About me

Hi! My name is Björn Gunnar Hreinsson and I am alot of things, but for now I am an electrician and a teacher at the Vocational school in Akureyri, Iceland. In the past I have also done alot of different things. I am an automechanic, I am licenced to drive anything on the road from motorcycles to busses, operate heavy machinery, I have worked as a plumber and all kind of different things. I there is a possibility that I can do it my self, that is always first choice.
On a more personal note. I am married (twice) and I have three kids with my first wife. My second wife has two kids and three grandkids so it´s a big family.

Education

As stated above, I have studied different things. In Iceland it is mandatory to go to school from the age of 6 to 16. Being from a small town on the east coast of Iceland, there were no opertunities to study more in town, kids would have to go away to get further education. I decided to go abroad and went to USA as a exchange student. It was not what I expected. I went from a town of 700 people to live on a hobby farm outside of a town of 300 people in Hanoverton, Ohio. But the school was out in the country and had approx. 1500 students. I was there for two years, 1988-1990.
When I came back to Iceland I went to a technical school in Reykjavík studying to become an electrician. I did not finish school and went to work different jobs. In 1996 I went back to school and became auto mechanic. In 2002 I went back to school to finish my electrician studies. Then I got my Master Craftmanship Diploma for both. Today I am licensed to work on both Low and High voltage. Then in 2019 I went to Univercity to get my teaching degree. Over the years I have completed all kinds of different courses and seminars and far from done.

Previous work/experiences

The FabLab Akureyri is located at my school and I have been there quite a bit for the last couple of years working on different things related to my classes. Making new projects for my students to work on and also in colaboration with the fab lab making electronic circuits with cnc machines. I have been drawing a little bit, 2D and 3D and I bought my own 3D printer last year.

Project A

The greatest project I have worked on was when an american business man was building a Lodge for a Heliskiing operation here in Iceland. I was in charge of all the electricity and electronics with 20 electricians I had to manage and keep busy. Since money was no object, making changes was no big deal and we had to do that all the time. .