Tim Strehle

I’m a passionate Digital Asset Management expert, switching between product and project manager, software architecture and development roles. I’m coming from an information management background so I have a deep understanding of the DAM user perspective as well. Hamburg, Germany is where I live and work.

Blog: Tim’s Weblog is my (link) blog.

Twitter: I'm @tistre on Twitter.

I work for the SPIEGEL Verlag as “Project Leader Digital Asset Management Systems”. Ending mid-2017, I spent almost 19 years at DAM vendor Digital Collections as “Product Manager and Lead Software Developer”, building enterprise-grade Digital Asset Management (DAM) software, mostly for newspaper and magazine publishers around the world.

Skills: Project management, product management, software architecture, data modeling, Web development since 1997 (70% backend in PHP, 30% frontend in JavaScript), XML, Web APIs, DAM, image metadata, newspaper archives. See my DAM developer chronicles for the whole story.

I don’t have a real resume online but my pseudo resume and my former employer’s public good-bye say more about me than you probably wanted to know.

You can also find me on Github, XING and LinkedIn.

You’re currently on my homepage, www.strehle.de/tim/.

Other stuff:

Planet DAM, my personal list of Digital Asset Management news and vendors
I graduated as “Diplom-Dokumentar (FH)” (Dipl.-Dok.) in 1997 after studying “Allgemeine Dokumentation” (equivalent to a bachelor in information science / information management) at the University of Applied Sciences, Hannover.
My diploma thesis (PDF, in German): “Das Gymnasium Soltau im Informationszeitalter - Informationskompetenz als Ausbildungsziel” (“Soltau's secondary school in the information age - Information literacy as a learning target”). I wrote it in 1997, but I don't think it's outdated yet…
liederdatenbank.strehle.de, my personal project for building a database of German Christian songs
Photos from Iran in 1995
Ceterum censeo…

My open source stuff:

A “Copy link” button with JSON-LD support. Bonus: dump_data.html, a Web page to peek into copy&paste / drag&drop data
digicol_xml_explorer.php is a command line PHP script for analyzing large numbers of XML files.
OracleEditor.php is a standalone PHP script which allows you to browse your Oracle database tables and insert, update and delete rows in any table. It requires no installation and no configuration. It's quite old now, but may still be useful for you.