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.
Thesis: Erweiterte
Konzepte zur Funktionsintegration (german)
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.