Dr. Florian Urmetzer

BSc, MSc, PhD

Project manager / Senior Researcher

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9000 Sankt Gallen, Switzerland

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Personal information

Wants

Networking opportunities in St. Gallen, Swiss

Haves

Line management and project management experience, Defining requirements for computer systems, Extensive experience in Gadgets, Mashups, Service Orientated Architectures, Mass Collaboration and Social Software. This includes their use on the web as well as in enterprises, Practical experience in the use of research methods for e.g. focus groups, interviews, usability evaluations and market research, Managing software research and development projects.

Interests

Hiking, skiing, volleyball, cooking, good conversations that do not involve computing, -)

Organizations

UPA (Usability Professionals' Association) ACM (Association for Computing Machinery) & Sigchi (Special Interest Group on Computer-Human Interaction) IEEE (Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers)

Professional experience

Sep 2008 - present

(1 year, 3 months)

Project manager / Senior Researcher

(The company name is only visible to registered members)

Industry: Research

Apr 2005 - present

(4 years, 8 months)

Research Assistant

ACET Centre, School of Computing, The Reading University, http://www.acet.reading.ac.uk/

Industry:

Jan 2008 - Aug 2008

(8 months)

Visiting Researcher

Politecnico di Milano

Industry: Academia

Jun 2007 - Jul 2007

(2 months)

Internship: Dataquest Analyst

Gartner, http://www.gartner.com

Industry: Research

Sep 2002 - Jan 2004

(1 year, 5 months)

Research Assistant

Livestock Development Group, http://www.livestockdevelopment.org

Industry: Research

Consultant

Thaumaturgix Ltd, New Delhi, India

Industry:

Web Designer

IBM Deutschland GmbH, http://www.ibm.de

Industry:

Internaltional Relations

Volkswagen AG, http://www.volkswagen.de

Industry:

Auszubildender

Volkswagen AG, Business Unit Braunschweig, http://www.volkswagen-braunschweig.de/

Industry:

Status

Employee

Educational background

University/College

The Reading University, Apr 2005 - Sep 2008

Research Degree, PhD

The Reading University, Feb 2004 - May 2005

European Network Centred Computing, MSc

e-business

University of Glamorgan, Sep 1999 - Jul 2002

Media Technology, BSc Hons

Languages

German, English, Italian

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