11/04 - Present

Freelance Digital Artist, Cologne, Rhein-Neckar Area & Montreal

• Title design and visual effects for feature films and TV series
• Video editing
• Webdesign

04/03 - 10/04

Das Werk, Cologne

• Visual Effects Supervisor, HD Supervisor, Inhouse Producer

• Design of HD postproduction environment for commercial and feature film workflow.
• Visual Effects Supervisor and digital artist for TV Movies. Postproduction Supervision for feature films, TV Series and commercials.
• Co-managed the integration of another Postproduction company into the Das Werk Group.

06/01 - 04/03

Aquest, Cologne

• Online Video Editor, Visual Effects Operator & Graphik Designer , System Administrator

• Titledesign for the second season of the german version of "The Mole"
• Titledesign and visual effects for feature films and TV series
• Video editing
• Created, maintained and managed company website

06/00 - 06/01

Visual Territory FX, Cologne

• Digital artist, assistant visual effects supervisor, system administrator

• Visual Effects for feature films and TV series
• worked on Budgets, Visual Effect Breakdowns, quality ontrol of final shots, documentation
• created, maintained and managed company website

07/94 - 07/97

Rhein-Neckar-Fernsehen, Mannheim

• Production manager

09/97 - 06/00

GMD - German Research Center for Information Technology, St. Augustin, Germany (today part of Fraunhofer Gesellschaft)

• Media Designer Audio & Video
• Detailed training as camera operator, editor, on studio operations and media design.
• Marketing and bookkeeping in cooperation with the Chamber of commerce, Cologne.
• Major: 2D Animation / Editing / Multimedia

• Digital compositing
• Film restauration
• Webdesign & interactive authoring (DVD, Presentations, etc)
• On-Set Supervision
• Production management

• Adobe CS3 Photoshop, After Effects, Dreamweaver, Illustrator
• Avid Media Composer
• Avid Nitris DS
• Final Cut Studio
• Coda
• Autodesk Combustion and basic Flame/Inferno knowledge
• various other production tools
• QuickTime Pro
• Windows XP, MacOS X
• Microsoft Word und Excel

• Good communication skills
• Proficient in German, English and French