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Hi there... It's nice finally meeting you.

My name is Mikkel Heisterberg, I'm 32 years old and live in Copenhagen, Denmark. My blog is called lekkimworld to indicate this is part of my "world" (where I capture ideas etc.) and since lekkim is a nickname I have. I hold a bachelor’s degree in Biochemistry and a Master of Science degree in Internet technologies from the University of Copenhagen.

Apart from this "business blog" I also run a personal blog in Danish over at mikkel.heisterberg.dk with personal stuff and odd bits and ends...
 

Workwise

Workwise I have been working with Lotus Notes/Domino since version 3.x - primarily as a developer but I also doing a lot of Domino administration. My primary effort is dedicated to development of new Domino/Notes applications for customers, managing their installations and doing general consulting for customers moving to (and from) the Domino/Notes platform. Apart from pure Notes development I also do some Sametime development (bots etc.) and a lot of web development - both in Domino and using the J2EE framework. Because of the J2EE applications I have ventured into the DB2 UDB World as well.

To let fair be fair I have drifted from the administration part of the Domino platform as of lately and mainly focus on development though I can be caught registering a new user now and then and configuring clustering etc.

After the release of Sametime 7.5, Notes 8 and Lotus Connections most of my work is with these technologies incl. doing development for the new Expeditor platform. I'm a strong Java proponent and my language of choice for development is Java.

In 2007 I was honored to be included in the IBM Lotus Design Parter Program for Domino Next (8.5) and the Design Parter Program for Application Development. I still participate in these programs and join weekly conference calls with IBM to discuss the upcoming releases.

In October of 2007 I joined IntraVision ApS after being self-employeed for 8 years. It was a though decision but I have found a good home in IntraVision where I'm helping shape the technical future of the company bringing a lot of technical expertise in Notes 8, Sametime 7.5+ development, Lotus Connections and much of the "new stuff" going on with the Lotus brand. Being part of something bigger is both challenging and rewarding.

IntraVision is otherwise most known for the OnTime suite of products (ontimesuite.com) incl. the OnTime Group Calendar and Meeting Manager products.

Before October of 2007 I was self-employed with a company called it-inspiration aps. I ran this company with my big brother and an old primary school buddy of mine. it-inspiration aps served the Danish Notes/Domino customers from 1999 to 2007.

Before 1999 I was employeed by IBM for 6 years working with ERP systems (SAP, Baan, Oracle, JD Edwards etc.). The department I was in developed the implementation methodology and education material IBM used/uses for ERP deployment.

Articles

I am proud to be a published writer in THE VIEW magazine:

Public appearances

I spoke at Lotusphere 2009 in the Best Practices track with a session titled "From Notes Java Developer to Notes 8 Plug-in Developer" (BP106). I was also highlighted on the lotusphereblog.com shortly before the event. Please see my session page for the presentation, code, demos etc.

I spoke at ILUG 2008 (the Ireland Lotus User Group) in Dublin, Ireland, on developing sidebar plugins for Notes 8 and the Expeditor platform ("Developing sidebar applications for Notes 8... while staying sane!"). The presentation is posted here and the sample code is here.

I appeared on episode 81 of the Taking Notes podcast where I discussed the TwitNotes plugin for Notes 8 and sidebar development in general.

I spoke at Lotusphere 2007 in the best practices track (session BP308) on DXL and OOP. I have a page with the presentation, demo databases, code and further links.

I'm available for speaking engagements on contract and ad-hoc basis to speak on a variety of subjects ranging from Notes/Domino development, Notes/Domino administration, Java development for the Notes/Domino developer as well as general Java Enterprise development and integration with IBM DB2. Give me a shout if you're interested.

See below for contact details if you're interested.

Open Source

I contribute to a number of Java and Notes open source projects and host one myself. The project is called LotusScript.doc and is an Notes application for automatically documenting LotusScript code. I'm currently working on version 2 of the framework and it's due out soon (end of year 2008).

Contact

I can be reached via e-mail at mh [at] intravision [dot] dk, via Sametime on bleedyellow.com or via mikkel_heisterberg on Skype.