Joel Finnström

Now available for work in Stockholm.

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Joel Finnström
Creative Director at TeliaSonera
Marketing and Advertising | Gothenburg, Sweden, SE

Summary

I've been working with the web for the last decade and have a track record of creating great experiences ahead of the curve for companies such as Nokia, Husqvarna, Volvo and many more.

My key strength is my ability to bridge between technical, business and user requirements of a project. I'm used to guide projects all the way from early user research to finished code. A normal workday for me means doing wireframes in the morning, project management over lunch and digital strategy in the afternoon.
Specialties: User experience, Digital business strategy, Web technology, Advertising principles, Project management, Service design,

Experience

  • Dec 2011 - Present
    Creative Director / TeliaSonera
    Modifies, improves and evolves the digital consumer experience for all digital channels at Telia. Works daily with telia.se, our mobile apps and TV interfaces. Awesomely inspiring!
  • Jan 2011 - Present
    UX Lead / Cordovan Communication
    Takes care of the agencies UX needs, from the first meetings with the client to the last line of frontend code. Works daily with a mix of pure coding, user testing and sketching in Balsamiq. Hands on at its best.
  • Nov 2009 - Present
    Senior Prototyper and Senior UX specialist / Nokia
    Played one of the core roles in the international team that created the Ovi Experience SDK, a Javascript based UI and app framework. My key responsibilities included the motion UI and to work across services (Nokia Maps, Store, Music) to make sure they all aligned and conformed in terms of UI and technical setup. Thanks to my technical background I often bridged between our technical, design and business teams.
  • Mar 2008 - Present
    Conceptual Programmer / Stendahls.net
    Worked mainly with Flash(AS3) and created global campaigns for brands such as Husqvarna, Jonsered, Volvo and many others. After a while I became the lead developer for all AS3 projects and managed to raise the coding quality of our projects quite heavily by introducing OOP concepts and basic design patterns.
  • Apr 2007 - Present
    Frontend Developer / Webbhuset
    This position gave me great knowledge about creating great e-commerce websites. Together with a small team of developers we created a large number of webshops and helped small businesses grow online.
  • Jun 2005 - Present
    Webdesigner / Linköpings universitet
    At LiU I worked with everything from marketing campaigns to maintaining the website. In 2006 we did a redesign of the whole site, I created the visual design and developed all frontend code. I especially focused on making the website accessible by WAI standards and as a result www.liu.se became one of the few fully accessible websites at the time.
  • 2004 - Present
    Owner / Joel Finnström media production
    Managed my own company for a couple of years. The client list consisted of companies like Vivendi Universal, CDON/MTG, EastSweden, Eckerud Scandinavian Group and many others.
  • Aug 2004 - Present
    Assistant Professor / Linköpings universitet
    Worked as assistant professor in hypermedia at the Culture, Society and Media Production Programme in Norrköping
  • Aug 2004 - Present
    Museum Director / IT-ceum
    Together with my collegues Magnus Johansson and Peter Blom I started IT-ceum, swedens first computer history museum. For more info see http://www.itceum.se
  • Jan 2003 - Present
    Media Producer / The Röhsska Museum of Design and Decorative Arts
    Worked with several projects within the museum, both for the website and different exhibits.

Education

  • 2000 - 2004
    Linköpings universitet
    bachelor in media production, sociology, new media studies

Additional Information

Websites:
joelfinnstrom.se
Honors:
- Top rated university website by swedish magazine Internetworld (10/2006) - Top ranked by VERVA(www.verva.se), 2 times - Best swedish university website by Cybermetrics Research Group, 6th in europe, 59th in the world (http://www.webometrics.info/index.html) - Nominated for "Gyllene moroten" - award given by the students every year for best lecturer at LiU
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