personal information

name

  • Florian Schommertz

address

  • St. Rochusweiler 13a
  • 41844 Wegberg
  • Germany

e-mail

citizenship

  • german

professional experience

since 06/1998

01/2005 – 01/2011

  • freelancing teacher for film and audio
01/2005 – 06/2008
  • freelancing teacher for Adobe-Software

since winter term 2003/04

  • university teaching position at the university of applied sciences of Aachen
    • soundengineering
    • GEMA (german stage right company) and copyright
    • sound for directors

winter term 2000/01 – winter term 2003/04

  • teacher at the university of applied sciences of Aachen, in the academics
    • sounddesign
    • filmmusic

04/1999 – 03/2004

  • teacher at the SAE-Cologne in the following academics
    • CD-Mastering
    • Soundsynthesis
    • Sampling
    • Director
    • Flash

since 1999

  • freelancer in the area of Cologne
    • mostly sound design and filmmusic-composer
    • clients i.e.: BASF, Deutsche Post, Daimler Benz, Ford

06/1998

  • foundation of own company »Digital Noises«

01/1998 – 06/2007

  • service for advertising agencies
  • main features: Apple Macintosh and Photoshop-Support

01/1998

  • trainee at the »Pixelgarage« (Pixelwerkstatt), Mönchengladbach, Germany
    advertising agency

11/1997 – 12/1997

  • trainee at »Market and Advertisement« (Markt und Werbung), Mönchengladbach, Germany, advertising agency

summer 1997

  • technical translations (english -> german) for studioequipment company »Studiospares«

08/1996 – 01/1997

  • FOH mixing engineer at musical »Gambler«, produced by »Musical Stage of Mönchengladbach«

january 1996

  • planning and building a MIDI-hybrid studio for the casting band »Caught in the Act«, produced by Alpana, under direction of a senior sound-engineer

10/1993 – 02/1994

  • trainee at the chemical investigation institute of the city of Aachen

education

1998 – 2003

  • audiovisual communications / design studies, branch of study »new media«,
    university of applied sciences Aachen
  • graduate designer (FH)
    (compared to graduated diploma level 7 certified by NZQF)

09/1995 – 03/1997

  • »audio-engineer course« at SAE Cologne
  • graduate sound engineer (SAE)

ui skills / manifesto

ui

  • 100% awareness of user experience
  • the user needs to be guided and helped and may not be accidentally confused
  • a digital experience must be perfectly planned regarding it’s target users, this is especially true for the menu and content appearance

software skills / experience in years

Audio

  • Logic ~ 18 years
  • Native Instruments ~ 12 years

Webdesign

  • Acrobat ~ 6 years
  • Photoshop ~24 years
  • Illustrator ~ 12 years
  • Flash ~ 18 years
  • Coda ~ 5 years
languages / frameworks
  • as2 ~ 7 years
  • css ~ 12 years
  • less ~ 1 year
  • html ~ 20 years
  • javascript ~ 8 years
  • jquery ~ 6 years
  • php ~ 6 years
  • wordpress // very good

 

Basic software knowledge

  • After Effects, Aperture, Keynote, DVD Studio Pro, Indesign, Final Cut, Motion, Cinema 4D, Joomla, Office Software, Quark XPress, Project Management Software
digital awareness
  • profound knowledge of interframe vs. intraframe compression
  • profound knowledge of image compression
  • profound knowledge of synchronization and AD- & DA-conversion issues in audio, video, printing scenarios
  • basic encryption knowledge
  • good knowledge about computers and data in general

german

  • native

english

  • good user / IELTS 6,5

dutch

  • basic skills

 

hobbies

  • I love to be outdoors, mountain biking or just hiking.
  • Drumming was always part of my life… while my guitar gently weeps.
  • The realtime strategy game „Starcraft“. The fast use of a big set of key commands, is also nice for an overall better computer interface knowledge.