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Los Angeles, Ca, Us

BootstrapLabs became part of Ares Management in February 2024.

San Francisco, Us

Building the startups that make up the operating system for work in the 21st century.

Agile coaching for business agility. Outcome oriented product development & OKRs.

Healthy Habits promotes innovations in health by helping entrepreneurs succeed.

Malmö, Se

We help entrepreneurs focus on growth using lean innovation and growth methods.

The Swedish Hacker News, a site for doers, hackers and entrepreneurs. Also hosting Hackernytt TV, a Swedish web TV show about startups.

The Frank Family is a full service communication agency with one foot in the future and the other firmly in your current business. Discover your future with us.

What started out as a blog has grown in to a consultancy business. I work with social media, startups and all things mobile - preferably all at once. I have also written book reviews and articles for various magazines and blog about agile business development at http://blog.opportunitycloud.com.Project done during 2008-2010 include:Built a Facebook app, a social ecommerce store for selling makeup for a large global brand.Built a website in Wordpress for a Swedish publishing house.Assisted a mobile cross platform tools vendor in social media activities, recorded Youtube videos and used Twitter to build a community.Hosted a seminar about the school of the future.Community Manager for Sony Ericsson Developer World. Work included advising when upgrading the web site, building the community using the online forums and social media such as Twitter, blogs and Youtube. Launched the Developer World blog and the sonyericssondev Twitter account.Development of mobile application using the Mosync IDE (C++/JBoss SEAM/Java).Development of a mobile web service for a Swedish televion cable broadcaster (Java) as a subcontractor to MobileTech in Stockholm.Developed a business plan for a white label mobile app store.Development of a mobile app, a Java ME streaming audio player for a startup.

Se

With Startup Garage I have:Co-founded the Startup Dojo in Malmö.Co-organized and hosted a "Startup Sweden" weekend with 60 participants.Co-organized Startup Weekend Lund & Stockholm.Hosted Startup Weekend Stockholm.Hosted a "Mobile Pitch", Dragons Den-like session with a panel of venture capitalists and entrepreneurs pitching their ideas.Hosted informal Venture Capital meetups with entrepreneurs.Designed and built a startup analytics tools (Drupal).Designed and built the Startup Garage web site (CakePHP).Developed a business plan and investment memorandum for a seed stage startup accelerator.

Stockholm, Se

Projects include:Breakfast seminar about the Connecta Digital Maturity Model and how successful companies organize themselves.CMS evaluation, architecture and development for an intranet in a large, global corporation with high demands on performance in a challenging network environment. The platform of choice became Drupal.Part of multi channel digital strategy for a major Swedish insurance company. My focus was on mobile.Web analytics improvements for an online video store.Implemented changes for a large Swedish online store to improve SEO. The implementation included MongoDB and a Java servlet.Wordpress site development.Drupal site built from scratch. Developed necessary modules and themes, set up servers and tweaked performance.Development of Android application for travel booking.

GlocalReach is an innovation company within web and voice communication. We are building a communication platform that will help you manage how people can reach you. GlocalReach builds a service for efficient and personal Reach Management. The value proposition of the service is to be available for relevant calls and message while preventing disturbing phone calls and messages when your attention is needed elsewhere.GlocalReach is essentially offering the ability to manage and prioritize interruptions, and to be reachable, but not disturbed.My work for GlocalReach involves business development, project management as well as the actual development of the service using technologies such as JBoss Seam (J2EE/EJB), Hibernate, MySQL, Asterisk and XHTML/CSS. Project management is done using an agile process influenced by Scrum. At most there's been 6 people involved in the project, half of them placed in India.

Minato-Ku, Tokyo,, Jp

Working with strategy and requirements for the mobile platform. Managed the technical roadmap for the blogging feature in the phone as well as for the Java platform. Was part of the JSR290 standardization group.Technologies I worked with included MIDP/CLDC, MMAPI (JSR135 and JSR234), Location API, Mobile Service Architecture (JSR248), 3D API (JSR184), DRM and just about everything you put in a modern mobile phone that can be accessed from Java.

Minato-Ku, Tokyo,, Jp

Developed the Sony Ericsson J2ME SDK. Integrated it with Eclipse, improved quality and added new features. Initiated the development for jUnit Mobile for Sony Ericsson devices.

Different consulting jobs as a developer. Mostly within the areas of EDI and intranets. Worked with the Microsoft.net platform. Technologies included: C, C#, VB.net, XHTML/CSS, Biztalk, MS SQL and ASP.net.

System architect for a content management system built in java.

Various consulting assignments, including: Development of a mobile internet WAP site at Aspiro.Requirements engineering and technical project management at Telias mobile portal Speedy Tomato. C++ development for a billing-solution for Ericsson.I also participated in a strategic working group within the office.

Founded the company and was a member of the board. The company had 7 employees.Built a web portal for Telia in CGI/C++/SQL (Oracle) as a subcontractor to Netch in Lund.The company was acquired by Kipling in 2000.

Founded the company and did consulting assignments for the Swedish Navy in Karlskrona (C++/MFC), an internet based content management system for a Swedish foundry organization and for Ericsson with C++ programming for their WAP-server.

Master, Software Engineering

Master, Entrepreneurship