager Jydsk Telefon |
Mainly responsible for acceptance test of the delivered network management system, with the development of accounting system for the PSPDN (Packet Switched Public Data Network) in Denmark, and with participating in the OSI Management Standardization. |
1981-1984: Systems Programmer Terma Electronik A/S |
Development of naval radar systems with built-in micro-processors, in particular collision avoidance systems. |
1978 - 1981: Senior Lecturer Århus University |
Involved in research and education duties in the area of computer graphics. |
1994 - Belgium - Technical Auditor European Commission |
Member of Technical Audit, RACE, DG XIII |
1992 - 1993: Project editor Various places in Western Europe, North America, Southeast Asia and Australia Collaborative team of ISO/IEC JTC1/SC21 and ITU-T SG7 |
Project editor ISO/IEC 10164-10 (=ITU-T Rec. X.742): Systems Management - Usage Metering Function |
1991 - 1996: Rapporteur Various places in Western Europe, North America, Southeast Asia and Australia Collaborative team of ISO/IEC JTC1/SC21 and ITU-T SG7 |
Rapporteur WG4 Systems Management Architecture Group |
1988 - 1991: Project editor Various places in Western Europe, North America, Southeast Asia and Australia Collaborative team of ISO/IEC JTC1/SC21 and ITU-T SG7 |
ISO/IEC 10040 (=CCITT Rec. X.701): Systems Management Overview |
1985 - 1996: Danish delegate Various places in Western Europe, North America, Southeast Asia and Australia Collaborative team of ISO/IEC JTC1/SC21 and ITU-T SG7 |
ISO JTC1/SC21 in particular to WG 4 (now WG7): OSI Management since 1990 working in collaboration with ITU-T SG7/WP3 (now SG4/WP4) on development of ISO Management ISO JTC1/SC21 in particular to WG5 (now WG8): Specific Application Services |
1986 - 1989: Project editor Various places in Western Europe, North America, Southeast Asia and Australia ISO/IEC JTC1/SC21 |
ISO 8571-2: FTAM The Virtuel Filestore |
1976 - 1978: Research Assistant Norway University of Tromsø |
Research Scholarship The main task was to establish an Information Technology infrastructure to support the research work at the institute, in particular to support statistical research carried out on large population surveys. |
Language |
Speak |
Read |
Write |
English |
Excellent |
Excellent |
Excellent |
French |
Poor |
Poor |
Poor |
German |
Good |
Good |
Good |
Danish |
Excellent |
Excellent |
Excellent |
Title |
Conference or Publication |
Documentation of Software for Systems with Embedded
Microprocessors |
Conference: |
The FTAM Standard |
Conference: |
OSI Management |
Conference: |
Transfer of Semantics |
IFIP conference on information network and data communication, II, København, 1988 |
Modelling Management Information |
Blenheim conference on International Open Systems, |
Open Distributed Management |
IBC conference on Effective Network Management Systems, London, 1995 |
Open Distributed Management |
Publication: |
Communication between Open Systems, OSI Layers 5-7 |
Publication |
Open Distributed Management |
IBC conference on Effective Network Management Systems, London, 1996 |
The Lean Approach |
Presented at the Strategic Workshop at International Wireless
Summit, September 2005, Aalborg Denmark. |
Program Committee, Session Chair and Panellist: IFIP Integrated Network Management, II, Washington, 1991
Program Committee: IFIP Integrated Network Management, III, San Fransisco, 1993
Program Committee: IFIP Integrated Network Management, IV, Santa Barbara, 1995
Various presentations in DIFDATA (IDA-IT), Dansk Databehandlingsforening, Blenheim and company internal, 1986