Georg Graf

Led the transition to use AI tools in development and product management! Led the team that was responsible for the app and web experience, as well as multiple high-profile integrations with 3rd parties. Built the market-leading Deed Nonprofit search that allowed to search a database of over 2M nonprofits in milliseconds. Analyzed and optimized the grant processes to move millions of $ to nonprofits for big clients like Walmart.

As a versatile freelance animator and producer, I have dedicated three years to creating captivating narratives across 2D, 3D, VR, and interactive formats. I bring product stories to life through animation, making complex topics accessible and engaging while staying true to brand voices. My collaborations include producing and animating the launch video for Paradime.io, crafting a complete product trailer for Levity, and developing new illustration guidelines for their brand. I have also worked with META on a VR short film, where I animated a 30-second scene using the Quest 2, pushing the boundaries of immersive storytelling. Additionally, I experimented with innovative workflows in VR animation, utilizing tools like QUILL and Blender to enhance visual effects and optimize production pipelines. As a course creator and lecturer at 30DayAnimator, I shared my passion for animation, guiding aspiring animators in both classical and digital techniques. My expertise includes storyboarding, animation (keyframe and motion design), sound design, artistic direction, and video production. I thrive in both solo projects and collaborative environments, always focused on delivering stories that resonate with audiences and help brands achieve their goals. For more, visit: www.justgoscha.com.

Onboarded the new VP design into the organization and all domain topics relevant from the design perspective. Created a vision for the next-generation workflow system for the internal operations managers, that powers internal operations and sits at the core of the productivity of the company. Starting with interviews, and workshops and moving into wireframed prototypes, all the way to the high-fidelity UI designs. Streamlined the internal booking experience with partners, by merging 3 separate flows on the platform into a unified UX flow.

Working on new lighthouse products and prototypes from scratch and turning ambiguous requirements into real products. Bringing designs to life from customer and user research, initial prototyping, wireframing to stunning final designs! Assisting marketing and product management with delightful graphic design work, animations, and illustrations.

Responsible for building and maintaining business-critical products and microservices that enabled operations to scale productivity by more than 10X, going from being able to handle tens of shipments to being able to handle hundreds of shipments per person in parallel. Innovating features in the critical path for internal operations by increasing performance by over 30X with technologies like ElasticSearch, while reducing operational tech costs with the right fit technologies. Making important long-term strategic tech decisions for problems that are affecting revenue pipelines and lead generation (Salesforce integrations, sign-up funnel optimizations, invoicing automation). Hiring and developing multiple junior engineers to become high performers and grow into senior positions with high responsibilities. Maintaining a happy and high-performing team with a retention that was higher than the company average by fostering their growth and providing them with meaningful work with high responsibility and trust. The people in my team stayed for 3.4 years on average with the company. Managing expectations, and requirements and balancing the interests of stakeholders from Business Development, Sales, Ops, Product, and Tech in a highly ambiguous environment. Co-designing the hiring process, interviewing and hiring for important key positions within the company including: Senior Product Designer, Engineering Team Leads, Senior and Junior Engineers, Salesforce Integration Engineers and more. Tech: - Moving from a monolithic architecture to microservices - Front End Architecture (React, MobX, Angular) - Back End Architecture (TypeScript, NodeJS, Microservices, Heroku, AWS, SNS/SQS, S3, ElasticSearch, Redis, MongoDB, SQL) - Acceptance testing (E2E-testing) - Unit Testing - Team Leadership - Code Reviews - Product Requirements - Tech Recruiting / Technical Interviews

- Developing, designing and launching the user-facing digital freight forwarder platform - UX/UI Design - Front-End Architecture - React, Typescript, (AngularJS+Angular) - MongoDB, ElasticSearch, Amazon SNS/SQS - Product Requirements

Building new features and maintaining a independent journalism platform with millions of users! - Front-End Development - Implementation of Responsive Design - E2E Testing - AB and UX Testing - UI/UX Design

Working on cutting-edge real-time communication applications! Imagine building ZOOM natively in the browser, 6 years before anyone has even heard of Zoom. That's what I did. Now, if I would have had more business sense then 😄... well, the curse of junior engineers. Very productive and innovative, yet so naïve! - UX/UI prototypes - WebRTC, WebSockets, SIP, Video Conferencing software, HTML5 - Telecommunication systems, OpenIMS, OpenEPC, Deep packet inspection with Wireshark