Curriculum Vitae

Formal Schooling:

2013 - Graduated Cum Laude from University College Maastricht (UCM)
8.2 GPA (Equivalent of 4.0 GPA in the USA), The Netherlands
2011 - Semester at Queens University, Canada
2008 to 2009 - Studied economics in Eisenstadt, Austria
2005 - Matura at ORG Hegelgasse 14 Vienna, Austria
2004 - Completed Waldorf School in Vienna, Austria
2001 - Semester at Wallenpaupack Area Highschool, Pennsylvania, USA

Languages:
English & German fluent, passing knowledge of Russian and Dutch

Misc:
- Valedictorian speaker at my graduation from UCM
- My paper 'Irrigating Kagans Desert' has been mandatory reading for the course 'COR1005 - Modeling Nature' at UCM

Social Work:

2006 to 2010 (Summers) - Councellor for Das Rauhe Haus. Worked with children and grown ups with various mental and physical disabilities - Germany
2005 to 2006 - 14 months Social Service in Minsk, Belarus. Work for Children's Hospice, Children's Cancer Hospital as well as various other projects - Belarus
2002 - Internship at public kindergarten in Vienna, Austria

Competences through social work:
Experienced in interactions with people with various degrees of autistic behaviour, as well as mentally and physically challenged. Lots of patience and a stoic sense of humour

Music:

2009 - Audio engineer for Gentle Pro Audio & Light, Susteren, The Netherlands
2009 - Der Sandmann:: Vocals, Songwriting, Programming (~5 Performances in Vienna and Utrecht) Austria, Netherlands
2005 - to 2008 Logathore: Concept, Music Writing, Management, Vocals, Guitar (20+ performances all over Austria as well as in Belarus. Two Demos and one full length CD, lots of press.) Austria, Belarus
2002 to 2005 - Organization of yearly festival series, "Rock im Schloss". Rock im Schloss featured various local bands and artists and drew a croud of ~400 people per year. Austria
2001 to 2004 - Siquemoore: Guitar and Vocals (~8 Performances, in and around Vienna) Austria
1997 to 2001 - Studied Oboe at the Vienna Conservatory, Austria

Music-Skills:
Cubase & ProTools, Recording, Mixing & Mastering. Experienced stage hand, passing live-audio technician. Songwriting & Arrangement.

Making, Hacking & Electronics

2013 - Making Robots Workshop at the BRG Kandlgasse, Vienna Austria
2013 - Computing & Creative Arts Workshop at the BRG Kandlgasse, Vienna Austria
2012 - Talk at the Avans Hogeschool te Breda on Crowdsourcing and Crowdfunding The Netherlands
2012 - Succesfull funding through Kickstarter
of ongoing Telerobotics Project "Mediated Touch" The Netherlands
2012 - Presentation of "A Flock of Origami Birds" and "Wristflicker" at TEI Canada
2011 - Hosted workshop at Maasmedias "Day of sustainability" on the powers of open source hardware and development as well as hands on introduction to Arduino The Netherlands
2011 - Exhibit of "A Flock of Origami Birds" at the NYC Resistors "Interactive Show" USA
2011 - Hosted workshop at toy-design studio Lernell on interactive electronics USA
2011 - Research Assistant at the Human Media Lab
(work on flexible displays and wearable input technology) Canada
2010 - PEERS (Undergraduate Research) on Humanoid Robots The Netherlands

Hands on Skills:
Woodworking & Sewing (1 year formal education in both) Bookbinding, Felting, Pottery, Gardening

Electronics:
Arduino & Circuit Design, Flexible Circuit Design, Flexible PCBs, SMD soldering, Sensor Technology & creation of Low-Tech sensors, Signal Processing.

Computer:
Processing, Max/MSP, OSC, Java, Lisp, Haskell, Autodesk Maya & Vicon Motion Capturing, html/JavaScript/css (basics), Prolog (basics), Android (basics).

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