| EDUCATION | ||
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| 10/1995 - 08/2003 |
Aachen University of Technology (RWTH), Germany Major: Computer Science (M. Sc.) Minor: Business Administration, Operations Research |
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| 09/2000 - 03/2001 |
Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya, Barcelona, Spain UNITECH International Programme |
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| 03/2000 |
Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, Belgium ATHENS-Course "Cryptology and Internet Security" |
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| 03/1998 - 09/1998 |
École Nationale Supérieure des Télécommunications, Paris, France European research project "PICASSO" (LE4-8369): Pioneering caller authentication for secure service operation |
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| WORK EXPERIENCE | ||
| 05/2007 - 11/2010 |
Service Point Solutions S.A, Barcelona, Spain Head of Global Procurement, earlier Project Manager Operations Design and introduction of three CEO-sponsored programs that harmonized international sales, project management and procurement for the entire company, introduction of Activity Based Costing at Service Point France/Reprotechnique (annual revenue: €15mln), annualised savings of €1mln |
06/2004 - 12/2006 |
TNT N.V., Amsterdam, The Netherlands Project Manager Corporate Strategy and Business Development Execution of the annual strategic planning process, scoping and development of new business opportunities, support and strategic guidance in the initial phase of M&A activities |
| 11/2003 - 06/2004 |
DMR Consulting, Barcelona, Spain Consultant in Public Administration and Pharma projects with tasks in Requirements Analysis, Design, Implementation, Testing Technologies: J2EE, Oracle Application Server 9i, Siebel 7, JCE |
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| 10/2002 - 06/2003 |
Roche Diagnostics GmbH, Mannheim, Germany Technology analysis and diploma thesis, publication "Embedded Linux for small and medium sized in vitro diagnostic devices" |
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| 04/2002 - 09/2002 |
IBM Global Services, Barcelona, Spain Network administration, 3rd-level support, server migration Technologies: AIX, OS/2, GNU/Linux, Lotus Notes |
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| 04/2001 - 09/2001 |
Roche Farma S.A., Barcelona, Spain Market segmentation study for the primary care sales market in Spain in order to create a model to identify, plan and evaluate marketing campaigns |
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| 08/2000 |
Sun Microsystems Inc., Menlo Park, California Design and implementation of a preview for Java developers Technologies: Java3D, JavaSpeech and Java Media Framework |
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| 07/2000 |
Dobedo Inc., Stockholm, Sweden Technology analysis and migration study on Java 2 Micro Edition |
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| 10/1999 - 06/2000 |
Dept. of Communication and Distributed Systems Lead architect for applications and framework extensions for the Java Mobile Agent Environment JAE |
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| 06/1999 - 03/2000 |
Stella Engineering GmbH Y2K process manager responsible for technical assessment, remediation plan and its implementation |
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| 03/1999 - 09/1999 |
Performance Evaluation and Distributed Systems Laboratory Tutor "Computer Architecture", 30 students Preparation and marking of assignments and examinations and teaching a first year M. Sc. course in a tutorial environment |
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| 10/1998 - 02/1999 |
Dept. of Computer Science III Tutor "Object-oriented Software Development", 20 students Preparation of teaching material, marking of assignments and teaching a second year M. Sc. course in a laboratory environmentWork as tutor for the "Object-Oriented Development in Java" course |
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| 10/1998 - 02/1999 |
Deutsche Post AG, Dept. for Operations Research Design and Implementation of a Decision Support System (process analysis, cost modelling, optimisation) based on Genetic Algorithms in C++ as lead member of a multi-disciplinary team |
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| 10/1997 - 02/1998 |
Dept. of Computer Science III Tutor "Object-oriented Software Development", 18 students Preparation of teaching material, marking of assignments and teaching a second year M. Sc. course in a laboratory environmentWork as tutor for the "Object-Oriented Development in Java" course |
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| 03/1997 - 09/1997 |
Performance Evaluation and Distributed Systems Laboratory Tutor "Computer Architecture", 25 students Preparation and marking of assignments and examinations and teaching a first year M. Sc. course in a tutorial environment |
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| LANGUAGES | ||
| German | Mother tongue | |
| English | Fluent | |
| Spanish | Fluent | |
| Dutch | Good knowledge | |
| French | Basic knowledge | |
| Latin | German "Latinum" level | |
| COMPUTER SKILLS | ||
| Development | Java, C++, C, XML, Delphi, SQL, Lisp, PHP, XUL, AJAX | |
| Platforms | GNU/Linux, Mac OS X, iOS, Windows, Solaris, Android | |
| Experience | Network security, embedded systems, web technologies | |
| HONOURS | ||
| 09/2001 - 09/2003 | Founding president of the UNITECH Alumni Association | |
| 01/2001 - 08/2003 |
Scholarship for academic excellence: e-fellows.net Scholarship |
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| 07/2000 |
Scholarship for academic excellence: Arts Alliance/Sun Microsystems Technical Scholarship 2000 |
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| 07/1996 |
City of Mechernich: Award for best performance "Basic firefighter Training" |
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| 07/1995 |
Gymnasium Am Turmhof: GAT Award for best overall Abitur (A-Level) |
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| ACTIVITIES AND AREAS OF INTEREST | ||
| Football, inline hockey, cinema, travelling, politics, history, tap dance, cryptography | ||