I am not really an old hand. Not in the literal meaning. But I am working now for over 15 years in the advertising and design business. So I've seen a lot and did more I've ever dreamed of.
I already designed and developed over 80 websites, from really tiny ones up to team-developed web projects with over 1000 man-hours of work. I made my way through a bunch of different branches in advertising, design, web and media. Although I don't dare to call me specialized I consider my strongest advantage is the ability to think further than within a specialists box. Knowing and understanding the whole complexity of communication enables me to see clearly the golden path through the whole process of developing customer communication. Online as well as offline.
Vita
- 1975
- Born on planet Earth, Europe, Germany
- 1983
- Got my first computer, a Commodore VC20
- 1985
- Developed my first computer game in BASIC on a C64
- 1994
- Started working in the advertising/design business
- 1995
- Finished school
- 1996
- Made the first website (an ugly kind of)
- 1997
- Studies "Marketing & Communication"
- 1999
- Art Director
- 2002
- Installed my first Linux... love it.
- 2006
- Creative Director and founded own business
Skills
- Languages
- German (native), English (fluent), French (basic)
- Computers
- Had my hands on all kind of. From handheld to mainframe.
- Operating systems
- Mac OS, Windows, Linux, UNIX
- Server Tech
- Linux-based: distributed web apps, load balancing, failover, clustering, security, intrusion detection, standards (web, mail, database, DNS, you name it)
- Webstuff
- HTML, CSS, Javascript, PHP, Python, Ruby, MVC, Ajax, JSON, XML, YAML, SQL
- Frameworks
- Yii, Ruby on Rails, Django; JQuery, Scriptaculous, Prototype
- Creative software
- Adobe Creative Suite, Aperture
- Pictures
- Photography (analogue and digital), processing, editing; motion picture capturing and editing (Final Cut)
- Writing
- Editorial researching and writing