Work Interests

The emphasis of my current work is analysis, design and development of component and service-based, distributed Enterprise and Web applications using the Java language.

Education: First degree in computer science from the Chemnitz University of Technology, Germany.
Dipl.-Informatiker (Univ.)

Software Architecture, Object-Oriented Analysis and Design

Experience with analysis, design and implementation of component-based distributed enterprise software (3-tier and client/server applications):

Software architecture, solution and enterprise architecures
Service-oriented architectures (SOA), service modeling and design, business process modeling
Analysis and design of 3-tier applications
Requirements analysis, evaluation, selection, and integration of enterprise standard software
Component- and object-oriented analysis and design methodologies: UML, Catalysis, Rational Unified Process, Booch, Odell, design patterns
Preparation and application of new technologies for enterprise applications

Component Technologies

Java 2 Enterprise Edition (J2EE): Servlets, JSP, JDBC, JavaMail, JNDI with Apache/Tomcat
Enterprise JavaBeans (EJB) with JBoss
Web Services with SOAP, WSDL
COM, DCOM, MTS, COM+ and component services
Microsoft .NET Framework
CORBA

Programming

Experience with object-oriented, aspect-oriented, procedural, functional, and logical programming languages:

Java, AspectJ, C++ and Microsoft Visual C++
C, Pascal, Modula-2, Perl, Python
Lisp, Prolog

Graphical user interfaces with Java AWT/Swing, MFC/Win32, and OSF/Motif; user interface frameworks with Swing/Servlets as well as COM/ActiveX.

Databases:

Oracle, Microsoft SQL Server, DB2

Modeling and Development Environments:

Eclipse, Together, Rational Rose, JBuilder, Microsoft Visual Studio
CVS, Subversion, CM Synergy

Operating Systems:

Windows, Windows 2000 Terminal Server
Unix: Sun Solaris, HP-UX, Interactive Unix
Networks: TCP/IP, LANs, WANs

Web Applications and Internet Technologies

Experience with the complete life cycle of distributed Web applications:

Integration of Web standard software of different vendors
Information architecture design of a Web site
Web content management with Gauss VIP; Knowledge management with Autonomy, including integration with a Java-based content management system
Application Service Providing (ASP) with Tarantella; Windows security policies for ASP
Apache Web server, Tomcat Servlet/JSP container
HTML, CSS, DOM, JavaScript, Visual Basic Script; Active Server Pages
XML, DTD and XML Schema, XSLT

Project Management

Experience with project management of software development teams, experience with distributed development sites in an international setting:

Team management: Communication, motivation, conflict resolution
Tasks: Analysis, definition, planning, design, controlling, review; presentations of software architectural concepts

Languages

English, fluent (Cambridge First Certificate)
German, native speaker
Spanish, basic knowledge
Russian, basic knowledge