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Tech, people, product and design, diversity and inclusivity advocacy, the usual stuff.

A nordic consultancy firm with an experimental autonomous culture, helping clients build and launch new services working towards R&D and X departments. Creating and evolving pilots and first versions with a heavy focus on co-creation. Diversity was one of their core strengths.The work I primarily did with clients:- Full-stack development focused on front-end- Tech lead stuff- UI/UX designBut I also did and/or help out with:- Concept and ideation- User research- Sales and proposal- Recruiting- Team planning- Technical project management- MentoringOutside of client work I also dabbled with:- Sweden representative of our global Accessibility Council, knowledge sharing, supporting internal initiatives and org support- Participate in and support DEI (Diversity Equity Inclusivity) related topics and trainings- Skyddsombud (Office Safety Representative) working with physical and mental work environmentClients I worked with:Santander Consumer Bank, Telia, Bromma.

We were a super merge of wonderful talent and inspiring people. During my short time here I did front-end lead and development, full-stack development (nodeJS + headless) with a heavy focus on front-end but also team coaching, teaching, user research.Clients I worked with:Santander Consumer Bank, Astrid Lindgren Co, Skanska.

We were a digital design agency helping clients out with the full process from idea/business case, through all design and development phases.We heavily employed design thinking in all our work and had a mindset where development was not separate but part of the design work, increasingly involving developers into the design work and were very early adopters of design systems. We used the title Design Technologist to describe our hybrid tech focused yet design centric roles.Our tech community was heavily invested in accessibility, open source platforms and minimalistic frameworks and dev practices.What I primarily did:- Front-end (lead) development with a heavy focus on design systems- Backend development primarily in NodeJS- Tech advisory- Tech community and competence lead stuffBut also did:- UI/UX design- Prototyping- Concept and Ideation- Design system management- User research- UX copy- Teaching/Mentoring- Recruiting- Sales and proposal work- Technical project managementClients I worked with:Naturvårdsverket (Swedish Environmental Protection Agency), Skanska, Qliro, Marginalen Bank, Skolverket (Swedish National Agency for Education), Poolia, Systembolaget, Handelsbanken, Almega, Filippa K, If insurance, Tjejjouren.se.

Co-organised and planned, teached evening classes within web development.

A creative advertising and communication agency helping clients connect with their customers through empathy and fun and disruptive ideas. Regardless of specialisation we were all involved in the creative ideation process.What I primarily did:- Front-end development, both websites and campaigns- CMS templating in Wordpress and Drupal- Back-end development in PHPBut also did:- Advertisement and communication concept ideation - Flash development- Mentoring/TeachingClients I worked with:Hertz, Gröna Lund, Stockholm Film Festival, Notar, Rosa Bandet, Globe/EAG Arenas

Coding and designing web

Teached and held lectures about design tools (mostly Adobe suite) both for print and digital, also design theory such as typography, layout and image editing. Also helped build various internal web services and photographed and documented science conferences.