Tim Alfredsson
Professional Status Freelancer
Job/Career Available
Freelancing IT/Web Consultant
These are my career goals:To manage/develop challenging external/internal Web and SharePoint projects for Windows, Linux, Macintosh & mobile environments.
To utilize my many years of experience in the IT industry in a supervisory position that leads to a management position.
To effectively manage an IT department or parts of it, combining strong analytical skills with business wisdom to positively contribute to organization’s bottom line.
Professional Experience
Web Consultant, iPhone App Developer
LucasFilm Ltd., San Francisco(9 months)
- I am contracted by LucasFilm Ltd./Skywalker Ranch Ltd. for developing a web trading place for movie merchandising. The main goal is to empower production admins and in the process make external partner orders easier.
May, 2010: The client was also interested in an iPhone App to extend their services, so I'm developing it for them during May.
IT-Consultant, Web Developer
CEAN Utbildning AB, Stockholm(January 2009 - January 2009)
- My assignment for CEAN, which primary business is to educate students in the therapeutic field, consisted of developing a new e-web site that connected to online business partners for revenue streams and customers. I also developed and implemented a school administration system.
Web/Multimedia Developer, Web Business Consultant, IT-Coordinator
Lightbulb Media Group, Stockholm/San Francisco(January 1995 - January 2009)
- Worked as a consultant through my own company on various projects. This company and freelancer collective was started as a side project but at times employed myself (and others) full time. I was working in Silicon Valley from late 1998 to 2001.
Web Developer: Development of company web sites for intranet and internet purposes.
Multimedia Developer: Development of Multimedia presentations for CD, CD-Card & DVD purposes.
Project Manager:
IT-Coordinator:
Chief Technical Officer
StayAt Hotel Apartments AB(August 2006 - October 2008)
- My assignment for Europe’s #2 hotel chain in the extended stay business was to make the IT-dept. more efficient and to architect viable, future safe systems and policies in order for the company to be able to outsource the IT-function later on. In order to achieve my goals I had to change everything from suppliers, partners to the entire IT-infrastructure. I had over 2000 analogue phone extensions that needed to be converted to IP telephony, in three countries working against a central server. I worked with a company based out of Istanbul, Turkey that had a solution for hotel IP-telephony that allowed us to do magic with the built in color touch-screen in each phone. I also needed to completely re-architect the data center hardware for our Oracle-based booking system (Opera). We went from just two to ten servers working in parallel in order to be able to cope with future demand.
I invented a self-check-in system that made it possible to decrease staffing by at least two employees per hotel. I also made it possible for all IT systems to be remotely controlled from a central location thus reducing the need for more IT staff and costly service trips.
I constructed their new intranet based on MOSS 2007 and I also developed a new web site. I often had the role of Project manager in their initiative to expand with up to 10 new hotels within a three year period. I was directly involved with defining the IT architecture for three new hotels.
I was very early with moving out storage and backup into the Cloud, which got noticed by Computer Sweden, where I was featured in a two-page article. During the autumn of 2008 I also moved out Customer Relationship Management into the Cloud. I tried to consolidate as many servers as possible into virtual environments. First using VMWare and later on with Hyper-V on Server 2008.
I finally outsourced the entire IT function to Relacom AB. I was responsible for negotiations and finally contracting the sourcing partner.
Computer Science Teacher
Västergårdgymnasiet (Teknikgymnasiet), Södertälje(January 2002 - January 2005)
- I was hired to teach various computer science classes such as Networking, C++/C#/PHP Programming, Web Design, Database Design, Network Administration and Communications. The following technologies were utilized in the process: Microsoft Windows, Windows Server, Exchange, SharePoint Server, Office, SQL Server, Cisco, MySQL, Dreamweaver, Photoshop and other vertical software. The most productive students were awarded a Microsoft Certification test oppurtunity at the end of their education. The school was cooperating with KTH/The Royal Institute of Technology in offering the Cisco based education.
I was also contracted to develop the school’s web site/intranet. This was based on the Joomla/Mambo PHP/MySQL Content Management System. Features included online courses, document management, forums, user home pages, teacher home pages, blogging, parent access and school administration.
IT Manager
The Rahmqvist Group, San Francisco/New York(January 1998 - January 2001)
- The Ramqvist Group (of Sweden) wanted to start a new venture in the USA. I was hired to help develop a new online sales channel which would boost business and help keep the number of employees down.
I developed strategies that boosted sales and also empowered customers in learning how to use the products thru web tutorials. The web site had a community feature which allowed customers to exchange knowledge between themself and at the same time had access to a network of professional office organisers.
Technical Sales Support, Customer Training, Floor Sales
Datavaruhuset AB, Gävle, Sweden(January 1996 - January 1996)
- This was a temporary employment to cover a 60 MSEK PC computer deal and my work duties included technical sales support, basic PC knowledge training for 3000 customer employees and software/hardware installations. This employment involved travel to almost every (remote) part of Sweden where I held my day-long training seminars.
IT Support, Hotel-TV development
Hotel Hundfjället, Sälen Ski Resort, Sweden(January 1994 - January 1995)
- I worked with basic internal IT support and was also responsible for external support for clients like Volvo during their visit. I also developed a Hotel-TV information system based on the Norwegian Scala system.
Bartender
Hotel Bügelhof, Sälen Ski Resort, Sweden(January 1991 - January 1994)
- During the recession in the early 1990’s I took a break from the IT business and started working with tourism at the largest Ski-Resort in Sweden. I think that this was an excellent time to learn people skills and to forge my tolerant behavior towards challenging tasks and customers. During this employment I also worked part time as a Ski Instructor.
PC Technician
Copy Consult, Karlstad, Sweden(January 1990 - January 1991)
- Service & support on IBM PC’s and Canon copiers.
Grunt :)
I2/FO 52, Karlstad, Sweden(January 1989 - January 1990)
- 10 months of mandatory military service.
Business/Product Development
Companiondata AB, Karlstad, Sweden(January 1989 - January 1989)
- I was hired to help the company branch out into other areas than producing vertical software systems. Together with a Taiwanese company I created specifications for the world’s first portable and compatible Apple Macintosh computer which we later began marketing in the EMEA region. It would show later on that Apple Computer had used some of our ideas for their own laptop design.
I was also responsible for developing a cargo weight system for trucks. A truck drove on to a large scale which weighed the entire carriage before and after loading. The result was processed thru a database and the cargo buyer was billed accordingly. Developed in Royal Base.
PC-Store Manager, Business development
Rixerdata AB, Karlstad(January 1987 - January 1989)
- I was hired to start-up and manage a computer store for home and business computing. I selected a central urban location for the store and negotiated with different suppliers/manufacturers of computing equipment to start-up this successful venture which later on was incorporated as a separate entity and sold. The PC based Point-Of-Sale system was developed by me using the 4GL-language Royal Base.
