Master of Science (Economics and Business Administration): humanitarian, musician and geek. On this page you will find some information about me.
Contact details
- Email: johan@ehnberg.net
- Phone: +358503209688 (mobile)
- LinkedIn: http://www.linkedin.com/in/johanehnberg
Please feel free to contact me in English, Swedish, Finnish, German or French.
Curriculum vitae
My CV is available for download (Europass).
Humanitarian aid work
A key area of my professional life has been humanitarian aid work, including crisis management, disaster management, and development cooperation. My career started in disaster response and in mobilizing aid, and later on I still deploy where I am most needed. When not deployed, I run Molnix, a cloud company dedicated to saving lives with good software. In this context, my key expertise is in the intersection between humanitarian work, organization and management, human resources and ICT. To no surprise, our key product at Molnix is a human resource preparedness system called Rapid Personnel Manager.
Music and drama
The purpose of music is to reach into our mind in unique ways not possible otherwise. With that as my idea, I have participated in many, very different forms of producing music since childhood, ranging from classical music to jazz, electronic music and ambient. Most engagements have been in the space that bridges amateur and professional projects – and all of them to me represent the joy of expression. My main instruments are my voice, computers and synthesizers. In addition to performing, I enjoy composing and arranging music. Furthermore, I engage in theater productions, primarily musicals, music theater and opera.
Music arrangements
Some of the best received music arrangements I’ve created are listed below. Please reach out if you are interested in any of the them. Many require you to have a separate license.
- Sid Meier’s Civilization: Beyond Earth – The Future of Mankind SSAATTBB + drum or 4S4A4T4B + drum (Geoff Knorr, 2K)
- Louis Cole – Thinking SSAATB + various optionals such as beatbox and solos (Louis Cole, Songolo)
- Star Trek Strange New Worlds: Subspace Rhapsody – Status Report SMszATBarB + many solos (Tom Polce et al., Universal)
- Avalon – Voyage to Avalon SATB + solo (Kenji Kawai, Warner)
ICT and anything geeky enough
As a proponent of the idea of freedom through open source, I participate in several open source projects. However, coding is not one my strengths and I focus mostly on architecture and orchestration and sustainability. I have also been building low powered systems for quite a while, covering both hardware and software design for power efficient, durable and silent operation. Once again optimally, computers are best combined with music. Perhaps unsurprisingly, I also use a lot of digital tools to produce music. Check out some of my computer related stuff in the blog.
Studies
I have a degree from Organization and Management at Åbo Akademi University. The topic of my master’s thesis is “International civilian crisis response organization” and is based on a field study of the European Union Monitoring Mission (EUMM) in Georgia. The thesis is now available for download (in Swedish) and as a summary (in English). Published in CMC Finland Working Papers Vol. 3 No. 1/2009: Monitoring, Lessons Learned, Evaluation: How to measure Impact of (Civilian) Crisis Management? CMC Finland, Kuopio p. 93-100, ISSN 1797-1667 (PDF). Similarly, my bachelor’s thesis was about the challenges of organizing according to plan in a disaster response effort. The case for the study was a Red Cross Emergency Response Unit in Pakistan after the earthquakes in 2005.