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CV

Career profile

Highly ambitious, reliable and hard working, eager to learn and improve skills. Bringing along creativity, curiousness and humor as well as trained skills in the fields of sketching, CAD and graphic design. Seeking for challenges, awaiting the new. Strong in the conceptual and form finding process, cooperative in every field of design. Due to the many and wide-ranging school projects I gained persistence, deep insight in the different processes and a serene mind.

Key experience

Computer skills

- Alias StudioTools

- Solid Works

- Keyshot and Bunkspeed

- Adobe Photoshop, Illustrator, AfterEffetcs and InDesign

- Poser

Drawing skills

From rough ball pen scribbles to detailed canson renderings, from quick marker sketches to precise pastel drawings

Model-building

- milling and working on the turning lathe

- clay-modeling

- from CAD to rapid prototyping

Consulting and working together with clients and companies such as

- Philips DAP Klagenfurt

- Spidercam Europe

- Thonet Graz

- State Museum Joanneum

- Joanneum Racing

- BMW (Dipl.-Des. Jürgen Haussmann and Dipl.-Des. Gerhard Friedrich)

- Porsche Design (Mag. Roland Heiler)

Languages

Fluent business English

Basics in French, Italian and Spanish

Career History

Dhemen Design

September to February 2010

Internship at innovative Basque design team

- Project concerning simulator (Confidential)

- Graphic Design of motorcycle helmets for LEM

- E-scooter, details

- Electric boats, illustration and visualization

BreadedEscalope

Summer 2008

Internship at a young and ambitious design team

- Lighting Concepts

- Research and market analysis

- Prototype-buidling

2006 – 2007

Social service on a monastery estate

Summer and Fall 2005

Co-organizing and –designing for “The happy Glass Machine” exhibition in Klagenfurt

Hirsch AG

Summer 2003

Internship in the Design Department – worldwide wristband and watch manufacturer

- Contributed to the Collection 2004

- Research and market analysis

2001 – 2006

Several summer jobs

Education

2007 – 2011

University of Applied Sciences FH Joanneum Industrial Design

Graduated with Excellence as Diplom-Ingenieur (FH)

2011

Diploma thesis “Windmobiles – low emission tourism”

2010

Project in cooperation with Porsche Design, Zell am See

Under the lead of Mag. Roland Heiler

The ultimate Porsche Design Product – Helmet for Space tourism

Project in cooperation with BMW

Under the lead of Dipl.-Des. Jürgen Haussmann and Dipl.-Des. Gerhard Friedrich

Authis Gene – future of SUV

2005 – 2006

Diploma thesis in Industrial Design

In cooperation with Philips Klagenfurt

“ava m – the Army Clipper”; a group-project

2001 – 2006

Higher Technical School Ferlach for Machine Engineering and Industrial Design

‘A’ levels – Art History, English, Manufacturing Technology, History, Mechanics

1997 – 2001

Bilingual grammar school (English/German) in Villach

1996 – 1997

King’s School Newcastle, England

Personal Details

Date of Birth: 2 September 1986

Licence: Austrian Driving Licence

Interests: Skiing, beach volleyball, soccer, running

Travelling

Art and architecture

Cars

Ethnic food