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Anders Olsen

Curious frontend developer and UI designer.

Summary

I am excited about good usability and have worked on that and web related work for 25 years.

My skills range from frontend development and system design, usability, accessability and interaction design. You'll find me a good match for most things web.

Qualities I know people appreciate is my energy, engagement and creativity.

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Contact

Phone
(+46) 0704717624
Mail
andersnolsen@gmail.com
Adress
Svedalvägen 12,
12152 Johanneshov

Personal

Age
49
Nationality
Norwegian

Experience

Statistics Sweden (SCB)

Interaction and UX designer, frontend developer
2016-present6 years

Key role in the UX work and design for transformation of the main site, use of open data and publishing of statistic. Worked on design system and frontend development related to branding. Worked on visualisation capabilities and quality for SCB. Pivoted from design towards tech related strategies and frontend development.
  • Interaction and UX design for the website
  • Created a styleguide for SCB branding of the website.
  • Frontend development and design work on the statistical database
  • Design and development of SCB:s charts and tables.
  • Research and standarisation on usability and accessability for visualisations.
  • Frontend and design work for branding of SCB:s web applications
  • Team lead for the web team
  • ... and lots of other stuff

Styled UI interfaces for the statistical database purely by rewriting their CSS code. Considering that the HTLM was mostly untouched for 10-15 years I'm quite happy that it was even possible

Consid

Interaction and UX designer, frontend developer
2013-20163 years

Helped start Consids web branch in Stockholm. Responsible for building the initial team. First Stockholm based designer. Consulted on web sites for clients such as SCB, Läkemedelsverket and Utrikespolitiska institutet. Did frontend on Elsäkerhetsverkets site, awarded. Did UX for statistical literacy site Sweden in Numbers (SCB), awarded.
  • UX design for Vardgivarguiden, 13 healthcare sites merged into one
  • UX design for The Swedish Institute for International Affairs (UI); web site, online newspaper, store and pocket guide for travellers
  • UX design for statistic literacy site, Sweden in numbers, SCB. Awarded!
  • App concept for Thule stores
  • And others ...

Clients

Stockholm County administration (SLL), Thule, Miro, Utrikespolitiska institutet, Läkemedelsverket, SCB, Energimyndigheten, Giftinformationscentralen, Miroi, Santander Bank

Both Vårdgivarguiden and Utrikespolitiska Institutet are still in use today and true to the original concepts (The graphic design is noot my work).

    Mogul

    Senior developer, front- and backend development
    2009-20123 years

    Consulted on websites, intranets and web applications for clients like Handelsbanken, Atlas Copco, SLL and others. Lead developer on Moguls product; eParc CMS.
    • Started using UX methods on a regular basis
    • Lead developer, architect and interaction designer on companys own CMS product, eParc.
    • Created a self service booking system for SLL
    • Project manager on intranet project for Dometic.
    • Lead developer on Handelsbanken intranet
    • Discovered NodeJS and started monitoring Hacker News
    • And more...

    Clients

    Stockholm County administration (SLL), Atlas Copco, SKF, Handelsbanken, SEB, Dometic

    eParc CMS had WYSIWIG interface and component based page editiing before its competitor EpiServer!

    Strand Interconnect

    Senior developer, front- and backend development
    2008-20091 years

    Consulted on intranet and web applications. Engineered and developed a multi langual, personalized intranet for SKF.
    • Content strategies and semantics for world wide intranet solution. Personalized and multi langual, SKF
    • Redesign and frontend for workflow application, SLL
    • Created my first large JS library

    Clients

    SKF, Stockholm county administration (SLL)

    DL2 Consulting

    Senior developer, front- and backend development
    2005-20083 years

    Consulted on websites, intranets and web applications for clients such as SVT, Salvation Army and Red Cross. Engineered and developed the companies content management system (CMS).
    • Lead developer and architect on the companys CMS product
    • Lead developer on SVT:s contract system
    • Frontend for Salvation Armys main and local sites
    • Engineered application catalog to aid IT and user in merge of IF and Metal union
    • Create XML based templating system with Java parser
    • And much more..

    Clients

    Salvation army, Red cross, SVT, IF Metal, SEF

    Built CMS with templating and role based authentication in just 3 months (We didn't have frameworks at that time).

    Nordea, Norway

    Front- and backend developer
    1996-20059 years

    Worked extensivly on intranet and workflow related applications. Lead developer and architect for their multi site CMS and their main website.
    • Lead developer and system architect on Nordeas own CMS, external website and intranet.
    • Technical project manager on nordea.no development.
    • Worked on content and semantic strategies for the intranet.
    • Senior developer, analyst and system architect for workflow solutions
    • And tons of workflow related applications

    Created an automated workflow and CMS that let Nordea business customers get their own customer web in just 10 minutes. It would have taken seconds today but a big thing then.

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    FictionBoard, Pet project

    Everything
    2010-present12 years

    Web application for online tabletop RPG gaming

    My pet project has been a key driver in keep my technology skills sharp while doing design as a daytime job.

    The main goal of FictionBoard is to help speed up play and automate game elements when doing collaborative online storytelling.

    FictionBoard has started as a Backbone.js application and has been reweritten in: Knockout, Sails.js, Vue and lately Svelte.