About

Norwegian living in Melbourne. I work in enterprise technology — currently at ServiceNow as a Senior Strategist, which means spending a lot of time thinking about how large organisations adopt and get value from technology platforms. That is the day job. This site is everything else.

This site

The content here spans a few distinct interests that don’t have much in common with each other except that they’re mine. There is no theme. The 4x4 section is a build diary for a heavily modified Land Cruiser. The 8-16bit section is C64 demos and retro computing. Posts is a mix of tech tools, terminal setups, and automation workflows. Travel is what it sounds like — a mix of work trips and personal ones. Photos is a visual record of some of it.

If you landed here looking for something specific, the navigation at the top will get you there faster than reading this page.

4x4 and overland

I have a 2014 Toyota Land Cruiser 79 Series that has been converted to a 6x4 — six wheels, two driven rear axles. It is paired with a Trakmaster caravan and set up for extended off-grid travel. The build has been going for a while and involves more fabrication and electrical work than I originally anticipated. Most of the modifications are documented in the 4x4 section, including a dual alternator install that took four days and several moments of genuine doubt.

The practical use for all of this is camping in the Victorian Alps, mostly around Hotham and the high country, and longer trips further afield when time allows.

Retro computing and demos

I grew up in the era of the Commodore 64 and have been coding on it on and off ever since. I am a member of DarkZone, a Norwegian demogroup founded in 1992, and release occasional C64 intros under the handle Agnostic. The releases are small — intros rather than full demos — put together in KickAssembler and released at Syntax, a demoparty held in Melbourne. You can run them in a browser in the 8-16bit section.

Beyond the C64, I collect hardware from the era — a MiST Multi System, Analogue consoles, and a few originals. The MiST was a 50th birthday present organised by my wife, which tells you something about both of them.

Tech and automation

Outside of work, I run a small self-hosted setup — a few servers, a Raspberry Pi, and more terminal configuration than is strictly necessary. I use Claude Code heavily for automating the kind of tasks that are too small to justify building a proper tool for but too repetitive to keep doing by hand: renaming screenshots, transcribing recordings, generating structured notes from raw content. A few of those pipelines are documented in Posts.

This site is built with Hugo and deployed to a Google Cloud instance via rsync. The Hugo section has notes on the setup.

Travel

Work takes me to the US fairly regularly — ServiceNow runs a sales kickoff in Las Vegas each January and there are client engagements across the Asia-Pacific region. I try to make something useful out of the travel when I can. Outside of work I have been to Japan, Morocco, Spain, and a California coastal road trip that was partially derailed by a closed highway but worked out regardless. Some of it ends up in Travel.

Career

2019
Senior Principal Strategist, Inspire Value — ServiceNow, Melbourne.
2018
Senior Director, Cloud Insight — Oracle, Australia.
2015
Director, Oracle Industry Strategy & Insight — Oracle, Australia.
2014
Head of IT Strategy & Architecture Planning — Axiata Group, Kuala Lumpur.
2012
General Manager, Transformation & BAU Architecture → Chief Architect & Head of BSS/OSS Architecture — Celcom, Kuala Lumpur.
2011
Director, Industry Strategy & Insight — Oracle Australia.
2011
Executive MBA — Rutgers Business School, Singapore and China.
2009
CIO — Computer Warehouse Group, Nigeria.
2009
Operations Architect and Operations Manager — MTN Nigeria, Lagos.
2008
Services Strategy & Planning — Sun Microsystems, Singapore.
2006
Asia/Pacific Managed Operations Delivery Manager — Sun Microsystems, Singapore.
2005
Advanced Services Integration Manager — Sun Microsystems, Australia.
2000
Senior Architect — Sun Microsystems, Australia.
1996
Support and Professional Services Consultant — Skrivervik Data, Norway.
1996
Programmer and Systems Analyst — Elanders Publishing, Norway.

Life

2025
Acquired Land Cruiser 79 Series converted to 6x4 — paired with a Trakmaster caravan.
2019
Committee member, Nissan 4x4 Club of Victoria. Settled in Mount Martha, Victoria.
2009
Lagos, Nigeria chapter.
2006
Based in Singapore.
2005
Moved to Melbourne, Australia.
2004
Son Nicolai born.
2003
Married Ann-Kristin.
2002
Daughter Thea born.
1997
Graduated BI — Bedriftsøkonom (Norwegian Business Economics).
1992
Joined DarkZone demogroup. Started releasing C64 intros under the handle Agnostic.
1972
Born in Oslo, Norway.

Find me

The social links in the footer cover most of it. For anything specific: jorgen@skogstad.com.