about

I created the Flash website MINDistortion.tv in 2002. Been working in this area for about 6 years. Recently majored in telecommunications & media. Yes, I do get to see sunshine.

name: Manuel Fallmann
age: 26
academic degree: Dipl.-Ing.
current residency: St. Poelten, Austria
personal interests: Music, Concerts & Festivals, Movies, Animation, Climbing, Video Games, Travelling, Digital & Traditional Arts, Geek Stuff, etc

resume

07/1985: Born in Vienna
08/2002: Founded MINDistortion.tv
09/2004 - 11/2004: Flash Developer - Futurelab Ars Electronica Center, Linz
12/2005 - 02/2008: Flash Developer / Graphic Design - Bellevue Investainment, Vienna
09/2007 - 01/2009: Flash & Web Developer - Designers in Motion, Krems
04/2009: Majored in Telecommunication & Media Technologies - University of Applied Science, St. Poelten
since 04/2009: Full-time freelancer for commercial and independent projects

awards

2002: Prix Ars Electronica, u19 - Honorary mention for “o fortuna”
2003: Prix Ars Electronica, u19 - Honorary mention for “system interrupted”
2003: Infoscreen Award - Cartoon-Animation award for “a hamster’s revenge”
2004: Prix Ars Electronica, u19 - Award of Distincion for MINDistortion.tv
2005: aniMOweb competition - Audience prize for “War”

skills

software: Flash⁺⁺⁺, Photoshop⁺⁺, mProjector⁺⁺, FlashDevelop⁺⁺, Dreamweaver⁺⁺, CoolEdit⁺⁺, Illustrator⁺, Eclipse⁺, After Effects⁺, SoftImage XSI⁺, Indesign⁺, Freehand, Visual Studio, Avid Xpress
frameworks / apis: Facebook⁺⁺, Flex⁺, ASP .NET
technologies: ActionScript 2.0⁺⁺⁺, ActionScript 3.0⁺⁺⁺, HTML/CSS⁺⁺, PHP⁺⁺, XML⁺⁺, JavaScript (and yes, AJAX)⁺, MySQL⁺, C#, Java, LateX, XSLT
languages: German⁺⁺⁺, English⁺⁺, French, Russian, Spanish, Tagalog

Skills are ranged from year long experience⁺⁺⁺ to not sure whether actually worth mentioning. If I don’t have the skills you’re looking for, I might still be able to connect you with someone who does.

influences

movies: Donnie Darko, Fight Club, Eternal Sunshine of The Spotless Mind, Shaolin Soccer, Yellow Submarine, Falling Down
music: Boards of Canada, Aphex Twin, The Cure, Nine Inch Nails, KMFDM, Tom Waits
tv: Aeon Flux, The Maxx, Southpark, Ren & Stimpy
books: 1984, L’Etranger, JtHM, about half the work of Philip K Dick