Contact information
Education
| 1973 - 1977 |
Grundschule im Muehlenfeld, Willich
(basic/elementary school)
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| 8/1977 - 6/1986 |
St. Bernhard Gymnasium Willich
(high school)
Graduation: ``Abitur'' at 06/02/1986
Summary grade: 2.0
(highschool diploma)
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| 9/1986 - 10/1992 |
Courses at ``RWTH Aachen''
(Northrhine Westphalia technical university Aachen)
Major subject: Computer science
Minor subject: Mathematics
11/1988 Vordiplom: 2.0 (B.S.)
10/1992 Diplom: 1.0 (M.S.)
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Employments
| 10/1990 - 10/1992 |
Student worker at ``Lehrstuhl fuer angewandte Mathematik, insbesondere Informatik''
(Chair for applied mathematics,
especially computer science).
Chair holder: Prof. Dr. Walter Oberschelp
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| 11/1992 - 12/1992 |
Scientific worker at chair named above |
| 01/1993 - 10/1997 |
Employee of ``Ingenieurbuero Kisters''.
Development of software to support the
work of hydrologists. More specifically:
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Application for graphical visualization
and manipulation of timeseries.
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Application to support digitization of
analogously recorded timeseries (sheets of paper).
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Storage of timeseries data in relational databases.
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| 11/1997 - 02/2001 |
Employee of ``Ascom Deutschland GmbH (Standort Aachen)''. |
| 02/2001 - |
Employee of ``ActiveState Tool Corp.''.
Part of the Tcl Team.
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Writings
Not much now, see Writings.
Other knowledge
Foreign languages: english
Computer languages: Tcl/Tk, Pascal, Modula, C(++), OCCAM,
PROLOG
Development experience with Unix (Linux, AIX, Ultrix, DEC OSF,
SCO) and Windows (MSVC++).
Interests
Reading, mostly SF&F, Computer security
Member of ``Deutsche Lebens-Rettungs-Gesellschaft (DLRG e.V)'', a
German water rescue organization.
German grades
A note on german grades: They are of numerical value, in the
range 1 ... 6. One is best, six worst. For more flexibility
in grading suffixes + and - are possible. Numeric only
indication of a suffix is addition/subtraction of 0.3 to/from
the base value. Rough translations:
| 1 |
very good |
| 2 |
good |
| 3 |
satisfactory |
| 4 |
enough/sufficient |
| 5 |
unsatisfactory/poor |
| 6 |
inadequate |
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