CV before going freelance:

1980-1993    School (Abitur)
Grundschule Erding, Gymnasium Erding

1993-1997     Fachberater Softwaretechniken (apprenticeship)
Siemens-Nixdorf Informationssysteme AG, München/Paderborn
Apprenticeship for the "IT merchant" (2 years) and extending the
education with the aspects of "consulting specialist" (1 year)

1997-1997     Suppport Database management systems and tools (employed)
Informix Software GmbH, Ismaning (now IBM)

1997-09/2004  Senior-Developer, Project Manager, Department Head
Science Management & Engineering GmbH/AG, Garching
cf. "Projects"

1995- 09/2004 Freelance work (part-time / moonlighting)

1998- heute   IT Trainer at non-profit school

scripting languages

Certificates
Sun Certified Developer for the Java 2 Platform
Sun Certified Java Programmer
Sun Certified Trainer (Java, Netscape Messaging Server)
Informix Certified Database Administrator (Version 7)
Siemens-Nixdorf "Fachberater Softwaretechniken"
Cambridge University First Certificate in English (Grade A)

Consulting experience
Project Management:  Managing a development team (up to 6 people)
Requirements engineering and documentation
System- and Software Architecture
Process analysis, -optimization und support with IT systems
Software process quality management using SPICE ISO/TR15504

Technical products
JBoss, Tomcat, Cocoon, Bea WebLogic
AXIS SOAP, Glue SOAP
Oracle, Informix, PostgreSQL, Illustra

Training experience
Java: Basic, Advanced, JDBC, Swing
Unix: Linux, Apache, Internet services

There is no limitation concerning the industry I am willing to work for.

In the past, I have been working for the following industries
Automotive (Car IT), IT, Banking, Insurance, Telco, Food & Beverates, Retail,
Franchise, Media, Logistics, Advertisment agency(Ad)

Selection of noteworthy projects:

10/2005 - 3 days
MID Enterprise Solutions Software GmbH, Nürnberg
Java Swing Training and Architecture Workshop

10/2004 - (ongoing) Project management, software architecture and requirements engineering IT system
SME AG for an international restaurant chain
(continuation of a project I was working on a 2 days/week basis before)
Tasks: Management of developers from 3 project teams by different companies,
design, documentation and enforcement of the architectural principles,
analysis and documenation of the use cases and workflows to be implemented,
design of the workflow modules in the system.
Technical: Java2SE, Spring, Hibernate, PostgrSQL, Eclipse

07/2003 - 15 months
Development, Design, Architecture Portal-Application
iXtra AG for O2 (Germany) GmbH & Co. OHG München (employed at SME AG)
Tasks: Enhancements of the portal application, programming, design and
architecure, interfaces and documentation. "Technical Lead" in
projekt "Apollo".
Technical: Java2EE, EJB, JBoss 3, Tomcat/Catalina, ant, Cocoon 2, XSP,
XML, XSLT, HTML, Javascript

03/2003 - 9 months (in parallel)
Software process quality assessment
SME AG Garching (internal) (employed at SME AG)
Tasks: software prozess quality using SPICE (Software Process Improvement
and Capability dEtermination) ISO(TR) 15504; while taking part in the
intiative "SoQrates" done by the state of Bavaria

03/2003 - 1 month
Requirements Engineering HR-Workflows
Burger King GmbH München (employed at SME AG)
Tasks: documenting the fundamental processes, actors and data of the
Burger King HR resources, to be used as part of a development contract.

11/2002 - 6 months
Quality Assurance Manager Projekt CPI
BMW AG München (employed at SME AG)
Tasks: supervise and proactively ensure that the project is realized within
the rules and procedures of the BMW process model (ITPM), organizing and
chairing reviews, producing documentation

10/2002 - 5 months
Low- and High-Level-Design Pilot Betriebsleitstand
BMW AG München (employed at SME AG)
Tasks: concept and pilot implementation of an application to gather and
visualize data about performance, usage and cost of a number of different
applications and systems. project management.
Technical: Java J2SE, JDBC, Oracle, PL/SQL, database design

11/2002 - 3 months
Concept "IT-System zur Unterstützung eines Prüfprozesses"
BMW AG München (employed at SME AG)
Tasks: engineer the requirements of the process to verify microcontrollers,
design the concept for a future software system to support the process.

06/2002 - 6 months
Quality Assurance Manager Projekt NOVP
BMW AG München (employed at SME AG)
Tasks: supervise and proactively ensure that the project is realized within
the rules and procedures of the BMW process model (ITPM), organizing and
chairing reviews, producing documentation

03/2002 - 4 months
Development of an interactive help agent
BMW AG München (employed at SME AG)
Tasks: concept and development of an iteractive help system to support the
users of a compley application. project management.
Technical: Java, JDBC

12/2001 - 4 months
Decelopment Bluetooth-Communication Car / PDA
BMW AG, München (employed at SME AG)
Tasks: project management, architecture

01/2002 - 3 months
Concept, Specification and Pilot for a Workflow system
Burger King GmbH München (employed at SME AG)
Tasks: engineering and documenting the requirements for a workflow system,
concept and implement pilot. architecture. project management.
Technical: Java J2EE, EJB, JBoss 2, JSP, Servlets, JDBC, PostgreSQL

07/2000 - 20 months
Development of a broadcast scheduling system
Beta Research (Kirch-Gruppe) (employed at SME AG)
Tasks: development of a Java applikation to schedule (time and bandwidth)
broadcasting. concept. specification. architecture. project management.
development.
Technical: Java, JFC/Swing, Corba, ILOG JViews, Versant OODBMS

03/2000 - 5 months
Development of GUI components
Beta Research (Kirch-Gruppe) (employed at SME AG)
Tasks: Development of GUI components in the domain of technical media.
development. piloting.
Technical: Java, JFC/Swing, ILOG JViews

06/1999 - 6 months
Technical Support Informix ORDBMS
Informix GmbH Ismaning (employed at SME AG)
Tasks: support the customers with all kinds of problems using the Informix
products. Hotline.
Technical: Informix 7.x, 9.x, Client-SW, Solaris, HP-UX, IRIX, ...

1999 - 3 years (5-day duration)     
Training Java and iPlanet Messaging Server
Sun Education / Sun Microsystems (employed at SME AG)
Tasks: performing the customer training
Technical: Java basics, Java advanced, iPlanet (Netscape) Messaging
Server, Java 1.1 / 1.2 / 1.3, Solaris

10/1998 - 9 months
Pilot Application Log Supervisor
Beta Research (Kirch-Gruppe) (employed at SME AG)
Tasks: Development of an application to monitor and supervise log files of
generic systems, with automatic alarm, as a first time test of using Java as
a development language at this customer.
Technical: Java, JFC/Swing, Solaris

06/1998 - 5 months
Management Information System
F&F Software for Siemens AG (employed at SME AG)
Tasks: Development of an Applet to visualize and navigate through the
data about projects and products of the customer.
Technical: Java, JFC/Swing, HTML, cgi

02/1998 - 4 months
System and Network administration
Infratest-Burke, now NFO Europe (employed at SME AG)
Tasks: performing the administrative tasks. development of scripts and programs
to automate backup, filetransfer and proxy statistics.
Technical: SCO Unix, IP Networking, Unix-Tools, (ksh, sed, awk, ...), C

1997 - 9 months
Technical Spport Informix ORDBMS
Informix GmbH Ismaning (employed at Informix Software GmbH)
Tasks: Hotline (1st/2nd Level Support) for all products and tools.
after 6 months "Support Engineer New Technologies", i.e. working on the
rollout of the new RDBMS versions in beta state, bug research, bug analysis and
reproduction

1996 - ca 8 months
Development of a Tool to visualize Host networks
Siemens Nixdorf Informationssysteme AG (as apprentice with Siemens-Nixdorf)
TEchnical: GUI OS/2 Presentation Manager