Martin Kraft

Currently working Full-Time in Erlangen on # Developing Angular-based frontends deployed as in-car entertainment systems for one of the big German automotive brands from Bavaria. These include areas like smartphone integration, Apple Carplay, Android Auto, radio, media, settings and much more. Hope you like what you see in your digital FPK (Kombiinstrument) and on your touch-screens. If not... tell me anyway. Any feedback is good feedback!

# Onboarding 250.000 new users per month - I helped newly registered users to properly understand app features, getting the necessary inputs done and having a great first few minutes of app usage. # Monetization - I concepted and researced new features for 'StudySmarter Premium' so users can pay for awesome services that help them form learning habits and improve their studying experience while keeping core content free for all

# Xeditor - Redefining a WYSIWYG interface for structured content in XML to be mobile-first and usable from novice's to pro's. - Creating a block-style structure of addable plugin's to use features like collaboration, reviewing and metadata tagging. # Xpublisher - Rebuilding a CMS and automated publishing engine for structured content to be mobile-first. - Customer-testing a new kind of production workflow based on branching & merging compared to classic check-in & check-out models.

Worked Part-Time in Munich on # SMErobotics - I was a scientist... doing science! Researched and prototyped UX/UI Topics for industrial applications in robotics and Industry 4.0. # FarmExpert4.0 - UX consulting duty building apps for the organization taking care of 80.000 Bavarian farmer's crops, plants and growing plans. - Prototyped how to connect these small to midsize farms to IoT and Industry 4.0 applications.

Working-Student in Munich doing # A ton of KPI software - There were a lot confidential agency projects here. I could never talk about this in detail ... - In reality, these were some app and dashboard projects for customers like VW, Hovacal and so on. Cool! But not for the public. # Concepting and in-house consulting. - Advised the awesome Engineering group of Vispiron on web and app-related topics. - Also had the honor to redesign websites, etc. for customers like the 'Deutsch-Iranische Krebshilfe'.

Was Employee Nr. 3 in a small startup who worked pro bono on # Cloud-based Maintenance Management Software - Gathering requirements and building concepts for a rising market Industry 4.0 platform… Sounds Epic? It was! # Orchestrated Testing - I did a lot of 'clickdummy'-testing the initial 'Wizard of Oz Prototyping' with engineers and customers from Europe and India to improve our Cloud-based Maintenance Management Software.

Working-Student doing # Aboalarm apps version 3.0 - Shaped the user experience of an app & web service that was used 3 million times a year to cancel contracts easily and securely. - Boy oh boy did we help some people out of a LOT of contracts... with a great UX # Contract management service - Redesigned a contract management service helping users to better categorize and group their contracts. - We even imported and automatically tagged bank statements for customers long before others did so too.

Working-Student in Munich doing # Open Payment Gateway - Prototyped and shaped the early days of the open payment gateway. - Many moons later this feature is now owned by Payoneer. Wow! # Payment orchestration platform - Took the B2B customer feedback and improved a software suite helping customers easily adding and using dynamic payment options for their shops worldwide.

Major: Media Informatics (Computer Science). Minor: Human–Computer Interaction. Thesis: "Use of contactless identification technologies to improve processes in an SMT production" at ASM Assembly Systems (www.asm-smt.com)

Major: Media Informatics (Computer Science). Minor: Human–Computer Interaction. Thesis: "Design and evaluation of intuitive graphical user interfaces for industrial robotic system programming" at the fortiss institute - An-Institut Technische Universität München (www.fortiss.org)