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Michigan, United States

As head of Web Development my responsibilities reach from the initial meeting with clients, over guiding them through the development process, to presenting the finished product and maintaining it. Most products I work on are WordPress sites, but throughout the years I've also developed multiple eCommerce solutions with WooCommerce, BigCommerce, and Shopify, as well as several large WordPress plugins for which I set up the entire payment and licensing infrastructure, while staying in contact with the clients to maintain and update the product on a regular basis. I've also built APIs from scratch that we host on AWS to manage large amounts of data.

Right after my arrival in the USA I began to work as a Freelancer. I started developing WordPress themes and plugins for clients, and to sell on digital marketplaces. I've also been in charge of designing web apps and internal tools for two big clients in Germany and Switzerland. One big focus was to streamline the development process by establishing efficient system architectures and quality control systems.

Delmenhorst, Lower Saxony, Germany

I was hired as head of the web department at one of the biggest PR agencies in Germany to manage daily operations and to improve front-end design and development for client websites in coordination with the graphics and PR departments. I was also in charge of planning and developing web applications with MVC frameworks and the hiring of new talent.

Delmenhorst, Lower Saxony, Germany

My high school friend and I founded our own web design and development company, Polyon. We designed websites according to clients needs and created database-supported web services, which then led me to discover MVC frameworks and object-oriented programming.

Delmenhorst, Lower Saxony, Germany

An internship resulted in a position as Creative Director. I was in charge of consulting clients and the development of marketing strategies in all shapes and forms in print and web. Here I also began to dig into CSS (to avoid table-based layouts), MySQL, and PHP programming to realize bigger web projects.

Advanced Technical College Certificate, Computer Science

This is where my love for code originates from. I completed classes on software design, databases, and programming. In my spare time I.

High School Diploma

Good times! During my High School years I was introduced to the Internet. One summer job later I purchased my first computer and was.