Carl Hasselskog

Degoo Media AB

Founder - Stockholm

I started this company at the age of 16 and have been running it since then. At the start the company's main business was selling advertising space through the web site degoo.com. I developed and ran the web site on my own and before the platform was sold to the American company 10Pays at the end of 2003, it had attracted around 100 000 members and, according to ranking.com’s web ranking, was ranked among the 500 largest web sites in the world. I ran the web site on my own and was responsible for everything from customer support to server administration and programming.

Apart from this I have, among other things, done the following:

• Designed the logotype for an EU project called Octopus, a video editing company called Isabel Produktion, as well as Degoo.
• Written an article about PHP security for the Swedish magazine Datormagazin
• Created the chat robot Ebba, which is a virtual human being based on open source code which ties in with 3D facial animations, speech synthesis, Artificial Intelligence Markup Language (AIML), as well as functionality for solving numeric IQ tests.

HQ Bank

Developer - Stockholm

My main responsibility at HQ Bank is the development of the company's web sites (www.hq.se and the internal web). In addition to that I have deloped many internal applications. For example:

• A system for reconciliation and update of bond exchange rates in the BackOffice system.
• A system for the management of new issue of shares. The system manages everything from sales notes to the money transaction itself, and has so far been used for many new issues of shares which have all been worth millions.
• An automated agreement generator which generates the agreements that need to be signed when a new customer is registered. Which agreements need to be generated is based on a set of queries stored in a tree structure in an Microsoft SQL Server-database and can easily be administered through a web-based administrative interface with drag-and-drop support.

BlueSpotter

Stockholm

BlueSpotter is a patent-pending software system for the identification of in-store customers, which I have invented and developed on my own. The system is ready for production and several major banks and queue management companies have already shown great interest.