Curriculum Vitae
Name: Rune Hagelund
Profession: Independent Consultant
Date of birth: 1 Jun 1970
Residence: Norway
Nationality: Norwegian
Languages: Norwegian (native), English (fluent), German (basic)
Professional Summary
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Developer and system architect with wide experience of the entire development cycle from
concept through development and deployment to field support.
Excellent at keeping overview of complex systems and processes, determining problems,
finding solutions and documenting and implementing these.
Long experience from international environments and distributed multi-cultural, multidisciplined teams working on large complex systems.
Love to work as part of, or leader of, a skilled team. Excellent communications skills, enjoys
interaction with team and stakeholders, have good connections within the industry.
Excellent knowledge of seismic system development, from the electronics in the field via
spread management and information presentation to advanced data filtering and data
management.
Good knowledge of reservoir workflow, from seismic survey planning, acquisition and
processing to reservoir modelling, drilling and production.
Long experience in requirements gathering, use case analysis, user interaction modelling,
domain modelling, enterprise architecture, system interaction and data exchange,
Excellent knowledge of data storage, seismic data formats and data management
Long experience of international standardization work, and enjoy the unique challenges and
patience needed for this work.
Excellent knowledge in computer sciences, including programming in many languages (c/c++,
Java, Python etc.), server administration, clusters, networks, SANs, RAIDS, tape drives etc.
Long experience in software system testing, automated building and testing, regression
testing, quality reporting.
Long experience in hardware and software system definition, purchasing, setup,
configuration and support.
Long experience in system development process, with knowledge of different methodologies
from agile (like Scrum) via RUP and CMM to waterfall.
Flexible, and love learning new things. Enjoys complex tasks, both tasks involving human
issues like international cooperation and distributed teams, and tasks with complex technical
problems that require focus over a long time.
Education:
1993 Sivilingenior (M.Sc) in Engineering Cybernetics/Robotics, Norwegian Institute of Technology,
Trondheim, Norway, Thesis: “Real-time debugging”
Employment history
Dates
2011-present
Company
Daeco
Function
Independent consultant, seismic industry and general
Curriculum Vitae
2009-2011
1995-2009
1994-1995
IT services
Senior software architect for the Roxar reservoir
modelling suite of software, refactoring the current
system and developing future systems
WesternGeco/Schlumberger Systems engineer and project/system architect,
seismic data acquisition, navigation and seismic
survey planning and quality control for marine, land
and seabed operations
Norwegian Air Force
Corporal, Communications, running the Kongsvinger
signal office
Roxar Software
Solutions/Emerson
In the seismic industry since 1995, hired by Schlumberger WesternGeco (at the time Geco-Prakla)
directly after university and military service. Started working on developing marine and seabed data
acquisition systems in Sandvika, later in Asker, Norway. After a couple of years promoted to leading
the data recording team, responsible for reading data from the field electronics, filtering and
formatting the data before storing them on disk and tape. Tasks included making plans and leading
the development in addition to performing field testing, field installations and field support.
Became in 2003 the architect for the land seismic system development, fielded the D5 land seismic
acquisition system and designed and prototyped the UniQ land seismic field system. In 2005 moved
to the navigation department where the primary responsibility was developing 2D/3D/4D and WAZ
survey planning and survey quality control systems.
In 2009 changed employer to Emerson Roxar located at Lysaker outside Oslo. Role was architect
looking into refactoring the old system and developing a new open component based infrastructure.
Several refactoring projects were created, a new infrastructure was designed and documented, and
an initial prototype of the system was developed.
Left Roxar in 2011 to start my own consultancy company, and have since worked on several smaller
and larger projects, primary of which have been developing SEG-Y and SEG-D format checkers for
Troika International.
Have in parallel with the development work been involved in international data standardization since
1996. Served as chair and vice chair on the Society of Exploration Geophysicists’ Technical Standards
Committee from 2008-2013 and served on the OGP Geomatics committee and Energistics standards
development team for several years. I have been involved in the development of many standards, for
example SEG-D rev 1&2, P1/11 and RESQML, but also authored standards like SEG-D rev 3.0 used in
seismic field data recording. Received in 2014 the SEG Special Commendation Award for this work.
Recent projects
Dates
2015
Client
Daeco/SEG
2015- present
Computanse
Type
Co-author article “Towards coherent QC work flow Data Management in OBN Acquisition”, tentatively published
in The Leading Edge (TBD)
Software development retail market, java and various
database and web technologies
Curriculum Vitae
2015
SEG
2013- present
2014- present
2014- present
IBM
Octio
Jernbane.net
2012-2013
2012- present
2013- present
2011- present
Magseis
Daeco
Daeco
Various
2012-2014
2013- present
Troika
International
Troika
International
SEG
2010-2013
Energistics
2010-1013
OGP
2010-2013
SEG
2008-2010
SEG
2009-2011
Roxar Software
Solutions
2005-2009
WesternGeco
2003-2005
WesternGeco
1995-2003
WesternGeco
2011-2013
Wrote article: “Future of tape in seismic”, published in The
Leading Edge, August 2015
Tape data storage technology development
Advisor seismic format development and data storage
System administrator and developer at jernbane.net, php,
javascript and various web and database technologies
Advisor seismic format development and data storage
Develop various iOS apps, Objective-C and Swift
Develop various Android apps, Java
Various smaller IT service tasks, like error and disaster
recovery, backup setup, equipment purchase and
configuration, general IT support etc., primarily on Windows
Develop SEG-Y format checker yChecker, c++ and python
Develop SEG-D format checker dChecker, c++ and python
Maintenance and development of seismic data formats, most
recent author of SEG-D rev 3.0 Sep 2014 and SEG-D Rev 3.1
May 2015. Also involved in SEG-Y rev 2 development.
Member of Energistics format review group, involved in e.g.
WITSML, RESQML
Member of International Association of Oil and Gas Producers’
Geomatics committee, development of positioning standards,
among others P1/11, P2/11 and P6/11
Chair Society of Exploration Geophysicists Technical Standards
Committee, responsible for the maintenance and
development of international standards hosted by the SEG.
Also responsible for liaison between SEG and other
international standards bodies like OGP and Energistics
Vice chair Society of Exploration Geophysicists Technical
Standards Committee, international seismic dataformat
standardization, author of SEG-D rev 3.0 seismic field data
storage format
Software architect for the Roxar reservoir modelling suite,
products: RMS, Tempest, Enable, .ROCK. Technologies C++, Qt,
Python, various enterprise system interaction and data
exchange technologies
Architect marine navigation and 4D survey planning and QC,
products TriNav, Repeat, IsoMetrix, technologies C++, Java, Qt,
Objectivity, high performance computing on large servers and
small
Project arcitect for land seismic acquisition, products D4-L, D5,
UniQ, technologies C++, Java, XML, RAIDs, SANs, high
performance computing and complex user information
presentation, interfacing internal developed electronics
Developer and architect for marine and seabed seismic
acquisition, products TriAcq, Trilogy QC, Q-Marine, Seismos,
Omega, high performance computing and number crunching
on clusters and large servers, data management, RAIDs, SANs,
tapes, interfacing internal developed electronics
Curriculum Vitae
Courses
SeisSpace Promax Nov 2011
Multiple programming and technology courses as part of work responsibilities, e.g. Java, C++, UML,
use case modelling, project estimation, Scrum, RUP, Objectivity database, SunFire 6800 server
management, IBM 3590 and 3592 tapedrives, IBM SAN administration,
Attended various conferences: Seismic conferences EAGE and SEG and Computer/IT related
conferences like OOPSLA
Total Quality Management, CMM, Product Lifecycle and many other similar courses
Dozens of QHSE and safety courses, full Schlumberger and Emerson suite for office personnel
Professional organizations
The Society of Exploration Geophysicists (SEG) (full voting member) – Member since 1999
European Association of Geoscientists and Engineers (EAGE) – Member since 2000
Association of Petroleum Surveying & Geomatics (APSG) – Member since 2012