Lennart Lövstrand

• Versatile systems and applications developer with 20+ years experience.
• Special interests in networking (particularly electronic multimedia mail and web related services), graphical user interfaces, and systems design & development.
• Proficient C, Objective-C, C++, Lisp, Scheme, Fortran, and Assembly programmer on UNIX/MACH (Linux, MacOS X, NeXTSTEP, SunOS), Windows NT/XP, TOPS-20, Interlisp-D, and CP/M.
• GUI and visual design sense, experienced with Display PostScript, X11, Win32, HTML, JavaScript.
• Customer centered, self-motivated and independent.
• Fluent in English and Swedish, knowledgeable of German and French.
• Dual US / Swedish Citizen.

Independent Software Developer & Consultant: C, C# / MacOS X, Windows XP.

• Writing e-mail server software for Mailblocks Inc.
• Producing simulation software for a consumer device for Sonata Systems, Inc.
• Working on independent software development projects.

Senior Software Engineer: C / Solaris and C++, C# / Windows 2000 / XP.

• Member of the Core Services Group with special responsibility for electronic messaging and infrastructure.
• Designed and wrote a complete MIME message implementation, HTML rendering engine, and message storage architecture for the WebTV Service.
• Designed and wrote a second generation service-based mail application featuring a retargetable backend architecture for Microsoft TV Services.
• Created a graphical TV UI viewer/editor and tools for managing resource files.
• Co-designed and implemented a scripting language called Jinx.

Senior Software Engineer: Objective-C under NEXTSTEP.

• Wrote an extensive MIME implementation for NeXT’s Mail.app that includes support for enriched text, partial and external-body messages and added a number of new features such as escape completion, continuous sizing, search & focus, Emacs keybindings, URL highlighting, dynamic extensions, etc.
• Wrote a Post Office and UNIX Gateway for a next generation Mail-2 Project.
• Created a system administration tool for remote file system sharing (NFS).
• Ported NEXTSTEP applications and libraries to proprietary RISC hardware.
• Ported large portions of BSD4.4 to NEXTSTEP and general UNIX tools to Windows/NT. Responsible for networking and sysadmin commands.
• Technical liaison and OpenStep consultant on loan to SunSoft, Inc.
  

Research Scientist: Research in Computer Supported Cooperative Work.

• Principal investigator and implementor of the Khronika Project on event notifications and shared awareness. Project presented at ECSCW-91.
• Core member and main implementor of the Buttons Project on user tailorability.
• Co-author and implementor of the Referrals Project on electronic contacts.
• Wrote tools and libraries for the EuroPARC integrated A/V environment.
• Systems administrator of the lab’s computing environment.
• Wrote and published ImageViewer, a popular ~20 format image converter and viewer for NEXTSTEP (freeware).

Consultant

• Designed and implemented a knowledge representation project.

Consultant

• Wrote a prototype animated 3D information visualizer on an SGI 2400.

Teaching / Research Assistant, Member of Technical Staff

• System administrator responsible for electronic mail and networking.
• Original author of the IDA Sendmail Enhancement Kit.
• Taught programming in Scheme to members of the industry.
• Taught Interlisp and Assembly programming to 2nd to 4th year university students

Master of Science in Computer Science with Psychology and Linguistics

• Specializing in general program construction and artificial intelligence.

Gaver, W., T. Moran, A. MacLean, L. Lövstrand, P. Dourish, K. Carter, B. Buxton; Realizing a Video Environment: EuroPARC's RAVE System, Proceedings of the Conference on Computer-Human Interaction (CHI-92), May 1992.

Lövstrand, L.; Being Selectively Aware with the Khronika Event Notification System, Proceedings of the European Conference on Computer Supported Cooperative Work (ECSCW-91), October 1991.

MacLean, A., K. Carter, L. Lövstrand, T. Moran; User-Tailorable Systems: Pressing the Issues with Buttons, Proceedings of the Conference on Computer-Human Interaction (CHI-90), April 1990.

Lövstrand, L.; Electronic Mail Addressing in Theory and Practice, Department of Computer and Information Science, Linköping University, May 1987. Report no. LiTH-IDA-Ex-8715.

Lövstrand, L.; The Message Manager (MM) User’s Guide and Reference Manual, Editor, Department of Computer and Information Science, Linköping University, March 1986. Report no. IDA SYSDOC 31.1.

Lövstrand, L.; Proceedings of the First Annual SVADA Conference, Editor, October 1983.