Personal data

Complete name

Joscha Falco Feth

Place & date of birth

1982-07-03, Filderstadt-Bonlanden, Germany

Nationality

German

Marital status

single

Parents

• Dr. med. Dipl.-Psych. Helmut Feth
• Dipl. Soz. Päd. (FH) Claudia Häfele-Feth

Miscellaneous

• Driver's license
• APIEL-Certificate (“well qualified”)
• one-year rhetoric seminar

Formal education

1989 - 1993

Attended “Sieben-Keltern-Schule” elementary school in Metzingen, Germany.

1993 - 2002

Enrolled in “Dietrich-Bonhoeffer-Gymnasium” middle and high school in Metzingen, Germany.

2002-06-29

Graduated from high school with receipt of the university-entrance diploma.

2003-10-13 - 2005-09-30

Began studying Information management and Engineering at the University Of Karlsruhe (TH).

2005-10-01 - today

Began studying Applied Computer Science at the University Of Cooperative Education in Stuttgart.

• Several years chief editor of the student magazine “Kelter”.
• Class representative of the sixth form for two years.
• Spokesperson of the applied computer science course 2005.

Languages

German

Native language

English, 10 years plus an international experience.

fluent in written and spoken

French, 5 years plus an international experience.

intermediate

Chinese, 1 year plus an international experience.

Rudimentary knowledge

Programming languages

PHP (6+ years)

Expert

HTML & CSS (6+ years)

profound knowledge

Flash / Actionscript (ECMA-262) (6+ years)

profound knowledge

Java, Java EE (incl. IBM Websphere Portal)

Intermediate

JavaScript/Ajax

Intermediate

Haskell, C, Lisp, Prolog

Beginner

Practical experience

February 2000

Lecture at the second german flashconference.

April 2000

Opening of the flash portal FLASHTOOL (about 15,000 unique visitors a month throughout the whole world). Inactive since mid-2001, but still a lot of visitors and users of the tools.

2000-05-19

Founded FETH.com. Principal activity: software engineering.

June 2000

Published the program “SWfX” (now “WildFX”) on the American and German Market in collaboration with Wildform, Inc.. About 30.000 copies have been sold (status quo 2002).

2000-06-23

Won first prize in a software competition held by e-SAP and Sunshine Live (a radio station).

July 2000

Founded e-motionshop in coperation with a programmer from Bonn, Germany and a designer from Dresden, Germany.

2000-07-27

(until 2000-09-10) Six-week internship at SAP LABS FRANCE in Sophia-Antipolis, France.

October 2000

Release of FLASH:BAG, an  online shop completely based on Macromedia Flash.

2001-02-23

(until 2001-03-05) Two-week temporary employment abroad at Wildform, Inc. in Los Angeles, USA.

2001-05-04

Lecture at the third german flashconference.

2001-07-26

(until 2001-09-09) Six-week internship at Wildform, Inc. in Los Angeles, USA.

2002-06-13

Publication of the book “Dynamische Webseiten mit Flash & PHP” (ISBN: 3827262852), publisher: Pearson Education (M+T). German only.

2002-08-03

Release of “FMS - Manage Your Flash Content!” – a content management system for flash-based web sites.

2002-08-28

Publication of an article in the PHP-Magazin about Cookies and Flash.

2002-11-05

Talk at the PHP-Conference 2002. Here you can find the lecture material.

2002-11-08

Talk at the Shockwards 2002. Here you can find the lecture material.

2003-2005

Self-employed and working for a variety of companies all over the world. Some minor software releases.

2006-03-27

(until 2006-05-12) Internship at IBM, Web Solutions Team in Herrenberg, Germany.

2006-09-27

Publication of the book “Das TYPO3-Anwenderhandbuch” (ISBN: 3827323541), publisher: Addison-Wesley. German only (yet).