Phone: +47 73 200 411
E-mail: asbjorn.andersen@exprosoft.com
Resumé: Asbjørn Andersen holds an M.Sc. Degree in Mechanical Engineering from the Norwegian University of Science and Technology from 1988. Asbjørn joined ExproSoft in 2004, after spending 10 years in various positions at SINTEF's Drilling and Well Technology Department and Safety and Reliability Department. His work experience encompasses qualification of new technology and improvements of existing technology. Asbjørn is Managing Editor for ExproBase, which is a knowledge base for optimal safety and reliability of well and subsea technology independent of company affiliation. He is also Product Manager for RMS, which is a reliability management system for improved reliability of specific well and subsea technology based on operational experiences.

Phone: +47 73 200 413
E-mail: hammad.awan@exprosoft.com
Resumé: Hammad joined ExproSoft in 2010 after graduation from Norwegian University of Science and Technology (NTNU) with a Master degree in Reliability Availability Maintainability & Safety (RAMS). He also holds a Bachelor’s degree in Mechanical Engineering and his interests include reliability and maintenance modeling for engineering systems. In his thesis he developed phased mission Markov reliability modeling technique which can model separate Markov chains as a continuous solution. Prior to completing his Master degree at NTNU, Hammad has two years of work experience from Middle East (Qatar) as QC engineer for EPC projects within the energy sector. With ExproSoft, Hammad is involved with projects on database management, risk/reliability studies and well integrity analysis.

Phone: +47 73 200 402
E-mail: eystein.bye@exprosoft.com
Resumé: Eystein Bye has an M. Sc. in Computer Science from NTNU (2005). His area of expertise is developing web applications. His work experience is from ADComData, Kvalito IT and Adligo Web. Eystein joined ExproSoft on 5 February 2007. At ExproSoft, Eystein works on a number of software products, including all our web-based applications such as ExproBase and RMS (Reliability Management System) as well as WIMS (Well Integrity Management System).

Phone: +47 73 200 407
E-mail: kjell.corneliussen@exprosoft.com
Resumé: Kjell graduated from NTNU in 1993 with an M. Sc. in Mechanical Engineering, majoring in Reliability Engineering. He has 9 years experience from safety and reliability engineering at SINTEF, prior to joining ExproSoft on 1 January 2003. Kjell completed a Ph. D from NTNU in 2006. The title of the thesis was "Well Safety – Risk control in the operational phase of offshore wells". Main field of competence is risk and reliability studies related to subsea and well technology. Kjell is the WIMS project responsible and initiated the WIMS software development process after finishing his Ph.D., and has since then been heavily involved in defining the software functionality. Currently he manages ExproSoft initiatives within well integrity and is involved with risk assessments and work process development.

Phone: +47 73 200 408
E-mail: per.holand@exprosoft.com
Resumé: Per graduated from NTNU in 1982 with a M. Sc. in Mechanical Engineering. He has 18 years experience from safety and reliability engineering at SINTEF, prior to joining ExproSoft on 1 May 2001. His main work focus in SINTEF and ExproSoft has been on the reliability of drilling equipment, offshore blowout experience, subsea and well reliability analyses. He has carried out numerous subsea BOP reliability studies on behalf of clients in Norway, Brazil, US and Italy. Since 1990 he has been responsible for maintaining the SINTEF Offshore Blowout Database, which serves as the key information in connection with blowout risk analyses in the North Sea area. He holds a PhD (1996) in safety and reliability engineering from the Norwegian Institute of Science and Technology in Trondheim, Norway. His PhD was later reworked and published as a book at the Gulf Publishing Company in 1997 (Title: Offshore Blowouts, Causes and Trends).

Phone: +47 73 200 404
E-mail: hans.jenssen@exprosoft.com
Resumé: Hans Peter has 25 years of experience with offshore/subsea and well completion related projects for the offshore industry. Main work areas are well integrity and well completions data management (well integrity barrier schematics WBS, integrity assessment and analysis, data collection and WellMaster data management), prototype development and qualification follow up including testing, design reviews and FMECA, in particular related to downhole safety valves and other critical well completion and subsea components. He received his M.Sc degree from NTH (Technical University of Norway, currently denoted as NTNU) in 1981, specializing in Machine Design/ Mechanical Engineering. He worked at SINTEF Production Engineering from 1982 to 1994, at SINTEF Materials Technology/Machine Design from 1994 to 1996, at SINTEF Safety and Reliability from 1996 to 1997, and at SINTEF Petroleum Research / Drilling and Well Technology and Subsea and Well Technology departments from 1997 to 2001 before joining ExproSoft.

Phone: +47 73 200 403
E-mail: einar.molnes@exprosoft.com
Resumé: Einar has 25 years experience from offshore safety and reliability related projects from various positions at SINTEF in Trondheim, Norway since 1983, and from ExproSoft since 2000. His career experience is mainly related to applied reliability studies and reliability database development for downhole equipment and subsea systems for the offshore industry. Molnes was head of SINTEFs reliability engineering group 1990-1995, and Research Director of SINTEF Petroleum Research’s Drilling and Well Technology Department 1996-1999. He has been Managing Director and a Senior Consultant with ExproSoft since the company entered business operations in April 2000.

Phone: +47 51 67 63 70
E-mail: terje.myklebust@exprosoft.com
Resumé: Terje has an M. Sc degree in Information Technology from Rogaland Regional University in Stavanger, 1988. He has 18 years experience from development of software and database applications for the offshore industry, mainly with focus on relational databases and Windows programming. Terje spent 4 years with Pride, prior to setting up his own company WinTeam in 1994. He left WinTeam to become co-founder of ExproSoft in April 2000.

Phone: +47 73 200 409
E-mail: arne.kristian.ovesen@exprosoft.com
Resumé: Arne Kristian holds a M.Sc. degree in Computer Science from the Norwegian University of Science and Technology (NTNU) in 2006. During his M.Sc. thesis he was involved in a project for development of a new tool for experience transfer with a major oil company. He has previously worked for Bibsys and Tieto Enator. His last assignment was on further development of a software system for gas dispatching and message handling for Gassco. At ExproSoft, Arne Kristian is involved with software application development, primarily WellMaster, FieldSim and WIMS.

Phone: +47 73 200 405
E-mail: geir-ove.strand@exprosoft.com
Resumé: Formerly a research scientist at the Department of Subsea and Well Technology at SINTEF Petroleum Research, Strand has been involved in numerous risk and reliability studies related to subsea and well technology. He earned a Mechanical Engineering degree at Gjøvik College in 1995 and received a MSc in Safety and Reliability Engineering at the Norwegian University of Science and Technology in 1998. Geir-Ove joined ExproSoft as Risk and Reliability Consultant in August 2000. In his position with ExproSoft, he has extensive experience from risk and reliability studies for the upstream sector, development of risk based procedures and standards and more recently, specification and programming of a Monte Carlo simulator for development planning for new offshore oil/gas fields. This simulator (FieldSim) is described in more detail under ExproSoft's Products-page.

Phone: +47 73 200 410
E-mail: rita.merete.soerskaar@exprosoft.com
Resumé: Rita Merete Sørskår has been in the oil industry since graduating as a B. Sc. in Petroleum Engineering in 2004 from the University of Stavanger. She was previously employed by Proffshore AS for a short period as a Senior Consultant. Her first assignment was with Baker Hughes Drilling Fluids Norway in a position as Offshore Drilling Fluids Engineer. During her professional offshore experience she was responsible for the drilling fluids on board, followed up the operations fluids and was a drilling process advisor for everything concerning fluids. In addition she does lecturing in Drilling Fluids for EXSTO Offshore Education. Rita Merete joined ExproSoft in June 2008 as a Senior Petroleum Engineer. At ExproSoft Rita is involved in consulting services related to Well Integrity and Data Management.

Phone: +47 73 200 406
E-mail: nils.andreas.thommesen@exprosoft.com
Resumé: Nils Andreas Thommesen holds an M. Sc. degree in Computer Science from NTNU in 1994, with a major in Software Engineering. He has over 15 years of experience from software development and engineering in a number of roles in several industries, both in Norway and in the United Kingdom. Before joining ExproSoft as Software Development Manager in May 2009, Nils was Product Development Manager at IntraPoint in Trondheim. At ExproSoft, Nils is using his broad software experience to improve ExproSoft's software products as well as the development processes. He is closely involved in everything related to the software products and development activities of ExproSoft, from product strategies, technical sales, software technology research and coordination of development activities to software maintenance, bug fixing and software support.

Phone: +47 73 200 400
E-mail: cecilie.osterlie@exprosoft.com
Resumé: Cecilie Østerlie achieved an MBA in Business and Economics from Handelshøyskolen BI in 1988. She has 22 years’ experience from various companies. She worked as area export manager at Autronica Fire & Security, responsible for international distribution of fire detection systems in cooperation with distributors. With Ernst & Young she was employed as management consultant and participated in customer projects related to strategic business development and international distribution strategies. Cecilie has experience from management, administration and company finance as well as accounting and reporting from Visma Services, Neste Stopp and Sonowand.
She joined ExproSoft in 2010 as Chief Financial Officer. In ExproSoft she is responsible for reporting of financial proceedings, finance controlling, budget management and general administration. She is also secretary to our Board of Directors.

Phone: +47 73 59 25 42
E-mail: marvin.rausand@ntnu.no
Resumé: Professor of Reliability Engineering at the Norwegian University of Science and Technology (NTNU) in Trondheim, Norway, acting as Scientific Advisor to ExproSoft on an individual project basis. He started his career as a lecturer in mathematical statistics at NTNU in 1976. From 1980 to 1990 he worked at SINTEF with safety and reliability projects. His activities were mainly related to reliability assessment of SCSSVs and well equipment and subsea BOP systems. For the last four years of this period he was the director of SINTEF’s Safety and Reliability division. Since 1990 he has served as Professor of Reliability Engineering at NTNU. In 1995/1996 he was a visiting professor at the Civil and Offshore Department at Heriot-Watt University in Edinburgh in Scotland. From 1996 he has also served as vice dean of the Faculty of Mechanical Engineering at NTNU. He is now a Scientific Advisor and has acted as Chairman of the Board of ExproSoft from 2000 to 2007.

Phone: +47 41 47 37 30
E-mail: jorn.vatn@exprosoft.com
Resumé: Professor of Reliability Engineering at the Norwegian University of Science and Technology (NTNU) in Trondheim, Norway, acting as Scientific Advisor to ExproSoft in development of computerized tools for reliability analysis. He has more than fifteen years of experience at SINTEF on safety and reliability projects. At SINTEF he also was one of the main developers of the CARA (Computer Aided Reliability Analysis) package. Since 2000 he has served as Professor of Reliability Engineering at NTNU.