Roy Lachica, M.Sc.

Web developer/analyst

From Norway, born in 1975.

@roylac

Primary field of interests Web 3.0, Systems thinking, Knowledge Management, Semantic technologies, Systemic Innovation and Collective Intelligence.

Skills & Expertise: Consulting, Project management, Application development, Engineering, Concept development, Linked Data, Open Data, Semantic technologies, Social Media, Collaborative online systems, Problem solving, Requirements gathering, Analysis, Workshop facilitation, Strategic planning, System design, Research and development, Testing.

Current position

Senior developer, Induct Software AS, Oslo, Norway.

Current research activities

Koios a Web 3.0, research 2.0, civic web, societal collaborative systemic innovation problem solving platform.
koios.org (website)

Work experience

• Senior developer/project lead/analyst at Induct Software AS, 2012-present
• Senior developer at Webnodes, 2011-2012
• Consultant at Bouvet, 2007-2011
• Advisor and project lead. Medical Informatics. Rikshospitalet University Hospital, 2005-2007
• Lead webmaster. Telemedicine. Radiumhospitalet (Comprehensive Cancer Centre), 2004-2005
• Self-employed manager of webdevelopment firm Hyposoft, 2002-2008
• Consultant, software engineer, Osiris data AS, 1998-2002

Education

• Master of Informatics 2007 UIO/IFI University of Oslo. Part time. Thesis project: (www.fuzzzy.com).
• Bachelor in computer science 1999 HIO/IU Oslo University College, faculty of engineering.
• Electronics and computer hardware technician 1996, Sofienberg tekniske fagskole.

Selected publications and presentations

• Lachica, R. (2010). GopherMap.com Azure cloud computing social media mashup demo. (Slideshare)
  Experiences, tips and tricks developing web apps for Windows Azure. Presentation at Norwegian .Net user group meeting, February 23. 2010
• Lachica, R. (2009). Social Semantic Web and Ontology Design. (Pdf)
  Guest lecture at IFI, University of Oslo.
• Lachica, R. (2008). Manifesto Prospectus Omniscious Commodum (DRAFT) Requirements specification for Web3.0 Complex problem solving service.
  Draft manuscript for Knowledge Federation 2008
• Lachica, R. and Karabeg, D. (2007). Towards holistic knowledge creation and interchange Part I: Socio-semantic collaborative tagging. Proc. Third International Conference on Topic Maps Research and Application, Leipzig. Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence, Springer: Berlin.
• Metadata Creation in Socio-semantic Tagging Systems (Pdf)
  TMRA 2007 conference presentation.
• Quality, relevance and importance in Information Retrieval with fuzzy semantic networks (Pdf)
  TMRA 2008 University of Leipzig LIV series post-proceeding Paper.
• Knowledge Federation as a Principle of Social Organization of Knowledge Creation and Sharing (Pdf)
  Proceedings of the First International Workshop on Knowledge Federation, Dubrovnik, Croatia, October 20-22, 2008, http://ceur-ws.org/Vol-552

Other hobby projects

• BobsDB.com - Bob's online activity database.

Other community work

• TaeKwonDo instructor (Volunteer) Grorud Tkd klubb, 2002-2011

Other achievements

• Climbed The Matterhorn (4478m), 2012

Photos

Contact

Roy Lachica
Cell phone: +47 98 019 019
mail: roy( a t )hyposoft.no
Google+ Google Profile
Blog: fuzzzyblog
Twitter: @roylac
Facebook: Roy Lachica
RDF: FOAF profile
LinkedIn: LinkedIn profile
Homepage: roy.lachica.no
Aerial videos: Filming fra luften

Last changed: July. 2012