My Clients, Projects and Roles

Site Developer for the World's Top Cruise Line

A luxury cruise line needs a luxury web site. Rated the best cruise line in the world, Crystal Cruises' site had to have the highest possible quality.
Front-end programming of all pages (excluding Flash) done by Per Swantesson. Created 2009 in Los Angeles.

crystalcruises.com    Try the Voyage Finder

Development Manager for Vail Resorts' Five Sites

I had the role of the Interactive Manager, supervising the front-end team in Santa Monica and Miami and managing contractors. These premium ski areas owned by Vail Resort Management are located in Colorado and at Lake Tahoe in California, each of them requested a graphically and functionally complex new site. They were launched autumn 2009, complete with booking, video and drag & drop. They were developed with very large teams based out two continents and four cities.
Vail.com    Breckenridge.com   Beavercreek.com   Skiheavenly.com   Keystoneresort.com

Received Computerworld Honor Award for staralliance.com

Together with another site developer, I programmed the entire front-end for staralliance.com (excl. Flash). Project: Create the site for the world's largest airline network, with 400 millions flights annually, promoting their frequent flyer programs. AJAX was done by hand in JavaScript, without a framework. It received Computerworld's Honors Award 2007. Team was based in Munich. staralliance.com

Front-End Architect for Intuit Payment Solutions

2008, I was front-end arch and site developer for Intuit (on Nasdaq) and their product site for Payments. I also was their photographer of business situations (like paying in a café) and took equipment shots. The site was created in Los Angeles.
Intuit Payment Solutions   Example of Detail Page

Set-Top-Box Application Developer for Germany's Largest Video-on-Demand Provider MAXDOME

I was a user interface developer and performance engineer for the Maxdome set top box 2007-2008, a DSL Windows CE box with embedded TV card, browser and media player. The whole app was designed in regular HTML, CSS and JavaScript to be operated with remote control from your TV couch. Most on my work was spent optimizing the DHTML app for performance. Team was located in Munich. Maxdome.de

Lead Front-End Developer for Vodafone's Main Sites in 7 Countries and Languages

For several years I worked on a range of projects for Vodafone. I was lead developer and front-end architect for vodafone.de (Germany) which was then used as template for all Vodafone's main sites in local languages. Other projects for Vodafone included GUI design and development for best selling 3G related computer products selling millions of units. I also created an intranet for vodafone.de content entry (CMS editor publishing) together with my team and did experimental "future-lab" work with MS WPF for a well known Vodafone desktop app.
vodafone.com   vodafone.de

Helpdesk App Lead Interactive Developer

What phone should I buy? What is the rate for calls to Spain? The T-Mobile Customer Care Intranet of 2004 was created to answer these and 1000s of other questions. I had the role of lead front-end developer. Intensive global distributed delivery was practiced with very large teams.

Created the Most Visited Site in Europe - 6M Visitors a Day

2001 and again 2003, I was interactive developer track lead for T-Online.de, Europe's most visited portal with (at that time) 6 million unique visitors per day. Many other projects for T-Online followed, for example the creation of Germany's first Video on Demand site 2002 that lead to a rise of the Deutsche Telekom stock the day of the launch. 2002 my team created the first Games on Demand site. 2004 we did a VoD set top box that was featured at the Cebit Expo by Microsoft, Fujitsu Siemens area and in the T-Online area. Many of these products and sites were featured on TV commercials and billboards.

Five Years of Product Development at Ericsson

As an employee at Ericsson of Sweden between 1995 and 2000, I designed and developed user interfaces for Ericsson's Prepaid System in both Java Swing and DHTML web apps. (Ericsson's Prepaid is used daily by tens of millions phone users). I was also responsible for the Ericsson's Mobile Positioning System GUI. This product can locate any GSM phone without GPS. It continues to save lives in its use by 911 and 112 services.