education

10/2007 — 02/2008
University of Applied Science of Augsburg, Germany
Studies of “Interactive Media”, aiming at Master of Arts

09/2007
degree “Diplom Informatiker (FH)”, to be considered Master of Science of Computer Science

10/2003 — 09/2007
University of Applied Science of Augsburg, Germany
Studies of “Multimedia”, consisting half-and-half of computer sciences and communication design.

employment

since 01/2010
German Research Center for Artificial Intelligence, DFKI GmbH, Saarbrücken, Germany
junior researcher, interaction designer, web developer
topics: networked media, semantic web, interfaces for / visualization of large knowledge spaces
project Glocal (FP7, co-funded by the European Commission)

03/2008 — 11/2009
University of Trento, Italy
junior researcher, software architect and engineer, web developer, usability advisor
topics: semantic web, contextual knowledge representation, interactive visualization of large knowledge spaces (“global graph”)
project Okkam (FP7, co-funded by the European Commission)

03/2006 — 02/2008
allevia GmbH, Augsburg, Germany
web developer, software architect and engineer
topics: extensible and flexible software architecture, usability evaluations of interfaces, interactive web media
implementations with PHP/MySQL, Flash/XML, XHTML/CSS

10/2004 — 12/2005
Municipality of Augsburg, Germany
free lance web developer
creation of http://www.bildung.augsburg.de

skills

general
project management, combining all kinds of technologies, thinking user first

usabilty evaluation
think-aloud, heuristic evaluation, cognitive walkthrough

computing
Java (JSP, J2EE, J2SE, Processing), PHP4-5, Delphi, C#, Flash/Flex/Actionscript1-3/MXML, Javascript, (X-)HTML, CSS, XML/XSL, SQL, UML, Windows, Linux (Debian, (K-)Ubuntu, SuSe), Eclipse, Subversion, Open/MS Office, Adobe/Macromedia software

languages
German, English (basics of Italian, Portuguese and French)