Curriculum vitae


Personal data / Personlige oplysninger

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

Employment, domestic / Beskæftigelse indland

01.01.2002 – to date: Associate Professor (part time)

Aalborg University
Institute of Electronic Systems
Department of Control Engineering

Teaching network technology, in particular focusing upon carrier scale network, and on Operation Support Systems

01.07.1996 - to date: Systems Analyst

TDC
Networks Division
Automation Department

Participate in the OSS re-engineering programme (ORION)

1996 - 30.06.1996: TMN strategist

Tele Danmark
Networks Division
IT-development,
TMN Strategy

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
Switching Division
Systems Support
TMN Strategy

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
Data Communication Department
Network Management Group

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
Computing Centre

Involved in research and education duties in the area of computer graphics.

Experience: International / International erfaring

1994 - Belgium - Technical Auditor

European Commission
DG XIII
Brussels

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
Institute for Social Medicine

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 Capabilities / Sprogfærdigheder

Language

Speak

Read

Write

English

Excellent

Excellent

Excellent

French

Poor

Poor

Poor

German

Good

Good

Good

Danish

Excellent

Excellent

Excellent

Publications and Presentations / Udgivelser og foredrag

Title

Conference or Publication

Documentation of Software for Systems with Embedded Microprocessors
In Danish

Conference:
NordData Copenhagen, 1981

The FTAM Standard

Conference:
NORDUNET Ebeltoft, 1985

OSI Management

Conference:
NORDUNET Helsinki, 1987

Transfer of Semantics

IFIP conference on information network and data communication, II, København, 1988

Modelling Management Information

Blenheim conference on International Open Systems,
London, 1989

Open Distributed Management

IBC conference on Effective Network Management Systems, London, 1995

Open Distributed Management

Publication:
Telecom '95, Geneva, 1995

Communication between Open Systems, OSI Layers 5-7
In Danish

Publication
DS-Handbook-108, Dansk Standard, 1996

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.
Published in Wireless Personal Computing (2006), © Springer Verlag 2006

Other Activities / Andre aktiviteter

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

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