About Fini A. Alring
Internet Application Engineer
Contact Information:
Fini A. Alring
Øster Søgade 108, 2
DK-2100 Copenhagen
+4535556431
Professional Overview:
More than 18 years of experience with software development, over 30 years experience with life.
Located in wonderful Copenhagen, Denmark.
I am the owner and co-founder of Bytefarmers.com, and it’s IT consulting and development company by the same name.
I have great experience with large IT solution projects, ranging from global corporate websites, portals, search & digital identity to telecom integration solutions, financial web services, mobile content aggregation and transaction systems, frameworks for enterprise class web application interfaces.
I have been building content management platforms since 1995, mainly based on Java and JavaScript architecture, with high focus on security, usability and extensibility.
Other than that I am always doing a dozen of personal projects, when I have some “spare” time.
Personal life goal(s):
Find ways to improve society by innovation, inspiration and education in the fields of information technology.
Check my weblog, it contains my publicly released software and tech/science news which I find interesting, as well as the direct outlet of my personal opinions on everything..:
http://www.bytefarmers.com/log
Specialties:
Web Solutions, Software Development, CMS, GUI, Java (J2EE, J2SE, J2ME, JSP), ECMAScript, JavaScript (JS), XSL, XML, CSS, DOM, XHTML etc… oh and bla bla bla 
Experience:
Owner, IT Consultant
Bytefarmers (Self-employed)
Jun 2001 – Present
Internet Industry
My consulting and development company, developed various CMS / WEB / MOBILE products and a host of customized applications for large and medium-sized companies.
Clients include: Deducta, Orange, Mezzo Media, Coloplast, Renault Denmark, Orion Infomation Services, Danish Distillers, Gyldendal.
Senior Developer
Deducta Technology
Oct 2007 – Present
Management of Outsourced Projects, Developing Web Services and Sites. Technical Advisory, Web Analytics implementation specialist (Omniture).
Software Developer
ZYB ApS
Feb 2007 – August 2007
Mobile Social platform and contact backup and synchronization.
Software Developer
Jubii A/S
Nov 2006 – Jan 2007
Write custom stuff for the portal primarily in JavaScript on .NET platform.
Software Developer
Bankernes EDB Central (BEC)
July 2006 – August 2006 (2 months, short freelance contract)
Create, Test and document XML Interfaces for a J2EE web banking system.
Software Developer
Global Biodiversity Information Facility (GBIF)
Internet Industry
November 2005 – May 2006
Developing GBIF Data Portal, a portal for taxonomic species & observational data such as information about plants, animals, insects, bacteria etc. My primary tasks are user interfaces and task oriented design. As well as data formats and similar issues.
Data is collected from 100+ organizations, universities primarily via Web Services, 100+ Billion records.
The portal project and it’s subprojects will be released under an open source license by GBIF. The project is created using Java and open internet standards (XHTML, CSS, JS, XML, AJAX, RDF, Schemas, XSL, Web Services).
Software Developer
Valtech
May 2005 – Sep 2005
Information Technology and Services Industry
Attached to System Development and Frontend Departments, primarily working on a large financial website.
Software Developer
Unwire
May 2004 – May 2005
Mobile Internet Solutions / SMS / MMS Gateway Services / Content Aggregaiton Systems, Mobile Video / Gaming etc…
Software Developer
Orange Denmark A/S
September 2002 – January 2003 (5 months)
Worked as a IT consultant, and developed a very advanced web frontend system for the management of the companies customer subscription system using my own xml parsers and a cutting edge AJAX framework.
Software Developer
Orion Information Systems
March 2002 – October 2002 (8 months)
Created a frontend system for a Web / SMS based dating service, made two major design revisions, and a number of localizations.
Software Developer
Speednames
June 2001 – August 2001 (3 months)
Worked on Digital Identity project for some months, my task was mainly to make an existing (very advanced) solution compatible with Netscape browsers.
I also created a regression test system for web frontends, written for MS Internet Explorer which supported https unlike most or all systems at the time.
Software Developer
MasterSeek
January 2001 – April 2001 (4 months)
Great potential, but the company filed for bankruptcy some months after I started ;(
Software Developer
Framfab / Networkers
March 1998 – December 2000 (2 years 10 months)
Internet Technology Specialist, gained a lot of expertise in Frontend development and User Interface. It seems like I was involved in just about every framfab project in denmark during those years.
Software Developer
NetMedia Technologies
January 1996 – February 1998 (2 years 2 months)
Among the first online Agencies in Denmark.
Some clients I have worked for:
- Corporate
- McDonalds
- Gyldendal
- NetMedia Technologies A/S.
- Novo Nordisk Corporate Sites
- TDC Corporate
- Consumer
- Kelloggs.dk
- Libero.dk
- Magasin.dk
- Mazda.dk
- Fona.dk
- Renault Sport (dk)
- Nike (global)
- Sony Electronics
- Financial
- Danske Bank
- Nordea Bank
- Sydbank
- BEC
- Friends
- PringleArt.com
- Industrial
- Coloplast Group
- Danish Distillers
- Maersk Sealand
- Internet
- CityLax.dk
- Cloneweb
- GameReactor (dk)
- Mufix.dk – Online Magazine (96/97)
- Novell – DigitalMe
- Orange Web Company
- Orion Information Services Inc.
- Speednames – Digital Identity
- SMSdaters (dk, uk, de, es etc.. – Now SmartFlirts)
- TDC Yellow Pages
- Mobile / Telecom
- Egmont
- Ericsson / SonyEricsson (global)
- Nokia (global)
- Orange Mobile
- Sonofon Mobile
- Switch Mobile
- Telia Denmark
- TDC Mobile
- Telnor Mobile
Note: that URL’s does not necessarily reflect the work done for the client.
