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Being one of the most renown digital agencies in London, Hi-ReS! produced campaigns for high profile clients such as Sony, Time Warner, or Diesel. From May to August 2007, in a total period of about six weeks, I have worked as a substitute producer on projects in almost every stage. The work included various tasks, such as scoping, internal organization, developer briefing, creation of wireframes, client communication, and account management. I have worked on the following clients: Sony Blu-ray Disc, Issey Miyake Parfums, Uniqlo, BBH, and Comcast.
Cornelsen is one of the leading publishing houses for educational media in Germany with about 300 million Euro of annual sales. The Berlin based company offers about 15.000 items for more than 40 school subjects, and hosts a multitude of Web sites and services.
Since 2003 I have contributed to the following projects (excerpt):
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Teachweb: strategical and technical consulting
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Erlebte Geschichte: Nationalsozialismus, Der Digitale Atlas: Development of the Web sites with SixCMS/PHP, and of the Content Management System of the accompying CD-ROM productions in JAVA/JSP and Oracle
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Development of various so-called »Microsites« with SixCMS/PHP, such as the media site, Cornelsen Interaktiv, or sites for primary school books like »Tinto«
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Technical consulting and development of a construction kit for sub-sites within the Cornelsen Web portal
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Various consulting jobs of technical and strategical nature (e.g. RSS case study, internal Web page caching, Web 2.0 potentials)
Technical and strategical consulting for the launch of the social recommendation platform »Yumondo«. The job included the work on the navigation panel, which amongst other features has been reviewed by the Read/WriteWeb blog.
The Berlin based die Gestalten Verlag is one of the leading publishing houses for contemporary visual design. Since 2005 I have contributed to the following projects (excerpt):
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Relaunch of the DGV online shop with PHP/MySQL, RSS, and XML-RPC
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Development of the »Release The Freaks« online shop (design toys)
The Open Source Annual is a unique compendium that covers all aspects of the phenomenon of Open Source. It is a voluntary project of the TU Berlin that is completely self-organized by students.
From 2004 to 2005 I have contributed to the Open Source Annual 2005, and coordinated the chapter »Open Content« which includes articles from well-known scholars such as NYU's Siva Vaidhyanathan. Working for the annual included the following activities:
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Investigation of and communication with the authors
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Reviewing and correction of the articles
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Writing of introductory articles
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Public relation work
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Team coordination and general management duties
Modular Systems is a radio show about electronic music culture on the students run station CKUT 90.3 in Montréal. In 2004 I contributed to the show as co-programmer, host, and DJ.
From 2002 to 2003 I joined forces with the Berlin based advertising agency IntroActive to develop the simple and convinient out-of-the-box Content Management System publi-X in PHP and MySQL.
Furthermore, I contributed to the following projects (excerpt):
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Consultancy service and more: Development of a personalized Content and Customer Relationship Management System in PHP and MySQL
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MICE MEISSNER EXPO: Development of a personalized Content Management System in PHP and MySQL
Epikur is a medical practice management program for psychotherapists which has been developed and maintained by the Dresden based company Signsoft till 2001 in the programming language Java.
The proprietor moved the business to Berlin in 2001 where I was fully responsible for the development, Web site maintenance, and customer support till 2002.

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Clemens Brandt
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born on September 8 1980 in Hamburg, Germany
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Freelance Web Producer, consultant, and developer in Germany, since 2001
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Salaried worker at Cornelsen Publishing Company — Content Management Developer, 2003–2004
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Internship at CompuTel Telephone Services (now arvato mobile) in Hamburg, Germany — editorial staff, 2000
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Community service at the Municipality of Norderstedt, Germany — protection of trees and of the countryside, 1999–2000
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Deep understanding of the Internet and its driving forces
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Excellent knowledge of both backend and frontend Web technologies (such as PHP, Java, MySQL, HTML, CSS, XML)
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Sound knowledge of agile project management methods, experience with applications such as iTask, MS Project, and Visio
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Editorial Background
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University of Hamburg, Germany — Journalism and Computer Science, 2000–2001
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Technische Universität Berlin, Germany — Computer Science and Science of Communication, 2001–2006
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McGill University Montréal, Canada — Exchange year, 2004–2005
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Field of activity: Computers and Society — an interdisciplinary research area that focuses on computer science, law, economics, and politics
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Degree: German Diploma in Computer Science (grade: 1.38, equivalent to first-class honours)
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Rotary Club Award for excellent achievements at high school, 1999
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Antje Graupe-Pryor Award for high academic performances, 2004
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German — native
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English — fluent
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French — intermediate
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Music: Bass player in an indie-rock band, electronic music (DJing and producing)
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Culture, Society, and the Internet
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Sports: Soccer, Golf, Swimming, and Fitness

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