Meshfields, Munich, Germany
Entrepreneur
Designed and developed productive web projects such as
WikiTerms
January 2011 until today
- Functionality: Project management platform
- Compatible Browsers: Opera 11, IE9, Firefox 4 beta, Safari, Opera Mini, Safari mobile
- Compatible Platforms: Linux, Windows, MacOSX, iPhone
- Used Technologies: Mindtouch Wiki Technology, OpenSSL, Exim, FastCGI, CentOS, PiWik
- Used Tools: Adobe Photoshop, Espresso, SSH, vi
WikiTerms offers to everyone a peaceful, legal method of ensuring that corporations are accountable and responsible in their actions.
The Wiki offers a way for the community to collaboratively create the NGO's core values.
Sphairos
November 2010 - January 2011
- Functionality: Newsletter
- Compatible E-Mail Clients: Apple Mail, Outlook 2003+, Gmail, Thunderbird, Yahoo! Mail
- Compatible Platforms: Linux, Win, MacOSX
- Used Technologies: HTML4, CSS2, Nested Tables, Graceful Degradation, Click tracking
- Used Tools: Adobe Photoshop, Espresso, Joomla
Newsletter for Summer School wrapped inside best practices for email clients to enable progressive
enhancement. I implemented click tracking and statistical features as well. The Newsletter lead to dozens of new customers.
Meshfields v2
July - October 2010
- Functionality: Blog
- Compatible Browsers: Opera 10+, IE7+, Firefox 3, Chrome4+, Safari
- Compatible Platforms: Linux, Win, MacOSX
- Used Technologies: HTML5, CSS3, JavaScript, JSON, OOP, PHP, SQL, XML-RPC, AJAX,
TwitterAPI
- Used Tools: Adobe Photoshop, Coda, Espresso, Wordpress
User centered design wrapped inside Wordpress theming technology. The BackEnd runs on the
popular Wordpress CMS. The blog helps me to stay in touch with the Web developer community.
Bamotex GbR
February 2010 - June 2010
- Functionality: Company Web site and Online shop (unfinished)
- Compatible Browsers: IE7+, Chrome, Safari
- Compatible Platforms: still in development
- Used Technologies: XHTML1.1, ActionScript3, JavaScript, JSON, OOP, JQuery,
CSS3, PHP, Magento
- Used Tools: Adobe Illustrator, Photoshop, Flash, Microsoft Visual Studio
The W3C compliant online shop will be featured with photographic media and a Swiss grid-based
design. The integration of Magento will ensure the firm's competitiveness in the digital age. We
have also ensured a sustainable online marketing by using instruments like SEO, SEM and SMM.
Hand in hand cooperation, consultation and implementation with the client.
Rumänisch Dolmetschen
Sep 2009 - Jan 2010
- Functionality: Company Web site
- Compatible Browsers: Opera 10+, IE7+, Firefox 3, Chrome
- Compatible Platforms: Linux, Win, MacOSX
- Used Technologies: XHTML Strict, DHTML, JQuery, CSS2
- Used Tools: Adobe Illustrator, Photoshop, Microsoft Web Expression
My work grew the client's business by 20% through the fresh logo, the business cards, the W3C
compliant Web page and our marketing activities. I coordinated the business between my outsourced
SEO professional and the customer.
Meshfields v1
Mai - September 2009
- Functionality: Flash Portfolio
- Compatible Browsers: Opera 10+, IE7+, Firefox 3, Chrome4+, Safari
- Compatible Platforms: Linux, Win, MacOSX
- Used Technologies: HTML, Flash AS2, PHP, MySQL
- Used Tools: Adobe Photoshop, Flash
Pure Flash Site with advanced animation framework
Microsoft Munich, Germany
Premier Support Engineer
April 2007 until April 2009
Ensured award-winning customer satisfaction by interacting with enterprise customers and attending
to their increasingly complex technical problems. Served as point of escalation for hot site situations.
Invaluable services contracts with a combined value of more than $1 bln were rendered possible
with the help of our pro-active services like supportability reviews or health-checks.
My performance-driven work led to periodic improvements of Microsoft and third party software,
which were rolled out to customers through the global Windows Update Service. This was accomplished
by troubleshooting Web technologies for e.g. Kerberos, NTLM, SSL, HTTP and also
Sharepoint, IIS, Active Directory, WSUS, IBM WebSphere and Citrix XenApp.
Strengthened the IT operations of customers and partners by debugging source code, which was
written in JavaScript, XHTML, Stylesheets, Visual Basic Script or C#.
Aided in earning trust to the brand - Microsoft by doing QA for Microsoft Knowledge Base articles
and front end issues on MSN Web sites.
Mentored Technical Account Managers and Premier Field Engineers on service delivery and peers on
problem solving processes and also assumed ownership regarding their clients' situations.
Ensured an ongoing exchange of know-how by solving complex technical problems on internal newsgroups
and suggesting products and features to support and product teams.
My resourceful networking talents helped Google to fix an AdSense bug on www.google.com that
affected numerous clients worldwide.
I exceeded expectations by developing the following software:
Group Policy Search
Sep 2009 - Feb 2010
- Functionality: Collaborative Tool for the Microsoft Corporate Network
- Compatible Browsers: IE6+, Chrome, Firefox
- Compatible Platforms: Windows Server 2008, Windows XP+
- Used Technologies: JavaScript, XHTML, DHTML
- Used Tools: Microsoft VisualStudio, .NET Paint
Contributed W3C compliant code with XHTML and JavaScript for an award-winning project
named 'Group Policy Search'. This tool offers a way to collaboratively identify and manage
Server GPO's.
TrueScan
Aug 2008
- Functionality: Troubleshooting Tool
- Compatible Platforms: Windows Server 2000+, Windows XP+
- Used Technologies: C++
- Used Tools: Microsoft VisualStudio
Contributed code in C++ to simulate Windows Registry API calls for the TrueScan Defect
Detection Tool, that can be used to see inside a program on execution time.
Flashlight
March - May 2008
- Functionality: RIA Minisite
- Compatible Browsers: all with Silverlight Plugin
- Used Technologies: XAML, JavaScript, C#, OOP
- Used Tools: Microsoft Expression Blend
Created a Rich Media Web site with Silverlight to internally showcase latest technology
immediately after Silverlight was initially published.
Obstbau Pfisterer, Heidelberg, Germany
Entrepreneur
Jan 2007 until April 2007
Our visionary idea saved 20% of overall labor and gas expenses of the client. We constructed a 3
square miles wide wireless mesh network to assist the staff in remotely checking the agricultural goods
for environmental conditions like temperature, humidity or frost.
We achieved our goals with a very low budget open source infrastructure, saving material costs to
400%. I installed the mail server, firewall, encryption with RSA, WPA and VPN to secure the
flow of critical business information within the company.
Hengeler Mueller, Munich, Germany
Field Technician
Jan 2006 to Dec 2006
My onsite operations marked and benefited the partnership's on-going expansion in Europe. All my
technician responsibilities included to install the office network structure for the new site in Munich.
My resourceful work confirmed the secure communication between lawyers. Deployed and maintained
the lawyers' workstations including VPN with randomized RSA tokens and the support of the firm's
unified messaging system. Provided training to the associates in certain technologies.
HDPnet, Heidelberg, Germany
Web Designer
Jan 2002 until Dec 2006
Reduced clients' costs significantly by enabling them to maintain theirWeb sites themselves by tooling
up their intranets and Web sites with SQL, PHP, Joomla and Typo3.
The versatility of my software knowledge and the passion to support my colleagues revaluated the
customers' satisfaction guaranteeing HDPnet's proficient image.
Buzzed the business of mid-sized firms to the digital age and hence, outlined HDPnet's portfolio
through creating numerous Web sites, landing pages, ads, user interfaces and templates. A few of my most important projects were:
Sparkasse AG
- Functionality: Banking Portal
- Compatible Browsers: Netscape 6+, IE5.5+
- Used Technologies: JavaScript, HTML
- Used Tools: UltraEdit, Adobe Photoshop, Joomla
Designed and programmed numerous Mini Sites, Landing Pages, Animated Banners, JavaScript
Navigations, Credit Insurance Calculators, Real Estate and Banking Portals
GAH Gruppe
- Functionality: Company Web site and Intranet
- Compatible Browsers: Netscape 6+, IE5.5+
- Used Technologies: PHP, SQL, JavaScript, HTML, DHTML
- Used Tools: UltraEdit, Adobe Photoshop, CMS
All of my responsibilities included to design and programme the corporate Intranet and Internet
sites for the Gah AG and its 20 subsidiaries. I consulted directly with the client's head of
marketing.
Hengeler Mueller
- Functionality: Law firm Web site and Intranet
- Compatible Browsers: Netscape 7+, IE6+
- Used Technologies: HTML, CSS, JavaScript
- Used Tools: UltraEdit, Adobe Photoshop
Programmed parts of the law firm's Web site and Intranet.
