Curriculum vitae

Consulting and implementation of PIM/MDM/DAM projects with Pimcore and Symfony

Without much ado, my activities are in essence:

• Software Development
• Technical conception
• Consulting
• Keynotes (Topic: Pimcore)

For many years I have been working in the areas of personal development and new work. Both areas are becoming more and more important for our development in business and in dealing with "knowledge workers". The development of individuals is as important in detail as the development of the company. In the information age it is not possible to be successful without trusting employees and distributing tasks and responsibilities. This requires a strong rethinking and willingness to learn on the part of all involved. Through the experiences as a trainer as well as the cooperation with colleagues and friends I found out that I have a talent to convey contents and to accompany people on their way, to learn and to support the genesis.

KEOZ GmbH, then still under the name real-digital-agency, approached me back in 2019. Despite very good talks, I did not take up the position. The reasons for this were the then uncertain status of the parent company "real,-". Nevertheless, we always stayed in good contact, which is why I decided to switch to KEOZ GmbH after all.

You can read more about this in my employee profile (DE).

At the height of Corona, I took over the team management for a team of over 20 people. After several months of preliminary discussions with the then managing director and disclosure of my working method (New-Work), I took up the position. Here I took over a quarreling team under probably the most difficult conditions. Together with the team, processes and working methods were developed to make cooperation possible again. This also included the reorientation of parts of the team. 

During this time, projects of customers from different industries (medicine, telecommunications, banking, etc.) were successfully implemented. With the good experiences from the past, I introduced Pimcore, which resulted in the silver partnership with Pimcore, trained employees and successfully implemented projects. In addition to the tasks as a team leader, I took over tasks from the areas of consulting, project management and software development.

Unfortunately, we had different opinions on certain processes and topics, which did not fit together, so it was decided together in good faith to go separate ways.

The promotion of people, regardless of age, gender or origin, has always been important to me. For a long time, the topics of personality development in my private life occupied me and I increasingly realized that I have a positive influence on people by standing by them at the right moments. Now, due to the departure of the trainer at anyMOTION GRAPHICS GmbH, the opportunity arose to take on this role. So I completed the training according to AEVO and became a trainer. I gladly take over the responsibility of the trainer in order to give young people a good start into their professional life and to protect them from being abused as cheap labor.

After a short time I took over the responsibility for all topics around the development of Symfony and Pimcore projects. This was accompanied by the responsibility for the training and coordination of 7 team members in the area of development, 2 team members in the area of conception and design as well as several team members in project management. My tasks were:

• Recruitment von neuen Kollegen zu Unterstützen
• Familiarization of new colleagues in my area
• Mediating internal department (development and conception/creation) after years of differeces to improve cooperation
• Establishment of an interdisciplinary team from development, PM, conception and design
• Joint consulting with customers in an interdisciplinary team
• Training colleagues on project focus (across departments)
• Revise and improve JIRA workflow
• Further development of the work processes to a partial agile approach
• Conversion of the Gitlab CI/CD processes to Docker
• Enhancement of CI/CD processes for Pimcore projects and introduction of different testing methods (unit testing, behavior testing)
• Creating test software to be able to detect recurring problems in development in an automated way
• Taking over the training of application developers (FIAE) and system integrators (FISI) after the departure of the previous trainer

Excerpt of implemented projects

• AIXTRON SE - Further expansion of functionalities
• Rhenus Event App - Building the app backend in Pimcore, the management interface as well as extending the Pimcore backend for functionalities related to the app (sending PUSH notifications to subscribers, etc.).
• Pfalzwerke Netz AG with the following subprojects
  • Pfalzwerke.de - Sale of electricity and gas
  • pfalzwerke-netz.de - Pfalzwerke Netz AG information page
  • blog.pfalzwerke-gruppe.de - Blog of Pfalzwerke Netz AG
  • 123energie - Cross-regional brand for gas and electricity
  • ALDI Grüne Energie - Cooperation with ALID for gas and electricity
• COMLINE SE - Relaunch of the website and connection to career portals
• POHL Fassaden - Technical accompaniment
• M&C Tech Group - Technical concept, development of the data structure and customer advisory service
• Fahrzeugwerke Böckmann - Technical support and assistance

I left the company at my own request. My idea of New Work differed too much with the management.

After successfully passing my final exams and completing my training, they didn't want to let me go. My tasks included:

• Die Kommunikation mit Kunden sowie die technische Beratung
• Technical conception for upcoming Pimcore projects
• Evaluation of costs and time for new projects
• Updating of existing projects to the previously created project standard
• Support in the supervision of trainees
• Expansion and continuation of the process optimization measures initiated previously

As part of my training as an application developer, I completed an internship in this area. The following activities were carried out under my own responsibility:

• Austomatization of the migration process from a (very) old Gitlab to a new, current instance. An update were not possible due to lack of source files of the intermediate updates
• Familiarization with Pimcore and Symfony
• Creating a feature branch auto-deploy process using Gitlab CI and FreeBSD bhyve
• Conception of a project standard for Symfony and Pimcore projects for standardization and process optimization
• Designing and creating a program (Autopim) for the automatic generation of new projects as well as the fully automated installation of a development environment with the current project status. This reduced the time to create a development environment from partly days to 15 minutes
• Constant implementation of the web presence of AIXTRON SE

After my time out, it was important for me to do something for myself. I wanted to turn my back on retail and wholesale and do what I enjoyed more. So I decided to catch up on my training as an application developer. The training period was two years, 6 months of which had to be completed practically in a company.

Burn-out due to several years of overtime and missing vacation between 2010 and 2016 with subsequent termination within the first 14 sick days.

• Consulting for private and business customers
• Organization of goods and appointments for the affiliated workshop
• Use for local as well as online trade
• Setup and programming of connection to online marketplaces (Amazon, eBay, MeinPaket.de, etc.) via previously built eCommerce solution
• Connection of the eCommerce solution to the merchandise management system
• Automation of the ordering process
  • Import of order and reconciliation of stock
  • Shipping status update and customer information
  • Transfer of address information to shipping service provider
• Vehicle programming (CAN-BUS)
• Programming of a product configurator for ZENEC products
• Maintenance and expansion of the IT infrastructure
• Carrying out service repairs for ZENEC products and setting up service processes
• Significant participation in the establishment of a further line of business(trading in LEDs)
  • Research on possible production partners and products
  • Communication with production sites (China)
  • Goods and customs clearance for imports from third countries, taking into account applicable laws for the import of goods from third countries
  • Creation of lighting plans and foreign color representations for the expansion of commercial buildings under specification of the customer CI

• Consulting for medium-sized companies and private individuals
• Conception of individual IT solutions (hard- and software)
• Configuration of individual IT solutions (hard- and software)

• Consulting for private and business customers
• Service of hardware and software
• Management of goods traffic
• Group and individual training of customers
• Continuing education through Apple training material in sales topics and tactics

I hear again and again from people who miss the school days and can remember very well those who profezeiten me that this is also the case with me. As of today (2022), that is not the case. I repeated the 7th grade. My teachers described me as being upbeat, I rather as being hungry for knowledge. The answer "Because I say so!" to the question why something is so, I did not accept then, I do not accept today and will never accept from. After school and on weekends, I worked at GRAVIS Computervertriebsgesellschaft mbH in Bielefeld, Germany, after completing a student internship in the 9th grade. Here I was able to develop my interest in IT through colleagues and work.