Profile

Skills

Creative Director with ten years of professional experience in the United States and Europe with high expertise on design and passionate about creating thoughtful and excellent user-centered designs. Strong team player and self-starter with attention to detail while thinking strategic and working solution oriented. Highly experienced in working with large-scale international GUIs, well known brands, and cross-functional and cross-cultural team environments.

Other skills include

• Strong sense of design with solid conceptual skills
• Thorough knowledge of user interface design principles, usability, information architecture and branding
• Clean consistent design style utilizing user centric and information design principles
• Highly experienced in team and project management
• Sound analytical problem-solving skills
• Personable team leader and mentor; Reliable direction taker and giver
• Embraces technology
• Advocate of web standards

Technical skills

• Photoshop, Image Ready, Illustrator, Acrobat, BBEdit, Dreamweaver, Microsoft Office, Visio
• Web metrics and traffic analysis tools (i.e. SageAnalyst)
• HTML, CSS 2.0, XHTML 1.0, JavaScript, CMS
• Computer literate on both Mac and PC
• Basic knowledge in Flash and Director

Languages

• German: native; English: fluent; French: basics

Professional experience

Monster Worldwide, Prague, Czech Republic
Creative Director User Experience | 04.2007 - present

Caturanta, Seattle & Hamburg, Germany
Founder / Partner | 2006 - present

The Seattle Times, Seattle, WA
Art Director, online | 03.2004 - 01.2006

Freelance, Seattle & Hamburg, Germany
Art Director | 2003 - 2006

Divine GmbH (CKS, USWeb-CKS, marchFIRST), Hamburg, Germany
Art Director / Creative Director, online | 10.1998 - 02.2003

Contor Interactive, Hamburg, Germany
Interactive Designer | 03.1997 - 09.1998

Freelance, Hamburg, Germany
Designer / Instructor | 01.1996 - 12.1997

Photodisc (Getty Images), Seattle, WA
Internship New Media dpt | Summer 1996

Professional education

Kunstschule Wandsbek (School of Art), Hamburg, Germany
BA Graphic Design | 1997
Emphasis on 'Concept & Art Direction' and 'Corporate Identity'.

Jahnschule, Hamburg, Germany
Abitur | 1991
Main classes: French, Art, Mathematics, Psychology

Professional development

• Various Management and Soft Skills training
• Various Sales training like ‘Success Secrets of the Sales funnel’ by Ray Leone
• Various Project Management training like ‘Agile Project Management’
• ‘Introduction of the issues of Social Science’, Open University

Professional activities

• Conducting workshops such as "A successful website relaunch" (IFRA, Xalmiento)
• Conducting usability tests
• Co-organizer of the World Usability Day 2006 in Hamburg, Germany

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