CURRICULUM VITAE
(last updated: 2004-03-10)

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NAME: Odd Nordland
YEAR OF BIRTH 1949
NATIONALITY: Norwegian
POSITION: Senior Research Scientist
EMPLOYER: SINTEF Information and Communication Technology
DIVISION: Information security and Safety

EDUCATION: 1972: B.Sc. (German "Vordiplom") in Physics and Chemistry, University of Hamburg
 [return] 1980: M.Sc. (German "Diplom") in Nuclear Physics and Computing Science, University of Hamburg
1981: AEG 80-20 - Assembler programming
1981: AEG 80-20/4 - Maintenance and error detection
1982: Basic nuclear reactor technology
1982: ATM 80-30 - Operating System ATMOS
1983: ATM 80 - System programming ATMOS 30
1987: End user systems and information centre
1991: Switching to SunOS (UNIX)
1992: Professional introduction to SQL and Oracle
1999: Security assessment, certification and accreditation based on international standards
PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE
[return]		 2003 - today
[return]		 Senior Research Scientist
at SINTEF ICT, Trondheim, Norway

Current tasks:
  • RAM and Safety Specialist for the Copenhagen Metro phase 3 electrotechnical works
  • Project manager for safety assessment of the bogies, brakes and doors of the X60 trains
  • Project manager for safety assessment of the bogies, brakes and wheel slide protection system of the X40 trains
  • Project manager for safety assessment of the interlocking system ALISTER
  • Project manager for safety assessment and follow-up of the interlocking system EBILOCK 950
  1997 - 2003 Research Scientist
at SINTEF Telecom and Informatics (now SINTEF ICT), Trondheim, Norway

Previous tasks:
  • Risk analysis of the use of mobile phones in the Østfold Hospital
  • Evaluation of Control Builder as a development platform for Merkur signalling systems
  • Safety analyses for the tunnel ventilation system, western extension, Copenhagen Metro phase 2
  • Project manager for safety assessment of the upgrade of the Roslagen line in Stockholm
  • Project manager for the assessment of the Gemla Special interlocking application in Sweden
  • Project leader for producing a general V&V plan for the Euro-Interlocking project
  • Project manager for the assessment of the Safety Case for the Sande segment (Vestfold line)
  • Project manager for the assessment of the operation of the Gardermoen Line (high speed airport link to Oslo) in 2000 and 2001
  • Project manager for the adaptation of SIMIS for the Gardermoen Line
  • Project manager for assessment of the emergency braking system of REGINA trains in Sweden
  • Project manager for assessment of the SICAS S5 interlocking system for the Odder Line in Denmark
  • Project manager for assessment of new on-board signalling equipment (Cabsignal) for the Oslo Underground
  • Project manager for assessment of the Swedish side of Danish-Swedish ATC for the Øresund rail link
  • Project manager for SINTEF's contribution to the ACRuDA project
  • Project manager for assessment of the interlocking system EBILOCK 950
1986 - 1996 Configuration manager
in the International Space Station programme COLUMBUS at DaimlerChrysler Aerospace (now Astrium), Bremen, Germany
1980 - 1986 Technical assessor for process control in nuclear power plants
at TÜV Nord, Hamburg, Germany
1976 - 1980 Physics teacher
at Heidberg secondary school, Hamburg, Germany
PROFESSIONAL MEMBERSHIP: 2001 - today The System Safety Society
2000 - today NONSTOPP, the Norwegian Network for Safe, Secure and Reliable Software
1999 - today The British Computer Society's Configuration Management Specialist Group (CMSG)
1999 - today Safety Critical Systems Club / Software Reliability & Metrics Club
1999 - today European Workshop on Industrial Computer Systems (EWICS)
Technical Committee 7 "Reliability, Safety, Security"
1998 - today External examiner for Programming methods and Systems development at the Norwegian Technical and Scientific University (NTNU) in Trondheim
1983 - 1996 Mutual committee of the German Electrotechnical Commission DKE in DIN and VDE:
GK 714 "Principles for computers in systems with safety responsibility"
and its subcommittee UK 714.1 "Error avoidance"
1983 - 1987 European Workshop on Industrial Computer Systems (EWICS)
Technical Committee 7 "Reliability, Safety, Security"
MAIN FIELDS OF COMPETENCE:
[return]		 Safety assessments, risk tolerance
Railway signalling related standards (CENELEC, Mü8004)
Configuration management, Change control
Computer based control in nuclear and railway systems
LANGUAGES: Norwegian,
English,
German,
Dutch,
French		 (father tongue)
(mother tongue)
(fluent)
("read only ")
("read only ")
PUBLICATIONS:[return]
Odd Nordland "Can Artificial Intelligence Be Safe?"
to be presented at the
7th International Conference on Probabilistic Safety Assessment and Management, Berlin, Germany
June 2004
Odd Nordland "Risk Analysis for Mobile Telephony in a Hospital"
to be presented at the
7th International Conference on Probabilistic Safety Assessment and Management, Berlin, Germany
June 2004
Odd Nordland "Mobile telephoning in hospitals" (in Norwegian)
to be presented at the
Dataforeningen Trøndelag Seminar on Security and Vulnerability, Trondheim, Norway
May 2004
Odd Nordland "Safety Case Categories - Which One When?"
invited presentation at the
11th Safety-critical Systems Symposium, Bristol, England
February 2003
Odd Nordland "A critical look at the CENELEC Railway Application Standards"
presentation at the TÜVIT seminar
Application of the international standard IEC 61508, Augsburg, Germany
January 2003
Odd Nordland "Generic Verification and Validation Plan Template";
Euro-Interlocking Consortium Deliverable
("approved standard")
September 2002
Odd Nordland "Experience with presenting a Safety Case"
presentation (in Norwegian) at the NONSTOPP seminar
Safe Use of Programmable Systems, Høvik, Norway
August 2002
Odd Nordland "V&V - Veridation or valification?";
presentation at the
6th World Multiconference on Systemics, Cybernetics and Informatics, Orlando, Florida, USA
July 2002
Odd Nordland "Allocating safety integrity levels in practice";
presentation at the
6th International Conference on Probabilistic Safety Assessment and Management, San Juan, Puerto Rico, USA
June 2002
Odd Nordland, Frank Renpenning "Risk acceptability criteria for railways";
presentation at the
6th International Conference on Probabilistic Safety Assessment and Management, San Juan, Puerto Rico, USA
June 2002
Odd Nordland "Understanding Safety Integrity Levels";
Safety Critical Systems Club Newsletter Vol.11 Nr.1, September 2001
Odd Nordland "Presenting a Safety Case - a Case Study";
presentation at
SAFECOMP 2001, Budapest, Hungary
September 2001
Odd Nordland "When is risk acceptable";
presentation at the
19th International System Safety Conference, Huntsville, Alabama, USA
September 2001
Odd Nordland "ACRuDA" (Assessment Criteria and Rules for Digital Architectures);
presentation at
Distributed Computer Control Systems 2000, Sydney, Australia
November 2000
Odd Nordland "Software safety in nuclear, space and rail applications";
invited paper (in Norwegian) for NONSTOPP seminar
Safe Use of Programmable Systems, Halden, Norway
September 2000
Odd Nordland "Assessment Criteria and Safety Case Fundamentals";
presentation at
Transportation Systems 2000, Brunswick, Germany
June 2000
Odd Nordland "Undertaking a safety case in a rail environment";
presentation at
SignalComm Europe 2000, Birmingham, England
May 2000
Odd Nordland "A discussion of risk tolerance principles";
Safety Critical Systems Club Newsletter Vol.8 Nr.3, Mai 1999
reprinted in
The Hazards Forum Newsletter issue no. 27, Summer 1999
A.Amendola, P.Benoit, J.L.Dufour, Ph.Gabriel, Ph.Grandclaudon, Ph.Kapcrzak, M.El Koursi, H.Krebs, G.Loiseau, J.F.Lindeberg, Ph.Meganck, S.Mitra, O.Nordland, P.Ozello, F.Poli, G.Sonneck, R.Tooze, S.Valencia "Deliverable D3: The proposed assessment and certification methodology for digital architectures";
ACRuDA Project
DG VII RTD Programme
RA-96-SC.231
September 1998
O.Nordland "Refinement of the assessment criteria";
presentation at the
ACRuDA Users Group Meeting, Brussels, Belgium
June 1998
O.Nordland, G.Rabe "Safety Analysis for a Pipeline Control System";
presentation at
Control in Transportation Systems, Vienna, Austria
July 1986
G.Glöe, O.Nordland "Qualification and licensing of Computer Based Systems for Safety Tasks in German Light Water Reactors";
presentation at the
Topical Meeting on Computer Applications for Nuclear Power Plant Operation and Control, Pasco, USA
September 1985
G.Dahll, J.Märtz, O.Nordland "SOSAT - Software Safety Tools";
presentation at the
Enlarged Halden Programme Group Meeting, Gothenburg, Sweden
June 1985
O.Nordland "Software in the licencing procedure";
presentation (in German) at
Leittechnik im Kernkraftwerk, Essen, Germany
May 1985
E.-U. Mainka, O.Nordland "Assessment of Microprocessors and Computers - Possibilities, Methods, Limits";
presentation (in German) at the
TÜV Topic meeting Microprocessors and Computers with Safety Tasks in Nuclear Technology, Hamburg, Germany
April 1985
G.Glöe, E.-U.Mainka, O.Nordland,
G.Rauch, U.Schmeil, J.Märtz		 "Safety Assessment of the Software of a Control Rod Motion Computer";
presentation at
SAFECOMP 1983, Cambridge, England
September 1983
G.Glöe, E.-U.Mainka, O.Nordland "Software Verification for a Control Rod Steering Computer";
presentation at the
Enlarged Halden Programme Group Meeting, Loen, Norway
May 1983
G.Glöe, S.Klews, O.Nordland,
G.Rabe, R.Westhäußer		 "Disturbance Recording Systems";
presentation at the
Enlarged Halden Programme Group Meeting, Loen, Norway
May 1983
H.V. von Geramb, O.Nordland "Resonant and Nonresonant Giant Multipole Strength";
presentation at the
International Conference on Nuclear Structure, Tokyo, Japan
September 1977