Hearing about this project I fealt instantly that this is the most profound, worldchanging, empowering civilization building project I have ever heard about! I'm part of the movement calling for a transition to a sustainable resource based economy,

Currently I work as an IT-consultant developing software. My background and skills are spread all over the place:

Professional experience:

- 3d graphics visualization and animation since 1992

- Interactive multimedia since 1996

- Graphic design jobs both digital and for print starting 1996.

- Digital video production and soundediting 1998

- Simple flash application development 2000

- CATIA: CAD/CAM/Final element structrual analysis (university cources an project in) 2002 Later also Autodesk inventor. (I have tried out a number of open source CAD solutions.. but none really cut the cheese)

- Object oriented application development (university courses) from 2003 -

- Running a company called Visualize with a classmate. We churned out E-learning content (high school physics) and frameworks as well as platform games in flash and also did some 3d-animated visualizations .

Other:

- Activism in the environmental movement from 1996

- Activism against corporate domination since 1996

- Activism against war since 1998

- Became a father in 2007. 

- Now a member of a new organization in Norway called "FRØ" (Foreningen for Ressursbasert Økonomi) = (The Association for a Resource Based Economy) wich sprung out of the norwegian branch of the Zeitgeist movement.

I hope to contribute to the proposed Open Source CAD/CAM solution