Emil Árnason

About me

I am a year old computer science student at the University of Iceland and I live in Garðabær, Iceland. I also lived in Montreal from 2020 to 2023. I play sports such as ice hockey, football and golf. I'm a hard worker, non-smoker with a clean criminal record.

Work Experience

Project manager in lawn mowing (Office job)

Garðlist ehf – Reykjavík (May 2021 – September 2024)

Training and surveilling staff, coordination of machinery, communication with customers. Surveilling project status
Assing tasks, completion of time reports and invoicing
Participated in development of web services and Power BI reports. Lit my interest to work in IT
Between 10-25% improvement in the department's success between years
Surveilled and coordinated snowplowing shifts during winter

Transcriber

Productive Playhouse – Los Angeles, CA (Feb 2022 – Júlí 2024)

Transcribed audio in Icelandic with the purpose of training a text-to-speech AI model

Lawn Mowing

Garðlist ehf – Reykjavík (May 2016 – August 2020)

Worked for a contractor in mowing public lawns
Made temporary project manager in 2019 and offered full time PM job in 2021

Salesperson

Heimilistæki – Reykjavík (October 2017 – June 2018)

On-the-floor sales associate for a home electronics store

Waiter

Kringlukráin – Reykjavík (October 2018 – March 2020)

Waited tables

Education

Computer Science BS

University of Iceland – Reykjavík (2022 - 2025)

College Diploma

Fjölbrautaskólinn í Garðabæ – Garðabær (2015 - 2018)

History BA (unfinished)

University of Iceland – Reykjavík (2020 - 2022)

Concordia University (exchange student) - Montreal (Fall term 2021)