USAF  -  Military Training / Surgical Specialist School

Landegg Academy

Universität Salzburg

Webster Vienna Private University

Antioch University Midwest

Transdisciplinary Academic & Nomadic HCI Researcher

Vienna, Vienna, Austria

Invited by the IFFB Geoinformatik - Z_GIS at the University of Salzburg to conduct a lecture entitled: "Gesellschaftliche Interaktion-Soziale Medien"(Social Interaction - Social Media) for Summer Semester - 2021.   Working with incredible students of the "Digitization Innovation-Society" (DIGITALISIERUNG-INNOVATION-GESELLSCHAFT) Bachelors program.

Lecturer

I am (virtually) back in Salzburg this semester conducting an Integrated Lecture on: Advanced HCI: Methods & Applications, and also co-facilitating an HCI Studio.  It is wonderful to work with the incredible staff and students of the Department of MultiMediaTechnologies.

Fachhochschule Salzburg

Lecturer - Salzburg University of Applied Sciences - MMT

I have been asked to return as a guest lecturer, at the University of Applied Sciences - St- Pölten, where I will continue to inspire, advise and guide students through the numerous emerging technological trends and (digital) services that are reshaping our lives.

FH St. Pölten

University Lecturer - Department of Media and Digital Technologies

I joined a start-up team of visionaries who have a unique approach to natural language understanding.

Cortical.io is on a mission to enable high performance language intelligence.  We do this by providing an intelligent text-understanding engine that drives diverse use-case solutions for large enterprises. Our global team offers Natural Language Understanding (NLU) solutions based on Semantic Folding, a theory which opens a fundamentally new perspective to handling Big Text Data. Our solutions come in the form of customised backend technology that integrates with our clients' downstream applications and user interfaces.

My job is to assist individuals who use our solutions by providing clear, concise documentation which aligns with our agile development processes.

Cortical.io

Technical Writer

INiTS is a business incubator designed to improve the rate of startup success in Vienna by helping young entrepreneurs conceive, launch and grow the next great company.  My task is to directly support startups through engaged mentoring and consultation.

In 2014 INiTS was selected as one of the “Global Top 25” university incubators by the Swedish Research Initiative UBI Index. INiTS ranked as No. 11 worldwide and No. 3 in Europe.

<a href="http://www.inits.at/netzwerk-2/mentoren/mark-kramer/">http://www.inits.at/netzwerk-2/mentoren/mark-kramer/</a>

INiTS Universitäres Gründerservice Wien GmbH

Mentor  -  INiTS Business Incubator

Assisting student entrepreneurs to gain a greater understanding of the use of electronic media and social-networks to support their marketing efforts:
-  as an opportunity for promotion and relationship building;
-  as a channel for distribution and retailing;
-  as a way to create a platform for connecting people and groups and creating network effects;
-  as a value generating vehicle for companies /start-ups.

I also inspire student entrepreneurs to explore various “new media” tools and services which could be used to conduct e-Marketing for Start-ups; and I help them attain the necessary skills and knowledge to develop and implement the appropriate marketing activities for their Start-ups.

Mentor / Guest Lecturer: <a href="http://www.informatik.tuwien.ac.at/i2c">http://www.informatik.tuwien.ac.at/i2c</a>

Vienna University of Technology

Guest Lecturer / Mentor : Innovation Incubation Center

Human Computer Interaction (HCI) Researcher; Experience Management (UX) Consultant; Future Innovations Strategist; Service Designer

<a href="http://www.usecon.com">http://www.usecon.com</a>

USECON - Experience Design & Consulting

HCI Researcher / UX Consultant

StealtHUX Studio

Principal

Engaged in user experience design for people/patient-centric healthcare solutions. Involved with concepts, strategy, mock-ups, prototyping, wire framing and keeping our team on their toes.

Razorfish Healthware

Information Architect

Developing strategies and concepts for enhanced reality user experiences with Augmented Reality and Social Media.

My position changed at Netural several times. I was also described as a Senior Strategist and working on research.

Netural Communication GmbH

Strategist: Augmented Reality / Social Media

One of the founding team members of quite possibly the most innovative marketing networking associations ever established in Austria.

The goal of Marketing Natives is to provide opportunities for young and seasoned Marketing Professionals to re-shape how marketing and public relations are practiced in a hyper-networked, globalized world.

<a href="http://www.dmvoe.at/mn/">http://www.dmvoe.at/mn/</a>

Marketing Natives

Consulting

As Head of Marketing I am actively developing and implementing innovative strategies with an incredibly creative team. Our focus is to harness the appropriate tools and methods to promote YASSSU's core services and mobile media offerings globally.

Focus: Social-media, guerrilla marketing, traditional marketing methods.

Additionally, I am in charge of the marketing and public relations aspects and leading YASSSU's mobile strategy and programming.

YASSSU GmbH

Head of Marketing & PR / Mobile Strategy and Programming

The Human Experience Lead engages users through social-media (Facebook / Twitter & Co.) to encourage the development of a sustainable user-base /community.  Furthermore, the Human Experience Lead assists in developing a strategy for implementing YASSSU solutions within various business models.

In addition, I am the Mobile Mastermind providing strategic consulting to the YASSSU team including project management for mobile solutions and crafting mobile-social media campaign and related mobile marketing strategies.

Human Experience Lead / Mobile Mastermind

Formerly: Product Strategist -  Human Experience Lead

Mobilizy is a Austrian-based company specializing in software for smartphones. Our focus is on location-based service solutions and augmented reality

Brand development, web site traffic growth, web site UI and community building. Developing product strategy and business development.

Strategic Consulting, including project planning & product strategy development.

Mobilizy GmbH

External Advisor - Strategist

Enlisted by the BBC to engage students, teachers and BBC Backstage developers to collaborate on the develop of open-source projects for learners.

Actively reflecting upon and writing about the impact of new media and mobile technologies on current and emerging educational technologies.

BBC Learning - Open Lab

Guest Blogger

I inspire, advise and guide students through current and  emerging technologies and services reshaping business today.  I design and implement courses/seminars on New Media and Information and Communications Technologies.

Current Seminars:
-  B2B Marketing with New Media (Masters & Bachelors)
-  Introduction to Information Technology (for Global Sales & Marketing Masters Students)
-  CRM with New Media (Masters & Bachelors)

Previous Seminars & Lectures: - Digital Products & Markets (Masters & Bachelors)

University of Applied Sciences Upper Austria

University Lecturer

I designed and facilitate a seminar on developing digital solutions for Mobile Health & Sports topics within the department of Mobile Computing. (Masters & Bachelors degree programs.) The focus of this seminar is to explore health related issues and to engage in Service Design / UX practices by conceptualizing, designing, developing and prototyping mobile digital solutions within one semester.  Furthermore, this seminar has expanded into applied solutions to Sports activities and examining Quantified Self (self-tracking) and connected health scenarios.

University of Applied Sciences Upper Austria - Hagenberg Campus

Mobile Monday is a global community of mobile industry visionaries, developers and influential people fostering cooperation and cross-border business development through virtual and live networking events to share ideas, best practices and trends from global markets. Now active in over 70 places around the world. from New York to Tokyo, from Mumbai to Toronto.

MobileMonday Austria

Co-Founder - MoMo Austria

Engaged in new-media development for an FP7 EU project.

Salzburg Research

Freelance New Media Designer

English language training for Information Technology and Systems Management students.

Conducting participatory action research using a natural classroom setting as a research test-bed.

Actively using technologies for cooperation and social-software tools and practices within the ESL classroom

Salzburg University of Applied Sciences (FH-Salzburg)

Engaged in information society, e-learning and mobile-learning research.

Actively researching and publishing within various interdisciplinary / trans-disciplinary academic fields (Communications, Computer, Political and Pedagogical Sciences).

Responsible for managing the ICT&S Centers’ academic reference and resource collection.

Participatory observer in mobile learning scenarios.

Research / Teaching Assistant (Tutor)  at ICT&S Center - University of Salzburg

The Center for Advanced Studies and Research in Information and Communication Technologies & Society coordinates and conducts studies and research programs in the vast field of new information and communication technologies and their interrelationship with society. The ICT&S Center’s core orientation:

-  analysis of the social embeddedness of technologies
-  development of valuable and socially responsible technical applications
-  socio-scientific monitoring of technical applications
-  bridging disciplinary, institutional, and geographical borders

Research Fellow - ICT&S Center

Designed and implemented presentations, examinations and online course materials.

Instruct students in research methods in the field of ICTs, including e-learning, e-health, e-government, e-democracy, e-participation.

Create and administer e-learning initiative using the Blackboard learning management system.

ICT&S Center - University of Salzburg

Research / Teaching Assistant (Tutor)

Design and implement research methods to tackle persistent functional illiteracy within Austria.

Investigate the impact of ICTs within the fields of e-learning and literacy.

Coordinate research activities including grant and proposal writing.

Create and administer academic research portal.

Software Research Lab

Research Assistant

Coordinates teaching assignments with Academic Mentors.  Conducts formal evaluations and performs expert administrative support, including data entry, correspondence, and research.

Create and administer Web pages for faculty.

Coordinate distance-learning initiatives using WebCT.

Liaise and manage faculty accommodations and related logistical matters.

Perform general administrative duties and functions.

Administrative Coordinator

- Manage document archiving, reproduction, and distribution. Prepare documents in support of meetings, including background documents.
- Coordinate meeting room bookings for all OSCE conferences and meetings in Vienna, prepare meeting rooms, and register attendees.
- Expedite protocol matters and interact with interpreters and technicians to ensure smooth event proceedings.
- Manage the appropriate accreditation of delegates, visitors, staff, and press.

OSCE

Conference Clerk

United States Air Force

90252: Surgical Services Specialist (Reservist)

I worked as a Surgical-Technician working locum-tenens for various hospitals to augment teams which needed extra resources.

I specialized in Cardio-thoracic surgery with profusive experience in transplantation and Traumatology.  I scrubbed most common surgical procedures within General Surgery, Vascular, OB-Gyn, Genitourinary, Ophthalmic, Otorhinolaryngologic (OLHN), Orthopedic, Neurosurgery, Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery, including Pediatric surgery.

Freelance / Locum tenens

Surgical-Technologist

Active duty Surgical Technician and Emergency Medical Technician (EMT-B defib).

Gulf-War I Veteran - (Operation Desert Storm, Shield, Calm)

Mark Kramer

Mark Kramer