Welcome to CouchWorx, an App-Company

Mission

CouchWorx see's the future to be mobile

Just look at the adoption rate of smartphones and tablet devices. After a few years of explosive growth, right now there are more smartphones in use than feature phones. And the adoption rate of tablet devices is twice the one measured with smartphones. There is no doubt these pocketable 'computers' will take over most areas formerly held by desktop pc's and laptops.

Schools and colleges are driving usage of tablets in education with breathtaking speed, enterprise adoption of tablets is reported at 65 to 80 percent with the Fortune 100 by the end of 2011. Apple has sold 32 million iPad's in the 2011 quarters alone.

Everything will be localized

With all the GPS chips in smartphones and tablets these devices 'know' where you are. This makes offering services in regards to your position an easy task. Expect a lot more of location-aware services for consumers and enterprises coming out very soon.

Let's be social

Facebook, Twitter, Google+, LinkedIN, XING and many others. These systems are considered 'social media' because they enable an interactive dialogue between users and allow user created content to be shared among them. Social Media is changing how businesses, organizations and individuals communicate. Software has to be an point of integration with social media to allow it's users to take advantage of it's reach and influence, to build a 'social footprint'.

Experience

Early

Born in Johannesburg, South Africa. Raised and 'developed' in and around Hannover, Germany.
12 years of school education where followed by a 2.5 year apprenticeship at 'Verlag Heinz Heise GmbH & Co KG' (Publisher) to become a software developer.

After receiving my diploma as software developer I started working for publishers with a specialization on typesetting and publishing (C, C++ and PostScript on Sun Solaris machines, later ObjectiveC on NeXT Workstations).

• Verlag Heinz Heise GmbH & Co. KG, Hannover, Germany
• PubliTec GmbH, Hannover, Germany
• Schlütersche Verlagsgesellschaft mbH & Co. KG, Hannover, Germany

Later

While being employed as developer was fun, architecting systems was even more appealing. So, a friend and I founded a first company as a side project. base! GmbH did quite ok developing it's own CRM solution based on Oracle RDBMS but was followed by another company, this time with two friends as partners. We now concentrated full-time on solutions for directory publishing companies. Through some up and down times the business still exists as WKG Software GmbH, Hannover, Germany. WKG provides the finest solution there is for directory publishers of all sizes (most efficient, most integrated). Many independent publishes in Germany choose WKG's solution TelePhone over the competition and there are a few U.S. customers as well (supported through our own AdWeb Pacific Corporation).

• base! Informationstechnologien GmbH, Hannover, Germany
• Runtime Projektsysteme GmbH, Hannover, Germany
• WKG Software GmbH, Hannover, Germany
• AdWeb Pacific Corporation, Laguna Beach, CA, United States

Now

I always thought it would be great to live in the United States and as there was the opportunity to do so my family and I decided to go. This is how CouchWorx (my long time web-development playground) became a real business. CouchWorx is contractor to WKG Software GmbH and the AdWeb Pacific Corporation. If you have a Software in mind, CouchWorx would be glad to hear from you.