Curriculum Vitae

Education and Qualifications

University of Southampton

June 2010 - June 2013 (3 years)

BEng Electronic Engineering with Second Class Honours (Upper Division)

Albert-Schweitzer-Gymnasium

June 2001 - June 2010 (9 years)

Allgemeine Hochschulreife (Abitur): Overall Grade 1.6

Employment

Garmsby Ltd | garmsby.co.uk

June 2013 - present (13 months)

Co-founded a crowd-sourcing platform with 2500+ users worldwide. Designed and developed the entire site myself using the web framework Django with HTML, CSS and JavaScript for front-end development. Worked full-time for 5 months and continued as a part-time employee whilst travelling.

MultiCom GmbH

April 2013 (2 weeks)

Developed and implemented a height measuring image processing algorithm on an embedded system. Applied many of the image processing techniques acquired at university and delivered a functioning prototype within the 2 weeks available.

MultiCom GmbH | sincotool.com

June 2012 - September 2012 (3 months)

Developer for the ‘Swell’ project: an intelligent bed for use in hospitals. In a small team of developers we took the entire hardware from first prototypes to PCBs ready to go into production. I also wrote apiece of Windows-based software in C# to test a daisy chain of PCBs using a single USB port. Gained further experience in working with ARM microprocessors and implementing camera chips in particular.

Ingenieurbüro Waite GmbH

June 2007 (2 weeks)

Translated an entire application to German, as well as designing and running tests for the program.

Internships

MultiCom GmbH

June 2011 - September 2011 (3 months)

Designed and built a slave device for the Beckhoff EtherCAT fieldbus system to drive power LEDs. Involved working with NXP microcontrollers running ARM microprocessors, various interface buses and meeting general requirements of a real life product.

BP Spain/UK (School Internship)

April 2009 (2 weeks)

Developed an interface between an existing supply management- and a SAP system that was being deployed at the time. It converted CSV into XML files using Excel spreadsheets and macros programmed in Visual Basic to automate the process.

Ingenieurbüro Waite GmbH

April 2007 (3 weeks)

Visually adapted a piece of software to suit a customer’s needs using HTML and CSS.

Skills

Python

  • 2 years of experience writing at university and for garmsby
  • SciPy library for data analysis and plots

Django

  • Bachelor Thesis and garmsby largest projects
  • Created an entire e- commerce site within a few months using

HTML/CSS

  • HTML5/CSS/LESS
  • 7 years of experience in numerous projects

JavaScript

  • 2 years of experience including D3.js, jQuery, Modernizr
  • Built many dynamics front- ends using AJAX

C#

  • Experience in developing native Windows, as well as Windows Phone apps
  • 3rd place in a university app development contest in 2011

Hosting

  • Hosted projects on university servers, Heroku as well as private Raspberry Pi servers running LAMP stacks
  • Experienced with Amazon Web Services, in particular S3

Marketing

  • Google Analytics
  • SEO
  • Social Media

Non-technical

  • Raised bilingual, native in German and English
  • Strong rhetorical skills, named my school’s ‘public speaker of the year’ in 2008

Hobbies

  • Passionate musician, active as a solo singer songwriter
  • Footballer at SC Poppenbüttel in Hamburg