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Jan Emblemsvåg                    Updated: December 15th 2006

Born:                            23.04.1971                         Marital status:  Married
Nationality:                   Norwegian                           Five children

Permanent Contact

E-mail: emblemsvag@yahoo.com  

Education

1996 - 1999:  Ph. D. in Mechanical Engineering, Georgia Institute of Technology

bulletThe degree is related to design and management in a wide sense. 
bulletWorked with Dr. Bert Bras with research primarily in Life-Cycle Assessments and environmentally conscious design and (de/re) manufacturing.  The work took little more than two years.
bulletThe dissertation, which is titled 'Activity-Based Life-Cycle Assessments in Design and Management'  was successfully defended April 5. 1999 at The George W. Woodruff School of Mechanical Engineering. 
bulletThe members of the Ph.D. Committee were: 
bulletDr. Bert Bras (Associate Professor, Mechanical Engineering),
bulletDr. Farrokh Mistree (Professor, Mechanical Engineering),
bulletDr. Steven Y. Liang (Associate Professor, Mechanical Engineering),
bulletDr. Chia S. Kiang (Institute Professor, Earth and Atmospheric Sciences),
bulletDr. Arnold Schneider (Associate Professor, Management) and
bulletMr. Ray C. Anderson (Founder, CEO and Chairman of the Board of Interface, Inc. Co-Chairman of the President Clinton's Council on Sustainable Development and Chairman of Georgia Tech Advisory Board)
bulletAlumni of the Systems Realization Laboratory.
bulletObtained the CIMS (Computer Integrated Manufacturing Systems) certificate in March 1998. The purpose of the CIMS program is to give a broad and multi-disciplinary education for engineers, leaders and scientists. 

1993 - 1994: Master of Science, Georgia Institute of Technology

bulletThe degree was taken in Mechanical Engineering, more specifically in design at The George W. Woodruff School of Mechanical Engineering in December 1994.
bulletWorked with Dr. Bert Bras in  the Systems Realization Laboratory. The Master's Thesis was titled 'Activity-Based Costing in Designing for the Life-Cycle', see Awards and Honors.  This thesis was also used as diploma thesis at the Norwegian Institute of Technology.  
bulletThe members of the Master Committee were:
bulletDr. Bert Bras (Assistant Professor, Mechanical Engineering),
bulletDr. Farrokh Mistree (Professor, Mechanical Engineering) and
bulletDr. Daniel P. Schrage (Professor, Aerospace Engineering). 

1990 - 1994: Sivilingeniør i Maskinteknikk, Norges Tekniske Høgskole

bulletThe degree 'Sivilingeniør i Maskinteknikk' with specialization in design.  
bulletThe Diploma Thesis  - Activity-Based Costing in Designing for the Life-Cycle - focused on Life-Cycle Costing and Life-Cycle Analysis in the context of design.
bulletThe last 18 months was taken at the Georgia Institute of Technology, Systems Realization Laboratory, Atlanta, Georgia, USA.

1988 - 1990: Spjelkavik Videregående Skole, Ålesund.  Exam Artium in Science.

 

Work Experience

1987 - 1994: Tafjord Kraftselskap AS, Ålesund, Norway.

bulletSummer job over eight summers (one year combined). 
bulletMaintenance work related to power stations and the associated power lines. 

1996                Møre Research Ålesund

bulletMade a Life-Cycle Costing (LCC) model for forecasting and simulation of hull and propulsion machinery for a platform supply ship owned by Farstad Shipping ASA.
bulletI was fortunate to use this work towards my Ph.D. degree.

1996  - 1999:  Stokke Fabrikker AS, Ålesund, and Westnofa Industrier AS, Åndalsnes

bulletHired to make Activity-Based Costing (ABC) models that later were expanded to become Activity-Based Cost and Environmental Management models. 
bulletI was fortunate to use this work towards my Ph.D. degree.

1999  - 2001:  Considium Consulting Group AS, Oslo

bulletPosition: Partner.
bulletConsulting based on my Master's Thesis and Ph.D. work, see work areas.
bulletMajor projects;
bulletBusiness analysis/development of a new company between Telenor and NRK that will be a digital TV wholesaler. As of today this project is discussed in the Norwegian Parliament due to the market dominance of both Telenor and NRK.
bulletActivity-Based Costing and Economic Profit analysis for automotive parts manufacturer.
bulletActivity-Based Costing at ABB Electric A/S in Denmark.
bulletBusiness analysis of capturing customers from competitors in the Scandinavian Cable TV and SMATV industry.

2001-2003:  Det Norske Veritas (DNV) Consulting, Oslo

bulletPosition:  Management consultant.
bulletConsulting based on my Master's Thesis and Ph.D. work, see work areas.  I have also expanded my knowledge base into the domain of qualitative risk management. 
bulletMajor projects;
bulletIntegrated cost and risk analysis of missile system development.
bulletRestructuring of Draka Norsk Kabel using Activity-Based Life-Cycle Costing.
bulletReorganization and downsizing of the support functions at the Norwegian Defense Research Establishment. 

2003-now:  Stokke Gruppen AS Skodje/Fora Form AS, Ørsta

bulletFirst position: Project leader. 
bulletVarious improvement projects in production, cost management and product development including a major position in planning and implementation of a new factory. 
bulletSecond position: Senior Vice President of Manufacturing. 
bulletAfter Stokke Gruppen AS was split in three companies, I was offered the position as Senior Vice-President of Manufacturing for Fora Form AS and I accepted.  In this position I am responsible for manufacturing, logistics and procurement and reports to the CEO. 

2007-now: Ulstein Verft AS, Ulsteinvik

bulletSenior Vice-President of Production.
bulletResponsible for production in Norway (Ulsteinvik and Vanylven) and abroad (Poland and Ukraine).

2003-now:  Emblemsvag Management Consulting (EMC), Ålesund

bulletVarious projects on strategy, risk management and cost management.  Customers include Kongsberg Maritime and Bravida Norge AS.
bulletGive talks and seminars on numerous subjects.  Customers include NSFkan and Hjellegjerde.

 

Military Service - HMKG Drill Platoon 1995

bulletBasic training on Evjemoen and HMKG Huseby.  Chosen for the Drill Platoon to represent Norway and the Army in Norway and abroad. 
bulletMilitary rank: Corporal.
bulletLife-time member of North Dakota National Guard 164th Engineering Battalion.

 

Selected Awards and Honors

  1. Awarded "Kongeskipet NORGE og ABB Miljø Norsk Viftefabrikk's Miljøpris 1995" by Queen Sonja of Norway for the best environmentally focused thesis in 1994/1995 at the Norwegian Institute of Technology in June 1995. Along with the honor came NOK 25 000. 
  2. Awarded in November 1995 a Ph.D. Scholarship from the U.S. - Norway Fulbright Foundation for Educational Exchange to take a Ph.D. at the Georgia Institute of Technology from fall 1996 to fall 1997. The scholarship was worth NOK 110 000.
  3. Awarded the prize "Beste Drillgardist 1995" in the Drill Platoon at HMKG by the president of the Norwegian Drill Guard Association during the final concert of the HMKG Drill Contingent in Oslo Concert Hall on December 3. 1995.
  4. Awarded in May 1996 a Ph.D. Scholarship from The Research Council of Norway to take a Ph.D. in design at the Georgia Institute of Technology from fall 1996 to fall 1999. The scholarship is worth over NOK 900 000.
  5. Awarded Out-of-State-Tuition-Waiver by George W. Woodruff School of Mechanical Engineering.  Such awards are given to 'a limited number of academically outstanding nonresident full-time students for waiver of non-resident fees'. The award is worth more than USD 6 000 per year.
  6. Chosen for 'Who's Who Among American Students in 1998'.
  7. 'Highly Commended' Award in the 2003 volume of Journal of Quality in Maintenance Engineering for a paper co-authored with Leif Tonning.   

 

Selected Publications

See Publications for abstracts from some of my main publications. 

Books

  1. Emblemsvåg, J. and B. Bras (2000). Activity-Based Cost and Environmental Management: A Different Approach to the ISO 14000 Compliance. Kluwer Academic Publishers, Boston. pp. 317. ISBN: 0-7923-7247-6. 
  2. Emblemsvåg, J. (2003). Life-Cycle Costing: Using Activity-Based Costing and Monte Carlo Methods to Manage Future Costs and Risks. John Wiley & Sons, New York. pp. 320. ISBN: 0-471-35885-1.   This book is also available as e-book.
  3. Emblemsvåg, J. (2008). Flodbølger fra Åkneset: Før eller Senere - Tiltak eller Katastrofe. Kolofon Forlag, Oslo, pp. 193. ISBN: 978-82-300-0427-2.  This book is written in Norwegian.

Book Chapters

  1. Bras, B. A. and J. Emblemsvåg (1996). "Activity-Based Costing and Uncertainty in Designing for the Life-Cycle" - Chapter 19 in Design for X: Concurrent Engineering Imperatives, G. Q. Huang Ed., Chapman & Hall, London.
  2. Emblemsvåg, J. (2005). "From Hindsight to Foresight in Strategic Cost Management" - in Handbook of Business Strategy 2006, P. Coate, Ed., Emerald Group Publishing Limited, Bradford.
  3. Seepersad, C.C., Pedersen K., Emblemsvag J., Bailey R., Allen J.K. and F. Mistree. (2006). “The Validation Square: How Does One Verify and Validate a Design Method?” in Decision making in engineering design, K.E. Lewis, W. Chen and L. Schmidt, Eds, ASME Press, New York, pp. 303 - 314.

Theses

  1. Emblemsvåg, J. (1995). Activity-Based Costing in Designing for the Life-Cycle, Master's Thesis, The George W. Woodruff School of Mechanical Engineering, Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, Georgia, USA.
  2. Emblemsvåg, J. (1999). Activity-Based Life-Cycle Assessments in Design and Management, Ph.D. Dissertation, The George W. Woodruff School of Mechanical Engineering, Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, Georgia, USA.

Journal Papers with Referee

  1. Emblemsvåg, J. and B. Bras (1997) "A Method for Life-Cycle Design Cost Assessments Using Activity-Based Costing and Uncertainty".  Engineering Design and Automation Journal. Vol. 3, No. 4, pp. 339-354.
  2. Emblemsvåg, J. and B. Bras (1999) "LCA Comparability and the Waste Index". International Journal of Life-Cycle Assessments. Vol. 4, No. 5, pp. 282-290.
  3. Emblemsvåg, J. and B. Bras (2000). "Process Thinking - A New Paradigm for Science and Engineering." Futures. Vol. 32, No. 7, pp. 635 - 654.
  4. Emblemsvåg, J. (2001). "Activity-Based Life-Cycle Costing". Managerial Auditing Journal. Vol. 16, No. 1, pp. 17 -27.
  5. Emblemsvåg, J. and L. E. Kjølstad (2002). "Strategic Risk Analysis - a Field Version". Management Decision. Vol. 40, No. 9, pp. 842-852.
  6. Emblemsvåg, J. and L. Tonning (2003).  "Decision Support in Selecting Maintenance Organization".  Journal of Quality in Maintenance Engineering.  Vol. 9, No. 1, pp. 11-24.
  7. Emblemsvåg, J. (2003).  "The Green Invisible Hand".  Foresight. Vol. 5, No. 1, pp. 11-19
  8. Emblemsvåg, J. (2004). “Activity-Based Costing and Economic Profit – Why, What and How”. Cost Management (fmr. Journal of Cost Management). Vol. 18. July/August. pp. 38-46.
  9. Chobanyan, A. and J. Emblemsvåg (2005). "Drucker on Government, Politics, Economics and Society". Foresight. Vol. 7, No. 3, pp. 42-55.
  10. Emblemsvåg, J. and L. E. Kjølstad (2006). "Qualitative Risk Analysis - some problems and remedies". Management Decision. Vol. 44, No. 3, pp. 395-408.
  11. Rodríguez Rivero, E. J. and Emblemsvåg, J. (2007). "Activity-Based Life-Cycle Costing in long-range planning." The Review of Accounting and Finance Vol. 6, No. 4, pp. 370-390.

Conference Papers with Referee

  1. Emblemsvag, J. and B. A. Bras (1994). "Activity-Based Costing in Designing for Product Retirement". Proceedings 1994 ASME Design Technical Conference, DE-Vol. 69-2, B. J. Gilmore, D. A. Hoeltzel, D. Dutta and H. A., Eschenauer Ed., Minneapolis, American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME) pp. 351-362.
  2. Emblemsvåg, J. and B. A. Bras (1995). "The Use of Activity-Based Costing, Uncertainty and Disassembly Action Charts in Demanufacture Cost Assessments". 1995 ASME Advances in Design Automation Conference. Ed., Boston, Massachusetts, ASME, Sept 17 - 20, 1995.
  3. Emblemsvåg, J. and B. A. Bras (1997). "An Activity-Based Life-Cycle Assessment Method". 1997 ASME Design Engineering Technical Conference, Sacramento, California, ASME, Sept 14 - 17, 1997.
  4. Emblemsvåg, J. and B. Bras (1998). "Financial Analysis, Critical Assumption Planning and Uncertainty in Product Development". 1998 International Conference on Achieving Excellence in New Product Development and Management, Atlanta, Georgia. Product Development & Management Association (PDMA).
  5. Emblemsvåg, J. and B. A. Bras (1998). "ISO 14000 and Activity-Based Life-Cycle Assessment in Environmentally Conscious Design and Manufacturing: A Comparison". 1998 ASME Design Engineering Technical Conference, Atlanta, Georgia, ASME, Sept 14 - 17, 1998.
  6. Pedersen, K., J. Emblemsvåg, R. Bailey, J.K. Allen and F. Mistree (2000). "Validating Design Methods & Research:  The Validation Square". 2000 ASME Design Engineering Technical Conference, Baltimore, Maryland, ASME, Sept 10 - 14, 2000.

Other Publications

  1. Fet, A. M., Emblemsvåg, J. and Johannessen, T. (1996). Environmental Impacts and Activity-Based Costing during Operation of a Platform Supply Vessel. Ålesund, Norway, Møreforsking.
  2. Emblemsvåg, J. and B. A. Bras (1998). "Energy Accounting - A Step Towards Sustainability". The 42nd Annual Meeting of the International Society of Systems Sciences, Atlanta, Georgia, International Society of Systems Sciences (ISSS).
  3. Emblemsvåg, J. and B. Bras (1999). "Integrated Economic and Environmental Assessments Through Activity-Based Life-Cycle Assessments". The 1999 IEEE International Symposium on Electronics and the Environment, Danvers, Massachusetts.
  4. Emblemsvåg, J. And B. Bras (1999). "Integrating Economic and Environmental Performance Measurements Using Activity-Based LCA". Sixth International Seminar on Life Cycle Engineering, Kingston, Ontario, Canada, CIRP.
  5. Emblemsvåg, J. and B. Bras (2000). "Industry Experiences with Activity-Based LCA". Total Life Cycle Conference and Exposition (TLC), April 26-28, 2000, Detroit, MI. Society of Automotive Engineers (SAE). Ref. No. 2000 - 01 - 1464.
  6. Emblemsvåg, J. and B. Bras (2000). "Activity-Based Cost and Environmental Assessments". Proceedings 2000 ASME National Conference. Chicago, Illinois.
  7. Emblemsvåg, J. (2004). "The Darwinian Left - From Myth to Intellectual Hijacking." Futures. Vol. 36, No. 10. pp. 1117-1121. 
  8. Emblemsvåg, J. (2005). "Kicking away the Ladder: Development Strategy in Historical Perspective". On The Horizon. Vol. 13, No. 3. pp. 186 - 191.
  9. Emblemsvåg, J. (2005). "Business analytics: getting behind the numbers". International Journal of Productivity and Performance Management. Vol. 54, No. 1, pp. 47-58.
  10. Settanni, E. and J. Emblemsvag (2008). "Enterprise Input-Output Accounting: a non-deterministic approach". International Input-Output Meeting on Managing the Environment, July 9-11, Seville. 

Seminars and Workshops

Have been invited on several occasions to participate with reference to my Master- or Ph.D. work, amongst others:

bulletTaught a segment on 'Earned Value and Activity-Based Costing' in the National Center for Advanced Technologies (NCAT) workshop on Integrated Product and Process Design (IPPD) for the US Navy in October 1996 and February 1997. 
bulletHeld a two-day seminar for Alcatel Space Norway in December 2002 concerning project risk management. 
bulletSeveral speeches for Norske Siviløkonomers Forening (NSF) and Norsk Dataforening on Activity-Based Costing and economic analyses in various contexts.
bulletHeld several seminars for BI students on production and logistics.
bulletSubject Matter Expert (SME) at the Habitat JAM online discussion forum, December 2005. This online discussion is part of the preparations of the Canadian Government for the UN Habitat World Urban Forum (WUF) in June 2006 which will be held in Vancouver.

 

Additional Information

bulletStudent Representative (1991 - 1993) in the School of Mechanics at Norwegian Institute of Technology.
bulletRepresentative for HMKG Drill Platoon 1995. 
bulletFamiliar with the following software: Word, Excel and PowerPoint (for Windows and Macintosh), FrontPage and Crystal Ball.
bulletFluent in oral and written English in addition to basic German. 

 

Personal Interests

Play drums, wild life, photography, think and write and my old Harley-Davidson.

 

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