Christopher A. Trotter

The Norwegian Courts Administration's (NCA's) purpose is to enable the courts to deal with challenges presented before them. This is done for instance by providing the support necessary for judges and staff to carry out their roles and to deliver justice efficiently and effectively.

The Norwegian Courts Administration (NCA) is responsible for handling the will or testament of a person (testator) that expresses their wishes as to how their property (estate) is to be distributed after their death and as to which person (executor) is to manage the property until its final distribution. I played my part in developing an integration between NCA and National Population Register (NPR) to partly automate the workflow for handling information about the deceased and their family relations.

This role covered tasks such as:

• Responsible for ensuring the deployment of microservices from local development to production.
• Assist in making decisions around the architecture and workflow of the development process.
• Assist in creating estimations of the work needed in the project.
• Design the REST API’s based on occuring needs from users.
• Creating a mockserver that replicates testdata.
• Assist in coordinating the project.
• Been involved in the decision making process when considering security.
• Provide Code review of frontend projects.
• Provide Code review of microservices.

The Norwegian Food Safety Authority (NFSA) is a national governmental body, whose aim is to ensure that food and drinking water are as safe as possible for consumers and to contribute to a high level of plant, fish and animal health.

The Norwegian Food Safety Authority (NFSA) required new solutions that are high user-friendly for their inspectors to use while monitoring animals to ensure that the animals are both safe and healthy.

This role covered tasks such as:

• Developing API’s that interact with the user-friendly frontend React applications.

Bærum kommune is a norwegian municipality that provides services to support people who live within the municipality.

As part of the project, I was involved in developing an integration plattform for all digital services that the municipality provides for the residents of the municipality. I primarily worked with DevOps.

This role covered tasks such as:

• Implementing a development, test and production environment by using Terraform in Azure.
• Be involved in the decision making process of the architecture and workflow in Azure.
• Implementing Azure pipelines (continuous integration and continuous delivery) to automate the development workflow process.
• Configuration management of the development, test and production environments by using Ansible.
• Developing an integration solution by using Java Spring Boot.
• Fetching of information from Oracle EBS database by using SQL.
• Developing an API Gateway by using Kong and Nginx.

This role covered technologies and methods such as:

Microsoft Azure - HashiCorp Terraform - Azure Devops - Event Driven Architecture - CI/CD - Spring Boot - SQL - XML - Java - JSON - Nginx - Ansible - Azure ARM

Bærum kommune is a norwegian municipality that provides services to support people who live within the municipality.

As part of the project I was involved in documenting the proprietary developed invoice system of the municipality. I was also involved in developing an integration solution between the invoice system and an external invoice distribution channel. The integration solution has significantly reduced time and cost by partially automating the process of sending out invoices.

This role covered tasks such as:

• Developing an integration solution by using C# in the .NET Framework.
• Developing solutions to handle XML formatet invoices.
• Implementing an EHF 3.0 Validator to be used in testing the validity of invoices.
• Fetching invoice information from databases by using SQL.

This role covered technologies and methods such as:

C# - XML - SQL - EHF 3.0

Seequre is a video conference and chat solutions that provides SMB markets with a secure way to communicate.

Every small to medium business (SMB) should provide both their customers and employees a secure way to communicate and Seequre is just such a solution. I played my part by developing application solutions and writing documentation on new technology for a secure video conference and chat solution.

This role covered tasks such as:

• Implementing a proof of concept (POC) which showcased the core functionality of the solution in Flutter.
• Write a white paper draft of the solution.
• Been involved in the decision making process when regarding security.
• Responsible for system and acceptance testing.
• Responsible for maintaining the existing iOS and Android applications.

This role covered technologies and methods such as:

Reactive development - mobile application development - iOS and Android - Flutter - ASP.NET - RxJava - RxDart - Asana - RxVMS - WebRTC - SignalR - Agile development - Project management

A Norwegian alliance of independent banks that helps their customers simplify their everyday finance.

Every bank needs transactions to be properly administered and Sparebank1 is no exception. Managing high volume transactions is hard and I played my part by monitoring and rapporting incidents to ensure safe transactions for our customers.

This role covered technologies and methods such as:

Operations & Monitoring - Incident Management - Splunk - Zabbix - ITIL - Confluence/Jira