Vita

Curriculum vitae

of Thorsten Krug , Date of birth August 1, 1978 in Kronberg, Germany

Thorsten Krug
  • Starting 1985, I enjoyed 13 years of humanistic education at Rudolf Steiner Schule Nürnberg and finished 1998 with a general qualification for university entrance.
  • Since 1997 various projects as web designer.
  • 1999-2000 community service at Jugendfreizeitheim Klüpfel in Nürnberg. Beside my nominal job technician I took care about the Kids-Internet-Café and the in-house computer network.
  • 2000-2001 after many years in saisonal support of my parents' motor caravan business, I decided to work there full time for one year. I took care about marketing, DTP, the companies website and organize  trade market exhibitions. My spare time I spent on building my own caravan.
  • Summer 2001 - 4 months practical training at Medien-Wektstatt pro-Kulturgut-netat the culture yard Kotthausen near Remscheid (webdesign, marketing video-editing and desktop publishing).
  • Sommer 2002 - 3 months practical training at Medi-Art Bochum. (Webdesign, Videotechnics).
  • 2002 colaboration at the children's internet project KizzArt.com .
  • 2002-2003 one year limited work at  WDR Köln (Northrhine Westphalia state TV).
  • Since 2004 freelance projects in PHP-development, web applications, web design, desktop publishing and web-server administration.
  • 2006 successfully finished my studies at the faculty Photoengineering / Mediatechnics at the University of Applied Science Cologne with Professor Manfred Schrey. (Thesis about: Colormanagement in the Internet)
  • 2006-2007 four months travel to India and Nepal
  • Since 2007 I collaborate with my former diploma supervising tutor and mentor Ulrike Häßler creating an Online-Amateur-Photo magazine (foto.5lux.de) as developer and author.
  • 2007-2009 work at the enterprise of my parents. Besides of supporting them to find a follower, my major tasks were creating a new corporate design, planning and introduction of an enterprise resource planning system (Training of employers, integration of accountancy), trade market planning and in-house computer specialist.
  • 2009/10 Travelling Israel, Ukraine, Georgia and Turkey.
  • Sept 2009 Lecture "Using Open Source Software for small business Websites" Kharkiv National University, Ukraine.

knowledge and skills

As a holistic thinking “allrounder” I got experience in a lot of work fields. An attempt to summarize my specialized knowledge:

Professional emphasis

  • (X)HTML, CSS, PHP, Javascript/jQuery/prototype
  • Open Source CMS, System Analysis, Server Sided Imaging Unix Server maintenance
  • Photography, Photoshop, Desktop publishing, Colormanagement
  • CMS/Frameworks: WordPress, Drupal, Gallery, Movable Type, CakePhp, Carcopy

Education

  • Diplom Photoengineer with specialization in media technics (University of applied science Cologne)
  • Many years of apprenticeship in the families Motor-Caravan company

Programming languages

  • (X)HTML, CSS since 1997
  • PHP, SQL since 2003
  • Javascript since 2003. Since jQuery/prototype it started making fun
  • MCV, CakePhp, phpMyAdmin since 2003
  • Bash, Unix installations. Maintaining own Webserver since 2003
  • Flash, Java, ObjectiveC and C basics

Operating systems / Server / Data communication

  • OS-X, Linux, Windows, virtualization (VM-Ware)
  • Windows Server, Exchange, Apache, Tomcat, Open Exchange
  • TCP/ip Networks, Company networks, Linux Server maintainance

Products / Standards

  • Professional level in Photoshop Indesign and Illustrator
  • Advanced knowledge in Office / Excel
  • Webtools: Analytics, Adsense, Adwords, Picwic etc.
  • More than 15 years of experience in applied photography. Professional knowledge digital and analog photo technics and digital reproduction
  • RAW Imaging und Image Databases and autmated image processing (Batch processing, Imagemagick)
  • Webstandards, Accessibility
  • Web applications: Speciallized in WordPress, Gallery and Drupal (CCK, Views)
  • Linux Webserver Maintainance
  • Professional knowledge about Video techniques, video editing, subtitling, DVD Authoring

Languages

  • English (business fluent)
  • French (good)
  • Spanisch, Hebrew, Russian (basics)

Soft Skills

  • Sophisticated talent for analysis and strategic planning.
  • Entusiasm for new technics and joy with learning and teaching
  • A passion for writing and photography.
  • A lot of international experience. Understanding of cultural differences.
  • equitable team player
  • Abroad experience as photographer and web-developer. Understanding for human, cultural and political subtleties.