Curriculum vitae

Education

• 1984-1988: Primary School (Pestalozzischule, Freiendiez)
   
• 1988-1997: Secondary School (Sophie-Hedwig-Gymnasium, Diez)
                   'Abitur' with 1.6 (1.0 being the best, 4.0 the worst)
   
• 1998-2001: Studies of Information Technology Mananagement
                   at the University of Cooperative Education, Mannheim
                   have finished in September 2001 with the degrees
                   'Diploma Engineer in Information Technology Management'
                   and 'Bachelor of Science with Honours'

Work Experience

• 1989-1994: Various newspaper delivery jobs. :-)
   
• 1994-1998: ICO GmbH
     Diez, Germany
     Working as a member of the technical support staff, which
     included telephone support for customers, writing technical
     manuals, developing software tools and assuring quality for
     various products in the telecommunications area (ISDN and
     modems).
   
• January-March 2000: IBM MQSeries Workflow Development Lab
     Boeblingen, Germany
     As a Student Programmer in Patrick Steiner's team -
     Requirement analysis, design and implementation of sample
     programs for the MQSeries Workflow API (C, C++ and Java
     programming languages) as a service for Workflow customers.
     Compiling and testing of the samples on multiple operating
     systems (HP, Solaris, Windows, OS/2). Concept, writing and
     implementation of user-friendly HTML documentation for the
     samples in teamwork with colleagues. Packaging and
     readying for rollout in teamwork with programmer of VisualBasic
     samples.
   
• June-August 2000: IBM Voice Systems
     Heidelberg, Germany
     As a Student Software Engineer in Wolfgang Karbstein's team -
     Requirement analysis, concept and implementation of a
     prototype for a speech-driven application for accessing Lotus
     Notes mails via telephone. Design of a suitable dialogue through
     the use of VoiceXML and SRCL, implementation of a stable and
     functional prototype with Java Servlet technology, IMAP/POP3
     mail interface to a Lotus Domino mailserver and IBM ViaVoice
     speech recognition technology (Telephony API). Proposal for a
     possible future evolution of the prototype to a customer application.
   
• January-March 2001: IBM PvC International Solution Centre
     Hursley, UK
     As a Student Software Architect in Michael Coleman's team -
     helping to design, implement and present various projects in the
     area of pervasive computing, such as a demo voice application for the
     Miele Showcase of this year's CeBIT and a voice-controlled Home
     Service Gateway utilizing a Pocket PC.
   
• June-September 2001: IBM PvC Advanced Technology Lab
     Austin, USA
     Writing of diploma thesis in Bill Bodin's team. The topic is
     "Implementation and Integration of Embedded Speech Technology
     into a Plethora of Pervasive Computing Client Scenarios".
• since January 2002: IBM Germany, Emerging Technologies and Emerging Business
     Heidelberg, Germany
     Working at IBM Global Business Services in fulltime employment
  

Government Service

• 1997-1998: Mandatory Civil Service at the hospital in Diez

Various Affiliations

• 1984-1987: Pathfinder member
• 1990-1992: Member of VfL Freiendiez (Badminton club)
• 1994-1995: Member of ADTV dancing school Schoeffl, Limburg
• since 1987: Member of trumpet choir of the Freiendiez Church
• since 1994: Member of the Diez symphonic orchestra