Per Nilsson

Resume

Hello, I'm Per. I am a hybrid interaction designer-developer.

  • I write clean, maintainable code.
  • I enjoy responsibilities! I'm a great team leader and ideation facilitator.
  • I'm a fan of science and technology, and I really like learning new things.

Experience

Software Engineer, Zynga, Austin, TX
 2010 — Present

Unreleased title
Zynga Warstorm

  • Feature development (AS3/PHP) for a "Ville" genre game
  • Frontend (Flex, HTML/JS) and backend (PHP) feature development for a collectible card game (Warstorm)
  • Release engineering for Zynga's technology stack - wrote the production pull-deploy system for Warstorm
Web Developer and Information Architect, Challenge Games, Austin, TX
 2008 — 2010

Warstorm
MechDuels

  • Modeled screens, interactions and user flows for web-based games
  • Implemented rich frontends using HTML/CSS/JS and Flex
  • Developed backend logic with PHP/PSQL
Workshop Instructor, 911 Media Arts Center, Seattle WA
 2008
  • Developed and and taught an adult introductory course (5 sessions) on the Arduino physical computing platform.
  • Variations in student experience required individual tailoring and support
Sessional Instructor, Simon Fraser University, Vancouver BC
 2007
  • Designed and and taught an introductory course (11 sessions) in the Arduino physical computing platform
  • Supported students in production of deliverables
  • Critiqued students on deliverables
Freelance Web Developer
 2006 — 2008
  • Created Interactive widgets using asynchronous JavaScript and Google Maps API
  • Developed .Net site management and database structure for a travel picture website
  • Integrated technologies: C#, Ruby, HTML, CSS, Javascript and MySQL
User Tester, Shadowplay, University of Malmö, Sweden
 2005 — 2006

http://webzone.k3.mah.se/projects/shadowplay/

  • Conducted lab user tests under strict guidelines
  • Empirical tests of psychological effect of game lighting on players
Teaching Assistant, Java programming, University of Malmö, Sweden
 2005 — 2006
  • Prepared and executed lectures
  • Supported students individually in lab sessions

Education

B.Sc. Interaction Design
University of Malmö, School of Arts and Communication, Malm¨, Sweden 		2004 - 2007
Simon Fraser University, School of Interactive Arts and Technology, Vancouver BC2006 - 2007
Lund University, Faculty of Human Ecology, Lund, Sweden2001 - 2002
Uppsala University, dept. of Mathematics, dept. of Physics, Uppsala, Sweden1999 - 2000

Skills

Technologies

  • Semantic and standards-aware HTML, CSS, Flex
  • JavaScript, ActionScript 3
  • PHP, SQL
  • Whatever suits the task at hand: Bash, Ruby, Python, Processing, C#, Java
  • Physical computing with Arduino microcontrollers and basic electronics

Design

  • Multidisciplinary background gives me many ways to approach a problem
  • In design, I focus on the immediate user activity to achieve simplicity
  • I can draw, model and animate to communicate abstract ideas
  • Ethnographic research techniques
  • Participatory design techniques

Software

  • Efficient multi-platform OS user — Window-based and command-line
  • Comfortable with Apache webserver configuration in Linux/UNIX environment
  • Proficient in Photoshop CS5, Illustrator CS5, Flash CS5 and OmniGraffle 5
  • Working knowledge of InDesign, Dreamweaver, Visual Studio

Languages

  • I speak English and Swedish + some German and Spanish.

Exhibitions

Interactive

Light Collective, Co-Lab, Austin, TX
 2006
  • Exhibited piece: "Light Collective" immersive light installation. Physical component of independent film "Otis under sky"
  • Light installation made using electroluminescent wire and hundreds of fiber optic strands, controlled by a PD patch and Arduino
  • Pictures on Flickr
¿interactivos? Media Lab Madrid, Spain
 2006
  • Exhibited piece: XSense — wearable object featured on WMMNA and in the book "See Yourself Sensing" (Schwartzman 2011)
  • Design of sonar audio feedback system using Arduino
Implement! Malmö Tekniska Museum, Sweden
 2006
  • Exhibited piece: Samba Meeting — social percussion instrument
  • Development of concept
  • Building and deployment of interactive installation using Arduino and appropriated materials

Photographic

Beautiful Machine, Turku, Finland
 2005

Collaboration with Rachael Sage Payne telling a story in pictures. Opening exhibition for Studio Turku.

Stjärnbilder, Malmö, Sweden
 2004

A selection of my black and white photographs was exhibited for three weeks at Papa Luna Arts Club.

Contact

Per Nilsson | Austin, TX | per at sproutlab dot com | +1 (512) 550 7241

Per Nilsson | Austin, TX | per at sproutlab dot com | +1 (512) 550 7241