Springer Publisher Heidelberg

In 1997 I worked for Springer Publisher in Heidelberg, a major publisher for scientific books and journals worldwide. It is not the same as Axel Springer Publisher, who publishes yellow-press material.

I conceptualised and developed their Intranet for the Multimedia department completely from scratch, including investigating a needs analysis. I implemented an engine which allows each staff member to enter news into a common database, which will automatically be deleted after it reaches its expiry date. The key feature was that on each start up the user will only see the news he hasn't seen unless he requests otherwise.
The advantage against known email and listserver solutions was that the administrator was easily able to update and correct old postings instead of sending another mass email.

This ensured an immediate and effective communication flow within the department. I used Perl on a Unix server to implement the functionality.

In addition to that, I programmed some Java applets for interactive books online and did the graphical layout for the Intranet.