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Schlumberger, Dec 1996 - June 2000

Between December 1996 and June 2000 I was working as a Project Engineer for Schlumberger Geco-Prakla in Oslo, developing systems for seismic acquisition and online processing.

In 2000, Geco-Prakla was a company with approx 5000 employees, where around 300 worked in the R&D department in Oslo. Schlumberger had around 65000 employees worldwide. Geco-Prakla and Western Geophysical has now merged into a company called WesternGeco.

I was mainly involved in developing the following systems:

TRIACQ and TRILOGY QC had been in the field for many years when I started in 1996. We were constantly developing new versions of the systems, both improving the software and hardware. The systems consisted of several million lines of codes written in C++, C, Fortran and Java running on a farm of Sun servers. In 1997 we started to use Corba to communicate between the various sub-systems and applications. An OmniWorks/SMS repository was used to do multi-site software configuration management.

I had the following roles:

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