I started as a freelancer, was a co-founder for a software development company (SOLINET, Stuttgart), with circa 20 people (15 developers). I worked in our team on all the projects, knew all the software, visited customers around the world. I'm familiar with a wide-range of languages & operating systems, including bare-metal. We had partner companies in Athens, Boston & Hyderabad. Then since circa 2010 we started to wind down & spin-off, finishing this year. Now I'm available as a freelancer, who loves to work. I listen, understand what's needed, solve problems & quickly get visible results.

With so this experience behind me, as a team player & friendly character, I'm looking for a challenging project, where I can make a difference.

I'm a fan of clean code, extreme programming, avoiding mistakes at the design phase & frequently testing/confirming functionality. I prefer to work remotely/online, but I'm happy to be onsite for the start, or later for meetings/integration, etc. My first project was a four week analysis of a critical telecoms project in Lissabon, then a two year follow-up to implement changes & bring it back on course. I'm a flexible, hands-on kind of person; happy to help with any tasks to move a project forwards.

Management Positions

• Skelton GmbH, Stuttgart, DE 
• SOLINET GmbH, Stuttgart, DE 
• Teletel SA, Athens, GR 
• Northern Venture Ltd, Limassol, CY 

Status now

• international freelance/contract lived in
• UK, DE, Singapore, Indonesia, CH 

Europe, USA, China, India, Singapore, Australia, Taiwan? 

Customers

Nokia (Lucent, Alcatel, SEL), Motorola, Fujitsu, China Telecom, Telekom? 

30+ Years Experience

• telecoms
• ISDN, SS7, GSM, GPRS, INAP, VoIP
• Germany?s first ISDN videophone
• lead designer & developer for
• Alcatel?s A8619 Signalling Test System 
• Motorola?s 3G Interworking Unit 
• Alcatel?s LI-SORM Interworking Unit 
• SAFIRE Conformance Test System 
• interactive apps; audio, graphics 

Strengths

• structured programming 
• system architectures 
• real-time, low-level, embedded 
• eXtreme Programming (XP) 
• project analysis, status assessment
• requirements analysis, feature design
• optimisation
• trouble-shooting 
• teamwork 

Skills

• VRTX, iOS, Windows, UNIX 
• events, timers, queues, scheduling 
• assembler, C, C++, python, swift, JS 
• microcontrollers/processors ? 80386, 8086, 8051, DSPs, DMA, GPIO 
• ASN.1, SDL, TTCN, FSMs 
• audio: PCM streaming, codecs
• graphics: Bezier curves, colors, layout