2006-2009
Digital Samba, the web conferencing company I founded back in 2002 with two very good friends of mine, is continuing its steady growth. We are starting to reach larger and larger parts of the world with agents and distributors pushing our OnSync in about 19 countries by now.
Keep your eyes on the Digital Samba website, we’ve got something big coming a few months down the line..
2005
I am currently working on the design and front-end implementation of Digital Samba’s new eShop which, amongst other things, offers pay-per-minute webconferencing and streaming services.
This year the Traffic Ministry’s webconferencing application is extended to include a messaging client and videoconference switchboard. Smarthinking’s application is launched, the lipidforum-akademie gos online and we design and develop a series of mambo open source CMS driven websites for the online housing, academics and elearning presences of IES Barcelona University.
The last day of 2005 this blog is born.
2004
SOCRATES 2.0, Digital Samba’s online presentation application is launched. 1000 conference calls are made every day. Smarthinking in Washington hire us to integrate our Socrates Framework with their existing online teaching services.
2003
Digital Samba officially becomes a Sociedad Limitada and soon after Macromedia’s exclusive partner in Spain for Flash Communication Server Development. To date Digital Samba enjoys this status of exclusivity thanks to our unequalled excellence in Quality of Service.
We also gain our first major account: The Spanish Traffic Ministry hire us to create an incredibly innovative flash video conferencing platform which allows on the fly integration of traffic cam video of roads all across the country. Conferencing partners can be invited by sending a simple weblink.
2002
It’s time for a change in my life. I pack my bags, jump in the car and head off to sunny Barcelona.
At the end of the first summer I start-up Digital Samba, together with my IT Superguru friends Matthias Kritz and Jorge Maiquez. We specialise in Macromedia Flash Communication Server / Flash Media Server 2 applications.
We implement a flash video driven portal or medical experts sponsored by Pfizer and launch our first flash video conferencing application MEUCCI.
2001
After having created a CMS powered site for houseofhifi in Vienna and sites for a major Austrian hospital (AKH) and several other clients I am hired by Arthur D. Little’s Exelum as an independent webdesign consultant. As part of the contract with AD Little I am sent to the US to help implement US Steel’s first venture into selling steel via an eCommerce platform.
2000
After half a year working as an account handler in the ad agency I am hired by the director’s to craete DMB’s first ever webpresence as an independent webdesigner. The site is available in German and English, in Flash and HTML and the reference set me up for years to come. The site survived until 2005 and was replaced by a hugely innovative flash video application.
1999
At a tender age of 21 I completed my MSc Management & Strategic Information Systems at Bath University, close to the beautiful western coast of England, and returned back to Vienna to start work at Austria’s largest advertising agency Demner, Merlicek & Bergmann.
1998
Three years later I had finished my BSc Marketing with the “magical 2:1″ from Lancaster University in the UK. Lancaster University is continuously rated amongst the top ten UK management schools by Times newspaper. I also won the Barclays Bank Prize for Young Entrepreneurs for a business plan I wrote for a webdesign studio as part of my New Venture Planning course.
1995
I graduated from Vienna International School with an International Baccalaureate, three languages and the typical open minded attitude that growing up in a multicultural environment gives you.