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Professional Experience

Since Sept. 2007

Professor, Department of Computer Science, University of Applied Science in Darmstadt, Germany.
Subjects include: Netcentric Computing and Foundations of Computer Science (particularly Operating Systems and Distributed Systems).

Sept. 2001 - Sept. 2007

Employed by Interactive Data Managed Solutions (formerly IS.Teledata, formerly IS.Innovative Software) in Frankfurt, Germany:

Apr. 2006 - Sept. 2007

Project Manager, Technical Facilitator for Sarbanes Oxley IT Compliance Project.

Apr. 2004 - Apr. 2006

Product Manager for Developer Solutions.

Nov. 2003 - Apr. 2004

Team Lead for Fixed Income Product Development.

Sept. 2001 - Nov. 2003

Assistant to the CEO/CTO.

Aug. 1995 - Sept. 2001

Teaching and Research Assistant for the Institue for Technical Informatics, J. W. Goethe-University in Frankfurt, Germany.

Nov. 1991 - Aug. 1995

Various Student Jobs for Prof. G. Lauerbach, Prof. P. Menzel and Prof. K. Waldschmidt at the J. W. Goethe-University in Frankfurt, Germany.

July 1983 - Aug. 1989

Scientific Programer, Software Engineer, Member of Technical Staff for Texas Instruments, Design Automation Division, in Dallas, Texas, USA.

Education, Academic Qualifications

Aug. 2001

PhD (“Doktor der Naturphilosophie”) from J. W. Goethe-University in Frankfurt, Germany. Dissertation Title: SDAARC: A Self-Distributing Associative Architecture. Grade: Magna Cum Laude. Subject Areas: Parallel and Distributed Systems, Automatic Parallelization (in Compiler), Parallel Computer Architecture, Grid Computing.

Aug. 1995

Masters in Computer Science (“Diplom-Informatiker”) from J. W. Goethe-University in Frankfurt, Germany. Thesis Title: Speech Recognition with an Associate Memory. Minor: Linguistics. Grade: Very Good.

June 1983

Bachelor of Science With Honors in Computer Science from Lyman Briggs School of Science at Michigan State University, East Lansing, Michigan.