professional experience
01/2008-01/2011
Product Management & Marketing, Lixto
Competitive market analyses, requirement specifications and release planning. Sales support with product demonstrations and product marketing material.
2009-present
Freelance web developer
Recent work includes Website Lixto Software, Website Snowter and Website Chocaps
2004-present
Freelance proof-reader of dissertations and other academic papers.
09/2006-12/2007
Technical Writing, VeriSign
Establishing the documentation department for the Vienna branch (Mobile Content and Messaging Services) of VeriSign, creation of a QA process for documents, introducing style guidelines and documentation tools.
06/2005-08/2006
Consultant, Fluidtime
Quality Assurance
Test case writing, testing and bug tracking for of a CMS used to manage, sell and retrieve multimedia content
Project Management, Technical Writing, Quality Assurance
Project planning, storyboarding and use cases design, quality assurance and project documentation for a thesis server that collects and maintains academic papers.
Public Relations and Communications
Elaboration of communication strategies and creation of marketing material; website administration; communication with customers and sponsors.
language skills
German (mother tongue)
English (fluent)
French (higher intermediate)
certificate
Junior Project Management (Level D) according to IPMA
education
09/2007-10/2010
Bachelor degree in information technologies and telecommunications at the University of Applied Sciences, FH Campus Wien. Graduation in October 2010.
Bachelor thesis: Agile project management in distributed teams (leading to the requirements specification and UI design of an iPhone application for Mingle project management).
10/1999-05/2005
Master degree in communications with political science and German literature at the University of Vienna. Graduation in April 2005.
Master thesis: Empirical study of the impact of internal relations on job satisfaction.
09/2002-07/2003
Studies in international politics, comparative political science and German literature at the University of Liège, Belgium.
publication
Arbeitszufriedenheit durch interne Kommunikation. Grundlagen, Messung, Evaluierung. Saarbrücken, 2008.
technical skills
Operating Systems: Microsoft Windows, Mac OS
Applications: OpenOffice, MS Office, Adobe Photoshop, InDesign and Illustrator, Adobe Dreamweaver, Enterprise Architect, diverse project management tools
QA tools: Mantis, Jira
Programming Languages: XHTML with CSS, XML, SQL, PL/SQL, PHP, Ruby on Rails, jQuery; advanced reading/basic writing knowledge of C, C++, Java
Methodologies of Development: OOP, UML, Agile Project Management, XP, Scrum
Databases: Oracle, MySQL, PostgreSQL