Marcel Colomb
Software Engineer
Personal statement
Over 10 years of experience in agile, client oriented, full-stack software development. Offering skills from concept to delivery of highly customized software solutions. Always focused on the best user experience.
Very capable to work and deliver under high-pressure situations. Highly motivated and a great team player.
In my private life I play bass in a band and participate in local politics.
MarcelColomb
Job Experiences
Full-Stack Software Engineer
2013 - present
Working in cutting edge, award-winning media architecture projects for international clients.
Creating and designing highly customer oriented full-stack software solutions in an agile environment.
Responsibilities:
- Desgining software solutions
- Creating user experiences
- Content distribution system
- Content management systems
- Frontend applications
- Tracking systems
- Database administration
- Server administration (Ubuntu)
- Client administration (Windows)
- Network administration
Some projects I worked on:
Zero energy media facade, multimedia exhibition with uwb tracking guide
Responsibilities:
- Software concepts - Engineering interactiv javascript multimedia stations - Media CMS for the media facade and the exhibition - Network engineering - Linux Server engineering - Software distribution solution - Media rendering
Schindler's new Visitor Center in Ebikon. Exhibition on 4 floors. 8 unique large-scale installations. Numerous other stations. Full Service: conceived, designed, and engineered by iart
The building on the Schindler Campus in Ebikon was designed by the architects Burckhardt+Partner. Extending over four floors, and a total of 2000 m2, the building is glazed on three sides, making escalators and lifts visible from the outside. These not only serve to move visitors, but are also a key element of the scenography: while in motion, the surrounding landscape becomes a cinematic vista. This is precisely the “feel” of the Visitor Center’s wide variety of exhibits, a sense of movement from you and the installations around you. The result is a balletic interplay of people and technology: a model for future mobility.
Responsibilities:- Desgining software solutions
- Developing various touch apps
- Network inkl. Dante
- Server for media control, CMS and remote access
- CMS (drupal)
- Hardware set up
- Setup and management of frontend servers.
Swiss National Bank - Forum (2019)
Interactive experience on a double-sided Multi-Touch-Wall
24 screens mounted on an in house engineered semi mobile frame. Giant custom build infrared touch frame providing multi touch capability. 4 laser senors track movement in front of the wall. Highly directed speakers provide a unique sound experience. Data is managed in a CMS, also imports live data from SNB Data API. Frontend software build with Unity.
Responsibilities:- Desgining the user experience
- Touchframe
- Blob detection on laser scanners
- Network inkl. Dante
- Server for media control, CMS and remote access
- CMS (drupal)
- SNB Data API integration
- Media wall set up
- Setup and management of frontend servers.
The King Abdulaziz Center for World Culture (2018)
Concept, design and build an interactive exhibition in the middle of the Saudi Arabian desert.
The museum is separated in 7 zones. 4 of them with a central interactive. A table with a top projection and multiple user interfaces to play a contextual game with up to 6 other visitors. The central interactive is connected with an immersive wall projection experience. In the connecting hallway we placed 4 interactive books.
Responsibilities:
- Designing software solutions.
- Head for backend developments.
- Network
- CMS
- Servers management systems.
- Touch tracking
- Globe projection frontend software
- Image tracking
- On site implementation
Merck Innovation Center Interactive Light-Sound Installation (2018)
A expansive light sculpture consists of four curved strands that overlap concentrically, but slightly shifted. A total of 576 double-sided OLED elements are attached to them.
Responsibilities:
- CMS
- Media scheduler
Digital signage solutions (E-Inks) and presentation wall.
Data visualization (js, d3.js)
Digital signage (php, gd, js)
Presentation wall (js)
Head developer
- Building a CMS which contains all data of the presentation wall and converts and pushes the content of the digital sinage solution to the individual E-Ink. Including an Outlook clander to show occupation status of two meeting rooms on E-inks using Drupal.
- Building an js Android app packed with cordova to control the video wall
- Building a video wall application which displays data conections and shows presentation videos (data from CMS, controled by an android app). Using javascript and d3.js for data visualization.
- Planning the network, installing all components, setting up remote access etc.
These books contain printed and projected contents that can hardly be distinguished from one another. The analogue and digital worlds seem to merge on the pages.
Responsibilities:
- Image recognition written system in python 2.7 using OpenCV libraries.
- CMS containing all texts and media data of the books using Drupal.
- Drupal module exporting all data of an node as XML or JSON.
- Python 2.7 script to extract images from the CMS-XML Export.
- Installing the books on site, calibrating the system (camera and touch system), providing remote access (SSH).
MegaFaces is a cross-platform project that combines digital, sculptural and architectural innovation. It was conceived by London architect Asif Khan and engineered by iart for the Sochi 2014 Winter Olympics and Paralympics. The project was commissioned by the Russian telecom operator MegaFon.
Responsibilities:
- Ubuntu server infrastructure, to process all 3d image data.
- Testing and maintaining photo booths.
2012 - 2013
OpenSource PHP framework - Desigend for high-performing, scalable web-applications.
Responsibilities:
- Test driven development of the framework in a small team.
- Implementing payment procedures with different payment providers.
- Building a webcam stream service including recording and storing features.
cyon GmbH
Building their webhosting backend2009 – 2012
PHP backend to manage a cpanel webhosting: financal transactions, registering domains, automated
setup, DNS
Editor, e-mail, subdomain managing etc.
Responsibilities:
- Developing the system in a small team.
- Building automated order process.
- Creating DNS Editor.
Amt für Wirtschaft und Arbeit
Administrating the local network and storage facilities. Supporting users.2006 – 2009
K.Schweizer AG
Building computer networks.2001 – 2006
Education & Certification
dipl. TechnikerIn HF Informatik
hf-ict "College of Higher Education".
Studying all aspect of information technologie, object-oriented programming, server administration, network administration, automatization
2006-2009
Telematiker efz
Allgemeine Gewerbeschule Basel
Creating physical computer networks (optical fibre, ethernet). Studying electronics.
2001-2005
Technical skills
Agile Software Development
Client oriented software design
Web: JS, Electron, VUE, SASS, CSS, Cordova
OOP: PHP, Python
DB: MySQL, PostgreSQL, (JAVA)
Linux (Ubuntu) Server Administration
Network: DHCP, V-LAN, Dante
Award selection
SEGD Merit Award 2016
The interactive
book on Paul Gauguin has been awarded a Merit Award 2016 in the category 'Interactive
Experience' by the
Society of Experiental Graphic Design (SEGD).
Essence 2015
Graphic Design Award 'Essence'
The interactive
book for Paul
Gauguin exception was honoured twice at the Graphic Design
Award
'Essence'.
The Essence Award is awarded once a year by the industry association SGV Schweizer Grafiker Verband and seeks to 'extract' the essence of contemporary Swiss Graphic Design.
Swiss ICT Award 2014
iart was awarded with the Swiss ICT Award 2014 (the Swiss "Oscar of the ICT industry") for the
project MegaFaces.
Innovation Grand Prix at Cannes Lions Festival 2014
MegaFaces
was awarded the Innovation Grand Prix at the Cannes Lions International Festival of Creativity 2014.
Innovation jury president Tom Bedecarré described the MegaFaces Pavilion as 'indicative of a trend we saw among the entries of the blurring between digital and real experiences — the blurring between marketing communication as an experience and marketing communications becoming a service or technology.'