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Education:Business Engineer

Main Focus:

• flexible and agile processes (extreme programming and other)
• patterns
• mediating, facilitating and ensuring communication in teams and organizations
• (continuous) process improvement through retrospectives
• quality assurance
• object-oriented analysis, design and implementation
• since several years consulting and training in object-oriented technologies

Customers:

• Deutsche Bank, Frankfurt, Germany • FinanzIT, Hannover, Germany • HypoVereinsbank, Munich, Germany • LV 1871, Munich, Germany • UBS Zürich, Switzerland
• ESI (European Software Institute), Bilbao, Spain • IBM, Böblingen, Germany • Integris, Frankfurt, Germany • Oracle, Munich, Germany
• BMW, Munich, Germany • Bull, Frankfurt, Germany • Marconi, Frankfurt, Germany • Siemens, Munich, Germany • Siemens, Erlangen, Germany
• SIGS-Datacom, Troisdorf, Germany • Valtech, Düsseldorf, Germany • Valtech, London, UK

Software Process Expertise:

• Agile Software Development
  • starting with the experience of the project members
  • continuously improve the process through heartbeat retrospectives
• Extreme Programming
• RUP

Quality Improvement Expertise:

• Patterns
• Refactoring
• Process improvement through retrospectives
• Heuristics, metrics

Programming Languages Expertise:

• Java
• several Smalltalk dialects
• C++

OO Analysis/Design Methods:

• UML (Unified Modeling Language / Booch/Rumbaugh/Jacobson)
• OOA/D (Object-Oriented Analysis and Design / Booch)
• OMT (Object Modeling Technique / Rumbaugh)
• OBA (Object Behavior Analysis / Rubin/Goldberg)
• RDD (Responsibility-Driven-Design / Rebecca Wirfs-Brock)
• OOA/OOD (Coad/Yourdon)