professional experience
07|2011
ongoing
Director of Engineering
Visual.ly
- Heading up Visual.ly's engineering team
- Creating browser based visualization tools
08|2010
05|2011
Data Visualization Analyst
Statewide Database, UC Berkeley Law Center for Research
- Visualizations for exploratory data analysis based on census data, political indicators and location based data
- Location based data
- Implementation and visual design
07|2010
08|2010
- Interactive web tool facilitating data analysis on large text based data sets
- Data Visualization of aggregated data
- Implementation and visual design
03|2010
06|2010
Information Architect
UC Berkeley, Information Services and Technology
- Redesign concept for campus wide information services and technology website
- Focus on Information Architecture and Usability
- Iterative design process involving focus groups, contextual inquiry, prototypes, user testing
02|2009
03|2009
Executive - IT Applications and Processes
Tamedia AG, Zurich, Switzerland
- Managed 7 employees directly
11|2007
01|2009
IT Consultant in Risk Management and Data Processing
SHS VIVEON AG, Baden, Switzerland
- Project Management of solvency check system for major Swiss telecommunication company (SOA, Web Services, XML)
- Integration support of standard software solutions into enterprise IT landscape
- Consulting for data warehousing unit in a banking industry firm
- Coaching of IT unit specialized in software maintenance processes
- Analysis and implementation of data mapping user interface used to configure data warehousing process definitions
01|2006
09|2007
Project Manager, Application Engineer (Oracle / Java)
UBS AG, Zurich, Switzerland
- Development of credit risk management data mart for internal analysis of bulk risks associated with large group companies
- Business requirement analysis and implementation
- Performance focused management of large data volumes and consolidation of data views (in Oracle 10g)
- Internationally operating project team
06|2000
12|2007
Self-employed in Web Publishing and Database Applications
Opposite Webpublishing
- Development of online presence for NGOs and small/medium enterprises (PHP, HTML, MySQL/PostgreSQL, CSS, XML, RSS)
- Development of database applications
- Integration of a payment software in an existing shop solution
- Consulting for web presence integration into communication processes
- Internet marketing and optimization for search engines
10|2001
09|2002
Software Developer
Xwave GmbH, Zurich, Switzerland
- Web application development
- Technologies: PHP, MySQL, PostgreSQL, Java
01|2000
01|2003
Software Developer, Online Producer, Project Manager
Tamedia AG, Zurich, Switzerland
- Development of online games and specials
- Technologies: PHP, MySQL, Java
Education
08|2009
05|2011
- Main focus
- Information Visualization
- Information Service and System Design
- User Experience Design
10|2002
11|2005
- Main focus
- Software Systems (distributed systems, logical programming, software architectures)
- Computer Systems / Micro Controllers
- Neural Networks / Fuzzy Logic
- Secure Computing
- Other main fields
- Conceptual aspects of databases
- Wide range of programming languages: Java, C/C++, .NET, PHP, Perl/CGI, Prolog, Matlab