I was in on it, and it was good.
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Current hyperfocus · since 2026

SkillVault

Record your professional experience once, retrieve it as often as you like.

• RoleIdea, product definition, development, marketing, in short: founder
• TechnologyTypeScript, Electron, SQLite, PDF and Word export
• StatusIn progress
• Linkskillvault.eu

Most people rebuild their CV from scratch every time. Entries about experience and skills get lost along the way or are simply forgotten. SkillVault prevents that: positions, activities and skills are documented once and held as an inventory, and out of that inventory a few clicks produce exactly the file a given role calls for.

What draws me to it is the combination of so many of my own skills and interests. The project grew out of wanting such a tool myself. Once I started building it, it became clear the same tool could be useful to other people, so I developed the idea into a full product.

Control over your own data comes first in SkillVault. That is why the desktop edition stores everything locally, while the web edition serves as an entry point and a low-threshold way to try the functionality out.

• Deliberately narrow product scope: no job board, no coaching, no page builder
• Twelve templates, a page editor with real A4 pages, complete data export
• Its own website including manual, comparison and blog, in plain HTML

Bachelor thesis · 2022

Blockchain in marketing

A critical analysis of the opportunities and the challenges.

• UniversityFH Aachen
• ProgrammeB.Sc. Media and Communication for Digital Business
• Submitted2022

The thesis was written at a time when distributed ledger technology was being sold in marketing as the answer to very different questions: transparency in the supply chain, users owning their data, fraud in programmatic ad buying, customer loyalty through tokens.

It laid those use cases side by side and asked which of them the technology actually solves better than an ordinary database, and where the effort, the cost and the regulatory situation argue against it. The result was less enthusiasm than the debate suggested at the time, and a clearer view of what implementing the technology really demands in practice.

Summary written by me. I am happy to provide the full thesis on request.

Interdisciplinary project · winter term 2020/21

Integrated marketing concept for a startup

From the brand to the first public appearance, in a team of ten.

• ContextFH Aachen, Communications and Media Research Lab, Prof. Dr. phil. Claudia Mayer
• TeamTen students, shared responsibility
• SubmittedFebruary 2021

The brief was to develop an integrated marketing concept for a young communications company, one that shapes every touchpoint of the brand without contradiction and so produces a clear brand identity and high integrity. Out of it came the logo, the slogan, corporate identity and corporate design, a style guide, a business card, a website draft and a social media concept.

The most interesting part for me was how visual and verbal communication work together. From developing a coherent typographic image to planning the social media campaign, integrated communication is a powerful instrument for raising the effectiveness of what a brand says.

The project was marked from the start by a high degree of collaboration in an interdisciplinary team, which was good for looking beyond one's own corner. It also became clear very quickly how much a sound project structure matters when work has to be coordinated across a large team, decisions documented and responsibilities clearly assigned.