Curriculum Vitae — Matthias Sturm

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msturm.com
Freelancer

10/2014 – present
Berlin

I'm self employed as a consultant, planner and developer for various customers concerning their products.

Responsibilities:

Customer acquisition, consulting
Corporate Identity planning and implementation (incl. logo design, styleguide, web, print: letters, business cards)
Code reviewing and quality assurance of external service providers
Responsible planning and implementation using WordPress, Kirby, Jekyll and more
Feature planning and implementation

Verlag Der Tagesspiegel GmbH
Web Developer

4/2018 – 7/2019
Berlin

Der Tagesspiegel is one of the most quoted newspapers in Germany and reaches more policy-makers than all national subscription newspapers combined.

Responsibilities:

Relaunch of the Tagesspiegel subscription center
Relaunch of the Tagesspiegel Checkpoint newsletters incl. web-reader
Development of a centralised SSO interface for all Tagesspiegel products

adviqo AG
Frontend Developer

9/2013 – 10/2014
Berlin

adviqo AG is the international market leader for advisory platforms and operates a broad portfolio in the field of life coaching. Their diverse brands are divided into the areas of consulting, TV channels, content and shopping deals - online as well as magazines.

Responsibilities:

Implementation of user interfaces, template creation and content management following corporate design rules, usability and performance optimization
Planning of user interfaces designs in consultation with the UX department
Planning of implementation and deployment process of a cross-platform video player (Projekktor, deployment using gulp.js)
Feature development and documentation

Smart AdServer GmbH
Rich Media Developer

8/2011 – 8/2013
Paris, Montréal, Berlin

Smart AdServer, founded in 2001, is one of the leading providers of ad-management solutions for administration, controlling and optimization of digital advertising. The company is developing and marketing solutions for publishers, networks, agencies and advertisers using all digital channels - web, video, IPTV and mobile. Smart AdServer has a customer base of more than 400 customers on four different continents.

Responsibilities:

Consultancy, programming, further development and integration of rich media ad formats taking into consideration specific customer requirements
Development and documentation
Generating test plans, troubleshooting
Coaching of internal and external employees

MY-HAMMER AG
Frontend Developer

4/2008 – 7/2011
Neuss, Berlin

MyHammer provides an B2C marketplace for tradesmen & service provider in Germany, Austria and Great Britain. With over 6 million inquiries per month, it is the number one B2C tradesmen & service marketplace in Europe.

Responsibilities:

Implementation of user interfaces, template creation and content management following corporate design rules, usability and performance optimization
Technical development of the platform using HTML, CSS and JavaScript
Planning, implementation and maintenance of the companies newsroom blogs for Germany, Austria, UK and USA based on WordPress (standardized templates, plugins and more)
Relaunch of the main job submit formular
Functionality testing in common browsers and bug fixing

Bundeswehr
Soldier in News Service

10/2006 – 3/2008
Kellinghusen, Neubrandenburg

Responsibilities:

Creation of the daily newspaper for the north-german operational headquarters
Photographic documentation of field maneuver exercises

P&R Kongresse GmbH
Digital Media Designer

9/2003 – 9/2006
Berlin

P&R Kongresse is an agency doing the planning and organization of conferences of doctors. Accompanying they set up websites including sign-up formulars for attendants.

Responsibilities:

Planning and development of congress websites using HTML, CSS, JavaScript and PHP/MySQL backends
Planning and development of a dentist management system (PHP, MySQL)
Print production of various media including books, magazines, direct mailings, etc.

Matthias Sturm

Product, Development & UX Consulting

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