Extensive Portfolio

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Extensive Portfolio Thomas Christian Dehn

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Extensive Portfolio

Thomas Christian Dehn

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Overview

For you

Toolbox

Resume

Design Projects

Game Design

Graphics

PowerPoint

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What can I do for you?

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Photoshop

Powerpoint

123D-Design

Sharepoint

Inkscape

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Interests

Experience

Training

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OverviewTraining:

Master in MTG – design and analysisBachelor in business communicationand language

Experience:DesignPresentationsService and humansInformation

Interests:Functional designsMaking stuff

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Interests

Experience

TrainingMaster in media, tech., and games – design and analysis, ITU

Thesis: "Rethinking exercise games", motivation by design

Design methodology and practiceGraphics, storytelling and journalismDevelopment cycles and creativebusiness.

Bachelor in business communication and language, CBS

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Interests

Experience

TrainingGeneral previous work-areas:

(Game) Design, testing, and graphicsPresentation and teachingSales, service, and travellingCommunication and documentationInformation compound(infographics/personas/icons)Academic method

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Interests

Experience

Training

Work related:Functional designsSystem to human interactionStarting projects – getting ideas.Making stuff (tactile materials – likewood)

Personal:Politics and environmental issuesArcheryWinter gamesTrying new things

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Design p

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Overview

Project Management Tool

Internal Webshop

Idea validator for Entrepreneurs

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Problem:At COWI, meetings had 3 types of tools: technical, pen and paper, and whiteboards. These thingscould be considered enough, but brainstorming meetings wouldoften result in breaks in workflow, ideation, or overview - projectmanagers needed somethingPrince2-method-related that couldaccelerate interactivity and flow.

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Solution:Tactile tools based on Prince2 models, likeProduct Decompostion. Size, functionality, and feel, was iterated upon and tested.

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Problem:Internal COWI web-shop was a relic from pre-Sharepoint times and needed usability and updated accessability, and wanted to implement personas. Essentially, employees bought wrong products because they did not understand the product names.

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Solution:Based on a simple persona, i.e. "a worker", and on howmuch time he spends on different locations, the solution presented itself as a highly visual Sharepointsite presenting easy-to-figure-out approach, basedon infographics.

Feedback:Immediately after being implemented, this solution got reactions:"Why hasn't this been implementedin the rest of the shop?""This is much better than the lists we have, could you do this with other products and personas?"

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Problem:Copenhagen Municipality's dept. for entrepreneurial affairs wanted an "experimental digital tool" for a systemic and efficient customer care, and an overall better service.

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Furthermore:The production had a tight deadline, a limited budget, and a large-scale scope/requirements. On top of this, the project had many owners and a top-down control.

300K DKK

GamificationNice (game like) GraphicsPsych. profileTalent spottingReport GenerationBased on E-learningIntegrated with existing

softwareAdheres to the CVIAdheres to the governmental

regulationsHigh accessibility

2 Months

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Idea v

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Project management:Need/Nice to have(s)Backtracking (who, what, why)Involving project ownersSetting up realistic goals/sprints Finding/managing suppliersSetting up legal framework

Design:Ideation from resource poolAligning and funneling opinionsAligning decisionsScavenging for existing solutionsFleshing out design DNASketching solution scenarios

Work included:

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Test it 3Test it 2Test it 1Iteration (it) 1

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The solution:

Deconstruction of Business Model Canvas (Entrepreneur tool) tofit local needs.

Experimental = Prototype(avoiding many legal issues)

Framework set up by supplier in Captivate

Log in

Questionnaire

When the questionnaire is done,a report can be sent to customer service (and to the entrepreneur) to solidify business idea and

assist in buildup

Overview page

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This is what the final product looked like

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Overview

Jam Session

Robo Coop

The ONE Game

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Has been pitched to:

Welcome to the world of music where Jam Sessions are your ticket to stardom. The question is: do you have enough narcissism to be the singer? Enough rage to be a guitarist? Just the right amount of stoicism to be a bass player? The total lack of self-discipline it takes to be on drums? Could you curse your way through a song on the syntheziser?

Find out in Jam Session.• Communicate and strategise with your team to finish a jam,

or lose it all if the audience leaves.• Pressure the group into playing what you want to play,

because you always know best.• Score big by doing solo's!

It takes no leadership, a lot of backstabbing and a springle of finesse to stand out. Does that sound like any band you know?

Link to facebook site

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The goal of Robo Co-Op is to advance through 2 different levels through the completion of a series of puzzles build around the attract/repel mechanic. The control scheme is build around the Xbox 360 controller and based on an Unreal Tournament 3 human character.Robo Co-op ended up with a 4th. place in the category 'Best Use of Physics' in phase 4 in the worldwide competition Make Something Unreal, where game developers from all over the world compete on developing the best Mods, vehicles, graphics, etc. for the Unreal Tournament 3.

Robo Co-Op is a 2 player third person cooperative puzzle game for the PC, in which you control a pair of robots equipped with powerful beam weapons that can move specific objects from a distance. One player has the ability to attract objects with a tractor beam, while the other player has the ability to push objects with a repel beam. It is impossible to advance without working together and utilizing the environment.

Download mod (needs unreal engine)Link to video

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ONE is an experimental video game made by a handful of students at the IT University of Copenhagen. ONE is an unconventional game filled with engaging puzzles and challenges, where you must discover the true meaning of ONE.

The premise for this design was 'thematic' and 'narratively'. The goal is tied to the name, which is tied to everything else. ONE.

Link to video

Focus of the game design was related to making every level different, but with the same outcome: ONE, This meant that players would always know what their goal was, even when they did not know what the level rules where.

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Gra

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Overview

Illustrations

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Pow

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Distributed Work

Roadmap

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2 JUNE 2014

COWI POWERPOINT PRESENTATION1

Planning a distributed work project?Distributed work – flow chart

9 JULI 2013

DISTRIBUTED WORK1

START planning Distributed work

project

All participants on COWI IT infrastructure

Project participants loacted nearby?

Choose CAD platform

Light or Heavy IT tools in project?

IT method• O drive• Project sites

IT method• Project sites• VPN (COWI PC

to COWI)

IT method• Revit server• HPC-G• Standalone PC

with HP SW

IT method• ProjectWise• HPC-G

IT method• Group IT/BPM consult• Ext. web hotel• Working at customer

site• HPC-G

Yes

Yes

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Heavy

Light

Autodesk BentleyOther

NoLight or Heavy IT tools in project? Heavy

IT method• Project sites• VPN (COWI PC

to COWI)

Choose CAD platform

Autodesk BentleyOther

IT method• Group IT/BPM consult• Ext. web hotel• Working at customer

site• HPC-G

IT method• ProjectWise• HPC-G

IT method• Revit server• HPC-G• Standalone PC

with HP SW

Light

Click on Yes/No to describe your distributed work project.

Click on the yellow decision

boxes for more information on the choices (external link).

New

Click to run (needs PP) Click to run (Needs PP)

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Thomas Christian Dehn

Contact

Mobile: +45 28964617

Mail: [email protected]