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Ulf Walter-LaufsUW

Ulf Walter-Laufs

Transformation Support & Web Development

€1,000/day
Ratingen, DE
8-15 years

Average response time: 1 hour

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About Ulf

  • German

    Native or bilingual

  • English

    Fluent

  • French

    Basic

  • Italian

    Basic

Can work on-site
Ratingen (up to 20km)

Experience

  • WEtell GmbH,
    Manager Company Website
    TELECOMMUNICATIONS
    June 2024 - September 2025 (1 year and 3 months)
    79 Freiburg im Breisgau, Germany
    • Project management & technical project leadership for website relaunch www.wetell.de on the company side (Content Management & Platform Migration, Information Architecture, Communication with external developers, Requirements Management)
    • Content maintenance of the company's existing website
    • Stimulating contributions to organizational development (integrative purpose development, meeting structures, tension-based work, role formation, etc.)
  • Büro U – Systemische Organisations- & Webentwicklung
    Independent Systemic Transformation Consultant & Web Developer
    CONSULTING AND AUDITS
    September 2023 - Today (2 years and 9 months)
    Ratingen, Germany
    • Consulting including workshop design, execution, and follow-up for Circular Berlin e.V. within a consulting collective
    • Webinar on transformation blockers as part of the digital:genial 2 event series by Stiftung Bürgermut
    • Organizational and transformation support at the stilwerk* carpentry workshop in Neuss
  • trivago N.V.,
    Frontend Engineering (Lead), Design System Engineer & Sustainability Consulting
    TRAVEL AND TOURISM
    August 2015 - January 2023 (7 years and 5 months)
    40 Düsseldorf, Germany
    • Pitch for the introduction of a sustainability strategy and application for the position of Sustainability Manager to the management board.
    • Initiatives to create awareness for the problem of global warming within the company by organizing and sensitizing interest groups. Both among employees and management.
    • I worked in the Design System team as a Design System Engineer. My responsibilities included the architecture and structuring of the Design System. I was also responsible for the technical implementation and communication with stakeholders in the product teams.
    • Until Q3/2021, I was also responsible for a team of 6 developers (backend, JavaScript, and UI) within a product team. I supported the employees in developing according to their interests and working autonomously.
    • I was also involved in hiring processes, including as a hiring manager for Frontend Developers and UI Designers.
    • Cross-team UX consulting and product planning.
    • UI coding (HTML, CSS) in various large refactoring projects and responsive redesigns of business-critical user interfaces. In these projects, I simplified legacy HTML & CSS with a mobile-first approach and a lean markup structure.
    • Co-creation of a pattern library for the company websites using ITCSS, BEM, SASS, HTML, Pattern Lab & Composer. I then integrated this into all trivago-internal, web-based tools to establish a consistent UI design.
    • Contribution to various product features for the main product, the trivago hotel search, applying my UX & UI design expertise and HTML, CSS, and twig templating.

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Education

  • Systemischer Transformationsberater
    Akademie für Transformationsdesign
    2023
    Systemischer Transformationsberater
  • Werbe- und Medienvorlagenhersteller
    Schumann & Thielen GmbH
    1999
    Werbe- und Medienvorlagenhersteller

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