Andy Hoppe

Andy is originally from Berlin, Germany. His background includes telecommunications engineering, some TV post-production, computer animation & game graphics. Tired of the German weather, he joined a team of creative folks on the island of Mallorca and designed web sites for major brands (mostly food & beverages sector). He later spent some years freelancing in Berlin, teamed up with an IT firm near Stuttgart, and eventually worked for regional government agencies in the UK, where usability became a major focus. Since 2003, he's a web producer at the World Health Organization (Geneva, Switzerland). He lives in France with his wife and daughter.

At WHO, Andy is part of a team managing a few hundred thousand pages, partly in all 6 UN languages, through an open-source CMS. On the side, he has written a slim CMS and maintains a number of niche sites, mostly in German.