Erik Starck

Current

Business Bootstrapper at BootstrapLabs
Managing Director at GlocalReach Ltd
Consultant and Founder at Opportunity Cloud

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Past

Platform Planning at Sony Ericsson
J2ME SDK Developer at Sony Ericsson
Owner at SoftwareSweden.com

Java architect at Vioma
Developer, Requirements engineer at Kipling Mobile Business
Founder, Developer at Essentor AB
Founder at SAM Software Technology

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Education

Malmö Högskola
Blekinge Tekniska Högskola

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Industry

Telecommunications

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Erik Starck’s Summary

I'm a software engineer-turned-entrepreneur with experience from the internet and telecom sector.

I tend to go wherever there is disruptive change, passionate people and life changing technology.

Erik Starck’s Specialties:

Mobile 2.0 and java, EJB, MIDP/CLDC, software processes, software architecture, project management, requirements engineering, business development, platform strategies, agile development, startups, futurism, entrepreneurship.

Erik Starck’s Experience

Business Bootstrapper

BootstrapLabs

(Privately Held; Management Consulting industry)

February 2009 — Present (10 months)

If you are a startup in Europe that's thinking about going to Silicon Valley, let me know.
Managing Director

GlocalReach Ltd

(Telecommunications industry)

April 2007 — Present (2 years 8 months)

GlocalReach is an innovation company within web and voice communication. We are building a communication platform that will help you manage how people can reach you.

GlocalReach builds a service for efficient and personal Reach Management. The value proposition of the service is to be available for relevant calls and message while preventing disturbing phone calls and messages when your attention is needed elsewhere.

GlocalReach is essentially offering the ability to manage and prioritize interruptions, and to be reachable, but not disturbed.

My work for GlocalReach involves business development, project management as well as the actual development of the service using technologies such as JBoss Seam (J2EE/EJB), Hibernate, MySQL, Asterisk and XHTML/CSS.

Project management is done using an agile process influenced by Scrum. At most there's been 6 people involved in the project, half of them placed in India.
Consultant and Founder

Opportunity Cloud

(Management Consulting industry)

April 2004 — Present (5 years 8 months)

What started out as a blog has grown in to a consultancy business. I work with social media, startups and all things mobile - preferably all at once.

I have also written book reviews and articles for various magazines and blog about agile business development at http://blog.opportunitycloud.com.
Platform Planning

Sony Ericsson

(Public Company; 5001-10,000 employees; ERICY; Telecommunications industry)

June 2005 — April 2007 (1 year 11 months)

Working with strategy and requirements for the mobile platform. Managed the technical roadmap for the blogging feature in the phone as well as for the Java platform. Was part of the JSR290 standardization group.

Technologies I worked with included MIDP/CLDC, MMAPI (JSR135 and JSR234), Location API, Mobile Service Architecture (JSR248), 3D API (JSR184), DRM and just about everything you put in a modern mobile phone that can be accessed from Java.
J2ME SDK Developer

Sony Ericsson

(Public Company; 1001-5000 employees; Telecommunications industry)

April 2004 — June 2005 (1 year 3 months)

Developed the Sony Ericsson J2ME SDK. Integrated it with Eclipse, improved quality and added new features. Initiated the development for jUnit Mobile for Sony Ericsson devices.
Owner

SoftwareSweden.com

(Internet industry)

December 2002 — April 2004 (1 year 5 months)

Different consulting jobs as a developer. Mostly within the areas of EDI and intranets. Worked with the Microsoft.net platform.

Technologies included: C, C#, VB.net, XHTML/CSS, Biztalk, MS SQL and ASP.net.
Java architect

Vioma

(Computer Software industry)

August 2001 — November 2002 (1 year 4 months)

System architect for a content management system built in java.
Developer, Requirements engineer

Kipling Mobile Business

(Public Company; 51-200 employees; Telecommunications industry)

February 2000 — August 2001 (1 year 7 months)

Various consulting assignments, including the development of a mobile internet WAP site at Aspiro, requirements engineering at Telias mobile portal Speedy Tomato and C++ development for a billing-solution for Ericsson.
I also participated in a strategic working group within the office.
Founder, Developer

Essentor AB

(Telecommunications industry)

May 1999 — February 2000 (10 months)

Founded the company and was a member of the board.
Had an assignment as a developer for a Netch, an internet consultant based in Lund. Built a web portal for Telia in CGI/C++/SQL (Oracle).
The company was acquired by Kipling in 2000.
Founder

SAM Software Technology

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

May 1998 — May 1999 (1 year 1 month)

Founded the company and did consulting assignments for the Swedish Navy in Karlskrona (C++/MFC), an internet based content management system for a Swedish foundry organization and for Ericsson with C++ programming for their WAP-server.

Erik Starck’s Education

Malmö Högskola

Master , Entrepreneurship , August 2003 — June 2004

Studied business development and project management.
Blekinge Tekniska Högskola

Master , Software Engineering , 1995 — 1999