#MeetOurTeam – Ingrid

What does a typical workday look like to you?

A typical day for me starts with getting three children out the door before I head to the office. I like to have a number of meetings there, both formal and informal. I work with getting consultants out on assignments, coaching employees and following up on various administration tasks and finances. The rest of the time is spent coordinating, prioritizing and collaborating with other colleagues. I am lucky that I can also be in a customer facing role at the same time as I have a leadership role. This means that I stay up-to-date on the latest knowledge and ways of working, while at the same time I can actively contribute to Cegal's growth.

Which technologies do you work with?

I don't have a technical role so most of my time is spent in Teams, Office and e-mail. I use various collaboration tools such as Azure DevOps, Slack, Jira and Confluence when I am out with customers. In addition, you get a certain overview of different technologies when you work in IT projects.

What drives you at work and in your role, what's fun?

I really like it when I see the fruits of good cooperation and that you get things done together. Then I feel a great sense of achievement!

Ingrid

You are the team leader for "Team Avregningssystemer", can you say a little more about this?

I started as a team leader at Statnett one week after I started. This gave me two parallel digital onboardings, one in Cegal and one in Statnett. I have never worked as a consultant before and did not know much about the energy industry, so the learning curve has been quite steep! Fortunately, I have had patient team members who have explained to me what I have been wondering about. Many may have noticed that Erna Solberg and Angela Merkel opened the electricity connection between Norway and Germany. We were involved in this one! Those who work with grid settlement calculate and invoice various income and costs related to the power transmission. We in Team Avregningssystemer ensure that the IT systems to do this are in place. This requires both upgrades to the systems we have and the development of new solutions. The team has a DevOps approach and delivers continuously. Right now, power is being put on a new overseas connection between Norway and England, so developing IT solutions for this has been an important task in the team.

What is the best thing about working in Cegal?

I fell (head over heels!) for the infectious energy and commitment in Cegal.
I immediately felt that I want to be part of this!

Ingrid

Working in a company that is going places, forwards and upwards was also tempting. An appropriately large and flat organisation, variety in assignments and a focus on social responsibility also help to make Cegal an exciting place to work. 

Which Podcast is your favorite?

I usually listen to "Hele Historien" while doing the laundry. I like the format; documentary in several parts. They take up many exciting stories and they tell them in an engaging way. Can't fail to mention 

What is your favorite quote?

Eat the dessert first, you never know if you will survive the main course.

 Ingrid's father used this. It's about enjoying life here and now and not postponing the good things for "later".

Is there anything else we should know about you? 

I can tell you a funny story from when I met my husband. I met him on the Trans-Siberian railway! We had booked a trip through the same travel company and ended up in the same carriage together for six days. We traveled the route Moscow-Beijing and managed to get to know each other well during the crossing of Russia. We also stopped by Mongolia. There we took part in a guided tour in a huge national park and there we slept out on the steppes in traditional yurt, felt huts. After a few days in Beijing, he went home while I traveled on. The story could have ended here, but then something quite funny happened! A colleague of mine was in Mongolia a few years after we were there and told the guide that she was from Norway. Then the guide told about a Norwegian couple who had fallen in love on the train. My colleague told me that she knows them and that we were now going to get married! The guide was delighted and sent my colleague a miniature yurt and lots of good wishes. It's now over 10 years ago, but the story always makes me smile 🙂