My Pathway practitioner: Marc Ahrlich

alright then. i decided for the guy who awakes my interests in web development. his name is Marc Ahrlich and he is self-employed with a friend from the apprenticeship of computer science. the name of the company is adekon GmbH and they offer services for it-consulting and internet programming.


in february and march i made an intership in this company and it was very enlightening for me. first they gave me 'real work' for clients, like a little flash animation and other little flash stuff like changes in a website for a dentist. i made a design for an autotuning company, which in the end was a little bit modified by Marc but in generally looks like that.
the second month i got the task to make a fictional guestbook and admin login with php, database connection and javascript. and this was the point were i decided to learn more about web development.

Marc did his high school diploma in 1993 and didnt exactly know what to do at this point. he decided to train to something like teller/financial in client counseling (im sorry, i havent found the right translation for Sparkassenfachwirt) to get a little bit more time to think about his future plans. after this apprenticeship in 1998 he did one year of studies in this field. a couple of years work in this area, and he didnt felt very comfortable anymore with this feeling to reach high sales figures in correlation with clients consulting.
in 2001 he trained to computer scientist with e-commerce as a speical field. since october 2003 he is self-employed with adekon GmbH and never regreted this step.

project- and goal-oriented acting, organisation and programming of abstract methods of resolutions are Marcs professions. his qualifications reach from developing online shop systems, to design and grafik, photography and adaption to front and back-end programming with use of php, ajax, javascript, css, html and xml.

are you happy with your wage?: 'because of my self-employment i own, of course, under and we are not at the wage we want to have [...]'. personally i think it quiet good what he earns.

it is always very difficult to predict the development of the future and especial the development of the internet. Marc things that the technology of web 2.0 delivers many interesting approcahes but is not able to replace the classical applications on the pc. because the idea of the web 2.0 is among other things to have all the applications like iphoto, photoshop, excel,... programms like that in the internet. online. that means the clients also have all their data in the internet. that is a very big question of data security. and in his eyes the actual possibillities are not very secure to protect the data against other parties. he also holds that the development of the data security will and can not be so fast. he sees the function of the internet in the future more as a support for the everyday life which works in addition to the classical applications.

about his own future: he is quiet happy now. in the meanwhile they have a very good reputation and degree of popularity in bremen (germany )and beyond it. they receive many orders and the manpower of two is long ago not enough. he wants to expand in the future, but havent found the right person yet.

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