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Workation in Manila, Philippines

By • On • In Life Events, Work Experience

Through my participation in the Merkle DACH Foundation Program I took the chance to work from the Philippines between May 26 and June 15, 2023. I decided for this to meet the people and our colleagues there and to get closer and bridge the gap to the Merkle Philippines operations, for the ‘Off-shore’ experience and other day-to-day challenges, and to get to know (and understand?) Filipino life better.

I did not ask for a VIP package, just the regular pace of things like my colleagues do and I quickly became their favourite AFAM. The people became friends, the offices are not so different (though on the 30th floor), but ‘Off-shore’ and day-to-day life is a whole different ballpark – at least for us Central Europeans. And I do understand a bit better now.

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Merkle – a dentsu company

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Duration: 07/2022 – today

Job Title:

Director Platform Technologies

After growing the Adobe practise in Merkle DACH to ~85 permanent and freelance employees the decision was taken to re-organize our CX Platform Technologies unit once again to become even more customer focused and technology agnostic. Nowadays I lead the whole team of engineers for all our CXPS partner technologies, ranging from Adobe, SAP CX, Sitecore, Drupal, Magnolia, and Venture Tech with dedicated and specialized teams of around 170 people in Switzerland, Germany, Austria, Serbia, Portugal, Spain, and the Philippines.

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Merkle – a dentsu company

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Duration: 04/2021 – 06/2022

Job Title:

Director Adobe Solutions

With the merge of Namics AG and Isobar Switzerland into Merkle DACH the two Adobe practises were merged. Around 60 employees strong and covering the full Adobe Experience Cloud (e.g. AEM Sites, Assets, and Adobe Magento Commerce) as well as the Adobe Experience Platform from an engineering and consulting perspective, I lead the Adobe Solutions team in Switzerland, Germany, Serbia, and Portugal.

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Namics AG

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Duration: 02/2016 – 11/2018

Job Titles:

Senior Solution Architect,
Skill Group Lead ‘Adobe Experience Manager’

Prior: Senior Principal Consultant

Technology consulting with focus on Adobe Marketing Cloud products and support for Swiss and German clients and Customer Service Directors. Focus on pre-sales/sales activities in Switzerland and Germany.

As Skill Group Lead (Practice) responsible for 45 Namics employees in five locations (Switzerland, Germany, Serbia).

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Namics AG

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Duration: 07/2015 – 01/2016

Job Titles:

Senior Principal Consultant,
Head of Content Technologies

Technology consulting with focus on .NET technologies and support for the Swiss local business unit as well as German business units. Focus on sales activities in Switzerland and Germany.

As Head of Content Technologies responsible for technical product portfolio management of Namics business units.

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Namics d.o.o. Serbia

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Duration: 11/2014 – 02/2021

Job Titles:

Co-Founder & Director,
Procurist

The first Namics office outside Switzerland and Germany, I was responsible for evaluating and founding the Serbian d.o.o. subsidiary in Belgrade. Until February 2021 I had procura responsibility, besides supporting and advising the unit managers in Belgrade. In September 2015 Namics moved into its flagship office space on Knez Mihailova in the center of Belgrade. In 2018 the team already exceeds 50 employees and we moved to a new office at Bulevar Kralja Aleksandra.

The plan is to constantly grow Namics Belgrade at a rate of 10-15 employees per year.

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Namics AG

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Duration: 06/2009 – 06/2015

Job Titles:

Senior Principal Consultant,
Head of Content Technologies

Prior: Senior Consultant, Principal Consultant

Technology consulting and conception for Namics wide client portfolio, e.g. feasibility and architecture consulting for largest Swiss entertainment portal based on Adobe CQ5. Evaluation and architecture blueprint concept of an Integrated Standardized Business Platform for internet, intranet und extranet-/portal projects for a Basel based freight/transportation company.

As Head of Content Technologies responsible for technical product portfolio management of Namics business units. Line management for seven employees (Frontend / Backend engineering, Professional/Senior/Principal level).

Responsible for the acquisition of new clients for Namics, several large scale offers in the pharma, healthcare and industry sector. Project with industry client to integrate centrally stored PIM data into the worldwide company CMS infrastructure and Adobe Flash applications based on hybris. Technology consulting for clients like Baloise, Swiss Life, Hirslanden, Migros, Medela demanding a new company wide content management infrastructure.

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Amazee AG

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Duration: 03/2008 – 04/2009

Job Titles:

CTO, Head Technology

Later: Technology Advisor

Head of technology unit (with line management of 7 external and 2 internal developers), deputy to the CEO, product development and -management of Amazee.com (a Drupal based social collaboration platform), lead and management of internal IT, introduction, rollout and maintenance of all business critical systems, contract negotiation with development partners, quality assurance, bug tracking and release management for Amazee.com, setup and maintenance of internal and external hardware infrastructure, platform analytics and statistics, speeches at events, universities and BarCamps.

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Namics AG

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Duration: 04/2002 – 01/2008

Job Title:

Senior Consultant

Prior: Consultant /Project Manager, Thesis graduand

I wrote my diploma thesis with Namics (see publications) and afterwards joined as a consultant and project manager. Content Management System implementation projects for major clients like the Swiss Federal Statistical Office (Eugen Award for best Swiss eGovernment website in 2005), Department of Defense, Department of Foreign Affairs and Cornèr Bank were upon my responsibilities. Further projects with KPMG Switzerland (newsletter subscription tool) and Opel, GM Suisse (cross media and mobile promotions), a Best of Swiss Web Award 2006 winner, have been realised. During 2004 and 2005 I was responsible for todays Swiss market leading multi client white label classifieds platform developed by Namics. In July 2006 I became a Google Enterprise Search Professional (GSA and Google Mini) resulting in consulting and implementation projects with Sunrise, Nestlé, Panalpina, Bank Coop, Lifeware SA, Trivadis and Axpo.

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streamgAte AG

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Duration: 06/2001 – 07/2001

Job Title:

Marketing Assistant

Guerrilla Marketing on the internet (forums, newsboards, IRC) to promote the new ‘streamgAte ADSL’ flatrate in Munich and Rosenheim. Promotion took place in various internet newsboards and on local (Munich) IRC channels.

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SAF (Simulation, Analysis and Forecasting) Germany GmbH

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Duration: 11/2000 – 08/2001

Job Title:

Intranet Developer and Administrator

I was responsible for the implementation of a new company intranet. Using Visual Basic for Microsoft Word and Excel plugins I implemented direct export functionality from the applications. Documents were transferred from the file server to the web server using Perl/CGI to process data. I also designed and programmed the intranet user interface in HTML, CSS, JavaScript and ASP to access Exchange Server information with LDAP.

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Zadu Inc.

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Duration: 04/2000 – 09/2000

Job Title:

Trainee Web Development

As an intern of the Web Development department I created administrative tools for Zadu’s instant messaging application (e.g. a database error handler for the administration of the Zadu product) and was responsible for the development of a new intranet platform.

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