I had the pleasure to gain experience in working in teams and leading projects.

• Running an own small software company (3-4 people) where I had to coordinate the team members.
• Leading the team and managing contact to the customer in a project for Daedalos Consulting.
• Researching disruptive technologies in small expert teams in the Silicon Valley.
• Team experience as a professional musician in several bands and production teams.
• Lead development and team coaching in several software projects.

Software engineering and software development methods are a main focus of my work:

OOP Object Oriented Programming	Skill rated on a scale from 1-4. expert in-depth knowledge practical knowledge theoretical knowledge
TDD Test Driven Development	Skill rated on a scale from 1-4. expert in-depth knowledge practical knowledge theoretical knowledge
XP eXtreme Programming	Skill rated on a scale from 1-4. expert in-depth knowledge practical knowledge theoretical knowledge
SCM Software Configuration Management	Skill rated on a scale from 1-4. expert in-depth knowledge practical knowledge theoretical knowledge
Design Patterns	Skill rated on a scale from 1-4. expert in-depth knowledge practical knowledge theoretical knowledge
AOSD Aspect Oriented Software Development	Skill rated on a scale from 1-4. expert in-depth knowledge practical knowledge theoretical knowledge
LSD Lean Software Development	Skill rated on a scale from 1-4. expert in-depth knowledge practical knowledge theoretical knowledge
SPL/PLA Software Product Lines / Product Line Architectures	Skill rated on a scale from 1-4. expert in-depth knowledge practical knowledge theoretical knowledge
SOA Service-Oriented Architectures (technical SOA as well as business SOA (agile enterprise))	Skill rated on a scale from 1-4. expert in-depth knowledge practical knowledge theoretical knowledge
Scrum Agile development and project management process	Skill rated on a scale from 1-4. expert in-depth knowledge practical knowledge theoretical knowledge
RUP Rational Unified Process	Skill rated on a scale from 1-4. expert in-depth knowledge practical knowledge theoretical knowledge
FOSD Feature Oriented Software Development	Skill rated on a scale from 1-4. expert in-depth knowledge practical knowledge theoretical knowledge

Practical experience with many technologies and frameworks:

Ruby on Rails	Skill rated on a scale from 1-4. expert in-depth knowledge practical knowledge theoretical knowledge
MySQL Database and query language	Skill rated on a scale from 1-4. expert in-depth knowledge practical knowledge theoretical knowledge
JUnit Testing framework for Java	Skill rated on a scale from 1-4. expert in-depth knowledge practical knowledge theoretical knowledge
Prototype JavaScript framework for AJAX	Skill rated on a scale from 1-4. expert in-depth knowledge practical knowledge theoretical knowledge
Ajax Asynchronous JavaScript and XML - a Web 2.0 technology	Skill rated on a scale from 1-4. expert in-depth knowledge practical knowledge theoretical knowledge
REST Representational State Transfer - a SOA technology	Skill rated on a scale from 1-4. expert in-depth knowledge practical knowledge theoretical knowledge
Drupal Content Management System in PHP	Skill rated on a scale from 1-4. expert in-depth knowledge practical knowledge theoretical knowledge
LovdByLess Open source framework for developing social communities	Skill rated on a scale from 1-4. expert in-depth knowledge practical knowledge theoretical knowledge
J2ME Java 2 Mobile Edition	Skill rated on a scale from 1-4. expert in-depth knowledge practical knowledge theoretical knowledge
J2EE Java 2 Enterprise Edition	Skill rated on a scale from 1-4. expert in-depth knowledge practical knowledge theoretical knowledge
DirectX Graphics and games interface for Microsoft Windows	Skill rated on a scale from 1-4. expert in-depth knowledge practical knowledge theoretical knowledge
JRuby A ruby interpreter written in Java. Connecting Rails apps and J2EE backends.	Skill rated on a scale from 1-4. expert in-depth knowledge practical knowledge theoretical knowledge
Smarty Templating framework for PHP	Skill rated on a scale from 1-4. expert in-depth knowledge practical knowledge theoretical knowledge
Web Services SOAP and REST, SOA	Skill rated on a scale from 1-4. expert in-depth knowledge practical knowledge theoretical knowledge
jQuery JavaScript framework for AJAX	Skill rated on a scale from 1-4. expert in-depth knowledge practical knowledge theoretical knowledge
SOAP Simple Object Access Protocol - a SOA technology	Skill rated on a scale from 1-4. expert in-depth knowledge practical knowledge theoretical knowledge
Spring Framework for developing Java enterprise applications	Skill rated on a scale from 1-4. expert in-depth knowledge practical knowledge theoretical knowledge

Expertise in several programming languages:

Java	Skill rated on a scale from 1-4. expert in-depth knowledge practical knowledge theoretical knowledge
Ruby	Skill rated on a scale from 1-4. expert in-depth knowledge practical knowledge theoretical knowledge
CaesarJ Aspect-oriented language based on Java	Skill rated on a scale from 1-4. expert in-depth knowledge practical knowledge theoretical knowledge
HTML/CSS	Skill rated on a scale from 1-4. expert in-depth knowledge practical knowledge theoretical knowledge
AspectJ	Skill rated on a scale from 1-4. expert in-depth knowledge practical knowledge theoretical knowledge
JavaScript	Skill rated on a scale from 1-4. expert in-depth knowledge practical knowledge theoretical knowledge
XML/XSL	Skill rated on a scale from 1-4. expert in-depth knowledge practical knowledge theoretical knowledge
BPEL Business Process Execution Language	Skill rated on a scale from 1-4. expert in-depth knowledge practical knowledge theoretical knowledge
Actionscript	Skill rated on a scale from 1-4. expert in-depth knowledge practical knowledge theoretical knowledge
PHP	Skill rated on a scale from 1-4. expert in-depth knowledge practical knowledge theoretical knowledge
C/C++	Skill rated on a scale from 1-4. expert in-depth knowledge practical knowledge theoretical knowledge
C#	Skill rated on a scale from 1-4. expert in-depth knowledge practical knowledge theoretical knowledge
UML Unified Modelling Language	Skill rated on a scale from 1-4. expert in-depth knowledge practical knowledge theoretical knowledge
Visual Basic	Skill rated on a scale from 1-4. expert in-depth knowledge practical knowledge theoretical knowledge

Capable of using the following development and production tools:

SVN Subversion, a versioning tool	Skill rated on a scale from 1-4. expert in-depth knowledge practical knowledge theoretical knowledge
Eclipse IDE and application development platform	Skill rated on a scale from 1-4. expert in-depth knowledge practical knowledge theoretical knowledge
Aptana Aptana Studio (aka RadRails)	Skill rated on a scale from 1-4. expert in-depth knowledge practical knowledge theoretical knowledge
CVS Concurrent Versions System	Skill rated on a scale from 1-4. expert in-depth knowledge practical knowledge theoretical knowledge
Mantis Bug tracking tool	Skill rated on a scale from 1-4. expert in-depth knowledge practical knowledge theoretical knowledge
Adobe Flash	Skill rated on a scale from 1-4. expert in-depth knowledge practical knowledge theoretical knowledge
MS Visual Studio IDE by Microsoft	Skill rated on a scale from 1-4. expert in-depth knowledge practical knowledge theoretical knowledge
Apache Tomcat Applications server	Skill rated on a scale from 1-4. expert in-depth knowledge practical knowledge theoretical knowledge
Together UML tool	Skill rated on a scale from 1-4. expert in-depth knowledge practical knowledge theoretical knowledge
Mongrel Rails server	Skill rated on a scale from 1-4. expert in-depth knowledge practical knowledge theoretical knowledge
Capistrano Deployment tool for Rails	Skill rated on a scale from 1-4. expert in-depth knowledge practical knowledge theoretical knowledge
Ant Build automation tool	Skill rated on a scale from 1-4. expert in-depth knowledge practical knowledge theoretical knowledge
Maven Build automation tool	Skill rated on a scale from 1-4. expert in-depth knowledge practical knowledge theoretical knowledge

English

Advanced language skills in spoken and written English. Several stays abroad:

• Working in San Mateo (California) for 8 months
• Living in Georgia for a few month and visiting Evans High School
• Language courses in Brighton, England
• Spend various vacations in the US, Canada and England

German

Native speaking

Enthusiasm

I am eager to create innovative software products and business ideas. Special interest in sculpting new businesses/markets and optimizing the software development process.

Creativity

Furthermore I possess creative skills gained from my years of working as a professional musician (please ask for references). This not only helps me in designing software systems or solving tough problems but also proves useful in business and marketing related tasks.

Entrepreneurial Mindset

I have the drive to DO things, to innovate, to create business value, to take this world to the next step in technology. I already founded companies and I have the will to bring this entrepreneurial spirit to every project I engage in.