# Martin Rødvand (@martin.rodvand.net)

Profile: https://sifa.id/p/martin.rodvand.net
Headline: Network Developer
Location: Oslo, Oslo, Norway

## Career

- **Senior Advisor at Norwegian Ministry of Defence** (Nov 2020 - Dec 2024)
- **Senior Network Security Engineer at Data Equipment AS** (Jan 2019 - Nov 2020)
  Oslo Area
- **Senior Network Consultant at TeleComputing** (Jul 2017 - Dec 2018)
  Asker
  Daily responsibilities include:
  \- LAN/WAN/WLAN configuration and troubleshooting
  \- Maintain the database of network devices and ensure consistency in the network monitoring system
  \- Develop and maintain tools for network automation
  \- Participate and plan central infrastructure changes
  \- Handle customer requests
  \- Participate in internal and external projects
  \- Part of the networking on-call team
- **Network Consultant at TeleComputing** (Aug 2014 - Jul 2017)
  Asker
  Daily responsibilities include:
  \- LAN/WAN troubleshooting
  \- Configure and troubleshoot customer equipment (routers, switches, access points)
  \- Configure and troubleshoot VPN connections
  \- Configure WAN links
  \- WLAN configuration and troubleshooting
  \- Handling firewall request
  \- Implement firewall policies and threat configurations
  \- Responding to network incident alarms
  \- Prioritise and keep an overview of the day-to-day network operations team
  \- Part of the networking on-call team
- **Support Consultant at TeleComputing** (May 2013 - Aug 2014)
  Initial contact point for customers. Daily responsibilities include:
  \- Answering phone calls for customers
  \- Initial troubleshooting and resolving of customers' incidents
  \- Prioritising and escalating incidents to 2nd tier support
  \- Training new consultants  The last four months I was positioned with the networking department as I transitioned into a role with the networking team.
- **Night receptionist at Rica Hotel G20** (May 2011 - Apr 2013)
  Part time work.
  
  Responsibilities included guest check-ins and check-outs, and bookings.
- **Developer at National Library of Norway** (Jun 2009 - Aug 2010)
  Mo i Rana
  Summer job in '09 and '10.
- **Salesman at Reitan Servicehandel** (Aug 2005 - Jan 2009)
  Part-time job in the period from August '05 to January '09 mainly while studying in Mo i Rana and Trondheim.
- **Receptionist at Meyergården hotell** (Jun 2004 - Aug 2008)
  Mo i Rana
  Summer job every year since 2004 in the months June, July and August.

## Projects

- **Firewall migration from Cisco to Palo Alto** (Mar 2016 - Mar 2018)
  During the course of the project we migrated approximately 60 firewall contexts from a Cisco platform to Palo Alto Networks (PAN) products. This included the use of PAN's migration tool and migration to both hardware and virtual platforms.

## Skills

### Technical
- Active Directory
- Docker
- HTML
- Infrastructure as code
- Infrastructure as code (IaC)
- Linux
- Programming
- Python
### Business
- Customer Service
### Interpersonal
- English
- Troubleshooting
### Security
- Networking
### Other
- Ansible
- awx
- Cisco IOS
- Firewalls
- Infrastructure
- NAPALM
- NetBox
- Netdevops
- Network Automation
- Palo Alto Networks
- Routers
- Routing
- Switches
- Switching
- Vim
- VPN
- WAN
- Windows

## Credentials

- Palo Alto Networks System Engineer Professional - Platform — Palo Alto Networks (Jun 2019)
- Palo Alto Networks Certified Network Security Engineer (PCNSE) — Palo Alto Networks (May 2019) http://www.pearsonvue.com/authenticate
- Palo Alto Certified Network Security Engineer (PCNSE) 7 — Palo Alto Networks (Aug 2017)
- CCNP Routing & Switching — Cisco (Sep 2016)
- Accredited Configuration Engineer (ACE) Exam - PAN-OS 7.0 Version — Palo Alto Networks (Mar 2016)
- CCNA Wireless — Cisco (Jan 2015)
- CCNA Routing & Switching — Cisco (Sep 2014)
- ITILv3 Foundation (Jun 2014)

## Education

- **University of Oslo (UiO)** — Master of Science (MSc) (2016 - 2017)
  Finished the masters degree started in 2011.
- **University of Oslo (UiO)** — Master of Science (MSc) (2011 - 2013)
  Partly completed MSc degree. Completed spring 2017.
- **The University of Stirling** — BSc with Hons (2007 - 2010)
  Activities & Societies: University of Stirling International Society
- **Nesna University College** — One year study (2005 - 2006)

## Courses

- Networking: technologies and principles
- Network and system administration II
- Palo Alto Networks 7: Install, Configure and Manage
- Cyber ethics
- Research methods and data analysis
- Research Papers
- Software engineering II
- Computer Security
- Intrusion detection and firewalls
- Multicasting, routing and service quality
- Software engineering I
- Scripting for system administrators
- Network and system administration I

## Involvement

### Volunteering
- IAESTE Norway (Aug 2011 - Aug 2013)
  Vice President of LC Oslo/Reception Manager of LC Oslo/Online Editor of IAESTE Norway
  \- Helping students in Norway get international experience through summer jobs/internships
  \- Arranging accommodation for international students coming to Norway for jobs through the organisation
  \- Creating international bonds by organising social events with international students from all of Norway

## Languages

- Bokmål, Norwegian (native)
- English (full professional)