Magnus Nevstad

Age: 30
Sex: Male
Location: Unspecified
Occupation: Software Developer, Aspiro
Status: I always forget this status thing so, uh, yeah.
Member since: Sep 2005
Forum posts: 15
Web site: http://www.do-mi.com
Login status: Offline

About me

Born in the summer of '79, I grew up in Oslo Norway until '93. Moving with my family, I lived in Basel Switzerland for 5 years finishing my IBs at the International School of Basel. I then returned to Oslo in '98 to continue my education at the University of Oslo, aiming for a degree in Inforamtion Technology. After finishing my bachelors I decided it was time to make some loot, and ended up at Opera Software :)

I've always been a social creature and I find both family and friends neccessities to a meaningful existence. Music has a place close to my heart. Having listened to and played music almost all my life, I could not imagine living without it!

My work

I started my work in Opera Software in Quality Assurance, more specifically as a Test Manager on the Sybmian team. This gave me great insight into both the product, the people and the procedures and I even went on a few nice business trips - one to Symbian's main offices in London and another to Motorla's office in Tokyo. After about a year and a half and a few deliveries later, I made the move into development - staying on the Symbian team. I then went on to work on deveopling the browser for the Wii, or as they call it the "Internet Channel" which was immensely rewarding for a Nintendo old timer like myself.

The next challenge for me came in the form of a new job with Aspiro, learning new technologies and products, and deveoping systems and internet applications such as Telenor's online/mobile music store. As a music lover but also a musician this has been a very enriching and interresting project.

Fast facts

Last movie seen:No Country For Old Men
Music I listen to:My main love for music is in the direction of heavy metal, but I love all good music across all genres.
Best album right now:NOFX - They actually got worse live
Favorite author:Too many to list, but Terry Pratchett deserves mention.
Last book read:Henning Mankell - Pyramiden
Best game right now:I still love Quake3Arena, even though it's been a very long time since I played it seriously - with my team Violence Solves Everything. So I'd have to go with whats cool these days - such as Mario Galaxy or Guitar Hero 3.
I'm passionate about:Life, family, friends, music.
I wish I could:Fly!
If I won 1 million dollars, I would:Invest it and make another million.
Software I use:IntelliJ, Maven, JBoss, Opera, Perl, MSVC, CodeWarrior, Emacs, iTunes, Adobe Audition, Steinberg Cubase, Drumkit From Hell, +++
Hardware I use:Dean guitars, ENGL amps, Bogner cabs, Line6 gear, AMD, ATi, Dell screens, Nintendo Wii, Xbox 360, Fujitsu-Siemens TV, +++