PERSONAL DETAILS

Surname:	Louka
Other names:	Michael Nicholas
Date of birth:	16.02.1971
Place of birth:	Rugby, Warwickshire, U.K.
Nationality:	British
Civil Status:	Married
Languages:	Fluent in English and Norwegian
Home address:	Porfyrveien 8 1784 Halden Norway
Telephone:	(+47) 69 18 85 38 (home) (+47) 41 31 77 68 (mobile) (+47) 69 21 22 54 (work IFE) (+47) 69 21 53 72 (work Østfold College)
E-mail:	Michael.Louka@c2i.net (home) Michael.Louka@hrp.no (work IFE) Michael.Louka@hiof.no (work Østfold College)

EDUCATION

SECONDARY SCHOOL

Place: Lawrence Sheriff (Grammar) School, Rugby, Warwickshire, England.
Dates: September 1983 - July 1989.
Examinations taken: 10 'O' (Mathematics, Chemistry, Biology, Physics, English, English Literature, French, Latin, History, Technical Drawing), 1 'GCSE' (Business Studies), 1 'AO' (Mathematics), and 3 'A' Levels (Mathematics, Physics, English).

OTHER PRE-UNIVERSITY (SECONDARY) EDUCATION

Place: Sagavoll Folkehøgskole, 3810 Gvarv, Norway.
Dates: August 1989 - May 1990.
Course: Nature and outdoor life.

UNIVERSITY EDUCATION

Place: Department of Mathematical and Computing Sciences, University of Surrey, Guildford, Surrey, GU2 5XH, England.
Dates: October 1990 - July 1994.
Course: Computing and Information Technology.
Degree: BSc. Hons (First Class), with Associateship of the University of Surrey (Distinction).

Third year professional placement:
OECD Halden Reactor Project, Halden, Norway
(see under 'Professional Experience' below for details).

Final year options:
Artificial Intelligence, Advanced Topics in Databases, Simulation and Modelling, Information Strategies, and Information Systems Planning.

Final year dissertation:
"A review of hypermedia methodologies and techniques, and the design and implementation of a hypermedia demonstration".

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Employer: IFE / OECD Halden Reactor Project (HRP), Halden, Norway.
Position: Student / Programmer.
Dates: August 1992 - July 93.

Employer: IFE / OECD Halden Reactor Project (HRP), Halden, Norway.
Current position: Section Head (Halden Virtual Reality Centre).
Dates: August 1994 - present.

Employer: Østfold University College, Halden, Norway.
Position: Guest lecturer / Examiner.
Dates: 1996-2000.

Employer: Østfold University College, Halden, Norway.
Position: Lecturer (20% position).
Dates: May 2000 - September 2002.

KEY COMPUTING EXPERTISE

Virtual Reality, VRML, Hypermedia, Internet/Intranet technology, Website design and administration, user interface design, HTML, XML, CSS, CGI, Apache, Perl, Java, Java 3D, NetBeans, CVS, JavaScript, C, C++, Pascal, Modula-2, Prolog, Ada, Miranda, Lex, Yacc, Make, Ant, TCP/IP sockets/networking, object-oriented software analysis, design, and development, distributed object computing, expert systems, Unix (Sun Solaris, SGI IRIX, HP-UX, and NetBSD), Linux, Mac OS, MS Windows 2000, SQL and relational database systems, Adobe Photoshop, Cosmo3D, OpenGL, PTC DIVISION, Oxygen (Prosolvia/Opticore), Picasso-3 and SWBus.

OTHER INTERESTS

Listening to music (virtually all genres, recorded and live), hi-fi, hiking, cinema, theatre (particularly Shakespeare), art and literature, travel, history, good food and drink. Author of a number of pieces of freeware software (mainly VR/VRML related).

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