Willy Olafsen

Technology and People Leadership

Norway

About

International R&D engineering career in SLB (Schlumberger). Lived and worked in Houston, TX, Beijing, China and Norway. Broad international management, program management and project management experience of technical engineering projects. Effective at leading teams by applying adaptive leadership styles whether it is Scandinavia, Texas or China. Really enjoys working with diverse teams and always strive to empower the team to be almost self-directed. Deep understanding of applying agile and lean software engineering and what it takes to develop high performance and reliable software systems that will live for multiple decades. Large Scale Projects Lifecycle Management Agile Kanban IoT Cloud CTO Investor Relations Start Up Raising Seed Capital

Experience

  • Manager Robotics Technology at Argeo
    Nov 2023 - Present · 2 yrs 8 mos

  • Owner at Arctic Cloud Consulting AS
    Jul 2015 - Present · 11 yrs

    Consultant at Altus Intervention/Qinterra Technologies in Stavanger, Norway. Wireline and tractor conveyed Well Intervention. Applying IoT and Cloud computing.

  • CEO and Co-Founder at iDROP
    May 2022 - Nov 2023 · 1 yr 7 mos

  • VP Subsurface Product Manager at Cognite AS
    Jan 2021 - Apr 2022 · 1 yr 4 mos

  • Senior Software Project Manager at Canrig Robotic Technologies
    Sep 2019 - Dec 2020 · 1 yr 4 mos