Qualification Summary
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Six years experience in successfully managing time- and
budget-critical user experience projects with high customer
satisfaction.
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Skilled professional combining expertise in all phases of a user
centered design process with strong technological background.
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Demonstrated ability to assess client needs and user
requirements, and to transform those into innovative and
successful products.
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Can communicate effectively with users, clients, management, and
software engineering.
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Experienced in leading interdisciplinary teams in international
settings.
Keywords
User Experience Design, Usability Engineering, Requirements
Engineering, Project Management, Team Leadership &
Collaboration, User Models, Use Case Modeling, Information
Architectures, Interaction Concepts, Wireframe Mockups, Design
Specifications, Style Guides, Visio, Photoshop, Morae, Project,
(D)HTML, JavaScript, AJAX, Java
Professional Experience
2002 – present
Senior User Experience Consultant
Siemens AG,
Corporate
Research & Technology, Munich, Germany
Manage user experience projects for Siemens groups in various
domains (incl. household appliances, network management systems,
and intranet websites & applications). Lead interdisciplinary
project teams through all phases of a user centered design process.
Devise and evaluate attractive user interfaces for a wide variety
of technological environments (incl. web sites, rich client
applications, consumer electronics, multi-screen setups).
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Collect client needs and user requirements (through interviewing,
contextual inquiry, focus groups) and translate them into user
models, work flows, information architectures and interaction
concepts.
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Create use cases, flowcharts, wireframe mockups as well as design
specifications and style guides to effectively communicate user
interface designs to users, product management, marketing, and
engineering.
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Design consistent cross-device user interface concepts while
ensuring applicability to different brand identities as well as
differentiation of products into different market / price
segments.
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Lead large-scale international usability tests; synthesize
results into concrete improvement potentials and provide a sound
foundation for decision making.
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Establish a Wiki based knowledge management tool as a
collaboration platform for our international teams and a
repository for our internal methods and tools.
2001 – 2002
Software Engineer
Siemens AG,
Corporate
Research & Technology, Munich, Germany
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Developed interaction designs and rapid prototypes of
innovative user interfaces for VoIP / UMTS telephony
applications.
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Designed and implemented a framework for skin-based user
interfaces based on Java / XML to allow visual designers more
freedom on widget appearance while reducing development time.
1996 – 2001
Freelance Consultant
Ulm, Germany
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Responsible for conception and administration of Unix servers /
network infrastructure for local ISPs.
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Designed and implemented several innovative e-commerce systems.
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Gave talks and presentations on Open Source, Linux, TCP/IP.
Education
2000
MS Computer Science (Dipl. Informatik)
University of Ulm, Germany
Focus on distributed systems, human–computer interaction.
Minor in media technology and media design.
2003
Postgraduate Certificate in Social Sciences Research Methods
The Open University, Milton Keynes, UK
Languages
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German (native speaker)
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English (fluent)
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French (basic knowledge)
Other Activities
Ulm, Germany
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Charter member; set up and administrated the first network and
server infrastructure.
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Gave talks and trainings about Linux, TCP/IP, etc.