This document is a resume for Trond Sikkerbøl, who has over 20 years of experience as a senior IT manager working in investment banking and IT industries globally. He currently manages multicultural IT development teams on large scale projects. Previous roles include vice president positions at JP Morgan Chase, Citibank, and Prudential/Wachovia Securities, where he led teams and delivered major projects.
Key Trends Shaping the Future of Infrastructure.pdfCheryl Hung
Keynote at DIGIT West Expo, Glasgow on 29 May 2024.
Cheryl Hung, ochery.com
Sr Director, Infrastructure Ecosystem, Arm.
The key trends across hardware, cloud and open-source; exploring how these areas are likely to mature and develop over the short and long-term, and then considering how organisations can position themselves to adapt and thrive.
LF Energy Webinar: Electrical Grid Modelling and Simulation Through PowSyBl -...DanBrown980551
Do you want to learn how to model and simulate an electrical network from scratch in under an hour?
Then welcome to this PowSyBl workshop, hosted by Rte, the French Transmission System Operator (TSO)!
During the webinar, you will discover the PowSyBl ecosystem as well as handle and study an electrical network through an interactive Python notebook.
PowSyBl is an open source project hosted by LF Energy, which offers a comprehensive set of features for electrical grid modelling and simulation. Among other advanced features, PowSyBl provides:
- A fully editable and extendable library for grid component modelling;
- Visualization tools to display your network;
- Grid simulation tools, such as power flows, security analyses (with or without remedial actions) and sensitivity analyses;
The framework is mostly written in Java, with a Python binding so that Python developers can access PowSyBl functionalities as well.
What you will learn during the webinar:
- For beginners: discover PowSyBl's functionalities through a quick general presentation and the notebook, without needing any expert coding skills;
- For advanced developers: master the skills to efficiently apply PowSyBl functionalities to your real-world scenarios.
Smart TV Buyer Insights Survey 2024 by 91mobiles.pdf91mobiles
91mobiles recently conducted a Smart TV Buyer Insights Survey in which we asked over 3,000 respondents about the TV they own, aspects they look at on a new TV, and their TV buying preferences.
Slack (or Teams) Automation for Bonterra Impact Management (fka Social Soluti...Jeffrey Haguewood
Sidekick Solutions uses Bonterra Impact Management (fka Social Solutions Apricot) and automation solutions to integrate data for business workflows.
We believe integration and automation are essential to user experience and the promise of efficient work through technology. Automation is the critical ingredient to realizing that full vision. We develop integration products and services for Bonterra Case Management software to support the deployment of automations for a variety of use cases.
This video focuses on the notifications, alerts, and approval requests using Slack for Bonterra Impact Management. The solutions covered in this webinar can also be deployed for Microsoft Teams.
Interested in deploying notification automations for Bonterra Impact Management? Contact us at sales@sidekicksolutionsllc.com to discuss next steps.
Accelerate your Kubernetes clusters with Varnish CachingThijs Feryn
A presentation about the usage and availability of Varnish on Kubernetes. This talk explores the capabilities of Varnish caching and shows how to use the Varnish Helm chart to deploy it to Kubernetes.
This presentation was delivered at K8SUG Singapore. See https://feryn.eu/presentations/accelerate-your-kubernetes-clusters-with-varnish-caching-k8sug-singapore-28-2024 for more details.
GraphRAG is All You need? LLM & Knowledge GraphGuy Korland
Guy Korland, CEO and Co-founder of FalkorDB, will review two articles on the integration of language models with knowledge graphs.
1. Unifying Large Language Models and Knowledge Graphs: A Roadmap.
https://arxiv.org/abs/2306.08302
2. Microsoft Research's GraphRAG paper and a review paper on various uses of knowledge graphs:
https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/research/blog/graphrag-unlocking-llm-discovery-on-narrative-private-data/
Kubernetes & AI - Beauty and the Beast !?! @KCD Istanbul 2024Tobias Schneck
As AI technology is pushing into IT I was wondering myself, as an “infrastructure container kubernetes guy”, how get this fancy AI technology get managed from an infrastructure operational view? Is it possible to apply our lovely cloud native principals as well? What benefit’s both technologies could bring to each other?
Let me take this questions and provide you a short journey through existing deployment models and use cases for AI software. On practical examples, we discuss what cloud/on-premise strategy we may need for applying it to our own infrastructure to get it to work from an enterprise perspective. I want to give an overview about infrastructure requirements and technologies, what could be beneficial or limiting your AI use cases in an enterprise environment. An interactive Demo will give you some insides, what approaches I got already working for real.
Epistemic Interaction - tuning interfaces to provide information for AI supportAlan Dix
Paper presented at SYNERGY workshop at AVI 2024, Genoa, Italy. 3rd June 2024
https://alandix.com/academic/papers/synergy2024-epistemic/
As machine learning integrates deeper into human-computer interactions, the concept of epistemic interaction emerges, aiming to refine these interactions to enhance system adaptability. This approach encourages minor, intentional adjustments in user behaviour to enrich the data available for system learning. This paper introduces epistemic interaction within the context of human-system communication, illustrating how deliberate interaction design can improve system understanding and adaptation. Through concrete examples, we demonstrate the potential of epistemic interaction to significantly advance human-computer interaction by leveraging intuitive human communication strategies to inform system design and functionality, offering a novel pathway for enriching user-system engagements.
State of ICS and IoT Cyber Threat Landscape Report 2024 previewPrayukth K V
The IoT and OT threat landscape report has been prepared by the Threat Research Team at Sectrio using data from Sectrio, cyber threat intelligence farming facilities spread across over 85 cities around the world. In addition, Sectrio also runs AI-based advanced threat and payload engagement facilities that serve as sinks to attract and engage sophisticated threat actors, and newer malware including new variants and latent threats that are at an earlier stage of development.
The latest edition of the OT/ICS and IoT security Threat Landscape Report 2024 also covers:
State of global ICS asset and network exposure
Sectoral targets and attacks as well as the cost of ransom
Global APT activity, AI usage, actor and tactic profiles, and implications
Rise in volumes of AI-powered cyberattacks
Major cyber events in 2024
Malware and malicious payload trends
Cyberattack types and targets
Vulnerability exploit attempts on CVEs
Attacks on counties – USA
Expansion of bot farms – how, where, and why
In-depth analysis of the cyber threat landscape across North America, South America, Europe, APAC, and the Middle East
Why are attacks on smart factories rising?
Cyber risk predictions
Axis of attacks – Europe
Systemic attacks in the Middle East
Download the full report from here:
https://sectrio.com/resources/ot-threat-landscape-reports/sectrio-releases-ot-ics-and-iot-security-threat-landscape-report-2024/
Transcript: Selling digital books in 2024: Insights from industry leaders - T...BookNet Canada
The publishing industry has been selling digital audiobooks and ebooks for over a decade and has found its groove. What’s changed? What has stayed the same? Where do we go from here? Join a group of leading sales peers from across the industry for a conversation about the lessons learned since the popularization of digital books, best practices, digital book supply chain management, and more.
Link to video recording: https://bnctechforum.ca/sessions/selling-digital-books-in-2024-insights-from-industry-leaders/
Presented by BookNet Canada on May 28, 2024, with support from the Department of Canadian Heritage.
1. TROND SIKKERBØL
Kroksundveien 1286 1870 Ørje Trondsikkerbol@gmail.com Mobil46 94 52 69
www.linkedin.com/pub/trond-sikkerbol/27/2b/ab4/
Senior Vice President of IT Senior Project Manager
SUMMARY
I am a highly rated senior IT manager with more than 20 years total working experience within
Investment Banking and IT industries in NAM, EMEA and ASPAC. Extensive experience in Corporate
Actions, Asset Servicing, Settlement and Tax. I currently manage several multicultural IT development
teams in numerous locations worldwide in order to deliver large scale projects for our business partners.
I am an excellent communicator and comfortable with all levels of Senior IT and Business management.
My experience includes large banks/securities firms in the US where I have been part of several
re-engineering efforts, system conversions and large scale project work.
Profound skills in personal communication and passion to learn, efficiently share knowledge
and handle dynamically changing situations. Inspire co-workers and customers.
- Extended multicultural experience across NAM, EMEA and ASPAC
- Excellent communicator and presenter
- Business development and networking
- Leading IT security technologies
- Center of Excellence Expertise
PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE
JP Morgan Chase, New York, NY 2014 - 2015
Vice President/Senior Project Manager
Restructured the firm’s Asset Servicing IT group in New Jersey, New York and the Philippines. Lead a
team of 40 IT professionals in an agile project lifecycle environment. Responsible for budgeting, large
project deliverables and people management.
● Successfully restructured the Asset Servicing IT group in order to increase productivity and
decrease project cost
● Worked closely with business partners in New York and London to deliver major upgrades and
enhancements to the Asset Serving and Corporate Actions application platforms
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CITI/Citibank, Jersey City, NJ/Buffalo NY 2004 - 2014
Senior Vice President/Senior Project Manager
Plan, budget, track and direct Citi’s Corporate Actions, Asset Servicing and Tax systems in the firm’s
global financial department. Manage large on/off-shore Project Manager/Analyst/Developer teams. Work
closely with business partners’ worldwide on requirements to develop streamlined technology delivery
solutions.
● Saved Citi over $1M in 2014 by relocating Corporate Actions/Asset Servicing/Tax Tech teams from
high cost locations (NJ/NYC) to Buffalo, NY and Chennai, India
● Coordinated a major analysis project to provide estimates for expansion of quantity and amount
limitations within the systems
● Responsible for interacting with Tata Consulting for on/off-shore consulting staff
● Saved $432,000 yearly and eliminated need for 2 FTEs by automating dividend fee charges
● Reduced manual intervention by 90% and increased data accuracy 50% by automating Salomon
year-end IRS tax filing process, also reducing the firm’s risk and exposure
● Achieved savings of $216,000 per year by automating manual Smith Barney dividend distributions
process for foreign securities
● Participated in the re-engineering of Mainframe Stock Record & Settlement systems
PRUDENTIAL / WACHOVIA SECURITIES, New York, NY 1998 - 2004
Vice President/Project Leader
Managed the OTC In-House Trading application and supervised a staff of 12. Planned and led large-
scale projects through complete lifecycles, including estimation, budgeting, forecasting, and
requirements.
● Facilitated 40% increase in stock quote flow volumes by implementing large-scale re-engineering
project that improved trade execution process and reduced exposure
● Streamlined application batch processing times 50% through implementation of new batch process
enhancements, saving $80,000 per year
● Led installation of system enhancements to comply with NASDAQ requirements
● Served as Project Lead on conversion from CICS Mainframe to GUI front end environment as well as
Mainframe transaction flows to distributed platforms
TECHNICAL SKILLS
MS Office, MS Project, Share Point, VISIO, UNIX, OS/MVS, Plan View, Mystic/SDLC, COBOL, COBOL II,
JCL, SQL, Java, DB2, VSAM, IMS, IBM Visual Age, OS/MVS utilities & tools, QMF, Endeavor, FTP,
Changeman, CICS, MQ-Series, IBM Web Sphere
