ABOUT ME

As a user experience design expert with the Global Design team at SAP I contribute to shaping and evolving SAPs Design Language, Fiori. As part of my work I am defining various concepts and patents in the area of Fiori 2.0 - evolution of Fiori and future looking concepts such as Conversational UI, Intelligent Assistant, Machine Learning and Situation Awareness. In all I do, I seek to put the user and customers in the center of my work.
 
My strong background in tool design, web design, visual design and information technology, enables me to speak the language of design as well as of the development teams we work with. That makes negotiations and roadmap definition easier and allows me to regularly work on strategic topics.With my experience in not only creating visions, but also bring them to live and put them in a format that allows to sell them inside and outside of our company, I often prepare board and key note presentations (ppts, movies, interactive prototypes) for Senior Mgt and the Board Areas.
 
Besides all that I like sharing my expertise and enjoy supporting and guiding junior and senior colleagues, help them grow and be sucessful. In my professional live (as a member of the team that won the first Red Dot award for SAP in the design concept area) as well as my private life (as a  team captain in the highest German American Football league) I often could proof that I am a strong team player and natural go-to person for my team mates, they love to work with and learn from.

WORK EXPERIENCE

User Experience Design Expert

SAP AG Walldorf
August 2014 – today
Concepts, interaction design, visual design, usability testing and inventions in the area of Conversational UI, Machine Learning, Intelligent Assitant, Fiori 2.0 – evolution of Fiori,  Situation Awareness, based on UI5, CSS, JS. Design Lead on Fiori 2.0 productizing. Preparation of board presentations,  SAPPHIRE/TechEd Keynotes (PPT, movies and interactive prototypes). Guidance of junior and senior colleagues on various aspects of design and transporting of ideas.

Student Employee

Heidelberger Druckmaschinen AG Heidelberg
October 2002 – May 2003
Student Employee
Extension of an Event-Management-System

Diploma Thesis

Heidelberger Druckmaschinen AG Heidelberg
May 2003 – September 2003
“Personalization in the internet – exemplified by the Heidelberger Druckmaschinen AG”
(very good – 1,3)

Freelancer

Freelance Heidelberg
January 2000 – April 2004

Web & content-management projects for diverse customers including conception, information architecture, interaction design, visual design, animation and web-development (PHP, HTML, CSS, JavaScript, Typo 3, Flash, Social Media)

Senior Software Developer

Cyperfection Gmbh Ludwigshafen
April 2004 – December 2010
Many content-management-projects with customers from various business areas, where I was a reponsible for the concept, interaction design and web development such as Medical (Roche,Depuy), Publisher (Kiehl), Energy (EnBW), Education (SRH Holding), Consulting (Curacon) and Public Sector (City of Ludwigsahafen, Pforzheim)

Senior User Experience Design Specialist

SAP AG Walldorf
January 2011 – July 2014
Concepts, interaction design, visual design, usability testing and inventions in the area of Business ByDesign (UI Designer, Cloud Developer Studio), SuccesFactors (Employee Central Payroll, Onboarding), Hana (Life Cycle Management, Project Cockpit), Cloud (Touchdown) and Analytics (Business in Focus, Business Transparency) based on various UI Technologies (Silverlight, ABAP WebDynpro, UX3, Fiori, HTML5 and Native Mobile).

Internship

Heidelberger Druckmaschinen AG Heidelberg
May 2002 – October 2002
Autonomous planning and implementation of a global J2EE based Event-Management-System

Student Employee

Braun & Voigt Werbeagentur Heidelberg
October 2000 – May 2002
Design & Development of several internet presences using HTML, CSS, Flash, Photoshop, Freehand

Internship

Braun & Voigt Werbeagentur Heidelberg
May 2000 – October 2000
Design of multiple trade-fair appearances, advertisements, promotion articles and development of several websites

EDUCATION

Business Information Technology

University of Mannheim Mannheim

Computer Science & Media

University of Applied Sciences Heidelberg -1,9 (good)

AWARDS

reddot design award – Design Concept

SAP Fiori 2.0 - Next generation business software Technology 2015

Hasso Plattner Founders’ Award

Nominee and finalist for User Experience & Design: Bringing SAP to the…

DOMAIN EXPERTISE

Mobile

Project Cockpit, Projects 2 Go, Business Transparency, CoPilot

Content Management

Wordpress, Typo3, Custom

Icons

Icons, Iconfonts

Financials

Business Transparency, Business in Focus

Development Tools

Cloud Developer Studio, Business By Design Studio

Human Resources

Employee Central Payroll, SuccessFactors Onboarding

Lifecycle Management

Hana Lifecycle Management

Conversational UI

CoPilot, Intent Definition

Intelligent Enterprise

Design 2 Operate, Lead 2 Cash

Framework

UI5, Touchdown, Business ByDesign

AI / ML

Situation Awareness, CoPilot

Project Management

Project Cockpit, Projects 2 Go

Controls

Fiori, Mobile, UX3, Custom

Sports

ENBW Arena (WM 2006), Internet & Social Media Rhein-Neckar Bandits

Theming

Fiori 2.0 Theme (Red Dot), Skyline Theme, WebDynpro Theme

SKILLS

INTERACTION DESIGN
VISUAL DESIGN
USABILITY TESTING
CONCEPTION
DESIGN THINKING
USER CENTERED DESIGN
HTML CSS JS
PROTOTYPING
VIDEO PRODUCTION
PRINT

TOOLS

ADOBE PHOTOSHOP
ADOBE ILLUSTRATOR
ADOBE INDESIGN
ADOBE XD
Axure
Balsamiq
SKETCH
POWERPOINT
INVISION
ADOBE AFTER EFFECTS

RECENT PROJECTS

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