Hi, my name is Tristan Peter Knapp and I have been living in Germany for over 17 years. I originally came to Germany to start a subsidiary of an American company which sold software development tools (software for programmers) which I built up to sales of over € 5.000.000. I was solely responsible for marketing, sales and financial reporting to the parent company which was a public company.
Since 1996, I have been self-employed performing software development, marketing and internet consulting, which mixes my personal love for creativity and achieving objectives.
To a certain degree, my talents are a dichotomy of sorts - software and internet development does not often mix well with business and marketing savvy - but, perhaps it is just this combination which like olive oil and vinegar combines to create something which is more than the sum of its parts.
However, before you start pouring me on to your salad, take a look around my website and I am sure you will find many more appetizing things which I have to offer. The breadth of what I do should satisfy the most finicky eater.
I enjoy new things and believe I can master most challenges. If I can't, I will tell you. If I can, I will help you.
I will listen. I will talk. I will challenge and probe you. I will make sure I understand you. And together we will change things. And make them better than they were before.
CV Overview
- knappmedien, Owner
- Managing Director
- Founding Partner, Fortune 500 consulting company
- Sales and Marketing Director
- Director of Development
- Systems Manager
- Senior Developer, Compiler and Languages
- Technical Support Director
- Project Leader, Large Scale Database Development
- Product Manager, Software Development Tools
Major success
- Grew number of customers for a catalog company from 100.000 to 250.000
- Launched european subsidiary for software distributor
- Managed database projects for Bank of Boston (now something else - so many bank mergers in the USA!) and Northern Telecom (now Nortel)
- Early internet adopter, experience in over 410 websites in the past 12 years
- Implementation of first certified SAP Open Catalog Interface implementation, eProcurement
- Mastering Typo3 (well, maybe taming Typo3 is better said ;)
- My son, Leander
Technical abilities
- Windows System Programming
- UNIX / LINUX System Programming
- TCP/IP Programming
- Internet / Intranet / Extranet
- Multimedia Professional
- JAVA/J2EE Rational Rose
- Relational Database Development (Normalizing, Entity Relationship)
- Object Design
- Integration and automation
General business abilites
- In-depth knowledge of business and finance
- Marketing and Branding
Programming Languages
- C#, C++, C, Visual Basic (VBA, VBSCRIPT, WSH Windows Scripting Host), JAVA (Javascript, ActionScript), PHP, PERL, UNIX/LINUX Shellscripting (Bourne, BSD) etc., some DELPHI
- Out of date ;) - APL, PROLOG, LISP, ADA, COBOL, PASCAL
Languages
- English (mother tongue)
- German
- French (some - enough to get my face slapped...)
- Latin
Hobbies
- Music (Keyboard)
- Reading, politics, business, world events
