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What I have done, do and want to do!


My last position was working for Germany's largest Car Hifi franchise group. My initial tasks included getting their ebay shop and onlineshop off the ground. These were followed by a relaunch of the car akustik website.

I also worked for a web / multimedia designer for a company researching, developing and testing pharmaceuticals and cosmetics for their respecitve industries where I was responsible for the web design, graphics and everything else multimedia orientated.

I also translated our english correspondence from German or created new text and assisted colleagues who encountered difficulties in their daily use of the Microsoft Office package and other software.

Getting back to multimedia though, my personal strengths lie with Adobe Flash, PHP and Adobe Photoshop. I am always "on the learn", currently teaching myself Ruby on Rails with a couple of great books and some online resources. I also like to keep up to date, eagerly following technologies such as AJAX, JSON and all things new and shiny.

I teach CLAIT to members of the British Army and their dependents in evening classes.

  • My history: I left the British Army after 12 years of service in 1997, then worked for a company here in Germany spraying Plant Machinery, until retraining to become a multimedia operator.
  • Date of birth: 21st November 1969
  • Marital Status: Married to Claudia with 1 child, Wayne (14)
  • Interests:
    1. Wing Tsun
    1. Skill development
    1. Drawing
    1. Family things
  • Software / Programming skills:
  • Expert:
    1. Adobe Flash
    1. PHP including MVC techniques and Frameworks(CodeIgniter & cakePHP)
  • Advanced:
    1. Adobe Freehand
    1. Adobe Photoshop
    1. CSS
    1. mySQL
    1. Javascript including libraries such as jQuery and mootools
  • Adequate for my current needs:
    1. Adobe Premiere
    1. 3d Studio Max
    1. SoundForge
  • Beginner:
    1. Ruby
    1. Ruby on Rails
    1. Java
  • Languages:
    1. English (Mother tongue)
    1. German (fluent)

I have the ability to learn new software or languages quickly, so should you use other methods to the ones stated here, I can ensure you that this is only a minor setback.

If you wish to learn more, please do not hesitate to mail me, by clicking here