BPG Candidate# 11462
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Work Experience
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since April 2003
    IT service, self-employed, various customers and projects:
    
    * instructor for beehive's Python/Zope trainings 
      (locations withheld)
      and maintenance of their training material
      as well as various Python/Zope programming tasks
      for {name withheld}, SOAP web services among others.
      
    * programming and consulting work for {name withheld}
      (developer of a publishing system based on Zope for the science
      and medicine sector). Development of a Python program to
      transform the internal data structures of this publishing system to
      DocBook.
      
    * IT service for {name withheld}, two galleries
      in Berlin: general advice, installation,
      support and development for Apple Macintosh.
      
    * Development of a database system for galleries based
      on MySQL and Zope (reportlab for pdf output) - a port of that
      system to Zope 3 recently. Occasional messages on the two Zope
      3 mailing lists zope3-dev and zope3-user, regarding general
      Python/Zope problems, bug reports etc., experiments with a port
      of that system to Turbogears.
      
    
August 2001 - March 2003
    software developer with {name withheld}, various projects for
    {names withheld}:
    
    * maintenance of a Lotus Notes application and later on its migration
      to NPS5 (see below) for {name withheld}
      
    * contributions to the development of the internal and external
      web appearance of {name withheld} by means of the content
      management system NPS5
      
    * development of a prototype of a web based learning system with
      Perl for {name withheld}
      
    * work in a so called "Oracle migration project" aiming at the
      unification of the data sources of {name withheld} by means of
      Oracle, thereby conceptual work, architecture and general
      preparations
      
    
May 2000 - July 2001
    software developer with {name withheld}
    (software for publishing houses), e-commerce division: development
    of a procedure to provide as XML the complex relational data
    structures of the so called book trunk of their software by means of
    Java and Oracle techniques.
    
June 1999 - April 2000
    system analyst with {name withheld},
    public sector / office automation line of business, two projects:
    * development of a so called "multimedia press review system",
      based on the document management system "Documentum",
      responsible for its web interface (Documentum at the server
      side, HTML and JavaScript at the client side) and
      
    * member of a consulting team for Deutsche Post (Switzerland):
      development/revision of the web interface of their package
      tracking system with Java and Oracle
      
    
March 1999 - May 1999
    junior consultant with CSC Ploenzke consultancy, banking
    branch: contribution to the reorganization of Deutsche Handelsbank,
    Berlin
    
November 1995 - January 1999
    student employee with UNIX-Pool of the mathematics institute
    of TU Berlin: member of the UNIX system administration team 
    and general programming advice for students
    
October 1994 - October 1995
    tutor for the Pascal and Fortran programming classes 
    of the project group for practical mathematics, PPM at TU Berlin
    
January 1993 - April 1993
    student employee with
    Fraunhofer-Institut for production facilities and construction design, IPK: 
    C and Motif programming
    

Studies
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October 1989 - September 1998
    Technical University of Berlin
    diploma degree in computer science 
    ("Diplom-Informatiker" — probably equivalent to a master's degree,
    overall score "good")
    prediploma degree in mathematics 
    ("Vordiplom" / bachelors degree, overall score "good")
    elementary courses in business and economics
    
July 1987
    Abitur 
    (general qualification for university entrance, "good")
    

Techniques
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* good mathematical/analytical training
  
* very good knowledge of programming languages/frameworks
  in particular Python/Zope/Turbogears, C#/.Net, Java und XML/XSL
  
* 13 years experience with LINUX/UNIX 
  (three years as a system administrator), Mac OS X, Windows
  
* data base systems: MySQL und Oracle
  
* web techniques: (X)HTML, JavaScript, CSS
  
* network protocols, standards, security
  
* Open Source techniques generally
  
* generel software engineering skills
  

Civil Service
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October 1987 - May 1989
    civil service as an ambulance man with 
    Malteser Hilfsdienst e. V. in Munich
    

Languages
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very good in English (I was an exchange student in Los Angeles
for six month in 1984, my mother used to be American, my sister is)
basic knowledge of French (several courses in Berlin and France)

Miscellaneous
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Swimming and Dance