Professional Experience.

1982-1984:

Part-time teaching assistant in mathematics and digital signal processing at University of Aalborg.

1984-1986:

Research Officer on the National Danish Speech Recognition Science Project.

Scientific topics were several digital signal-processing disciplines:

• Isolated Word Recognition using Hidden Markov Models and Artificial Intelligence.
• Digital Speech Coding and Synthesis using adaptive pulse code modulation in sub bands, linear predictive coding speech synthesis.
• Vector Quantization compression techniques.

Some of the research results were implemented on real-time hardware in collaboration with the industrial partners Bang & Olufsen, Danish Telecom and Lyngsø Maritime Control Systems.

1986-1987:

Employed by Brüel and Kjær Industries, Copenhagen, specifying man-machine-interface for a virtual acoustical measurement system consisting of several Unix-workstations, intended for the Ship and Airplane Industries. The MMI specification was based on the CGI-standard (Computer Graphic Interface) inspired from the Athene project at MIT, and the resulting functionality resembled strongly the current X-windows systems.

1987-1992:

Ph. D Student by Laboratory of Image Processing at the University of Aalborg. I was first working on the science project: Computer Visions – methods for real time image sequences,later the project: MOBS (Modular Image Processing Systems)and finally the ESPRIT Basic Research Action project:Vision as process.

Scientific Topics where:

• Velocity Estimation from Image Sequences using optic flow.
• Distance estimation using stereography and moving camera (Active Vision).

Besides my Ph-D study I was involved in several additional scientific activities:

• Cloud Classification in Meteosat Images using various pattern recognition techniques (supervised and unsupervised learning-methods) in co-operation with the Danish Weather Service  (DMI).
• A joint research project with the Royal Dentist School developing a system for early detection on Parodontosis by subtraction of byte-wing X-ray images. This method involves a resampling (warping) technique of the X-ray images based on operator selected fix-points and grey level matching, since the images was exposed at different time (2-3 month) with different illumination and camera/film positions.
• Development and implementation of an image-processing subsystem (Like Adobe PhotoShop) for the Danish company CCI Europe, which produces workstation-based systems for News Paper Production. The sub-system was integrated into CCI's main-system and was implemented on SUN-workstations using SUNVIEW as MMI-toolkit.
• Context controlled enhancement of scintigraphical images based on qudrature mirror filters and neural networks.
• Reconstruction of 3-dimensional scintigraphical images from a set of 2-d projections using deconvolution and Fourier techniques.
• Development of VIPWOP (Visual Programmers Workbench), a distributed image processing system implemented on a set of UNIX-workstations. The system even support use of several Unix hardware platforms (IBM, Hewlett Packard, Silicon Graphics, SUN and Motorola).

1992-1996:

Employed by the Danish Weather Service (DMI). I was engaged with development and implementation of meteorological systems and meteorological workstations. The systems and meteorological workstations were connected by a nation-wide LAN.

The work included:

• Development and implementation of Storm Surge Warning Systems for the North Sea coast of Jut land, the Baltic Sea coasts and the coast along the belts of Denmark. The system was implemented on SUN workstations using X-windows/Motif and C++. The system collects water levels from several measurement stations all over the country, calculates forecasts, presents the results for the forecaster and disseminates forecasts and alarms to regional radio stations and the authorities.
• Development of an online lightning detection system to ease the forecasters in predicting thunderstorms. Data-acquisition and processing took place on a central server based on inputs from 4 antennas placed nation wide, and the detected lightnings were distributed to the end-user machines  over a nationwide LAN. The presentation part was implemented on SUN workstations using UNIX/Motif and C++, but was later extended and ported to DIGITAL ALPHA workstations using OpenVMS Operation System for the Danish Power Companies, and HP-UX for the Coast Authorities. The system was integrated into the power-distribution control systems on all major control centres in Denmark, and the airtraffic control systems by the National Air Traffic Control at Copenhagen Airport and the Royal Airforce Headquarter.
• Development of a data-distribution system. The system, which at bottom-level was based on printer-queues, distributes data from central server to the Meteorological Workstations nation-wide.
• Development of various X11/Motif-based satellite-image displaying and image-analyse software applications dedicated for display and analysis of Meteosat Images.

1996-1998:

Employed by Computer Resources International A/S (from 1/12 1997 taken over by Terma) as Consultant by the Operational Division at Eumetsat Headquarter in Darmstadt. My work was concentrated on the Meteorological Extraction Facility (MPEF), which is a part of the Meteosat Ground Segment.

MPEF is a distributed system consisting of 20 UNIX workstations and extracts several meteorological parameters/products from the incoming spacecraft images. The final products are disseminated to the European Weather Services for use in global weather forecast models. The system is designed using object-oriented methods and consists of several subsystems.

Functional the system consists of several processing chains, which are responsible for the product calculations, several meteorological workstations for presentation and manual quality control, and system controllers supervising the complete system. All data processing is performed by daemons, which are controlled by a scheduling unit.

My duties by Eumetsat included:

• Maintenance of the MPEF Algorithm Specification Document. A Microsoft Access based database has been implemented to keep track of the various version of each subsection in the ASD, and reflect the actual state of the operational MPEF-system.
• Development and implementation of an offline databases for MPEF product statistics, product collocations and calibration coefficient, used operational by the MPEF Operational Staff and Member States. The database has been implemented on a Unix-server on the office-network, and software has been developed and installed on partly the operational MPEF and the offline workstation to enable automatically update of the databases.  The databases were extended with a graphical system for daily screening of the data, enabling a daily supervision of the quality of the system and the produced products.
• Modification of the several subsystems enabling the system to service an additional operational spacecraft: The INDOEX Mission over the Indian Ocean.
• Development and implementation of product statistics program.
• Various kind of support to other Eumetsat Divisions and User Community on demand.

1999-2000:

Employed by CARA Software Systems (Bull Information Systems) as Consultant by the MPEF Operational Team at Eumetsat Headquarter in Darmstadt. My duties are a continuation of the activities taken place 1996-1998 at Eumetsat.  Additional duties in this period were:

• Specification, development and implementation of the real time MPEF able to reprocess historical satellite images. This activity is a part of a European project in Climate Studies. The tasks involve a complete redesign of the operational MPEF from a scheduler based calculation scheme into a real-time system, where the product calculation should take place as fast as possible. This involves modifications in nearly all parts of the MPEF system  at several levels, in particular the input sub-systems. These activities includes: feasibility-study addressing the needed modifications of the original MPEF system, implementation, specification of test-procedures, tests, validation, commissioning and documentation of these changes and procedures for the operators.
• Updating various MPEF subsystems for year 2000 compliance.

2000:

Employed by German Stock Exchange in Frankfurt as application developer in the EUREX/XETRA Application Division. My tasks were specification and execution of functional regression test-procedures for the EUREX front-end and backend systems. In the last part of the period I was working as team-leader for the functional regression team.

2001:

Employed by Systematika, Heidelberg as Project Manager and Senior Developer. My task was development of a Web based CRM system for  the insurance industry (“Neukunden suche”) calledMicroprofiler. The system was implemented in JavaScript and perl/cgi with Oracle Database as backend. Intelligent software modules were added to classify users into customer categories. The

System were based on statistical customer information supplied by the company PanAdress, and

these information were linked to the address-database from Telekom to provide addresses of potiential customers.

In addition to this project I was engaged with development of JAVA-based applications, partly Applet/Servlet programming and partly stand-alone client-applications using Internet as communication channel. The applications checks the address pool of a user against the databases from Deutsche Telekom/Deutsche Post, and returned a “cleaned”/updated address set to the user.

2002-2008:

Employed by European Molecular Biology Organisation as Senior Technical Officer. I was assigned to a project called E-biosci. This project addresses the design and development of a pan-european search portal in life science, where users can search literature, theses, genes, proteins and patents. The search could take place in one of the 3 languages: English, French or German. The system is implemented as a distributed system where the different subsystems (search-engines, data-repositories, document-location-system etc.) are communicating with the main-portal through soap- or RAST-interfaces and data are exchanged as xml-encoded packages.

The main-portal (web-front-end) is implemented in java (jsp / java-servlets) using a template-generating system called clownbike and soap-clients were developed using axis.  The different soap-servers are implemented under various operating systems (Linux, Unix, windows) and programming languages (java, perl, php and C++).

My current duties are

• Architectural Design
  1. Preparation of design documents.
  2. Rapid prototyping
  3. Analysis of technologies to be used
• Technical management.
  1. Preparation of time plans and schedules.
  2. Coordination with the partners in Germany, UK, France, Netherlands, Spain and USA.
  3. Preparation and execution of test procedures.
  4. Preparation of maintenance procedures for an operational service.

Besides the technical management I am also engaged in the development of web-front-end and some of the soap services.

In the last 2 years I developed several intelligent online application system for post doctorants. The systems request automatically references from referees based on the information submitted by the applicant. The system generates a pdf document of the application ( including all uploaded documents) and send it  by email  to the interviewer selected by the administrator. After the interview the interviewer submits a interview report, and the system generates a complete report for the final selection committee.

Finally I have developed an  online- registration portal for multiple conferences/meetings. The system was based on the content management system Mambo, which was extended to support multiple domains. The administrator add a new conference to the system, and meeting participants can submit their registration and additional information, which may vary from meeting to meeting. The organizer for a specific meeting can login and download the submitted data for his/her meeting.

All these system are based on php with mysql and postresql as backend databases.

Januay 2008 - :

Employed by  University of Heidelberg, HCI Department. HCI is a new large Image processing department (Excellence Project)  making research in image processing for the German Industry. I am working as system administrator and responsible for building and maintaining an it-infrastructure with several servers and approximately  100 unix-, linux and windows clients. HCI was established on basis of 3 different research groups, and a major part of the work was to harmonize 3 different it-landscapes into one.

The work includes all aspect of system administration: network setup with gateways, dns- and dhcp servers, setup of file- and computation servers, setup of firewall, web- and  mail-servers and setup of software for central monitoring and maintenance of  a large pool of linux clients. Finally setup and adjustment/extension of content management based web-sites and development of a helpdesk system for 1. Level support was a part of my duties.