Resume of Roland Stigge
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Summary
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* born 1978 in Berlin, Germany
* Computer Scientist (German Dipl.-Inf., Humboldt University Berlin)
* Debian Developer
* GNU Project Package Maintainer
* Unix/Linux Developer

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Contact
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Schanzenbachstr. 15
81371 Munich
Germany

E-mail: stigge@antcom.de
Web:    http://www.antcom.de/~stigge/
Phone:  +49-89-44237262
Mobile: +49-151-23602033

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Education
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* MSc (German Dipl.-Inf.) in Computer Science
  Humboldt University Berlin/Germany, Institute for Informatics
  October 1999 -- October 2004

  I studied various topics in Computer Science: Software Engineering, Signal
  Processing, Databases, Telecommunication Systems, Cryptography, and more. To
  supplement this, I also studied some Physics at the Physics department of
  Humboldt University. For my thesis, I worked on efficient algorithms for
  Automatic Music Transcription. It includes modern Signal Processing and XML
  technology, implementing it in a Free Software package (JWS).

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Work Experience (paid)
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* Software Engineer
  WORK Microwave GmbH, Holzkirchen/Germany
  July 2009 -- present

  Work Microwave GmbH develops a series of high-frequency devices for satellite
  communication, navigation and radar for which I'm developing system software,
  host computer tools and computer networks.

* Software Engineer
  Philosys Software GmbH, Munich/Germany
  February 2005 -- June 2009

  Philosys is a consulting company involved in UNIX clustering,
  telecommunication, graphics software for BMW car simulation and Embedded
  Linux for mobile devices, where I was involved in different respective
  projects.

* Programmer, System Administrator
  Epigenomics AG, I-Systems department, Berlin/Germany
  March 2001 -- March 2002
  
  At Epigenomics AG, a German/US biotechnology company, I took care of a
  heterogeneous network with Linux, Solaris and Windows workstations and
  servers and developed an integrated LDAP infrastructure in Berlin/Germany and
  Seattle, WA.

* System Administrator
  Hospital Oranienburg/Germany
  July 1998 -- August 1999

  During my alternative civilian service, I also worked in the computer systems
  department of the county hospital, helped to administer an OS/400 / NT
  network and installed the first Linux systems for email infrastructure and
  internet access.

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Free Software Projects (voluntary, spare time)
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* Developer
  Debian Project
  September 2003 -- present
  
  At Debian (the largest GNU/Linux distribution) I'm maintaining 19 source
  packages, including dia, jasper, musixtex, latex2html and gnubiff.
  Furthermore, I'm doing QA work and created an automated regression test suite
  (DARTS).

* Developer
  GNU Project
  February 2004 -- present

  In May 2003, I adopted the musical desktop metronome application GTick, which
  is an official GNU package since February 2004.

* Maintainer
  ANT (ANT is Not a Telephone)
  September 2002 -- present

  Since 2002, I'm actively developing the ant-phone desktop ISDN telephony
  application for Linux.

* Translator
  Translation Project
  June 2003 -- present

  I'm a member of the German team in the Translation Project and translated
  gcc, lilypond, gimp-print and gprof from English to German.

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Skills
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I started absorbing computer programming and operating skills when I had my
first access to machines in 1988. Especially my abilities to learn new
technologies fast and to interact in teams have always been useful here.

* Programming Languages: Python, Perl, C, C++, Shell, PHP, Java, UML,
  Assembler, Pascal, Prolog, Basic
* Technologies: OO Analysis/Design/Implementation, HTML, XML, CORBA, LDAP,
  Unix, Linux, TeX, SQL
* Natural Languages: German (native), English (good), French (basic),
  Russian (basic)