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ResumeMAX SCHEUGLusability AT on1.at eMail +43 1 406 23 73 Fax Schäffergasse 10, 1040 Vienna, Austria Born 13 July 1972 Nationality: Austrian, EU |
A design or spec is complete, when nothing else can be removed, and functionality is still retained. |
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Usability engineer and user interface developer Max Scheugl also worked as a project manager and journalist. Max has strong media and online experience, and good oral and written communication skills in English and German.
What Max Scheugl can do for you:
Max is a keen advocate for the user - driven by a vivid curiosity and passion for user-friendly and efficient products and systems. Max is not a graphic designer. He does not do visual design or graphic treatment of interface elements.
| Writer for Freies Usability-Wissen, a non-profit German-language website promoting user-centred design of innovative products and services. |
Since 09.2001 |
| Lecturer, Danube-University of Krems (university for postgraduate education), Lower Austria, Austria
Teaching web usability, usability engineering and writing for the web at the Centre for New Media. |
Since 10.1999 |
| Usability engineer and consultant, CURE - Center for Usability Research & Engineering (usability consulting), Vienna, Austria
Executing nine projects to increase the usability of systems at a leading European usability research institute for clients such as Alcatel, Philips, Kleine Zeitung (daily newspaper), Österreichische Bundesbahnen (federal railway - ÖBB). |
) 02.2001 to 08.2001 |
| Project manager, Telekurier - Kurier (large-circulation national daily newspaper), Vienna, Austria
In charge of Internet project development and project team coordination (staff of 35 people from design, content, technical, sales and marketing departments). Planning and implementing sport-related websites and a sport statistic application. Telekurier operates the websites of the newspaper kurier.at, the weekly magazine profil.at, the monthly magazines trend.at, rennbahnexpress.at, autorevue.at and yachtrevue.at, and eventuell.at. |
) 08.2000 to 01.2001 |
| User interface designer for clients such as derStandard.at, the website of a quality national daily newspaper. |
05.1999 to 07.2000 |
| Print journalist, "Der Standard" (quality
national daily newspaper), Vienna, Austria |
07.1998 to 07.2000 |
| Online journalist, ORF.at
- Austrian Broadcasting Corporation (national public broadcaster), Vienna,
Austria
Founding member of the ORF Internet editorial board. Information designer and picture editor for the homepage and current affairs, streaming audio and video editor, and journalist (prepared articles on motorcycles and new media). |
) 03.1997 to 04.1999 |
| Online shop project manager. Development and implementation of e-commerce solutions with a big product database and a shopping chart solution for two booksellers: Gerold (Vienna, Austria) and DasBuch (Dornbirn, Austria). |
05.1995 to 01.1997 |
| Radio journalist, Freies Radio Wien Orange 94.0 (non-commercial radio station). |
10.1992 to 09.1993 |
| Photo journalist. Architecture, theatre and press photography. See Publications. |
10.1990 to 04.1995 |
| Conference messenger, United Nations Office at Vienna (Austria). Various temporary jobs in the Documents Control department during international conferences at the Vienna International Centre. |
10.1990 to 08.1994 |
| Scholarship from the International Institute for Information Design and the Carnegie Mellon University for the Summer Academy "Travelling the City". Member of an multidisciplinary design team examining city tourists using a user-centred approach. |
07.2002 |
| Vienna University of Technology, Institute for Design and Assessment of Technology. Studied Human-Computer Interaction (HCI) and cognitive psychology. |
10.2001 to 06.2002 |
| Magister degree (MA) in journalism and mass communication, University of Vienna,
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1999 |
| Voluntary service (as substitute for military service), Verein Wiener Sozialprojekte, Vienna, Austria. Care of drug addicts in a social welfare institute. |
06.1996 to 04.1997 |
| Matura (university entrance qualification) in computer science, mathematics and physics |
1990 |
German: Native speaker
English
| Date: January 2003 | scheugl.com | Contact: usability AT on1.at |