My work
experience

Let's talk about my professional experience

I've been working at Weiss-Gruppe since starting my apprenticeship in August 2012. Since then I have been responsible for an expanding range of tasks on a wide variety of projects. Last year, I finished my Bachelor's degree, and am now targeting a more software-based career. The following is an extract with a focus on software related experience.

Full-Time Apprenticeship Weiss-Druck GmbH & Co. KG,DE-53937 Monschau 08/2012 – 06/2015

Designer for digital and print media

During my apprenticeship, I learned a lot about design principles for digital and print media. Ranging from typography to color theory and UI design. Being treated as a full-time employee, with direct customer contact, from day one helped me grow quickly. Aside from designing newspaper ads, magazines and ads for out-of-home-displays, my tasks were the following:

Web Design

  • Analyzing customer websites for a redesign
  • Conceptualizing new website structure, UI and UX
  • Redesigning websites in Adobe Photoshop (and later in Adobe XD)
  • Coding the frontend design in HTML, CSS (scss/sass) including animations in JavaScript

Administration and Configuration of

  • WordPress
  • Typo3
  • October CMS
Full-Time Position Weiss-Intermedia GmbH & Co. KG,DE-53937 Monschau 06/2015 – 09/2017 Vocational Trainer Licence IHK Cologne 07/2016 Bachelor Professional in Digital Media IHK Cologne 11/2015 – 03/2018

Designer for digital and print media

Shortly after finishing my apprenticeship, I started studying for a Bachelor Professional in Digital Media Certificate, while still working full-time. My field of work kept expanding. This included supporting our management, on-boarding new colleagues, exploring new business areas and developing new products.

Bachelor Professional in Digital Media

During my education, I learned about:

  • Relational Databases (models, normalization, SQL queries)
  • Digital project planning
  • Preparation and calculation of quotations
  • Leadership
  • Customer consulting
Full-Time Position Weiss-Intermedia GmbH & Co. KG,DE-53937 Monschau 09/2017 – today B.A. Marketing & Digital Media FOM Hochschule für Oekonomie & Management,52068 Aachen 09/2019 – 12/2023

Designer for digital and print media – Project coordinator of the design and editorial staff

During my studies, I got promoted to project coordinator. I continued working as a designer and managed our design and editorial department. Due to my ability to adapt and being a fast learner, my field of expertise kept growing. Some of the tasks I got assigned are:

Management, coordination, software development and support

  • 1st and 2nd-level-support for our digital products
  • Coordinating external service providers and partners
  • Strategic management support
  • Process definition, analysis and optimization
  • Python development for task automation
  • Analyzing customer requirements, choosing, setting up and configuring suitable tools systems, such as the project management software plan.io or editorial software vjoon k4

B.A. Marketing & Digital Media

My education was focused on:

  • General business and marketing education
  • Academic writing and resaerch methods
  • Qualitative and quantitative data manipulation, -analysis and -visualization in R and Python
  • Social Media management
  • Customer relationship management
  • Business psychology
  • Usability, web design and web analytics