Thomas Mann - C.V @ pixtur.org

Dipl. Ing. Thomas Mann

Profession Design and programming

Address Dunckerstraße 30
10439 Berlin
Germany

Telephone +49-30-60 052 742

E-Mail

Specialized in

Interface design and usability
Script programming
Realtime 3D
Motion design
Graphic and concept design
3D modeling

References

for q-bus Deutsche Telekom (CeBIT 2004 - 2009), T-Gallery, IFA 2008, etc.

for bit-side THQ, Jamba, debitel, Gedas, Volkswagen AG, Deutsche Telekom, T-Online, Ericsson, expo2000, expo02, q~bus, etc.

for VR@Work Volkswagen AG, Still

for D.S.A.G. Innova, media3berlin, Kanthotels, etc.

for echtzeit AG Deutsche Telekom, BMW, Post AG, Fondation Beyeler, Commedia, DeTeMedien, Hellmann, etc.

more Robodent GmbH, OMDB.org, Projektron GmbH, Geschmacksverstärker, moviepilot

Retrospect

since 2009 Senior UX designer at Nokia

2002-2009 Freelancer

End of 2001 Received degree in Architecture
(Dipl. Ing. Arch)

1999-2001 Art Director at Deutschen Software Systemhaus AG

since 1999 Free Author at Stadtwandelverlag

1995 - 1999 Modeling and screendesign at echtzeit AG

1995 - 2001 Architecture student at Technical University Berlin

1994 - 1995 Military service

1994 Received high school diploma

1985 First contact with computer scene

1974 Born in Halle / Saale

Tools

excellent Photoshop, Maya, After Effects

good Flash, InDesign, Illustrator, LightScape, Subversion, Office

Programming

excellent PHP, HTML / CSS2, Python

good Ruby / Ruby on Rails, Haml/Sass, Perl, RegEx, MySQL, MEL, C++, GLSL, Actionscript, Java

Awards

2008 Winner of Intel Demo Competition with The Seeker (directing and design)

2007 Winner of Intel Demo Competition with Iso9241 (directing and design)

2006 Winner of fmx Realtime Award with Perfect Love (directing and design)

2005 Winner Deutscher Entwicklerpreis / Innovativste Technik for Marble Revolution (c) bit-side (responsible for graphic and level design)

Profile

At age 12 I began to engage in Computer Scene and was busy to make the most of combining pixel graphics and programming. To strengthen my artistic skills, I decided to study Architecture, in which I received my degree in 2001 with excellent results on my thesis. During this time I also worked for a company called echtzeit in high-end 3d computer simulation with which we were invited to SigGraph 1997 and 1998.

After this I worked two years as Art Director with Deutsche Software Systemhaus AG where I learned to channel my technical and artistic skills into results for the "real world". During this time I gathered fundamental knowledge in project management, cost estimation, and team leadership.

Since my interest in computer graphics did not abate during the last 20 years, I got involved in the Demo scene where I made several demos and 64kb intros and am busy in developing a solution for realtime motion design, modeling and editing. Additionally I lead the open source project Streber.

Since 2002 I have been working as a freelancer in graphics, interface design and script programming. In Autumn 2009 I was hired as Senior UX-Designer by Nokia Berlin.