Skill profile

Management

• Built up a QA department. Head of this department for 3 years.
• Project leader performance testing for more than 2 years.
• Test infrastructure management for 5 years.
• Full responsibility for two long-term software projects in engineering (fuel injection systems, turbomachinery design).
• Lots of non-professional experience during my time at the university, e. g. as main organiser for a 5-weeks and 14-concerts US-tour of the Graz University Chorus and as project leader in some long-term Third-World projects.

Quality Assurance

• Performing test concepts, planning and controlling acceptance tests in the fields middleware, E-business and security
  • in heterogenous enterprise networks,
  • for web- and applicationserver environments.
• Evaluation and introduction of software tools for test management, GUI and performance tests (Testdirector, WinRunner, WebLOAD, Silk Performer).
• Performance and stability tests and analysis in multi-tier EAI-applications (CMS-, CRM-, account-management- und access-management-systems).
• Supervision of tool-based development of automated tests.
• Introducing a review process and performing technical document reviews (requirements, design, functional and technical specifications).
• Builing up complex test infrastructure from scratch including planning, acquisition, installation, configuration, documentation and running hard- and software for heterogenous enterprise networks and e-business server parks

Enterprise networks and e-business server problem management

5 years experience in configuration, administration and troubleshooting in the following fields:

• TCP/IP networks
• Webserver and -proxies (Apache, IIS)
• Application Server (BEA Weblogic Server)
• CRM Systems (Siebel)
• EAI (Webmethods)
• Database Systems (Oracle)
• Content Management Systems (Coremedia)
• LDAP based directory services
• Windows NT and 2000 domains, Solaris, Linux, HP-UX, AIX, Sinix-Z and Reliant Unix

IT security consulting

• Hardening Solaris-Systems (Lance Spitzner, JASS, minimal server installation)
• Static and dynamic packet filtering configuration (ipchains, ipfilter, SunScreen)
• Proxy configuration (squid)
• Auditing configuration (OS, firewall, various servers)
• IDS (intrusion-detection systems): network-based (snort) as well as host-based (tripwire)
• Vulnerabilty Analysis by means of Nessus
• Network Analysis (arpwatch, tcpdump, snoop, ngrep, ntop, iptraf, ethereal, network monitor)
• Security-Administration Apache Webserver
• CA administration (openssl, MS Windows Certificate server)
• Observing switched networks by means of dsniff

Software Development

• 4 years Scientific Softwaredevelopment
• 7 years Softwaredevelopment in Engineering
• 2 years development of automated tests for Access Management Software in ksh, Perl and Java (RMI, Servlets, EJB, Security)

Mathematics

• Nonlinear Constrained Optimization (SQP, RSQP, Augmented Lagrange)
• Nonlinear Parameter Estimation in PDEs
• Numerics of PDEs (Finite Elements, Volumes and Differences), especially Conservation Laws (which means mostly conservative Finite Volumes)
• Teaching Experience (holding elementary Lectures as well as creating a new, specialized one)

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