Oliver Gassner

Current

Freelancer at carpe.com (Self-employed)
Blogger and Wiki Gardener at carpe.com

Past

Heavy User at The Internets
Speaker at Barcamp
Lehrer, Studienassessor at Land Baden-Württemberg (Kultusministerium)

Marketing Operations at DELOS AG

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Education

Universität Konstanz
St. Olaf College
Hegau-Gymnasium, Singen am Hohentwiel

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Industry

Writing and Editing

Oliver Gassner’s Summary

Project Management (creating and maintaining websites, communities, online projects).

Education (English as a foreign language, Business English, creative writing for adults and students)

Talks/Workshops (Internet issues, freelancers, authors, networking, writeable web, weblogs, wikis)

Author (childrens books - also for marketing purposes, experimental literature, hyperfiction, poetry, short prose)

Oliver Gassner’s Specialties:

Writing for online and press (education, literature, culture, Intrenet [security, art], TV), concepts for online events or online presences, concepts and orga for cultural events (mainly literature)

Oliver Gassner’s Experience

Freelancer
carpe.com (Self-employed)

(Self-Employed; Myself Only; Writing and Editing industry)

September 2003 — Present (6 years 3 months)

Freelancing as a journalist [since 1984], writer, culture management consultant [since 1998], culture project/event management [since 1987], online project management (Websites, Databases, ...) [since 1996], creative writing trainer, Business English trainer (for Germans), speaker about and organizer of online and offline networking for freelancers.
Blogger and Wiki Gardener

carpe.com

(Writing and Editing industry)

2000 — Present (9 years )

Extensive experience with weblogs/blogs and wiki-usage (incl. installation) both for individual, work group or community use.
Heavy User

The Internets

(Writing and Editing industry)

1988 — 2009 (21 years )
Speaker

Barcamp

(Writing and Editing industry)

2006 — 2008 (2 years )
Lehrer, Studienassessor

Land Baden-Württemberg (Kultusministerium)

(Educational Institution; 501-1000 employees; Primary/Secondary Education industry)

August 1996 — September 2002 (6 years 2 months)

(Dates except for the period mentioned below) Teaching German and English at various levels from 4th grade (Grundschule) to secondary level (Grundkurs 12/13). Including German as a Foreign Language for immigrants. Responsible for class managment (Klassenlehrer). Also taught Creative Writing (Literatur Grundkurs), managed a pupil group (AG) who took care of the school homepage and accompanied pupils on (overnight) field trips to Munich (twice) and to Lace Constance. Took part in a seminar on addiction prevention for pupils and in seminars on creative writing.
Marketing Operations

DELOS AG

(Privately Held; 1-10 employees; Internet industry)

August 1999 — June 2000 (11 months)

Helping DELOS AG (Stuttgart, Germany. Internet security, firewalls, load-balancing, filtering, consulting) to expand from a 2-person-venture to a team, project-management of (and copy for) new homepage, direct-mail activities (target selection and copy), organize presence at local, regional and national trade shows.
Currently (2003/2004) hired by DELOS AG to provide news content for their homepage as a freelancer.

Oliver Gassner’s Education

Universität Konstanz

M.A. , German, English Literature and Linguitics, Media , 1984 — 1992
St. Olaf College

Literature,Religion,Ballroom,German 1988 — 1988
Hegau-Gymnasium, Singen am Hohentwiel