Professional attitude

Rapid, uninterrupted results

I can help you set up a communications program. I can help with content management and software selection and I can help you to manipulate the variables of effectiveness, efficiency and alignment. My only concern is the production of rapid, uninterrupted results for my client.

Domain

• Process optimization in marketing and sales
• Project management
• Representation & backup

Attitude

I’m charismatic, friendly and energetic. Experienced, focused and alert, forward-minded.

Languages

• English » Very good
• German » Very good
• Italian » Fluent
• French » Basic
• Spanish » Basic
• Nonverbal communication skills » Very good

Mobility

• I am mobile and ready to move (ESTA Visa Clearance)
• Driving license for car and motorcycle
• Mercedes-Benz Driver Training Advanced
• BMW Motorrad Rider Training

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Education

• University Entrance Diploma
• Goethe University, Frankfurt — Law, undergraduate studies; 1980-1984
• Autodidactic studies

International experience

• 1979 Sojourn: Florence and Rome, Italy
• 1986 Sojourn: New York and Washington, D.C., USA
• 1996 Sojourn: Rabat and Marrakesh, Morocco
• 2000 Sojourn: Venice and Milano, Italy
• 2003 Sojourn: Arad, Romania
• 2006 Sojourn: Paris, France
• 2008 Sojourn: Berlin, Germany
• 2011 Sojourn: Berlin, Germany

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Professional experience

• Representative, fashion industry

  1983-1988: Sole representative of italian and british fashion labels in Germany, Switzerland, Austria.

• Head of distribution, fashion industry

  1986-1988: Sales manager (West-Europe, North-America) and unit director for a german designer label near Hamburg, Germany.

• Executive, furniture industry

  1989-1996: Wholesale and retail of style international furniture with my own small business in Frankfurt am Main.

• Freelance Internet Consultant

  1997 - to date: Concept, planning and implementation of online communications. Making intelligent use of new media & social marketing channels. Professional website development to support small business long-term.

• Business Consultant

  2007 - to date: Marketing Consulting for small business (SMB)

• Freelance Project Management as Business Guide, Business Sherpa

  2007 - to date: Guidance to organizations, corporate clients and individuals as an independent adviser, backup, and proven closer. Managing and leading strategic communications and sales through consulting, coaching and planning.

Pragmatical skills

I will find a way, or make one. Intercultural competence, communications, public relations. Lightness, quickness, exactitude, visibility, and multiplicity.

Record

Competence	Evaluation
Decompression	Don’t overdo it. Find a balance between getting results and enjoying process. Headstand, Espresso, a light walk in the park.
Design	I am a tweaker. It takes time to figure out what perfect is.
Network	I stay connected with those who know better, earlier, and comprehend with better understanding.
Quality	Better. Always better.
Iteration	Update often. And then some more.
Security	I can go nowhere without knowing I have some solid backup.
Teamwork	I stand back. I stand by.
Thinking	I make connections. Lots of them.
Transfomation	My working method has more often than not involved the subtraction of weight.
Knowledge	Drink from the source. Learn from the best. Think ahead.

Technical skills

• Media and technology: Website design, Content Management, Consultation and advice, Project management
• Marketing: Inbound marketing. Optimization through subtraction.
• Expansion, Progress, Customer development, Relationship building
• Representation, Project management, Interim manager
• Flexible and reliable settlement of jobs that require immediate attention

Conceptual skills

• Analytical mindset
• CRO Conversion Rate Optimization
• Coaching, mentoring, teaching. Getting results.

Interpersonal skills

Empathetic. Open minded. Progressive.

Hobbies

• Loves nature and long walks in the woods
• Ashtanga Yoga. SuperSlow training protocol. Sauna.
• Raw food. Superhydration.
• Riesling of the lower Mosel
• Riding on the S-Bahn in Berlin

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• Keywords

  Detailed and precise; fastidious and thorough. Critical thinker - strong analytical skills; accurate and probing. Resilient and thorough - detached and unemotional. Sensitive and patient interpersonal and communications skills. Teaching and helping people. High integrity and honesty; ethical and socially aware.