Mike Voss

Current

Co-Founder and Owner at Livestock.ie
Co-Founder and Owner at Horizont Entertainment

Past

Technical Director at X Communications
Senior Web Developer at X Communications
External ECommerce Consultant at LSA - Link

External ECommerce Consultant at Centralwings
Customer Service Agent UK at PayPal
Assistant Systems Analyst at Walsh Western Int.
Studentische Hilfskraft at Department of Statistics, University Bonn
Bankkaufmann at Deutsche Bank

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Education

Trinity College, Dublin
Tipperary Institute
Collegium Augustinianum Gaesdonck

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Recommendations

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Connections

56 connections

Industry

Internet

Mike Voss’s Summary

A German native, having lived in Ireland from 2002 to 2010, Mike has just ended his tenure as Technical Director at X Communications in Dublin, Ireland, leading a team of ASP.NET web developers, using C# with a strong specialization in CMS solutions.

Prior to joining X Communications, Mike served as Ecommerce Consultant at Centralwings Poland and LSA Link Ireland. During his studies, he also had the opportunity to work as Assistant Systems Analyst at Walsh Western Int. and as Customer Care Agent at PayPal Europe.

Earlier in his career, Mike served for several years as Retail Banking Executive at Deutsche Bank Germany while pursuing his further interests in game design and development on the Windows platform. He is the co-founder of the German freeware label Horizont Enterainment.

Mike went back to education after emigrating to Ireland, attending Tipperary Institute where he studied EBusiness to Honours Degree level and graduated with 1st class honours as best in class in 2006. He is currently in the process of obtaining a Masters in Computer Science (M.Sc. in MIS) at Trinity College Dublin.

Mike Voss’s Specialties:

XHTML, CSS (+++), ASP.NET 1,2 und 3.5 mit C#, inkl. AJAX (+++)
JavaScript incl. JQuery (+++) Kentico CMS (+++)
DBMS in MSSQL 2000/2005/2008 with TSQL (+++), SubSonic ORM (++)
MS Windows 9x, XP (+++), Vista, 7 (++), Server 2003(+++) / 2008 (++)
MS Office, inkl. Word, Excel, Access, PowerPoint, Visio, Project (+++)
Active Directory (++), TCP/IP basierte Netzwerke (++), Visual Source Safe (+++)
Adobe Flash mit Actionscript 2 (+) PhotoShop CS, Dreamweaver, Blender 3D (+)

Mike Voss’s Experience

Co-Founder and Owner

Livestock.ie

(Internet industry)

September 2006 — Present (4 years 1 month)

Mike has been involved in Livestock.ie from the early conceptual stages all through to the launch of the current pilot solution. Main responsibilities include:

- Design of solution architecture for online cattle mart web application
- Implementation on an ASP.NET and SQL Server 2005 platform.
- Sourcing of 3rd party components and infrastructure solutions
- Building of business case and documentation for funding parties

Livestock.ie offers an online market place to allow direct farm to farm trade of cattle in Ireland by means of auctions and fix priced listings for both commercial and pedigree stock.
Co-Founder and Owner

Horizont Entertainment

(Entertainment industry)

February 1993 — Present (17 years 8 months)

Mike comprises one half of the Horizont Entertainment founding team and was responsible from the start for conceptual and visual design as well as the investigation of possible commercialization options for the company assets.

Project Responsibilities:

Webdesign:
http://www.horizont-entertainment.com
- 3D Graphics and Front End Design
- XHTML and JavaScript Sources

Battlelords (turn based strategy)
- Manual
- Additional graphics
- Gamedesign
- Leveldesign

Vyrox (break-out style arcade)
- Gamedesign
- Leveldesign
- Ingame Graphics
- Soundtrack and Sound FX
- creation of ad sponsored skins

Attacktics (turn based strategy, production ceased)
- Gamedesign
- Unitgraphics and Design
- 3D Animations
Technical Director

X Communications

(Privately Held; Internet industry)

August 2008 — June 2010 (1 year 11 months)

X Communications is an award winning digital media company founded in 1994. From the beginning, we set out to produce outstanding designs delivered on all digital media platforms.

Leading development role in multiple award winning website projects, examples of which include

- Childline (http://www.childline.ie)
- McDonalds Ireland (http://www.mcdonalds.ie)
- The National Concert Hall (http://www.nch.ie)
- Department of Foreign Affairs: EUMatters (http://www.eumatters.ie)
- Radiological Protection Institute of Ireland (http://www.rpii.ie)
- Inspire Nano Technology (http://www.inspirenano.ie)

Furthermore responsible for the management of an IIS6 and SQL2005 shared hosting platform, commercial client focussed business development support and liaison with several third party service providers for X Communication’s infrastructure.
Senior Web Developer

X Communications

(Privately Held; 11-50 employees; Internet industry)

September 2006 — August 2008 (2 years )
External ECommerce Consultant

LSA - Link

(Internet industry)

January 2006 — September 2006 (9 months)
External ECommerce Consultant

Centralwings

(Public Company; Airlines/Aviation industry)

June 2005 — August 2005 (3 months)

Creation and execution of website marketing strategy for German, UK and Western European market. Additional responsibilites included:

- Localisation support for marketing materials in all three target markets
- Best practise analysis eCommerce, budget airline sector
- Supporting migration of eCommerce platform to new 3rd party CMS
- Content development in HTML, JavaScript and troubleshooting Flash
Customer Service Agent UK

PayPal

(Financial Services industry)

July 2004 — August 2004 (2 months)

Customer Service for the UK market as part of the pilot project for a temporary workforce within eBay and PayPal operations

- Inbound telephone helpdesk for UK costumers
- Advising and solving technical and transactional problems
- Escalating, tracking and follow up on customer issues
- Achieved C-Sat ratings of over 90%, (targeted 78%)
Assistant Systems Analyst

Walsh Western Int.

(Logistics and Supply Chain industry)

July 2003 — August 2003 (2 months)

Working with the BPI Engineer on the organisation's Six Sigma Program, tasks including:

- custom building MS Excel and MS Access models
- designing and implementing spreadsheet solutions
- analysing business processes for decision support
- proposing and initialising a database solution for the warehouse inbound planning system
Studentische Hilfskraft

Department of Statistics, University Bonn

(Educational Institution; Research industry)

February 2001 — August 2002 (1 year 7 months)

General administrative tasks and lecture preparation,
additional tasks including:

- HTML and JavaScript coding for webdesign and maintenance
- support for the Finasto Journal editorial office
- front end design for the FinaDB project
- aid in preperation for retirement symposium for Prof. D. Sondermann
Bankkaufmann

Deutsche Bank

(Financial Services industry)

August 1996 — August 2000 (4 years 1 month)

Retail Banking Executive position as savings and investment consultant and main cash handler, additional responsibilities including:

- product specialist for ATM systems and electronic banking
- internal multiplier for IT Coaching
- NOS Coach (internal TPS system) and backup
- local administrator for variable work time solution (VAZ)

Prior to branch level position Mike qualified as Bankkaufmann receiving dual training with part time vocational education, training and working areas including:

- Retail Banking Sales and Customer Service
- Stock Market Investment and Share Trading
- Electronic Banking and Point of Sale Systems
- Foreign Trade (Both SWIFT and documented)
- SME and corporate customer finance

Mike Voss’s Education

Trinity College, Dublin

M.Sc. , M.I.S. , 2008 — 2010
Tipperary Institute

B.B.S. (hon) , EBusiness , 2002 — 2006
Collegium Augustinianum Gaesdonck

Abitur , English, Mathematics, Biology, Geography , 1988 — 1995

Attended Glenstal Abbey School in the Rep. of Ireland in 1990 as part of student exchange programme