Per Ljungstrøm is a Network Systems Engineer for IBM in the Nordic countries, focusing on presales, architect designs, education, and network proof-of-concepts. He has 27 years of experience in Ethernet, WAN, and fiber communications, networking, VPN, firewall security, and data center design. He is certified and has experience with products such as Checkpoint, Cisco, BlueCoat, and F5. Per holds a Bachelor of Electronic Engineering degree from the Technical University of Denmark, and a second Bachelor of Information Technology degree from Niels Brock Copenhagen Business College. He is one of the inventors of the IBM BlueExpert community in IBM Europe, and has several inventions in the telephone and computer science field. He has also served for ten years as censor for graduating Bachelor of Information Technology students at different colleges and military schools in Denmark.