Msweb
Let me start by explaining that Msweb is not a company as such the moment, it is only the name of my domain, made up of the first letters of my firstname and lastname.My story
(And yes, this part is not business like at all, so feel free to skip this page and go directly to work, skills or cv.)I was born on the 20th of September 1980 at Næstved Centralsygehus.
I grew up in the country in Sydsjælland, spending most of my childhood running around in the woods, or when needed, helping my parents in the fields.
My first school was Ørslev Skole where I went for 7 years, followed by 2 years at the nearby Iselingeskolen.
I was very active in my childhood and teen days with many hobbies and activities, I played handball for around 10 years, I was a scout, FDF'er, for 13 years at Ørslev FDF, and in the last 3 I was a leader of one of the youth groups.
I also did swimming, badminton, football (soccer), shooting and more, but, none of them really caught on.
I call myself part of the very first true computer generation, we had a Commodore 64 and Commodore 128 up until I was 6 years old, and then we got a brand new Amiga 1000 with extra ram (1 whole megabyte!) and a harddrive.
Those were the days, the Amiga quickly caught on with me and I have spent a good part of my youth playing games like Monkey Island, Civilization, Golden Axe, Kick Off and many many more.
We got an IBM PC with a 286 proccessor, 20mhz I think, when I was 12 and that was the first time I actually started using a computer for other things than just fooling around.
I can still vividly remember it, sounding almost like a jetengine when you turned it on, and the little VGA monitor.
But, my very first "this is the technology I want to make my living of"-experience I got when I was 15 and had to do my final examination project at primary school.
It seems strange now, but back then, almost nobody had heard, and even fewer used, the internet. I was lucky enough that my headmaster had a pc with a 14.4 kbps line, and trusted me enough (being the head of the students counsil has always had its advantages) to allow me to sit alone in his office for many hours.
Anyway, I got 13 (A+), and from then on I was hooked.
I did my first "real" piece of programming at Commerciel College where I designed and programmed the first version of the schools homepage and intranet-page.
Looking back at it, it was pretty ugly and rudimentary, but that was the standard of the day.
In economics class I also started to program my calculator, making it do some of the repetitive tasks I quickly got bored doing. When working at home, I took advantage of the higher speed of the PC and programmed the same programs in Basic.
At college I also got the first glance of databases, and, more importantly, database structures, knowledge which I actually use at work today.
After college I started studying politics at the University of Southern Denmark, choosing this topic was easy, since I ad that point had been involved in politics for a couple of years.
It did however not last long, I quickly found out that studying for a further 5 years was not for me, at that point in time anyway, and so I decided to leave, and after a period moved to Copenhagen to work for ACNielsen AIM.
I like where I live, a small apartment on the outskirts of town, but I have newer really settled down, when time gets right, I will probably move out in into the countryside again.
At ACNielsen AIM most of my time initially was made up by turning rough collected questionaire data into readable reports using Quantum, it was a tough learning proces, but I have always find it fascinating to try and figure out how other people feel about a certain thing, and that curiosity was definately satisfied.
After a little bit of time, I also got the responsibility of updating and developing the company website, as well as creating a CRM newsletter system.
I really liked it at ACNielsen AIM, but when the opportunity came to work for Jubii, which is the most wellknown internet company in Denmark, I just simply could not say no, and I have not regretted it for a moment.
To be continued.
