Angelika Langer Trainer  & Author & Mentor Object Oriented Development with C++ and Java Neumarkter Straße 86d, D-81673 München, Germany contact: www.AngelikaLanger.com

OBJECTIVE

EDUCATION
PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE
PROFESSIONAL SKILLS
PARTNER COMPANIES
CUSTOMERS
OFF-SCHEDULE ACTIVITIES
TECHNICAL PUBLICATIONS
TECHNICAL PRESENTATIONS

EDUCATION

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Independent Freelance Trainer and Mentor , 1997 - present
Senior Trainer/Consultant at Rogue Wave , 1995 - 1996
Senior Software Engineer at Siemens Nixdorf , 1989 - 1995
Software Developer at Siemens Research Department , 1987 - 1989
Software Developer at Siemens Telecommunications , 1984 - 1987

I work as an independent instrcuctor and courseware deveoper. My main area of interest and expertise is object-oriented software development in C++ and Java. I develop courseware and conduct courses in Europe and North America.

On-going projects:

• Conducting open-enrollment and inhouse courses.
• Speaking at various conferences, including OOP, JAX, Jazoon, and others.
• Wrote a feature article on closures for JavaWorld.
• Continue writing the "Effective Java" column in its 6th year.

• Received "Best Presentation Award" for my presentation on Java Generics at Java Forum 2007 in Stuttgart.
• Conducted countless open-enrollment and inhouse courses.
• Extended C++ open enrollment course curriculum in collaboration with oose.de Innovative Informatik GmbH.
• Spoke at various conferences, including ACCU, W-JAX, SET, SD Moscow, and others.
• Gave presentations at various Java Users Group events in Stuttgart, Düsseldorf, Cologne and the Netherlands.
• Continued writing the "Effective Java" column in its 5th year.

• Joined the Java Champions selection committee.
• Delivered an incredible number of courses, including a Java course in Japan.
• Spoke at various conferences, including ACCU, JAX, JAOO, and others.
• Conducted a workshop at the Stuttfart Experten Forum.
• Continued writing the "Effective Java" column in its 4th year.

• I am a Java Champion since December 2005.
• Developed workshop on Java Generics and Java 5.0.
• Wrote an online FAQ on Java Generics.
• Finished course material for High-Performance Java Programming.
• Delivered an increasing number of courses, including a Java course in Russia.
• Spoke at various conferences, including OOP, JAX, ACCU, JavaOne, TechBusinessWeek.
• Continued writing the "Effective Java" column with focus on Java performance issues.

• Published online FAQ and tutorial on Java Generics.
• Prepared course material for High-Performance Java Programming.
• Delivered open-enrollment and inhouse seminars.
• Spoke at various conferences, including OOP, JAX, ROOTS, ECOOP,  ACCU, OOPSLA, and NetObjectDays.
• Continued writing the "Effective Java" column with focus on concurrent programming in Java.
• Wrote a number of articles on new features in Java 5.0 published in Java Pro Online (USA), Java Magazin (D), Java Magazine (NL).

• Prepared course material for J2SE 5.0, including Java Generics and the new Java Concurrency Utilities and Memory Model.
• Prepared course material on C++ Template Metaprogramming.
• Delivered open-enrollment and inhouse seminars.
• Spoke at various conferences, including OOP, ROOTS (Norway),  ACCU (UK), and several Java Users Group meetings in Switzerland and Germany.
• Continued writing a column entitled "Effective Java" in a German Java magazine.
• Joined the Quality Summit (an experts meeting on code qualitiy) in Portland, Oregon.

• Published articles in JavaSpektrum, JavaSolutions, and VSJ.
• Familiarized myself with EJB and related Java technology.
• Spoke at various conferences, including OOP (DE + NL), SoftwareDevelopment (US), ROOTS (Norway),  ACCU (UK), and DevConnections (US).
• Acquired OOSE in Hamburg as an additional partner for Java training on the German market.
• Acquired BD Software in North Reading, MA as an additional partner on the US training market.
• Delivered a couple of courses.
• Joined the editorial board of JOT (Journal of Object Technology) published by ETH and the advisory board of JavaSpektrum.

• Wrote articles and countless book reviews as usual.
• Started a new column in Java Spektrum named "Effective Java".
• Resigned as columnist of C/C++ Users Journal after 4+ years.
• Acquired Zühlke Engineering as an additional partner for the German market.
• Developed a 2-day seminar on "Concurrent Programming in Java".
• Conducted more courses than ever, including Java courses in the US and UK and STL courses in Spain and Germany.
• Spoke at the OOP conference in Munich, at DevWeek in London, at ROOTS in Norway and at ACCU in Oxford.

• Acquired Datacom Academy as an additional partner in Germany.
• Developed a 5-day seminar on advanced Java named "Effective Java".
• Developed a 5-day seminar on C++ iostreams and locales.
• Delivered numerous seminars to customers in Germany, the Netherlands, the UK, and the USA.
• Spoke at the OOP conference in Munich, at DevWeek in London, at TOOLS and OOPSLA in the USA.
• Served as a member of the programming committee for the TOOLS East Europe conference.

• Successfully finished the book project "Standard C++ IOStreams and Locales".
• Spoke at the C++ World conference in Miami, FL.
• Acquired partner company for expansion of business to the Netherlands.
• Spoke at a meeting of CHOOSE (Schweizer Informatikergesellschaft) in Bern, CH.
• Conducted tutorial at the TOOLS USA conference, Santa Barbara, CA, and served as a panelist in a panel discussion.
• Gave several lectures at the Application Development conference in London.
• Spoke at the OOP/SIGS Expo for Java conference in Munich.
• Published several articles in C++ Report and book reviews at Fawcette's online magazine.

• Provided content and functioned as presenter for an instructional video about "Avoiding Common C++ Errors".
• Attended workshop in NYC for perfecting my instructional techniques.
• Developed 3-day-course on "Templates and STL".
• Developed 5-day-course on "ANSI C++" for experienced C++ programmers.
• Delivered open enrollment and inhouse C++ training.
• Spoke at Software Development S.F., Object Expo London, and C++World NYC.
• Published several articles in C++ Report and other magazines.
• Reviewed countless C++ and Java books for Fawcette Technical Publications and others.

• Developed course material on Net.h++ for Rogue Wave GmbH.
• Developed 2-day-course on "C++ in Safety-Critical Applications".
• Developed 1/2-day tutorial on "Multithreading in C++ and Java".
• Delivered open enrollment and inhouse C++ training.
• Spoke at OOP/C++ World Munich, Object Expo London, Software Development DC, Comdex Frankfurt, Object Expo Paris, and C++World San Jose.
• Published several articles in C++ Report and other magazines.
• Contributed to the standardization of C++, attended committee meetings, and reviewed major sections of the draft standard.

Course development, training, and technical writing.

• Developed a comprehensive 2-day course on the Standard Template Library.
• Produced the world's first comprehensive users guide on IOStreams and Locale.
• In-house training of the tech support staff.
• Delivered training/consulting to customers and achieved maximum customer satisfaction; course evaluation was excellent.
• Active participation in the standardization of C++.
• Contributed to Rogue Wave's image as the leading provider of C++ reusable parts by communicating C++ expertise to the international C++ community via publications, conference talks, and other technical presentations in Europe and the US.

Responsible for the Standard C++ Library development. This assignment included:

• coordination between various departments,
• determining the exact project requirements,
• developing and communicating technical solutions,
• coordinating in-house providers,
• participation in the international standardization process,
• acquiring partners for OEM business,
• evaluation of vendor provided libraries, and eventually
• contract negotiations Rogue Wave Software, Inc. in behalf of SNI..

Managed a development team on a high-pressure software project.

• Developed a procedural interface to a relational database (Informix).
• I took over the leadership on a time-critical project and managed an explosively growing staff of about 12-15 people.
• It was a time-critical emergency project which we successfully accomplished in a real team effort.

Developed a family of code generators from SDL (= State Diagram Language, CCITT standard) to C, CHILL and Assembler.

This assignment included the whole life cycle of a product:

• requirement specification,
• design,
• implementation,
• technical and user documentation,
• testing,
• training, and
• tech support.

PROFESSIONAL SKILLS

• Guru knowledge of Java (the language and J2SE).
• Guru knowledge of all aspects of C++, including Templates, Exception Handling, STL and IOStreams.
• Working knowledge of C# and C.
• Working knowledge of Enterprise Java (J2EE with emphasis on EJB).
• Working knowledge of XML, HTTP/HTML, JavaScript, JSP and Servlets.
• Component-Based, Object-Oriented, Procedural, and Generic Programming.
• Patterns for design of object oriented software development.
• Multithreading and Concurrency Control.
• Performance profiling and tuning.
• Internationalization in Java and C++.
• Object-oriented client/server architectures.
• Network communication programming.
• Relational Databases.
• Compiler construction.
• Software ergonomy.
• Methodology of procedural and object-oriented testing.
• UNIX, Windows, Linux, BS2000 (= Siemens proprietary mainframe OS).
• Familiarity with SQL, XML, HTML, HTTP, C, Pascal, Fortran.
• Basic knowledge of CORBA, POSIX, and other standards.

• Longterm practical experience with all stages of product development .
• Familiarity with RUP and XP.
• Practical experience as leader of a development staff at Siemens Research Labs.
• Formal training in communication skill, conflict management, motivation, and effective time-management.

• Several years of practical experience as an instructor world-wide.
• Popular speaker with lots of practical experience at international conferences world-wide.
• Formal training in presentation and instruction techniques at Friesen-Kaye in New York.
• Practical experience as an on-camera presenter at CCI in the US.

• Outstanding skills in course development.
• numerous lectures and presentations (see TECHNICAL PRESENTATIONS ).
• Acknowledged author with proven practical experience in technical writing.
• numerous articles in German and English (see TECHNICAL PUBLICATIONS ),
• a 700-pages-book on a C++ topic published at Addison-Wesley in 2000.
• the Java Generics FAQ, an online document on Frequently Asked Questions regarding Java Generics.

• Practical experience in project evaluation.
• Numerous code reviews and audits.
• Experience in customized knowledge transfer.

• German (native language)
• English (excellent fluency and writing skills)
• French and Italian (basic knowledge)

PARTNER COMPANIES

I collaborate with several training providers. Usually, the partner company takes over sales, marketing, and organization of the courses, whereas I function as instructor and/or content provider.Current and previous partners include:

• oose Innovative Informatik GmbH , Hamburg, Germany
• Zühlke Engineering AG , Zürich, Frankfurt, London
• Develop Mentor, Inc. , Los Angeles, Boston, London
• SIGS-Datacom GmbH , Troisdorf, Germany
• QA Systems GmbH , Stuttgart, Germany
• QA Systems International BV , Soesterberg, NL
• bdaum Industriekommunikation , Darmstadt, Germany
• BD Software , North Reading, MA

CUSTOMERS

Customers I delivered in-house training and/or consulting to include:

Alpine Electronics Europe GmbH , Stuttgart, Germany Metrohm Ltd. , Herisau, Schwitzerland AMD - Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. , Dresden, Germany Morgan Stanley , London, UK APG Affichage , Winterthur, Switzerland  Morgan Stanley , Tokyo, Japan Ascom AG , Solothurn, Mägenwil, Switzerland  Nortel Networks Ltd. , Galway, Ireland Atraxis , Zürich, Switzerland PDF Solutions GmbH , München, Germany BMW , München, Germany Qiagen Hilden, Germany Basler Versicherungen , Basel, Switzerland Qnamic AG , Hägendorf, Switzerland Cap Gemini, Ernest & Young , Barcelona, Spain RINA S.p.A. , Genova, Italy Citadel Investment Group , Chicago, IL, USA Robert Bosch GmbH. , Stuttgart, Frankfurt, Germany Deutsche Post AG Rentenservice , Köln, Germany Rohde & Schwarz GmbH. & Co. KG , München, Germany Devexperts , St. Petersburg, Russia RTS , Schwieberdingen, Germany Eisenbahn-Bundesamt , München, Germany SAP AG , Walldorf, Germany ETAS GmbH , Stuttgart, Germany Schüco International KG , Bielefeld, Germany Evosoft GmbH , Nürnberg, Germany Siemens AG , München, Nürnberg, Germany Hewlett-Packard , Barcelona, Spain Siemens AG , Berlin, Erlangen, Karlsruhe, Germany Hewlett-Packard , Roseville, CA, USA Siemens Learning Campus , Erlangen, Germany ICT Automatisering , Eindhoven, Netherlands Sigma-C , München, Germany IDS-Scheer AG , Saarbrücken, Germany Smiths Heimann GmbH , Wiesbaden, Germany IGE (Eidgenössisches Institut für Geistiges Eigentum) , Bern, Switzerland Stryker Leibinger GmbH & Co. KG , Freiburg, Germany Keane Ltd , Stonecourt, UK Swisscom , Bern, Switzerland Krones AG , Neutraubling, Germany Symbios, Inc. , Ft. Collins, CO, USA LexisNexis , Miamisburg, OH, USA TNT UK Ltd , Atherstone, UK Lucent Technologies , Huizen, Netherlands Vibrometer SA , Fribourg, Switzerland Lucent Technologies , Nürnberg, Germany Vodafone TeleCommerce GmbH , Düsseldorf, Germany Vossloh Systemtechnik , Kiel, Germany West LB , Düsseldorf, Germany Zühlke Engineering , Zürich, Switzerland

OFF-SCHEDULE ACTIVITIES

• Working for the ANSI/ISO C++ Standards Committee (1993 - 1998)
• Published a book on Standard C++ IOStreams and Locales for Addison-Wesley-Longman (1996 - 1999)
• Working with Java Specification Group JSR 14 (2003-2004)
• Published the world's first Java Generics FAQ (2004-2005)
• Various publications (see  TECHNICAL PUBLICATIONS )
• Various presentations (see TECHNICAL PRESENTATIONS )

TECHNICAL PUBLICATIONS

• JMM - Introduction to Memory Model Issue s, July 2008

• Understanding the closures debate,   June 2008

• Object Comparison in Java - Principles of Implementing equals(), January 2002
• Object Comparison in Java - Type Check in equals(), March 2002
• Hash Code in Java - Consistency between equals() and hashCode(), May2002
• Comparators in Java - Principles of Implementing compareTo(), July 2002
• Copies and Clones - Purpose of clone(), September 2002
• Copying Objects in Java - Principles of Implementing clone(), November 2002
• CloneNotSupported - clone() and its Exception , January 2003
• Copies and Clones - Principles of Implementing clone() ,   November 2002
• CloneNotSupported - clone() and Its Exception , January 2003
• Immutability - Implementing Immutable Types ,  March 2003
• Immutability - Immutability Adapters for Collections and the Meaning of final ,  July 2003
• final Classes and final Methods ,  September 2003
• Polymorphic Method Calls in Constructors ,  November 2003
• Multithreading Basics ,  January 2004
• Synchonization in Detail,   March 2004
• Explicit Locks (a new feature in JDK 5.0) ,  May 2004
• wait() and notify() in Detail, July 2004
• The Nested Monitor Problem, September 2004
• Stopping and Suspending Threads, November 2004
• Thread-Safe Collections and Synchronizers,  January 2005
• Asynchronous Tasks (Callable and Future), March 2005
• Thread Pools, May 2005
• Micro-Benchmarking,  July 2005
• Micro-Benchmarking & JIT Compilation,  September 2005
• Profiler Tools, November 2005
• Functional Performance Hot Spots , January 2006
• Memory Hot Spots, March 2006
• Garbage Collection Algorithms, May 2006 & July 2006
• Tuning the Garbage Collector, September 2006
• The Language Feature of Enumeration Types, November 2006
• Enums - A Common Pitfall, January 2007
• Introduction to Generics and Parameterized Types, March 2007
• Wildcards, May 2007
• Raw Types and Type Erasure, July 2007
• Type Erasure - The Dark Side, September 2007
• Generic Creation, November 2007
• Implementing a Generic Pair Class (Part 1),  January 2008
• Implementing a Generic Pair Class (Part 2),  March 2008

• Curiously Recurring Manipulators , June 2001
• Unary Predicates in the STL , April 2001
• The Difference between for_each() and transform() , February 2001
• Explicit Function Template Argument Specification and the STL , December 2000
• Are Set Iterators Mutable or Immutable? , October 2000

• Implementing Manipulator Using the Standard IOStreams (Part 2) , June 2000
• Implementing Manipulator Using the Standard IOStreams (Part 1) , April 2000
• User-Defined Inserters and Extractors Revisited , February 2000
• User-Defined Inserters and Extractors , September 1999
• Output Iterators , June 1999
• Stream Iterators , May 1999
• Insert Iterators , February 1999
• The auto_ptr Class Template , November 1998
• Comparators , September 1998
• Allocators , June 1998
• Character Types and Character Traits , April 1998
• Extending the Locale Framework - User-Defined Facets , February 1998
• Standard Facets , November 1997
• The Locale Framework , September 1997
• New Features in Standard IOStreams , June 1997
• Combining OO Design and Generic Programming , March 1997

• Language Features of Java Generics  (Part 1  & Part 2 ),   March 2004
• Wildcard Instantiations of Parameterized Types (Part 1 & Part 2 ),   May 2004

• Secrets of equals, April 2002
• Implementing equals for Mixed-Type Comparison , August 2002

• Java Generics - generische Typen und Methoden, April 2004
• Generische Typen, Type Erasure und die Auswirkungen aufs Java Typsystem, October 2004

• Sequence Points and Expression Evaluation, August 2002

• Was gibt es Neues in Java 5.0? - Vergleichendes Buchreview, JavaSpektrum, January 2005
• Java Generics: een introductie (1) & (2),  Java Magazine, April 2004 and July 2004
• Servlet Programmierung - Überblick und vergleichendes Buchreview, JavaSpektrum, August 2000
• Dynamische Allokation von Ressourcen , Objekt Fokus, März 1998
• Fehlerfreies Programmieren in C++ , Elektronik, June 1998
• Internationalization Using Standard C++ , C/C++ Users Journal, September 1997
• Building an Iterator for STL & Standard Library , C++ Report, February 1997
• Iterators in the Standard C++ Library , C++ Report, September 1996
• Iterators in the Standard Template Library (STL) , C++ Report, July 1996
• Deriving from IOStreams , C++ Report, September 1995
• Die C++ Standardbibliothek , Objektspektrum, January 1995
• Die C++ Standardbibliothek , 'ct, November 1994

• Too many to be listed here.  For a complete list see http://www.AngelikaLanger.com/Articles/BookReviews.html .

• Standard C++ IOStreams and Locales , Addison Wesley Longman, published in January 2000.  For further information see http://www.AngelikaLanger.com/iostreams.html .

• Java Generics FAQ , first release published in October 2004.  For further information see http://www.AngelikaLanger.com/GenericsFAQ/JavaGenericsFAQ.html .

TECHNICAL PRESENTATIONS

• W-JAX  2007 , München, Germany, November 5-9, 2007: Annotation Processing
• W-JAX  2007 , München, Germany, November 5-9, 2007: Core Java Performance
• JFS (Java Forum Stuttgart) 2007 , Stuttgart, Germany, July 5, 2007: Java Generics
• J-Spring  2007 , Bussum, Netherlands, June 13, 2007: Java Generics
• SET  2007 , Zürich, Switzerland, May 8-9, 2007: Multithread-Programmierung in Java 5.0
• ACCU  2007 , Oxford, UK , April 11-14, 2007: The Java Performance Model
• SD Best Practices  2007 , Moscow, Russia, April 3-4, 2007: Java Generics
• JUG Meeting Cologne , Cologne, Germany, February 28, 2007: The Art of Micro-Benchmarking in Java
• JUG Meeting Düsseldorf , Düsseldorf, Germany, February 13, 2007: Java Generics
• OOP 2007 , Munich, Germany, January 22-26, 2007: The Java Performance Model

• JAOO 2006 , Aarhus, Denmark, October 1-6, 2006: The Art of Micro-Benchmarking in Java
• JAOO 2006 , Aarhus, Denmark, October 1-6, 2006: New Features in J2SE 1.5
• ExpertenForumStuttgart 2006, Stuttgart, Germany, July 7, 2006: The Art of Micro-Benchmarking in Java
• JUGS Event, Zürich, Switzerland, June 20, 2006: Java Generics
• JAX 2006, Frankfurt, Germany, May 8-12, 2006: Java Generics - A Mob Programming Session
• JAX 2006, Frankfurt, Germany, May 8-12, 2006: Garbage Collection
• ACCU  2006, Oxford, UK , April 19-22, 2006: Reliable C++
• JUGS, Stuttgart, Germany, January26, 2006: The Java Performance Model

• W-JAX 2005, Munich, Germany, November 2005: T he Java Performance Model
• JavaOne 2005, San Francisco, CA, June 2005: Java Generics
• Tech Business Week 2005, Santiago de Compostela, Spain, June 2005: New Language Features in Java 5.0
• JAX 2005, Frankfurt, Germany, May 2005: Programming With Generic Types
• JAX 2005, Frankfurt, Germany, May 2005: Wildcards in Java Generics
• ACCU Conference, Oxford, UK, April, 2004: Wildcards in Java Generics
• OOP, Munich, Germany, Jan, 2005: Multithread Programming in Java 5.0

• OOPSLA, Vancouver, Canada, October 2004: Java Generics
• Net.ObjectDays, Erfurt, Germany, September 2004: New Features in J2SE 1.5: Generics, Concurrency Utilities, Enums, Autoboxing
• ECOOP, Oslo, Norway, June 2004: New Features in J2SE 1.5: Generics, Concurrency Utilities, Enums, Autoboxing
• JAX, Frankfurt, Germany, May 2004: New Language Features in J2SE 1.5 - Overview
• JAX, Frankfurt, Germany, May 2004: Java Generics
• JAX, Frankfurt, Germany, May 2004: Concurrency Utilities
• ROOTS, Bergen, Norway, April, 2004: New Features in J2SE 1.5: Generics, Concurrency Utilities, Enums, Autoboxing
• ACCU Conference , Oxford, UK, April, 2004: Java Generics
• ACCU Conference , Oxford, UK, April, 2004: Implementing Binary Operators in C++
• OOP, Munich, Germany, Jan, 2004; Java Generics
• OOP, Munich, Germany, Jan, 2004: Tuning the Java Garbage Collector

• CHOOSE, Bern, Switzerland, Nov, 2003: New Features in J2SE 1.5
• Java Users Group, Stuttgart, Germany, Oct, 2003: New Features in J2SE 1.5
• Workshoptage 2003, Zürich, Switzerland, Oct, 2003: New Features in J2SE 1.5
• ROOTS, Bergen, Norway, May, 2003: C++ and Java Trends
• ROOTS, Bergen, Norway, May, 2003: Multithread Programming Java
• ROOTS, Bergen, Norway, May, 2003: Beyond EJB: Idioms and Alternaives for Persistence and Transactions
• ACCU Conference , Oxford, UK, April, 2003: Concurrent Progamming in Java
• OOP, Munich, Germany, January, 2003: Idioms for Client Transactions in Conjunction with Enterprise Java Beans
• OOP, Munich, Germany, January, 2003: Advanced Multithread Programming in Java
• Better Code Summit, Portland, OR, Jan, 2003

• OOP 2002, Munich,Germany, January 2002: Effective Java
• ACCU, Warwick, UK, April 2002: Expression Templates
• ACCU, Warwick, UK, April 2002: Effective Java
• ROOTS, Bergen, Norway, April 2002: C++ and Java Trends
• ROOTS, Bergen, Norway, April 2002: Effective Java
• ROOTS, Bergen, Norway, April 2002: Dynamic Proxies and Weak References
• Software Development, San Jose, CA, April 2002: Understanding C++ Expression Templates
• Software Development, San Jose, CA, April 2002: Invalidation of STL Iterators
• Software Development, San Jose, CA, April 2002: Read-Only vs. Read-Write Set Iterators
• OOP Europe, Amsterdam, NL, June 2002: Effective Java
• DevConnections, Orlando, FL, October 2002: Invalidation of STL Iterators
• DevConnections, Orlando, FL, October 2002: C++ Tidbits
• DevConnections, Orlando, FL, October 2002: Understanding C++ Expression Templates

• OOP 2001, Munich, Germany, January 2001: Java Dynamic Proxies
• DevWeek, London, UK, February 2001: Basic Java Idioms: Copying and Comparing Objects
• DevWeek, London, UK, February 2001: Resource Management in Java
• TOOLS Europe, Zürich, CH, March 2001 : Java Programming Idioms
• ACCU, Oxford, UK, March 2001: Standard C++ Locales
• ROOTS, Bergen, Norway, May 2001: Implementing Design Patterns Using C++ Templates

• C++ World/OOP, Munich, January 2000: Java Gotchas for C++ Programmers
• C++ World/OOP, Munich, January 2000: Traps and Pitfalls in Using the STL
• DevWeek, London, UK, February 2000: Java Gotchas for C++ Programmers
• DevWeek, London, UK, February 2000: Traps and Pitfalls in Using the STL
• DevWeek, London, UK, February 2000: Using Templates for Implementation of Patterns
• DevWeek, London, UK, February 2000: Making Your C++ Programs Exception-Safe
• Zühlke Forum, Zürich, CH, March 2000: Modern C++ - Programming with Templates and the STL
• TOOLS USA, Santa Barbara, CA, August 2000: Using Templates for Implementation of Patterns
• TOOLS USA, Santa Barbara, CA, August 2000: Idiomatic Java
• OOPSLA 2000, Minneapolis, MN, October 2000: Implementing Design Patterns Using C++ Templates
• OOPSLA 2000, Minneapolis, MN, October 2000: Resource Management in Java

• C++ World/OOP, Munich, January 1999: Programming with C++ Exceptions
• Application Development, London, July 1999: Java Gotchas for C++ Programmers
• Application Development, London, July 1999: Compile-Time Computations in C++
• Application Development, London, July 1999: Classic vs. Standard IOStreams
• TOOLS USA, Santa Barbara, CA, August 1999: Programming with C++ Exceptions
• CHOOSE, Bern, CH, September 1999: ANSI C++ In-Depth - The New Language Features
• C++ World, Miami, FL, December 1999: Making Your Programs Exception-Safe
• C++ World, Miami, FL, December 1999: Java Gotchas for C++ Programmers
• C++ World, Miami, FL, December 1999: Using Templates for Implementation of Patterns

• Software Development, San Francisco, February 1998: Internationalization in C++ and Java
• Software Development, San Francisco, February 1998: Multithreading in C++ and Java
• Software Development, San Francisco, February 1998: Catching up with the C++ Standard
• Object Expo Europe, London, June 1998: Exception Handling in ANSI C++
• C++ World, New York, August 1998: The New ANSI C++ Language Features
• C++ World, New York, August 1998: Advanced Template Programming
• Object Developers Group meeting, New York, August 1998: Programming with Exceptions
• TOOLS '98, Melbourne, Australia, November 1998: The Standard  STL

• OOP'97, Munich, February 1997: Internationalization using Standard C++ Locales
• Object Expo Europe, London, July 1997: Getting the most out of the STL
• Software Development, Washington DC, September 1997: Internationalization in C++ and Java
• Software Development, Washington DC, September 1997: Multithreading in C++ and Java
• Software Development, Washington DC, September 1997: Catching up with the C++ Standard
• Object World, Frankfurt, October 1997: Multithreading in C++ and Java
• Object World, Frankfurt, October 1997: Migrating to the Standard Library
• C++ World, San Jose, November 1997: Multithreading in C++ and Java
• C++ World, San Jose, November 1997: Migrating to the Standard Library
• Object Expo France, Paris, November 1997: Multithreading in C++ and Java
• Software Development, Washington DC, September 1997: Internationalization in C++ and Java
• Software Development, Washington DC, September 1997: Multithreading in C++ and Java
• Software Development, Washington DC, September 1997: Catching up with the C++ Standard

• OOP'96, Munich, February 1996: The Standard Template Library (STL)
• Software Development, San Francisco, March 1996: Internationalization using Standard C++ Locales
• Object Expo, New York, August 1996: Understanding the ISO Standard Library
• Object Expo, New York, August 1996: Birds of a Feather Session: "The Future of  C++"

• Object World, Frankfurt, October 1995: The Standard Template Library (STL)
• NW C++ Users Group, Seattle, December 1995: Standard C++ Locales

• Object World, Frankfurt, September 1994: The ISO/ANSI Standard C++ Library