Tanja Linssen

Director, Product Development

Tanja Linssen is the head of product management based out of Los Angeles. She spearheads all engineering and design developments of IOSONO products targetted to the specific requirements and needs of the different market segments worldwide. She has a 10year history of promoting new audio and video technologies to market. She supervised the adaptation of Nickelodeon’s Blue’s Clues show to an interactive TV application on the basis of Fraunhofer’s MHP technologies. Under the umbrella of AFI Ms. Linssen headed the production team for Disney’s Kim Possible VOD application. She became a jury member at NATAS’ Emmy Advanced Media group in New York.

Ms Linssen started out as a sound designer at Germany’s largest radio broadcast station, WDR in 1994. From a list of over 120 feature length audio plays to her credit, five received the “Deutschen Hoerspielpreis” – Germany’s highest award in the audio book industry. She has produced various German and English video segments introducing new trends in technology for German National TV, WDR, 3sat, RTL, Sat1, as well as BBC, and DW. She hosted the German TV show, ForumTV, showcasing new faces and technologies of the media industry in 1997.

Before relocating to the United States in 2001 Ms Linssen headed the multimedia production department at Fraunhofer, Germany for 6 years. Her instrumental contribution in the development of a later nationwide approved training program for media designer was recognized by the Herbert Schmidt prize in 1999. Consecutively, she co-wrote the 500page manual on “New Media within Education” published by the German counselor of Cultural Affairs, Deutscher Kulturrat in 2000.

Along with her degrees in audio & video engineering and computer science Ms Linssen holds a Bachelor of Arts in media design, and film producing from UCLA. She received numerous Scholarships for Excellence, and special schooling in high talent programs that helped her advance in her studies beyond normed curriculums.

At the age of just 24 she was the world’s youngest adjunct professor for audio engineering at the German College Bonn-Rhein-Sieg. The German Ministry for Research and Education appointed Ms. Linssen to Germany’s IT expert committee in 2000. Under the program of IFKA (International Exchange of Technical Training Experts) she was one of the 15 German IT experts sent to Korea to advise their industry leaders on e-learning systems. Since 2003 she is appointed Germany’s chief expert for web design in the worldskills organization. She chairs the annual national web design competition, and has since participated in two world championships.

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