Curriculum Vitae of Dirk Grossmann

metafinanz Informationssysteme GmbH, Germany

Since January 2006, Principal IT Architect

FJA Feilmeier & Junker GmbH, Germany

November 2002 – December 2005, Software Engineer and Project Manager

• Responsible for customizing and extension of the GUI and the presentation/interaction server of FJA's distributed life insurance policy management system FJA Life Factory® in a customer project
• Subproject management of customizing the Java components (GUI, interaction server, group insurance business server) in the customer project
• Design of the integration into the customer's proprietary desktop and partner system
• Software design optimization of the presentation server; design and implementation of a rule engine
• Consulting in technological and operational matters
• Software development in Java, J2EE
• Managing up to 10 developers

MYBAU AG, Germany

August 2000 – October 2002, Solution Architect and Project Manager

• Design of the fundamental software architecture of an Internet portal for the construction industry
• Responsible for information architecture, system design, management of implementation, and deployment of the content and community system of the MYBAU Web site
• Selection of third-party standard software: web content management system, knowledge management system, search engine, portal server, and community software
• Integration of the Autonomy knowledge management system with the Gauss VIP content management system
• Responsible for the design, implementation and deployment of the application service providing system using Tarantella, including designing Windows 2000 security policies and evaluation of Windows applications for their ASP suitability
• Software development in Java, J2EE
• Oracle 8i; Sun Solaris, Windows 2000 Terminal Server
• Managing internal resources and external partners during all project phases: analysis, design, implementation, test, and deployment
• Managing up to 5 developers

Nemetschek AG, Germany

October 1991 – July 2000, Software Engineer

• C, C++; Windows distributed Internet architecture: COM+, DCOM, MTS, ASP
• Design and implementation of component-based product modelling software
• Design and implementation of a component-based user interface framework
• System programming on Interactive Unix; HP-UX, Windows NT

Project Summary

1999/2000: Responsible for object-oriented design and implementation of a user interface framework based on COM and ActiveX for the integration of the project management modules of Nemetschek products.

1997–1999: Responsible for object-oriented design and implementation of a distributed product modeling system using COM+ and C++, including integration of a proprietary database into Microsoft Transaction Server. Coordination of the project members of the Slovakian subsidiary company.

1995–1997: Responsible for object-oriented design and implementation of the project management module for a new CAD product, including leading edge object-oriented technology.

1992–1995: Responsible for the deployment of the Nemetschek CAD system Allplan on Interactive Unix. Design and development of a user interface interpreter that acts as a graphical shell for Allplan-specific system commands. Design and development of an ISDN-based messaging system for CAD data transfer.

1991/1992: Development of a database supported plan management facility for Allplan

Study at the Chemnitz University of Technology

September 1986 – September 1991, Study of computer science at the Chemnitz University of Technology, Germany, Department of Computer Science.

Certificate: First Degree in Computer Science (German Dipl.-Informatiker), predicate "good".

Emphasis: Theoretical Computer Science, Artificial Intelligence, Software Technology.

Thesis. Compiling functional programming languages.

High School Graduation

Comprehensive Secondary School "Heinrich Hertz", Special school with mathematical emphasis, Berlin, Germany

Born on 16. July, 1966, in Hagenow (Mecklenburg), Germany; married.