Experience

Following a list of technologies and tools that we have worked with over the years - this reflects the overall background.

Multimedia: Adobe Flash CS3 including object-oriented scripting in AS 3.0; Silverlight 2 / C#; Apple QuickTime; REAL-Audio/Video streaming; Windows Media streaming; Codec-handling

Web-Programming: ASP.NET; ASP; C#; PHP; JavaScript; DHTML / CSS; (X)HTML; AJAX frameworks MS-AJAX and Adobe SPRY; VB.NET; VBScript; CGI / FastCGI; XML / XSL(T) / DTD / Schemas; Java-Applet; Java-Servlet / Websphere; Coldfusion 7

Programming Languages: C/C#, C#.NET, VB.NET, JavaScript, ActionScript 3.0, PHP, Java, native SQL, LINQ, PL/I, REXX, OS/2-PM (WIN-API), Enfin/2(OO), Word-Macro, VJ++, Assembler, Cobol

Databases (RDBMS):
MS-SQL Server 2005 / 2000,
IBM-DB2 Mainframe (Host) and Universal Database
mySQL, MS-Access
Some Details: LINQ, ODBC, ADO.net, T-SQL, StoredProcedures, UDF, DTS, SQL-Language (dynamic and static, transaction-oriented, stored procs), JDBC, SQL-dialects, database design (Entity design/Normalization, Handling/Use of Keys, Index, Triggers, Views, etc.),
Performance tuning

Graphics: Adobe PhotoShop CS3, Adobe ImageReady, Adobe Illustrator CS3, Adobe InDesign CS3, Adobe PageMaker 6.5, Corel-Suite and others, Adobe Acrobat (PDF), production experience for web, eBooks, and print (4-color)

Web-Server: Administration Experience for IIS 5.0 , IIS 6.0, IIS 7.0; some Apache

Application-Server: ASP.NET, ColdFusion, JRun4, some WebSphere

Other IT Know-how: Multimedia integration, Website personalization / globalization, shopping cart related design issues, concurrency issues in transactional, networked, multi-user/multi-task environments, security aspects, understanding of email protocols IMAP4/ POP3 as well as the HTTP-protocol, conceptual writing, blueprints, prototyping, documentation standards, methodic testing, CMS systems like WCMS, Joomla!, Community Server

Development Environments: MS-Visual Studio.NET 2008 / 2005 / 2003,
MS Expression Studio 2, MS-Frontpage,
Adobe Creative Suite CS3 with Dreamweaver, Fireworks, Flash, Coldfusion etc.,

Source Control:
CVS (Win) command line or with Tortoise GUI;
Visual Source Safe 2005
PVCS (former InterSolv or Merant)

Operating Systems: Windows Vista, Windows XP, 2000, 2003 Server, NT 4.0, IBM-OS/2, MS-Windows 95/98, Mac, Redhat Linux/Fedora

LAN: TCP/IP-Intranet, Win2003 Domains, Proxy/Firewall Administration for Win2003, LDAP / AD, DFS, Trusted Forest concept, Legacy nets like: IBM-LAN-Server and MS-LAN-Manager, Banyan-Vines,

Office: MS-Office-Suite, LOTUS-SmartSuite, STAR-Office

Project Control: MS-Visio 2003, dotProject, MS Project 2003, Microsoft Solutions Framework (MSF) Process Model, As-is / To-be analysis and concepts incl. Scope Definition, Estimates, Resource Planning, etc.

Software Engineering/ UML methods/tools:
ISOTEC by CSC-Ploenzke (OO modeling / entity building), MS Project 2003, MS Visio 2003, some Enterprise Architect 4.5 by Sparx Systems (UML Tool)

Mainframe Systems: MVS, DB2, IMS-DB/DC, PL/I, TSO, MFS, BTS, VSAM, 3270 online/batch programming, IBM-Mainframe 309x, and all major programming tools ...

Technologies

Utilized Technology We are utilizing latest software tools and work according newest standards, e.g...

  • (X)HTML, DHTML, CSS1/2
  • C#/ASP.NET 3.x, 2.0, n-tier Application Design, Object-Oriented Design
  • XML Web Services
  • Databases: MS SQL-Server 2005 / 2000, mySQL, MSAccess etc.
  • XML / XSLT
  • JavaScript, ActionScript 3.0 (Object-Oriented design), AJAX-Frameworks
  • Flash CS3 Design/Scripting, Integration of Video, Forms and Backend connectivity
  • Silverlight 2 Design/Development, Integration of Video, Forms and Backend connectivity

Software Tools

  • Adobe Photoshop CS3
  • Adobe InDesign CS3, Adobe Ilustrator CS3
  • Adobe AfterEffects CS3, Adobe Premiere
  • Visual Studio 2008; Adobe Creative Suite CS3 incl. Flash, Dreamweaver, Coldfusion, Contribute; Microsoft Expression Studio 2; and others...
  • SQL Server 2005
  • and more...

Evaluation and Utilization of cutting-edge technologies and industry standards

  • AJAX
  • CSS 3
  • XSLT 2.0
  • Monitoring of markets, Evaluation and comparison of products for Blogs, eCommerce, Forums, Communities
  • and more...

Small- and mid-sized businesses in following fields are our clients since 1996:

Medicine / Physicians
Tourism
Industry
Retail
... please see also our Portfolio

Large companies we worked for in in-house projects (IT consulting, software development) are:

Compaq Computer, Germany
HypoVereinsbank AG, Germany
(CSC)Ploenzke AG, Germany
Allianz, Germany
Audi, Germany
DV-Ratio GmbH, Germany
DHL USA