“You've got to start with the customer experience and work backwards to the technology. You can't start with the technology and try to figure out where can I sell it.”

—Steve Jobs

Experience

01/2019 – Present
VMware, Senior Product Design Lead — Palo Alto, CA
Cloud Management

09/2016 – 12/2018
SAP Labs, Principal Designer — Palo Alto, CA
IoT Engineering

04/2012 – 08/2016
SAP & Apple, Senior Designer — Palo Alto, CA
Global Design, Mobility Design Center

10/2010 – 04/2012
SAP Labs, User Experience Designer — Walldorf, Germany
Cloud Concepts

06/2010 – 10/2010
Adidas, Designer — Herzogenaurach, Germany
Global Marketing

06/2008 – 12/2008
Siemens, UX Consultant — Nürnberg, Germany
Energy Sector

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Education

10/2005 – 06/2010
Nuremberg Institute of Technology — Nürnberg, Germany
Diplom (FH) (masters equivalent) in Visual Communication Design

2018 – 2019
Harvard University
CS50x Online

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Customer Experience

Designed, helped build and shipped a dozen mobile business apps for Fortune 500 companies including Coca-Cola, Costco, Delta Air Lines, ExxonMobil, Home Depot, Kiewit, Nestlé, Red Bull, Roche, Sysco, T-Mobile, Unilever.

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Honors & Awards

Select Patented Works

US20130339082︎
US20140089860︎
US20170322782︎
US20130321285︎
US009383913︎

Red Dot Design Award ︎ 2009
Bavarian State Prize, Short List 2010
Cannes, Short List 2008
NY Festivals, Silver 2008

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© 2019 Design and code by Timo Hoyer — running on Cargo.

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