The Name is Michael

I’ve been dabbling with web design in my spare time for over a decade and doing it professionally for a few months now. I want to expand and strengthen my existing skillset and am therefore looking for a position as a front-end developer.

I live in Austria and recently moved from Burgenland to Vienna. I’m a consummate web nerd and maker of things. I’m addicted to pop culture and I write and produce pop music myself.

I believe that I have a knack for structuring information, as well as content in general, which—in my better moments—shows in my writing, my design work and my code.

If you think I might be a good adition to your team, please get in touch. I’d be happy to have a chat with you!

Portfolio

Autogott Screenshot

Autogott

Role

XHTML, CSS, JavaScript, cross-browser compatibility

Details

Did a lot of CSS work on this one and some of the animations in JavaScript, mainly the mouse-tracking eye in the logo, the dynamically shown overlay in the front-page teaser, and the teaser controls in the configurator, where I added the continuous scroll functionality. I also made shure that the website works on the iPad and in Internet Explorer from version 7 onwards.

YUNA Card Screenshot

YUNA Card

Role

XHTML, CSS, JavaScript

Details

Built an animated slide-show in JavaScript in a modular fashion so it could be integrated into the company’s existing CMS

Fitinn Screenshot

FitInn

Role

XHTML, CSS

Details

Wrote the markup and the CSS for a facebook application with attention to legacy browser support.

Fitinn Screenshot

Leidenfrost

Role

XHTML, CSS, JavaScript

Details

Wrote the markup, stylesheet and JavaScript for an image gallery while taking care that the design matches the existing website.

Fitinn Screenshot

TC Mattersburg

Role

Design, HTML, CSS, Wordpress integration

Details

A pro-bono project and work-in-progress. I did the design, wrote the markup and the CSS, and then set up Wordpress as a CMS, which I stripped off some of its functionality in order to make administration as accessible as possible.

Job History

2011/4 – 2011/7

Internship at Instant Design GmbH

2007 – 2011

English Tutor KIDS-BUEL e.U.

2007

Customer support eTel Austria AG (now A1)

2004 – 2005

Chaperone Youth center Eisenstadt

2002 – 2004

Tutor 2getthere Mattersburg

Skills

Technical Skills

  • HTML
  • CSS
  • JavaScript
  • Photoshop

Limited Experience with

  • PHP
  • C#
  • Java
  • C/C++
  • SQL

etc.

Three movies off the top of my head

  • "Wild Strawberries" by Ingmar Bergman
  • "Rashomon" by Akira Kurosawa
  • "Fitzcarraldo" by Werner Herzog

Three musical acts off the top of my head

  • Neil Young
  • Slint
  • The La's

Three things I am proud of

  • Being friends with kids less popular than me in school.
  • Helping a few people get their high school diploma.
  • Calling my mother from time to time.