Curriculum Vitae

My name is Manuel Wieser and I am a 21-year-old student of Media Technology and Design at the University of Applied Sciences in Hagenberg, Austria. This page shows an excerpt of my résumé, which is available as PDF:

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Education

since 08/2007
Academic studies of Media Technology and Design at the University of Applied Sciences in Hagenberg, Austria (Bachelor of Science in Engineering)

09/2002 – 06/2007
Höhere Technische Bundeslehr- und Versuchsanstalt für Wirtschaftsingenieurwesen in Innsbruck, Austria (Matura)

1998 – 2002
Hauptschule Volders

1994 – 1998
Volksschule Volders

Experience

10/2009 – 02/2010
University of Applied Sciences, Hagenberg
Academic tutor for “3D-Design” course; teaching 3D fundamentals and the usage of the Maya software package to students

07/2009 – 08/2009
Friendly Fire Communications GmbH, Vienna
Internship; Creation of digital content vor various well-known clients; Tasks included modeling, shading, texturing, rendering, animation, rotoscoping, compositing and digital painting

12/2008 – 01/2009
Zentrum für Virtual Reality und Visualisierung Forschungs-GmbH (VRVis), Vienna
Creation of seamless and scalable base meshes and textures in Maya and Photoshop for different building styles used for procedural architecture

08/2008
Zentrum für Virtual Reality und Visualisierung Forschungs-GmbH (VRVis), Vienna
Logo and typographic design for the Aardvark-Framework

09/2005 – 05/2007
Diploma Thesis “Economy Simulation with Artificial Intelligence”, Innsbruck
Development of a real-time strategy game; Creation of graphics and animations, interface design, game mechanics, background story and scenarios, artificial intelligence with fuzzy logic; Simple representation of economic dependencies
(4th place at Cyberschool award and newspaper coverage)

02/2006 – 06/2006
Förderverein Technik Tirol, Innsbruck
Development of an online platform for companies, scholars and teachers to offer and apply for technical projects

07/2006 – 08/2006
07/2005 – 08/2005
07/2004 – 08/2004

Stadtwerke Hall in Tirol GmbH, Hall in Tirol
Internship in land surveying and electrical wiring

Skills

Design: Photoshop, Illustrator, InDesign, Flash, Acrobat
Multimedia: Maya, Lightwave, ZBrush, Modo, Mudbox, Premiere, After Effects, Logic Pro
Programming: C/C++, Java, Actionscript 3.0, PHP, MySQL, XHTML/CSS, Javascript
Environments: Dreamweaver, Eclipse, Visual Studio, Flex Builder

Additional Skills: familiar with Mac and Windows,
LAN/WAN creation and troubleshooting (CCNA 1 Networking Basics)

Languages: German (mother tongue), English (Council of Europe Level B2)
Driver’s License: A, B (European Union)