Work Experience

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).

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.

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.

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.

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.

Lotus Notes database applications development for a IBM internal HR department ‘SO PL Beteiligungen’.