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Thomas Immich
Managing Director, Head of
Visual Design, Dipl. Computer Scientist (FH) 
Thomas Immich is a co-founder and director of Centigrade and
responsible for managing the company's visual user interface
design division. Thomas holds a Diploma in computer science from
the University of Applied Sciences Kaiserslautern, having
completed his studies of Digital Media with an award-winning
thesis on user interface prototyping. Since then Thomas
concentrates on user-centered design methods with regard to their
technical feasibility and tool support. During this time he worked
as a user interface design lead in numerous client projects,
consulting development teams in the visual and conceptional
optimization of user interfaces.
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Simon Albers
Technical Director, Head of
Development
Simon Albers is a co-founder and director of Centigrade and in
charge of the software development division. He specializes in the
programming language Java with a strong focus on graphical user
interfaces. During his career he supervised the realization of
several customer projects and worked as a consultant for the
technical architecture of complex Rich Clients. Several years of
work experience in the field of usability engineering and
evaluation enable him to elegantly link user-driven requirements
and technical feasibility.
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Dr. Markus Weber
Head of Usability Engineering,
Dipl. Psychologist
Markus Weber is responsible for the company’s usability
engineering division. He studied at the Saarland University, where
he also received a doctorate with a thesis on eye tracking in an
eLearning context. In his function as usability engineer, he is
concerned with agile usability processes and the efficient
cooperation of usability engineers, user interface designers, and
developers amongst other things. His activities include the
realization of requirements analyses, usability evaluations, and
interaction designs which he conducted in numerous projects within
different business sectors.
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Petra Ripplinger
Administration, Bank Officer
and Language Secretary
Petra Ripplinger has a long work experience as personal
assistant on management level. As trained bank officer and
language secretary she has worked in diverse sectors (chemical
industry, advertising, banking) and is therefore perfectly
acquainted with all tasks and procedures in modern office
management. As first contact person for Centigrade's clients and
suppliers, she is in charge of commercial correspondence, time
scheduling and all matters of organization and administration.
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Florian Moritz
User Interface Designer and
Developer, Dipl. Computer Scientist (FH)
Florian Moritz is devoted to compelling user interfaces. He
studied at the University of Applied Sciences in Kaiserslautern
and possesses substantiated skills concerning the development of
websites and Rich Internet Applications (RIA). His thesis focussed
on the convergence of web and desktop concepts to Rich Internet
Applications in a user interface context. Furthermore, his
strengths are located in the fields of screen design, prototyping,
icon design and styling and development of Silverlight/WPF
applications.
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Patrick Decker
Software Engineer, Dipl.
Computer Scientist (FH)
Patrick Decker completed the degree of Applied Sciences with
distinction at the University of Applied Sciences in Trier. Before
he started working as a GUI developer, he was involved in the
implementation of a Java-based renderer for XML, which implements
the CSS 2.1 Standard of W3C. He was also engaged in the creation
of a well-known German game. At Centigrade his main focus lies on
the development of Java Swing GUI components and screens using the
presentation model approach.
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David Patrizi
User Interface Designer,
Bachelor of Science
David holds a bachelor's degree in computer science in media at
the University of Furtwangen. His thesis dealt with the graphical
design of an interactive menu for mobile phones. As a user
interface designer, David Patrizi is primarily responsible for the
conception and design of high-quality icons. He gained experience
in the field of design during his time as a web designer at
Nintendo Europe and also a social community platform.
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Andreas Groß
User Interface Designer,
Designer for Digital and Print Media
Andreas Groß is working as a mediator at the contact point of
Centigrade’s Usability Engineering and User Interface Design
divisions. He is mainly concerned with conceiving and developing
Silverlight- and WPF-applications. His experience in the domain of
user interface design includes working at a leading provider of
eLearning solutions in Saarland where he created expressive
animations to convey complex teaching content. As a freelancer, he
successfully conducted on numerous web projects from layout to
implementation.
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Frederic Frieß
User Interface Designer and
Developer, Bachelor of Science
Frederic Frieß concluded his bachelor degree in computer
science, at the University of Applied Sciences in Wiesbaden.
During his thesis he worked on tangible user interfaces combined
with multi-touch elements. One of his prior interests is 3D
computer graphics. In this respect, he currently deepens his
knowledge within the areas of real-time computer graphics,
animation and modeling. At Centigrade his responsibilities cover
both technical and design activities.
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