Experiences and Skills

Social

Teamwork:

3 years project team member; member of the systems and network maintenance group at the Research Institute for Symbolic Computation.

Leadership:

Assistant to the project manager (directed team meetings, organized work groups).

Presentation:

Gave university lectures, held talks at international conferences, organized and presented a workshop, published scientific papers, presented project results at technical fairs.

Communication and adaptability:

6 years of teamwork and study with colleagues from a variety of countries and societies; 1 year of social work with elderly and physically and mentally handicapped persons.

Technical

Research:

5 years of mathematical research in the course of a PhD program.

Problem solving:

Technical problem solving in mathematics, programming, systems, and networks was an essential part of my work and studies.

Mathematics:

Wide knowledge of mathematics (algebra, analysis, mathematical foundations of computer science, mathematical logic, numerical mathematics, probability theory and statistics, symbolic computation) from 6 years of master's degree study.

Research in symbolic computation (esp. computer algebra) and numerical computation (esp. solving systems of nonlinear equations) during 5 years of PhD study.

Computers:

• Operating systems (6 years Unix and DOS systems administrator; Win 3.1/95/NT and VMS user)
• Networking (2 years heterogeneous TCP/IP LAN administrator; 3 years WWW content provider)
• Programming languages (8 years C; 4 years C++, perl/CGI, Fortran; minor programming in Java, SQL, LISP, Prolog, Modula-II, Pascal, Basic, 68000 & 80386 assembler)
• Programming paradigms (13 years iterative; 5 years object-oriented; 4 years parallel, client/server)

Languages

German:

Native language

English:

Fluent in speaking and writing; 6 years of daily use as working language at the Research Institute for Symbolic Computation.

French:

Can operate in spoken language, basic skills in written language; 6 years of courses at high school and university, several stays in France of duration between 1 and 4 weeks.

Other

International exposure:

6 years of study at the Research Institute for Symbolic Computationin Hagenberg, Austria. The working language at the institute is English, professors and students come from approx. 15 different countries in Europe, Asia, and North America. 3 years of work in a project with team members from 7 European countries.

Organization:

Member of the support and organization teams of 3 international conferences (DISCO'93, PASCO'94, IMACS'96).

Administration:

Project secretary for ESPRIT Project #7195 and FWF Project #P9374-PHY; assisted in writing of the proposals and handled the regular financial and scientific reports to the sponsoring organizations (EU DG 13 and Austrian FWF).