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Personal Data
| born December 19, 1977 in Wetzlar, Germany not married |
Work Experience
| 08/05 - today | Verlag für die Deutsche Wirtschaft AG (publishing house) - Product management Online- and Emailmarketing for GeVestor Financial Publishing Group - Brand introduction "GeVestor Financial Publishing Group" online: concept and launch of www.gevestor.de and www.gevestor.tv - Chief project manager "Anleger-Zirkel.de" (investor's circle): search-engine optimized marketing platform for investment advice newsletters of the publishing unit - Responsibilities: Development and deployment of an Internet marketing strategy; build-up of portals and microsites; build-up and maintenance of qualified address-lists; email-marketing with diverse free email-newsletters; search engine marketing (google adwords) - after traineeship (12 months) responsible product-manager |
| 03/00 - 03/03 | DaimlerChrysler AG - Customer Service Representative at the Mercedes Benz Customer Assistance Center in Maastricht (The Netherlands) - Departments: Customer Promotions, Customer Service, Service24h - Field of work: Customer advisory, and processing customer requests and inquiries for the internal market of the brands Mercedes Benz and Chrysler (of which one year as 2nd level support), for the Acquisition & Loyalty Program and Mercedes Card |
| 05/99 - 07/05 | Own business - Dealing in customised PC solutions - Installation service, maintenance and support - Webdesign - Reseller for Internet-related products |
Adv. Training & Seminars
| 11/08 | PubCon 2008 - Online marketing congress, Las Vegas (USA) |
| 10/08 | Internet World 2008 - Online marketing congress, Munich (D) |
| 03/08 | SES Search Engine Strategies 2008 - Search engine strategies conference, New York (USA) |
| 12/07 | eSIPA Conference 2007 - Special interest publishing congress, Miami (USA) |
| 06/07 | SIPA Conference 2007 - Special interest publishing congress, Washington (USA) |
| 12/06 | Mequoda Training: Usability Testing - training in conducting and moderating a usability lab, Boston (USA) |
| 12/06 | SIPA Conference 2006 - E-Commerce strategy seminar, Las Vegas (USA) |
| 09/06 | Mequoda Summit 2006 - Internetmarketing strategy congress, Boston (USA) |
| 05/06 | The System Seminar 2006 - Internetmarketing strategy seminar, Chicago (USA) |
| 03/06 | Search Engine Strategies 2006 - trade show SEM & SEO, Munich (GER) |
| 10/05 | Internet World 2005 - trade show Internetmarketing, Munich (GER) |
| 09/05 | Mequoda Summit 2005 - Internetmarketing strategy congress, Boston (USA) |
University
| 09/98 - 03/05 | University of Maastricht (The Netherlands) - Faculty of Economics and Business Administration - International Business Studies - Majors: Marketing, Logistics, E-Commerce, Strategy - Final Thesis: "Internet Forums and Decision-Making: On the Influence of Electronic Word of Mouth on Consumers' Automobile Purchase Behaviour" - Grade: 8.5 (excellent, 1,35, >74/A) - Degree: Master of International Business / Doctorandus Int. Bedrijfskunde (NL) |
| 09/03 - 03/04 | Otto-Friedrich-Universität Bamberg (Germany) - ERASMUS student exchange program - Majors: Marketing, Human Resources & Organization, Social policy |
School & Civil Service
| 09/97 - 08/98 | Lebenshilfe Wetzlar-Weilburg e.V. (Germany) - Civil service (as an alternative to military service) in a workplace for disabled people |
| 1989 - 1997 | Gymnasium Philippinum Weilburg (Germany) - School leaving examination (“Abitur”) in German, English, Mathematics, Social studies - Grade: 2,6 |
Extra-Curricular Engagement
| 2001 - 2002 | Maastricht Fusion - Careers in Europe 2002 - Planning and realisation of a three-day European Recruiting Event in Maastricht (The Netherlands) with company representatives and selected students - Occupation: webmaster, responsible for IT, and technically supporting the company representatives before and during the event |
| 1995 - 1997 | Editor of the school’s magazine “Spektrum” |
Languages
| German | mother-tongue |
| English | fluent (verbally and in writing) |
| Dutch | advanced |
Computer Skills
| Basics | Microsoft Windows and Office |
| Graphics & DTP | Adobe Photoshop, Lightroom, Acrobat |
| Webdesign | Macromedia Dreamweaver, Fireworks; Bradbury Topstyle |
| Programming | HTML, CSS (adv.); PHP, MySQL (basic knowledge) |
| SAP | SAP-IDES (basic knowledge) |
| CMS | Typo3, WordPress, MovableType |
| Other | optivo Broadmail, SPSS 12 |
Hobbies & Interests
| Mountainbiking | |
| Music& Movies | |
| Photography | |
| Cars & Motorsports |