Jakob Hilden
Skills
Timeline
Professional experience for Jakob Hilden
Full stack web development with Ruby on Rails Agile team lead
- 10 months, Jul 2010 - Apr 2011
Freelance Usability Consultant & Web Analyst
TravelTainment
- 2 years and 5 months, May 2008 - Sep 2010
UX Lead
Gallery (Open Source Projekt)
Wettbewerbsanalyse und Neudesign des Upload Interfaces während der Season of Usability 2008. Betreuung von zwei Interface Design Studentenprojekten (Herbst 2008) und der Season of Usability 2009. Aktive Mitarbeit an der komplett überarbeiteten Gallery 3
- 9 months, Oct 2009 - Jun 2010
Usability Manager
TravelTainment
Responsible for the usability of the TravelTainment products.
- 2 years and 4 months, Jan 2008 - Apr 2010
Co-Founder & Web Developer
Talking-Points
Co-founded a student research project with the aim of designing a mobile contextual information system for blind people.
- 5 years, Oct 2004 - Sep 2009
Internet Consultant & Freelance Web Developer
jk.webservices
- 4 months, May 2008 - Aug 2008
Usability Praktikant + Webentwickler
Freundliche Netzwerke GmbH
Umfassende und professionelle Usability Evaluierung des Woobby Webportals. Überzeugung des Managements von einem neuen, verbesserten Interaktionsdesign für die Kennfunktionalität der Seite. Konzeption eines neuen Suchinterfaces und Implementierung mit Ruby on Rails. Entwicklung von Widgets für iGoogle und Yahoo Mobile
- 1 year and 11 months, Jan 2006 - Nov 2007
Web Developer
zellteilung
Implementing designs with HTML & CSS and developing more advanced web applications.
- 5 months, Jul 2004 - Nov 2004
Web Developer
zeitspringer
Developing internal web applications and implementing Designs.
- 10 months, Aug 2003 - May 2004
Zivildienstleistender
Rheumanet
Maintaining and enhancing the website www.rheumanet.org (HTML, XSLT, ASP.NET).
- 1 year and 10 months, Jun 2001 - Mar 2003
Web Developer
XnX
Started with doing simple text and image editing (Photoshop, HTML) and gradually worked myself up to development of advanced web applications.
Educational background for Jakob Hilden
- 1 year and 9 months, Sep 2007 - May 2009
Information Science
University of Michigan
Human-Computer Interaction (HCI), Social Computing, Usability, User-Centered Design
- 3 years, Oct 2004 - Sep 2007
Applied Communication and Media Science
University of Duisburg-Essen
Human-Computer Interaction, Usability, Computer Science, Cognitive Psychology
Languages
German
C2 (Expert / native speaker)
English
C1 (Fluent)
Spanish
A1-A2 (Basic)
Latin
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