OBJECTIVE

EDUCATION
PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE
PROFESSIONAL SKILLS
PARTNER COMPANIES
CUSTOMERS
OFF-SCHEDULE ACTIVITIES

EDUCATION

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Independent Trainer / Mentor / Author , 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 instructor, courseware developer, author, and consultant.

• Course development, training, and technical writing.

• C/C++ Compiler Development at Siemens Nixdorf; responsible for the Standard C++ Library development.
• Research Department at Siemens AG; managed a development team on a high-pressure software project.
• Developed a family of code generators for telecommunications software at Siemens AG.

PROFESSIONAL SKILLS

• Guru knowledge of Java (language, JDK, and JVM).
• Knowledge of concurrent programming.
• Knowledge of performance profiling and tuning.
• Knowledge of C++, including Templates, Exception Handling, STL and IOStreams.

• Practical experience with all stages of product development .
• 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 City.

• Outstanding skills in course development (see Course Curriculum ).
• Acknowledged author with proven practical experience in technical writing (see  Technical Publications ).
• countless articles in German and English (see Technical Presentations ),
• a 700-pages-book on a C++ topic published at Addison-Wesley in 2000,
• a book on Java programming at Entwickler Press in 2011,
• 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, Bern, Frankfurt, Hannover, München, London
• Software & Support Verlag GmbH , Frankfurt, München, Postdam
• Develop Mentor, Inc. , Los Angeles, Boston, London
• BD Software , North Reading, MA
• QA Systems GmbH , Stuttgart, Germany
• bdaum Industriekommunikation , Darmstadt, Germany
• SIGS-Datacom GmbH , Troisdorf, Germany
• QA Systems International BV , Soesterberg, NL

CUSTOMERS

Customers I worked with include:

Aareal First Financial Solutions AG , Mainz, Germany Morgan Stanley , Tokyo, Japan Abraxas Informatik AG , Zürich, Switzerland Morgan Stanley , London, UK Agfa HealthCare AG , Trier, Germany Nortel Networks Ltd. , Galway, Ireland Aixigo AG , Aachen, Germany OPEN MIND Technologies AG , Wessling, Germany Alpine Electronics Europe GmbH , Stuttgart, Germany PDF Solutions GmbH , München, Germany AMD - Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. , Dresden, Germany PTV Planung Transport Verkehr AG , Karlsruhe, Germany APG Affichage , Winterthur, Switzerland  Qiagen Hilden, Germany Ascom AG , Solothurn, Mägenwil, Switzerland  Qnamic AG , Hägendorf, Switzerland Atraxis , Zürich, Switzerland REWE-Informations-Systeme GmbH , Köln, Germany AXA Versicherungen AG , Winterthur, Switzerland RINA S.p.A. , Genova, Italy Bayerisches Landesamt für Finanzen , Regensburg, Germany Robert Bosch GmbH. , Stuttgart, Frankfurt, Germany BMW , München, Germany Rohde & Schwarz GmbH. & Co. KG , München, Germany Basler Versicherungen , Basel, Switzerland RTS , Schwieberdingen, Germany Bloomberg L.P. , New York City, NY, USA Santitas Krankenversicherung , Zürich, Switzerland Cap Gemini, Ernest & Young , Barcelona, Spain SAP AG , Walldorf, Germany Citadel Investment Group , Chicago, IL, USA Saxonia Systems AG , Dresden, Germany Cycos AG , Alsdorf, Germany SBB (Schweizerische Bundesbahnen) , Bern, Switzerland Deutsche Post AG Rentenservice , Köln, Germany Schüco International KG , Bielefeld, Germany Devexperts , St. Petersburg, Russia Siemens Audiologische Technik GmbH , Erlangen, Germany Eisenbahn-Bundesamt , München, Germany Siemens AG , Berlin, Erlangen, Karlsruhe, Germany Elaxy GmbH , Coburg, Germany Siemens AG , München, Nürnberg, Germany ETAS GmbH , Stuttgart, Germany Siemens Enterprise Communications A.E. , Athens, Greece Evosoft GmbH , Nürnberg, Germany Siemens Learning Campus , Erlangen, Germany Fiducia IT AG , München, Germany Sigma-C , München, Germany FriendScout24 GmbH , München, Germany s IT Solutions AT Spardat GmbH , Wien, Austria Hewlett-Packard , Barcelona, Spain Smiths Heimann GmbH , Wiesbaden, Germany Hewlett-Packard , Roseville, CA, USA Stryker Leibinger GmbH & Co. KG , Freiburg, Germany ICT Automatisering , Eindhoven, Netherlands Swisscom , Bern, Switzerland IDS-Scheer AG , Saarbrücken, Germany Symbios, Inc. , Ft. Collins, CO, USA IGE (Eidgenössisches Institut für Geistiges Eigentum) , Bern, Switzerland Ticket Online Software GmbH , München, Germany Innovas GmbH , Hamburg, Köln, Germany Techniker Krankenkasse , Hamburg, Germany Keane Ltd , Stonecourt, UK thinkorswim, Division of TD Ameritrade, Inc. , Chicago, IL, USA Krauss-Maffei-Wegmann GmbH & Co. KG , München, Germany TNT UK Ltd , Atherstone, UK Krones AG , Neutraubling, Germany UBS AG , Zürich, Switzerland Landesamt für Finanzen - Freistaat Bayern , Regensburg, Germany Urban Science International GmbH , München, Germany LexisNexis , Miamisburg, OH, USA Vibrometer SA , Fribourg, Switzerland Lucent Technologies , Huizen, Netherlands Visana Services AG , Bern, Switzerland Lucent Technologies , Nürnberg, Germany Vodafone TeleCommerce GmbH , Düsseldorf, Germany Metrohm Ltd. , Herisau, Schwitzerland Vossloh Systemtechnik , Kiel, Germany West LB , Düsseldorf, Germany Zühlke Engineering , Zürich, Switzerland

OFF-SCHEDULE ACTIVITIES

• Observing member of the ANSI/ISO C++ Standards Committee (since 1993)
• Wrote a book on Standard C++ IOStreams and Locales for Addison-Wesley-Longman (1996 - 1999; published in 2000)
• Observing member Java Community Process (since 2003)
• Published the authoritative Java Generics FAQ (2004-2010)
• Wrote a book on Java Core Programmierung: Memory Model und Garbage Collection for Entwickler Press (published in 2011)
• Numerous publications (see  Technical Publications )
• Various presentations (see Technical Presentations )