I am a design-driven product lead with a keen understanding of zeitgeist and culture, spearheading teams at the intersection of artificial intelligence, digital product innovation, and design.

Currently serving as the AI Product Lead, I am dedicated to shaping the future of education in Germany.

My work has been featured by The Verge, Engadget, Form Magazine, Develop3D, Frankfurter Allgemeine (FAZ), Dezeen, Designboom and German Television.

Experience

Experience ∼

  • Leading the AI product innovation team at Cornelsen. We shape the future of education by empowering teachers and learners with ethical AI technologies. We are makers of cornelsen.ai - a AI platform of one of the largest edutech company in germany.

  • Cornelsen Verlag is one of the leading providers of educational media in the German-speaking world. With a high level of didactic competence, we develop products for teaching and personal learning - printed, digital and cross-media. Our company stands for learning success and recognized high quality - and has been for over 75 years: Franz Cornelsen founded the publishing house in 1946, which has had a significant impact on the German educational landscape ever since.

    Leading Design Excellence & Systems across a Team of 25+ shaping the future of education.

  • MOBY DIGG creates identities from existing culture, with high aesthetic standards and technical competence. Progressive brands and digital experiences with a strategic foundation. Leading design teams into digital products, web3 and metaverses.

  • The New Normal is a space for creatives, engineers, industrial designers, coders and copywriters reimagining how the world around us feels and looks like. It is a physical and digital augmentation of life.

  • As a co-founder and design director I lead all design aspects. My team and I created a visually compelling brand and built a platform for AI enabled design that serves various industries like medical, aerospace, footwear and consumer goods.

    As a creative lead for case studies and customer projects, I made sure that our platform is tailored to our customers needs by creating a symbiosis between cutting-edge technology, zeitgeist and culture.

    Ultimately Hyperganic raved a seed funding of 7.8m USD in 2021.

  • I joined Adobe Systems 2011 as part of the acquisition of IRIDAS, a industry leader for color-science for the Hollywood film industry. I spend my 6 years at Adobe leading the color vision in Adobe’s Digital Video and Audio division to make color-science accessible to the masses. I was working on numerous apps such as Premiere Pro CC, Media Encoder CC, SpeedGrade CC and Capture CC (Looks) that were successfully released and empowers creative professionals to do what they love.

    Before my departure 2017 I worked on Adobes new generation of editing apps that was released as Premiere Rush CC in 2018.

  • YIM+YAM Collective was founded by a group of friends, all designers and film professionals based in Munich at the time. Together we worked on a variety of creative projects, films and sound productions on a freelance basis. Among the partners and clients were Bureau Mirko Borsche, Panther, Adobe Systems, Lena M. Landrut, Sony Music, LittleSimz and many more.

    While everyone of us eventually moved forward and into separate full-time jobs, we remain close friends and keep collaborating with each other to this day.


    Alumnis are:
    Powl Goudsmit — Art Director
    Simon Denda — Director
    Alexander Würtz — Sound Design
    Hannes Schindler — Gaffer

  • I had the privilege to work on the front edge of software technologies for the Hollywood film industry. I’ve trained and educated individuals and groups around the globe on the use of pioneering technologies, such as GPU-based color correction, uncompressed playback, real time RAW processing and stereoscopic workflows.