Engineer by trade. Dad, football team manager, grill cook, boat guy and tinkerer the rest of the time. Country music on, something smoking in the backyard, a fishing rod never far away.
Off the clock
I spend the working week keeping industrial equipment running. Everything below is what the rest of the time is for, roughly in the order it wins.
Everything else on this page fits around the four of us. Jayden is thirteen and Olivia is ten, so weekends run on their schedules, the weather forecast and whoever is in charge of dessert. Two countries means two sets of grandparents, two sets of friends and a lot of miles between them.
Jayden, 2013 · Olivia, 2016 · home base Melhus, twenty minutes south of Trondheim
I'm the team manager, lagleder, for Melhus G2013, Jayden's team. The coaches run the sessions. I run everything around them: budget, cup weekends, parent meetings, training schedules and the eternal question of who forgot their shin pads.
Melhus Fotball G2013 · laglederSalmon in the Gaula, which runs right past town, and saltwater whenever I'm in Florida. The boat gets more maintenance attention than it strictly needs. The caricature has it all at once: Navy cap, headset, cooler, rod and the flag.
Gaula · one of Norway's big salmon rivers, on my doorstep
In the shop, on the boat, in the truck. The Florida years did that, and Norway has not managed to undo it. The playlist is public, so press play.
Open the playlist on Spotify →Brisket, ribs and pulled pork on a custom-built Yoder Wichita Loaded offset smoker, with a Weber Summit S-470 for everything that cooks faster. A Fireboard 2 Drive keeps the fire honest through the night. I have hosted barbecue events in Miami, and I keep a spreadsheet for feeding a crowd, because of course I do.
Yoder Wichita Loaded · Weber Summit S-470 · Fireboard 2 Drive
Home Assistant on a Raspberry Pi tying together Elko Living and IHC wiring, Matter devices, LIFX lighting and sensors on anything that moves. The office network at the hub, with more VLANs than a building strictly needs, is my design too.
Home Assistant · IHC · Elko Living · Matter · LIFX · UniFiAdirondack chairs, including a giant one you need a step to climb into. Built from plans I keep refining, finished to survive Norwegian winters.
Adirondack Norway · footrest rev. 0, chair rev. 5, giant rev. 1
Ensign on missile torpedo boats, in charge of the seamen and everything above deck. Checklists and inspection rounds stuck with me. So did the cap.
22nd MTB Squadron, Royal Norwegian NavyThere was never a rink here when I grew up. What the US years taught me is how much a town can do for itself, and Markedsplassen outside Melhustorget sat empty all winter. So in 2024 I started one, with Melhus kommune, Leik IL, the school band, Kirkens Bymisjon's Skattkammer lending out skates for free, and the local bank paying for it. The first winter lost to mild weather and uneven ground. Last winter it opened for real, and the ice was excellent. It comes back this winter, and we are now working on cooling under the ice so it holds from December to Easter.
Opening day on Facebook → · Trønderbladet, Nov 2024 · the barracks piece, Mar 2023 · before that, Solsidan Aktivitetsforening 2012–2019, a neighbourhood club for sharing and renting out gear
Two homes
Norwegian by birth, Floridian by heart, and now back in Norway with a company on each side of the Atlantic.
Small town on the Gaula river, twenty minutes south of Trondheim. Football pitch, salmon river and the office within a short drive of each other.
Where the barbecue, the country music and the saltwater fishing come from. Bluestream's US company lives here, and so does a good part of my family's story.
Day job
Maintenance and reliability engineer, CMRP. Twenty-five years of keeping industrial assets running, from the Navy through oil and gas and salmon farming to the systems that plan the maintenance.
Founder. Maintenance engineering practice in Norway and the US.
Technical Architect for Dynamics 365 Asset Management, through Bluestream AS.
Co-founder. Office community for small tech and engineering companies in Melhus.
Say hi
Work things go through Bluestream. Everything else, LinkedIn or X is the quickest way to reach me.