curriculum vitae

Work history

Cybozu

Accessibility Specialist

• In charge of web accessibility matters across three products
• Collaborating with designers, writers, developers and product managers to ensure accessible products are designed and build and accessibility issues are fixed
• Responsible for auditing of designs (in Figma) for 2 apps & internal design system, focused on WCAG 2.2 and other accessibility issues
• Automated (Axe/WAVE/Arc) and manual (keyboard, JAWS, NVDA, VoiceOver, VoiceControl) audits of 2 web apps and internal design system, focused on WCAG 2.2 and other accessibility issues and contributions to the HTML / CSS code; additionally QA and Documentation for internal design system
• Handling the trainings for the design, writing, development and product teams
• Managing the development of strategy and compliance plan, including guidelines for product, design, writing and front-end development
• In charge of vendor management.

Project highlights

• Creation and management of accessibility guidelines
• Auditing and accessibility focused quality assurance of a design system

Outbrain

Senior Implementation Engineer (December 2018 to– October 2023)

• Managing the onboarding of new and existing (Key) Publishers via JavaScript integrations, as Senior also Server to server (S2S) and API, incl. widget design and coding
• Troubleshooting of JS integrations, as Senior also S2S and API
• Subject Matter Expert on internal tools, providing regular training & documentation, in Japan and globally
• Point of Contact between publisher operations and development teams for escalations
• Support of and design for Japans marketing manager (2019 to to– 2020), focused on work in Illustrator and InDesign

Accessibly Advocate (December 2019 to– October 2023)

• Leading a team of up to 3 Implementation Engineers, working on accessibility efforts
• In charge of accessibility training
• Conducting design and code reviews
• Advocate for accessibility

Advisor to the DE&I officer (August 2020 to– July 2021)

• Involved in the election the companies 1st Diversity, Equality and Inclusion (DE&I) officer
• Advisor to DE&I officer
• Active in DE&I council with focus on accessibility matters

Project highlights

• Onboarding of several key publishers (Singapore, Australia, Japan)
• Design and code renewal of several key publishers (Germany, New Zealand, Japan)
• Implementation, Quality Assurance, documentation and training of new software used by the whole team
• Part of post merger integration (PMI) for Ligatus 2019 — 2020

tripla

Lead UX/UI Designer, Front-end developer

• Tasked with designing tripla’s core apps from the ground up, both the UX and UI (an AI driven and human supported chat widget for the hospitality industry, the chat backend application and an upcoming traveller service)
• Accountable for designing and coded tripla’s first design system, covering everything from branding, colour schemes, typography, templa tes and front-end coding styles
• Created the corporate identity
• Designed (UX/UI), coded and QA of tripla’s chat bot interface
• Designed (UX/UI) and coded (HTML/CSS/Ruby on Rails implementation) of the backend for tripla’s chatbot
• Managed design sprints and project management for several projects

Project highlights

• Branding
• AI chatbot: design, front-end development and quality assurance
• Design system creation

Qurate

Tokyo Operations Manager, Project Manager (February 2017 to– October 2017)

• Managed Business Operations in the Tokyo branch office
• Hiring manager for Engineering, Marketing and Design
• Project Management (2 projects) & UX design (1 project)
• Fulfilled pitching, pre-sales and customer service duties
• Managed 2 staff

Lead Front-end Developer, Project Manager (September 2016 to– Januar 2017)

• Lead front-end developer and project manager for Qurate’s content management system
• Managed 2 front-end developers
• Supported pitching, pre-sales and customer service duties

Project highlights

• Design, development and customer service for an app designed for Slush Tokyo 2017
• Front-end development for qurate’s corporate website, qurate.com

Rakuten

Mobile UX-Designer, Front-end Developer

• Designed the UI and UX for Ichiba top page, search, campaigns and product comparison
• Trained designers and engineers on accessibility, performance and user experience
• Conducted code and image optimisation projects, A/B Tests, as well as data analysis
• Project management for the renewal of Rakuten’s international properties (Taiwan, Malaysia, the Philippines, the USA and the UK)

Project highlights

• Optimisation of the Ichiba mobile home page
• Ground up redesign of Ichiba mobile search page and product comparison page

Mobilous

Manager Design Team, Front-End Developer

• Management of the design team
• Design, Front-End development and localisation management of the corporate website & Webapp
• Wrote the documentation for the Mobilous application, AppExe

Freelance

Web Designer

• Focused on UX and web design
• Coded static as well as WordPress driven web sites
• Made some print design
• Worked on a study focused on web accessibility
• Different translations of literary material and video games

Project highlights

• Annette Katharina Hildbrandt site redesigns
• ABC Barrierefreiheit
• Lothar Tautz site redesigns
  

MusicTrax

Web Designer

• Design, Front-End coding, quality assurance and localisation management

Vo­lun­teer­ing

W3C

April 2024 to– present, Tokyo, globally

Accessibility Internationalization Community Group

I am participating in the Accessibility Internationalization Community Group at the W3C. We are working on refinements of two documents with focus on internationalisation and improvements of guidance across languages and cultures.

The current focus is on Making Content Usable for People with Cognitive and Learning Disabilities and WCAG 3.0 Outcomes.

A11y Tokyo Meetup

April 2024 to– present, Tokyo

MC and part of the organisation team

I am the English speaking MC for the a11y Tokyo meetup.

The meetup happens every month. Odd months have a guest speaker who will give a main presentation, even months will see a lighting talk and in-person networking event.

It is my job to introduce guests, the event and hype the crowd. The event is generally bi-lingual, English and Japanese.

Cer­ti­fi­ca­tions & Education

Cer­ti­fi­ca­tions

• An Introduction to Accessibility and Inclusive Design (with Honors), August 2021, University of Illinois
• W3Cx: Introduction to Web Accessibility, March 2020, W3Cx, World Wide Web Consortium
• TOEIC, Score of 975 of 990 points, July 2013

Education

• Abitur, Kolleg Schöneberg, Berlin, 2006
• Vocational baccalaureate diploma, Dress Making, Quality Assurance, OSZ Mode und Bekleidung, Berlin, 2001
• Dressmaker with craft certificate, Dress Making, design, OSZ Mode und Bekleidung, Berlin, 2000