curriculum vitae

From

Frank Bernhard Appel,
born on 23rd February 1955 in Frankfurt/Main, Germany.

Address:        Schillerstr. 19           (: 0049 171 206 12 98
63667 Nidda, Hessen
Germany.

Profession:    Dipl. Sozialpädagoge
educated at the University of Applied Sciences
in Koblenz, Germany from 1978 to 1981
in the subjects:         psychology, sociology, pedagogy, law, anthropology
                                   methods of group work and counselling
Diploma about:          “Non-professionals as counsellor for suicidal persons
                                   – TECUM a model” Koblenz, 1980

Work history:

1981 to 1982 practical experience study at the counselling service of the Diakonie,
Dillenburg and Giessen.

1982 to 1986 concepting and leading of the project “Christian Live Centre Birkenhof”,
Gedern, a farm-community for residence to five chronic mental sick people.

1987 to 1988 group therapist in the “Clinic Hillersbach”, Lissberg a clinic for alcoholics.

1988 to 1995 counsellor and
1995 to 2001 leading counsellor at the counselling service of the Diakonie, district Wetterau.
                        Responsible for the services for families, couples, pregnant women,
                        young persons, elder persons, foreign persons, handicapped persons and
                        over indebted persons.

Also responsible for the financials and the staff in that department.

1990               authorized manager for IT
until today     at the counselling service of the Diakonie, district Wetterau
                        and main district “Hessen und Nassau”
                        responsible for:
                                   training of the co-workers (MS OFFICE and WINDOWS)
                                   administrating the LANs
                                   purchase of hard- and software
                                   concepting and programming databases for special tasks
since 2001     IT-Projektmanager of the Diakonie main district “Hessen und Nassau”
                        responsible to design a documentation system to adapt social-work
                        to the new social-laws of the Federal Republic of Germany

 

Other skills:

IT-concepting (LAN, Intranet, Internet)
Programmer of Databases with MS-ACCESS
            results:           IDAP              Database for Personal-management
                                   ADREDAT      Database for Address-administration
                                   DWFALL        Database for Casework-administration
                                   SBDW            Database for dept-regulation
Trainer of MS-WORD, EXCEL, ACCESS, POWER-POINT, WINDOWS

Good management skills, good communication skills, good project management skills

Fluent German and fluent English
Driving licence

Other experiences:

Since 1990 member of a political Party (SPD)
member of the local presidium Gedern from 1991 to 2004
member of the city-parliament of Gedern from 1992 to 2004
chairman of the city-parliament of Gedern from 1992 to 2000
member of district presidium from 1996 to 2002
chairman of the local presidium Gedern from 2001 to 2004
member of the district-parliament from 1999 until today

Ordained Preacher (Prädikant) of the Protestant Church of Hessen and Nassau since 1991.