Christian Schaefer

Head of IT Believe Germany incl. Nuclear Blast, Grooveattack, GoodToGo, Roughtrade, Soulfood, AFM, Drakkar, Massacre

Digitale Strategie-, Produkt- und Technologieberatung, Über 10 Jahre praktische Erfahrung in der Entwicklung und mehrere Jahre Erfahrung mit Marken und digitalen Produkten. Produkte scheitern selten an der Idee, aber an der Vermittlung der Idee in die Umsetzung. Wer sollte das besser begleiten, als jemand, der beide Seiten kennt und versteht?

Verantwortlich für ein fachl. und techn. Team innerhalb der Datenversorgung von otto.de. Aufgaben umfassen Integration, Normalisierung, Validierung und Quantifizierung von Produktdaten.

*** ROLLING STONE *** MUSIKEXPRESS *** METAL HAMMER *** - Neue Geschäftsfelder, Kommunikation Vorstandsprojekte/GF - Strategische Entwicklung des digitalen Geschäfts/Identifizierung neuer digitaler Geschäftsfelder - Bewertung neuer Geschäftsmodelle/Akquisitionen - Anbahnung Kooperationen - Neue Monetarisierungsansätze für die journalistischen Portale - Sparringspartner für technische Themen - Strategische Projekte, übergreifende Verantwortung für Projekterfolg der vorhandenen Portale

Digitale Strategie-, Produkt- und Technologieberatung, Über 10 Jahre praktische Erfahrung in der Entwicklung und mehrere Jahre Erfahrung mit Marken und digitalen Produkten. Produkte scheitern selten an der Idee, aber an der Vermittlung der Idee in die Umsetzung. Wer sollte das besser begleiten, als jemand, der beide Seiten kennt und versteht? Aktuelle Kunden: Impulse Medien GmbH, http://www.impulse.de G+J Corporate Editors GmbH, http://www.corporate-editors.com

Responsible for the digital business of the following Gruner+Jahr Exclusive & Living brands: SCHÖNER WOHNEN - essen & trinken - National Geographic - Living at Home - BEEF! - COUCH - HÄUSER - Jamie - Deli - Dogs

Responsible for: * Capital.de, Immobilien-Kompass.de * Evaluation and controlling of technology related projects * Advertizing technology advisor * Support of mobile / tablet projects * Research & development of new technologies * Web analytics advisor

My responsibilities included consulting, controlling and research & development. In this role I gave advise to international digital projects ensuring the support of overall business goals. I supported M&A team with due dilligences and valuations. I monitored performance figures and economic data to propose projects that leverage on positive tendencies or counteract negative trends. I looked into current trends and developed prototypes to gather ideas on how these trends can be utilized for our busine

I fully joined G+J International Magazines to continue building and distributing a common technical web platform. I set up the successor project from scratch and changed from a centralized development to a common technology agreement. My responsibilities included portfolio and project management as well as trainings and workshops in participating countries. The project was successfully completed and handed over to the countries responsibility.

I joined the newly created architecture to further ensure that the web platform was a common development by both the German as well as the international devisions of G+J. Speaking with and for the international countries I was responsible for requirement management, project management, development, release planning and communication.

I was leading a team of freelancers on 2 projects in parallel for G+J International: the internationalization of Eltern.de and a technical web platform to standardize G+J developments. I was responsible for negotiation with the participating countries as well as for the development. The parenting network was launched in France, Spain, Italy, Netherlands, Poland, Croatia and Russia. The web platform was used by several websites in Spain, Netherlands and Poland by brands like GEO, Glamour and Gala.

Hired as the first senior level developer of the team I was responsible for the development of several projects as well as for optimizing communication and processes between development, concept and design departments. Projects I was involved in included: promotional websites for Reemstma and Burgerking across several countries, marketing websites for Optiwell, Berentzen, Tchibo, Xing and mobile.de and a postage application for Deutsche Post.

Hired as the lead developer for the old Tripod free webhosting platform I soon became the functional team lead of a team of five working from Guetersloh / Germany and Yerevan / Armenia. I was involved in the conception, project management and technical realization of Tripod successor jubiipages.com a website builder for people with no technical skills.

As part of the development team of Navyblue Design Group - top 20 UK design agency, winner of several awards and responsible for the London Olympia 2012 bid - I was responsible for concept and development of web applications in close touch with the clients. Projects I was involved in: A ticketing website for the Edinburgh Festival Fringe Society Ltd, a promotional website for Armitage Shanks and a sales tool for Scottish & Newcastles.

In a team of four I was the lead developer responsible for the creation of several key components of the website of German federal state Bremen like the map application, the event calendar and the tight integration to the SixCMS content management system.

Founded with six fellow students G7 media conceptualized, designed and created marketing and e-commerce websites for clients in Switzerland and Germany. As owner and developer I was engaged in client negotiations, project management and development. Clients I was involved with: Avantix AG, Cleverlearn Lernsysteme GmbH, Graviton GmbH, Hausammann AG, JMD Helmdesign, SAK AG, sehen.swert, Sönnichsen, Sparta AG