Emil Erlandsson

Current

Area Manager at Purple Scout AB
Freelance consultant/author (Self-employed)

Past

Chief Technical Officer at Purple Scout AB
Group Manager at Purple Scout AB
Software Engineer at Purple Scout AB

SW Dev Consultant for Purple Scout AB at Freelance

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Education

Blekinge Tekniska Högskola

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Industry

Computer Software

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Emil Erlandsson’s Summary

Manager with a background in Software Engineering and as an author.

I started my professional experience with my own company creating small software projects and writing articles for a Swedish computer magazine called Datormagazin on the topics programming, open source and Linux.
After a couple of years it became more serious when my company (one man show) was hired to create a prototype for a brand new product for Purple Scout (back then a newly formed company). I created the initial prototype and it went well so after a couple of months I was hired as a full-time software developer for Purple Scout and moved to Malmö.
A year and a half later I got the title CTO and with that the responsibility for the company product portfolio and technical news coverage. I combined the tasks of software development consultant and CTO for almost a year.
In the beginning of 2007 Purple Scout performed a vast re-organization of the Malmö office and I started working full-time as CTO and group manager for one of three groups in the new organization.
As a result of our rapid expansion we had to once again change the organization in August 2007 and in this re-organization I got full responsibility for the Malmö branch office and left the responsibilities of the CTO behind.

Emil Erlandsson’s Specialties:

product strategies, technical pre-sales, project management, software engineering, requirements management, software design, staff management, sales, purchasing

Emil Erlandsson’s Experience

Area Manager

Purple Scout AB

(Privately Held; 51-200 employees; Computer Software industry)

August 2007 — Present (2 years)

Manager for one of Purple Scout's branch offices in Sweden. Responsible for local (Malmö/Skåne area) sales & business development operation, staff management/hiring and consultancy operations.
Freelance consultant/author

Self-employed

(Self-Employed; Myself Only; Computer Software industry)

June 2002 — Present (7 years 2 months)

I write articles for Swedish computer magazines (Datormagazin.se among others) on the subjects software engineering, open source and Linux in particular.
Chief Technical Officer

Purple Scout AB

(Computer Software industry)

February 2006 — August 2007 (1 year 7 months)

Managed the product portfolio of the company and technical strategies.
Group Manager

Purple Scout AB

(Privately Held; 11-50 employees; Computer Software industry)

January 2007 — August 2007 (8 months)

Managed (i.e. staff management) a group of up to 14 consultants. Day to day work tasks included: personell hiring, personal development talks, budget and planning, resource allocation.
Software Engineer

Purple Scout AB

(Privately Held; 1-10 employees; Computer Software industry)

October 2004 — February 2006 (1 year 5 months)

Developed software, mainly for the embedded market in C/C++.
SW Dev Consultant for Purple Scout AB

Freelance

(Privately Held; Myself Only; Computer Software industry)

August 2004 — October 2004 (3 months)

Implemented a prototype for a unit testing product targeted embedded systems. It was written in the programming language Perl for the Keil envionment.