Work
Principal User Experience Consultant & Head of R&D
since 07/2019
eresult GmbH
Tasks:
- UX Strategy & Management
- Innovation Management
- User Requirements Engineering
- Usability Testing
- Design Thinking
- Human-Centered Design / Human-Centered Software Engineering
Principal User Experience Consultant
01/2019 – 06/2019
eresult GmbH
Tasks:
- User Requirements Engineering
- Usability Testing
- Design Thinking
- Human-Centered Design / Human-Centered Software Engineering
Lecturer
05/2012 – 12/2018
Technische Hochschule Köln
Given master course:
- “Usability and software engineering in a holistic process” (every summer term)
Researcher / Usability Consultant
04/2016 – 12/2018
Software Innovation Campus Paderborn (SICP), Paderborn University
Tasks:
- Contextual and organizational experience in usability projects
- Acquisition of research projects
- Mentoring of student assistants
Research areas
- Work 4.0
- Software acceptance and assistance systems
- Integrating usability engineering and software engineering
- Processes, methods and techniques of usability engineering
- Development of organization and project specific software development methods (situational method engineering)
- Human-centered software engineering according to ISO 9241-210
- Quality and quality metrics regarding usability and user experience
- Context of use analysis and specification of user requirements
- Standardization of usability engineering tasks and working products
Projects
- Arbeit 4.0 – Lösungen für die Arbeitswelt der Zukunft (en. Work 4.0 – Future solutions of work)
- itsowl-Arbeit40
- with Diebold Nixdorf AG (Assembly support by individual feedback of quality data in real time)
- with Weidmüller Interface GmbH & Co. KG (Augmented reality within industrial manufacturing)
- Digital in NRW – Das Kompetenzzentrum für den Mittelstand (en. Center of competence for SME regarding Industry 4.0)
Researcher / Usability Consultant
09/2013 – 12/2017
s-lab – Software Quality Lab, Paderborn University
Tasks:
- Contextual and organizational experience in usability projects
- Acquisition of research projects
- Mentoring of student assistants
Research areas
- Integrating usability engineering and software engineering
- Processes, methods and techniques of usability engineering
- Development of organization and project specific software development methods (situational method engineering)
- Human-centered software engineering according to ISO 9241-210
- Quality and quality metrics regarding usability and user experience
- Context of use analysis and specification of user requirements
- Standardization of usability engineering tasks and working products
Projects
- itsowl-TT-IPPS with Schüco International KG (Development of an intelligent planning system for parameterizable system facades)
- itsowl-TT-Energy2use with Brockbals GmbH (User-oriented energy efficiency systems)
- itsowl-KoMoS with Wincor Nixdorf International GmbH (Design of model-based user interfaces for distributed self-service systems)
- eBusiness-Lotse Ostwestfalen-Lippe (eCompetence network for more efficiency and innovation in companies)
Researcher / Usability Consultant
10/2010 – 09/2013
C-LAB, Paderborn University
Joint research and development laboratory operated in cooperation
- with Atos (since 07/2011)
- with Siemens (until 06/2011 )
Tasks
- Contextual and organizational experience in usability projects
- Acquisition of research projects
- Mentoring of student assistants
Research areas
- Integrating Usability Engineering and Software Engineering
- Usability Standards
- Human-Centered Design
Projects
- Study on “Technologies of multi-touch tables, interactions, application scenarios” for Siemens CT
Associated Member of the Heinz Nixdorf Institut
07/2011 – 09/2013
Research group 'Contextual informatics' from Prof. Dr.-Ing. Reinhard Keil, Paderborn University
Given master courses:
- Seminar “Advanced Interaction Techniques: Tabletop, Touch- & Tangible Interaction” (winter term 2011/2012, winter term 2010/2011)
- Project group “Multi User Table for Tangible Interaction (MUTTI)” (winter term 2010/2011 & summer term 2011 (v2), summer term 2011 & winter term 2011/2012 (v3), summer term 2012 & winter term 2012/2013 (v4))
Scientific Assistant
05/2008 – 08/2010
Laboratory for Media Informatics, Cologne University of Applied Sciences
Tasks:
- Consulting and support for students in their human-centered design projects
- Performing workshops for students to teach them service-oriented architectures
Employee in Research & Development
04/2007 – 04/2008
Nuromedia GmbH, Cologne
Tasks:
- Software development for mobile devices (i.a. software for a mobile media center within a research project with the University of Bremen)
Own Business
05/2005 – 12/2006
WeStyle GbR
Web development, flyer & poster design
Civil Service
07/2002 – 04/2003
Youth Hostel Wiehl
Own Business
09/2000 – 12/2002
Fishdesign
Web development