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.
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
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
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