About me
Hi everybody
May I introduce my self. My Name is Michael Fretz, I’m an Interaction Design student at the university of the arts in Zurich, Switzerland. Born and grown 1982 in a little town in the suburb of Zurich. I just finished my internship at Almer/Blank in Venice, California USA.
Things I like:
coding, good design, innovative people, summer, electronic music, cycle ball, unicycle-trial, squash, swimming and travelling!
Things I don’t like:
rain, unreliability, slow computers, IE6 :)
Things I did:
..an apprenticeship as a sparky (electrician) at EKZ
..worked as an service electrician at Schibli
..founded my own web design company called Cubera Solutions GmbH
..developed Flash movies for Geberit and helped out in the usability testing
..Internship as a PHP and Actionscript developer at dCTRL
..worked as an Freelance for different companys like dCTRL,
Kitsuné Interaction Design, Feinheit, University of the arts Zurich (ZHdK)…
..and i’m still doing an internship at Almer/Blank in Venice, California USA
Things I learned at school:
..I’m currently in the interaction design bachelor program at the university of the arts in Zurich in my last year
..web publisher SIZ
..institution of higher technical education (Technische BMS Zurich)
Language:
..German
..English (spend one year in Australia)
..French (but I’m not really good at it)
Some stuff I worked with:
Software development
..Actionscript 3
..Flex
..PHP
..Javascript
..XML
..Phyton
..Processing
..XHMTL
..CSS
..MaxMSP
..Arduino
Software:
Flex, FDT, Catalyst, Flash, Dreamweaver, Photoshop, Fireworks, Captivate, Illustrator, InDesign
Frameworks and libraries:
pureMVC, CakePHP, jQuery, Script.aculo.us, Sprite, Wordpress, Tween-lite/Max, Mojofont
Prototyping:
Software- and hardware projects
Physical Computing:
Arduino, Daka, different sensor technologies, electronics
