Design Experience
Trough working collaboratively in a team of marketers, designers and developers
I’ve gained a lot of experience in the following fields:
- Excellent knowledge in Cinema 4D, 3D Max and Unity 3D
- Illustrating / Animating characters, including based on style guides
- Concept visualisation for games, user-friendly interfaces (GUI) apps and webpages
- Fine grasp of typography, sound effects and music
- Experienced in video editing and compositing with After Effects and Premiere
- Professionally experienced with Adobe Animate
Personal Skills
Working with other designers and coders towards tight deadlines I have developed efficient communication skills that assist me with the coordination and supervision of a team throughout the production process of advertisements and games. The years in the web and flash game industry have provided me with hands on experience:
- Being the representative for all designers when collaborating with other teams and clients
- Very good communication skills
- Allocation of tasks
- Develop and share best practices
- Not only a team leader, but also as a very good team player
- Establish creative collaboration between designers
- Very good understanding of html, javascript, C# and actionscript code
- Clean file documentation suitable for the development team
Work Experience
Sept. 2019 – Sept 2020
Intern at Mono digital
BMW Car Configurator (Cinema 4D & Arnold)
Social Media Ads, Video Presentations (After Effects&Premiere)
Jun. 2018 – Dec. 2018
Chyron Graphics Operator/ Motion Graphics at Rundfunk Berlin Brandenburg Broadcast Graphics Creation, Playout und Realtime Data Visualisation live Television, News, Weather and Sport Productions for shows like Abendschau, zibb and rbb24.
Oct. 2017 – Jun. 2018
Motion Designer at CCC GmbH
Animations, motion graphics, video editing and banner ads with brands e.g.: Tagesspiegel, Greenmag and a-travel-o
Sept. 2017 – Oct. 2017
Motion Designer at Bühnengold AG
Logo animations, icon design, video editing compositing & color grading
Oct. 2013 – Jun. 2015
Head of Graphics (fulltime) at GameGenetics GmbH (User Acquisition)
Today Leading the graphics team in the development and improvements, help individual designers achieving their personal development goals, concept art and design of banner ads, landing pages, 2D characters, posters, for hundreds of different games
Jun. 2011 – Dec. 2012
Motion Designer/Flash Designer at smoox GmbH (webagency) in Berlin.
Layouting and animation Flashbanner ads and microsites for major companies in various kinds of industries.
Sept. 2004 – Okt. 2010
Flash Designer/Game Designer at Synthicon AG and Elements of Art GmbH (webagency)
Concept art and design of Flash Games and animations for websites like toggo.de, toggolino.de and toggo-cleverclub.de from the tv station Super RTL
Feb. 2002 – July 2004
Junior Flash Designer/Animator at wfp2 Gesellschaft für interaktive Kommunikation mbH + Co. KG (webagency)
Conception, design and projektmanagement of Flash Games, animations and presentations mostly for Supermarket real and extra
Aug. 2001 – Jan. 2002
Internship at wfp2 Gesellschaft für interaktive Kommunikation mbH + Co. KG (webagency)
Conception, design and projektmanagement of a Game called „Shopping Cart Racer“
You play the supermarket customer with shopping cart in first-person perspective. The goal is to grab as much products as you can, without hitting the other customers. design and animation of a Flash christmas kalender.
April 2000 – May 2000
Internship at Röhrhoff & Partner GbR Die Strategie Agentur (DTP agency)
Picture editing, layouts for cards, posters und invitings, typesetting for magazines and Books
May 1998 – Nov. 1998
Internship at graphic designer Christian Bauer (DTP)
Picture editing, font design, digital type design
Feb. 1998 – April 1998
Internship at Werbeagentur Konzept – Art – Text (DTP agency)
Layouting of covers and posters, vectorising images (Freehand)
Educational Background
Jan. 2019 – Jul. 2019
Postgraduate Training at Futuretrainings
Cinema 4D & After Effects
Nov. 2016 – Jan. 2017
Postgraduate Training at Indisoft
Unity 3D & 3D Studio Max
Nov. 2015 – Apr. 2016
Postgraduate Training at Cimdata
After Effects & 3D Studio Max basic & advanced, HTML5 basic
May 2003
Workshop ActionScript Essential Exlusiv
Certified from Macromedia and controlled by Sascha Wolter
Aug. 1999 – July 2001
Off-the-job training as a graphical and technical design assistant (GTA)
Learning usual DTP programmes like Photoshop, Freehand and Quark Express.
Typography, illustrating, rendering with markers, technical drawing, airbrush
Sept. 1987 – June 1996
Comprehensive school Volksgartenstraße, Möchengladbach
High-school Diploma
Computer Software Skills
- Photoshop – Illustrator – Animate (Flash)
- Cinema 4D – 3D Studio Max – Unity 3D
- After Effects – Premiere – Indesign
- Basic HTML – Basic Javascript – Actionscript – Basic C#
Language Skills
- German (native tongue)
- English (fluently)
- French