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CV
BjörnChristensen
Råckstavägen21, LGH 1001
16254 Vällingby
Sweden
070-7941161
08-364494
bjorn@christensen.life
Short term goals
As a student at a Master’s Programme in Electrical Engineering, my current goals are to work part-
time and/or over the summer of 2016 in the industry to start building a web of contacts as well as
develop insight into how engineering work is performed outside of an educational environment.
Education
Employment
Securitas SwedenAB
Employed as a security guard mainly with a focus on stationary guard
duties in the banking sector. This has involved serving in a reception,
handling access control systems, camera surveillance and alarm systems.
Full time employment from 2006 through autumn 2012, thereafter part
time.
Mar 2006 – ongoing
Personality traits
I have a well-defined sense of duty to my workplace and I consider one of my best assets to be my
structured and ambitious workmethodology.Iamhappyto assume new anddiverse tasks and while
I like working individually to solve problems, I am not above seeking help from colleagues when I
realize thata problemisbeyondmy currentabilities.Ilike workingtowards clear goals and I have no
problem handling conflicts at work that arise from organizational or informational dysfunctions. I
have held both formal and informal titles of project manager for various small projects during my
education at KTH. My most negative personality trait would have to be the fact that I sometimes
Master’s Programme in Nanotechnology,KungligaTekniska Högskolan
Master’sProgramme witha focus on Nano electronics, given at ICT in Kista.
Aug 2015 – ongoing
Bachelor’s Programme in Electrical Engineering, KungligaTekniska
Högskolan
Part of the Master of Science in Engineering program at KTH focusing on
Electrical Engineering.
Aug 2012 – Jun 2015
Mandatory MilitaryService,15 months
Trained as a platoon sergeant for a communications platoon at the 10th
Panzer Regiment, Södermanland. Outside basic training, the focus was
mostly on organization, troop movement and radio communications.
Jan 2004 – Apr 2005
Gymnasieprogram,Natural Sciences,BlackebergsGymnasium
Focuson mathematicsandcomputerscience.
Aug 2000 – Jun 2003
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have problemsdelegatingtasks to others that I know I would solve more effectively and efficiently
on my own.
Computer Skills
Well-developedskillsindailyuse of Word,Excel andOutlook.
Some knowledgeof OrCad Lite relatedtothe constructionandpSpice simulationof simplecircuits.
Some knowledgeof MATLABrelatedtomathematical andprocesscontrol systemproblemsolving.
Language Skills
Swedish,nativelanguage.
English, very well developed skills both related to the spoken and written language. Since the
Master’sProgramme whichI am currentlyattendingisgiven in English and most of the students are
part of an exchange program/International Master’s Programme, my proficiency extends both to
casual and technical communication.
Miscellaneous
During my time at Gymnasium and in the gaps between Gymnasium – Military Service and Military
Service – EmploymentatSecuritasIhave also worked as a youth counselor/youth recreation leader
for KFUM/KFUK as well as a coach in Judo and Kickboxing.
Duringmy militaryservice Iwasalsopart of a pilotprojectwhere the platoonleaderswere given the
opportunitytostudyleadershiponthe individual- andgrouplevel atMälardalensHögskola,a project
that awarded academic credits to the participants.
In parallel with my work as a security guard I also studied a university course in Japanese as a
recreational activity.
References
Referencesfromearlieremploymentsanddocumentsprovingthe above are supplieduponrequest.