Curriculum Vitae

Personal

Halldor Matthias Sigurdsson,
Male, born October 20, 1976 in Akranes, Iceland
Married, father of one,
Icelandic Citizenship,

Valby Langgade 49B, 1.tv.
2500 Valby
Denmark

Telephone: (+45) 3646 2011
Mobile: (+45) 24 84 86 42

E-Mail: halldor at viskan.net

2003-2007	Ph.D. in Electronics and Communication – “Techno-Economics of Residential Broadband Deployment", Technical University of Denmark
2000-2003	Civ. Ing. / M.Sc. in Technology Management, Technical University of Denmark
1997-2000	B.Sc. Mechanical and Industrial Engineering, University of Iceland
1992-1996	Mathematical Matriculation Examination, Commercial Collage of Iceland

2005	Guest researcher at the faculty of economics at the University of Cambridge, UK, working with prof. Emanuele Giovannetti on the social and economic impact of widespread broadband in Europe
2004	Guest student/researcher for one semester, Distributed Multimedia Systems Research Group, Department for Informatics, University of Oslo, Norway
2004	Followed two Ph.D courses at the Royal Technical University (KTH), Stockholm, Sweden
2004	Ph.D. Media Training course, Nordic Academy for Advanced Study, Helsinki, Finland
2003	Seven month M.Sc. final thesis “Implementing Next Generation Networks in Iceland” at Iceland Telecom R&D, Reykjavik, Iceland
2002	Summer course in broadband networks, Napoli Facoltá di Ingeneria, Universitá degli Studi “Frederico II”, Naples, Italy
2001	Guest student for one semester, Universidad Agraria de La Haban, Havana, Cuba

2007-	McKinsey & Company, Copenhagen, working in the Business and Technology Office (BTO) primarily within the telecom sector
2005	Microsoft Research Asia, Beijing, China, working on the development of IPTV using the peer-to-peer paradigm
2001-2003	Research Assistant, Iceland Telecom R&D, Iceland
	Projects on Home Area Networking and implementation of MPEG-2 streaming over VDSL. Participated in projects on video conferencing and Future Access Networks.
1998-2001	Engineering Intern, Icelandair Engineering Department, Keflavik Airport.
	Programmer: Wrote a program still in use for monitoring oil consumption of all engines in the Icelandair Boeing and Fokker fleet.
1998-1999	Part time teacher, Commercial Collage of Iceland, Reykjavik
	Replacement mathematics teacher for five classes of 18 year olds
1995-1997	Freight Agent, Icelandair Cargo, Keflavik Airport
1988-1996	Various summer and part time jobs, e.g. independent accounting contractor

2004	Receiver of Ph.D. Mobility Scholarship from the Nordic Academy for Advanced Study (NorFa)
2003	Received the highest possible, and seldom given, honorary grade of 13 for M.Sc. final thesis.
2002	Receiver of Scholarship from the A.P. Møller Fond

Fluent: Icelandic, English, Danish
Medium: German, Spanish

Football, squash, badminton and skiing