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Hi there!

about myself

I have been away from Citizendium for quite a while now, but am still interested in the project.

I am a civil engineer, living and working in Sweden for a company creating electronics equipment for mobile machinery.

My interests in CZ lie in the areas of Positioning, Construction Technology, Safety, Project Management and adjoining areas.

Curriculum Vitae

Work experience

07/2010 - today: Driving my own company in the area of IT and web services in spare time

11/2007 - today: CrossControl AB, Sweden (changed name from CC Systems AB, Sweden in 2010)

Technical Project Manager of SIL2 hard- and software development project of ca. 110 man-months
Advanced hardware simulation development
Test equipment design and test performance for safety critical system development
Developer in several projects, often as Toolsmith
- Embedded software development (C167 based)
- CoDeSys development, including creation of CoDeSys visualisations
- .NET based application programming
Chairman of the CANopen CiA Special Interest Group (SIG) "Construction Machinery".

Manager and main developer of several development projects (including soft- and hardware).
Development of data acquisition and processing systems for road construction machinery.
Development of several positioning applications (GPS, EGNOS, Local Positioning System).
Development of several patents dealing with local positioning system applications.
Chairman of the CANopen CiA Special Interest Group (SIG) "Construction Machinery".
Evaluation, selection, introduction and administration of several management tools for the whole development department: source control, project management and knowledge base systems.

Development and research in the EU-funded project "Open System for Road Information Support":
Choice, acquisition and maintenance of several on-board computers for road construction machinery and development of an on-board computer prototype.
Research of the temperature behaviour of asphalt and development of the 'Asphalt Temperature Estimation System' to predict the cooling of asphalt.
Contact acquisition and public relations to industrial partners and clients, organisation of the institute's booth at the Bauma fair 2001.

Publications and Patents

Education

2001 - 2004: Doctoral thesis"Utilisation of the core temperature prediction for the compaction of hot-mix asphalt in road construction"
2002: private pilots licence<pilots licence for single engined motor aircraft (JAR-FCL)
1994 - 2000: Studies of civil engineering at the University of Karlsruhe (TH) (now called Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT))Spezialisation in construction management, machinery and material science
Diploma thesis: "Creep and shrinkage of concrete under variable load and relaxation"
July 2000: Online-seminar of the universities Saarbrücken, Innsbruck and Stockholm:"Teaching and Studying in Virtual Learning Environments"

Technical Skills

Expert in all Microsoft operating systems (including NT and XP Embedded), Microsoft Office and OpenOffice.org, as well as FrameMaker, PageMaker, Corel Draw, and many more
Good Knowledge of Linux operating systems.
Development environments: [www.msdn.com Microsoft Visual Studio], CoDeSys, Keil Compiler, Tasking, LabView, MatLab
PC and controller based programming languages: C, C , C#, .NET, Visual Basic, Fortran, Pascal, Java (if one knows one language, changing to another is easy)
Web based programming:HTML, CSS, XML, Perl, Ruby, Flex, Haml, also CGI, PHP, SQL, JavaScript
Experience with Scrum-Processes
Drupal expert and contributor of several Drupal modules
Microcontroller-Programming: C164/C167-Family
Administration of SCM Systems: Subversion, Visual SourceSafe, CVS
Fieldbus-Technology: CAN, CANopen (Creation of Device Profile DSP415), GPIB-Bus, OPC
Listserv-management, founder and member of several sourceforge-projects
Contribution to several open source projects

Spoken Languages

Interests and Activities

Highly interested in learning to know new cultures and languages.
Private pilot since 2002 for single-engined motor planes (JAR-FCL).
Creation and maintenance (admin-c) of more than 10 internet domains on an own webserver.
Design: on paper, webpages and in digital presentations.
Moderation and administration of several mailinglists and newsletters.
students representative, including membership in the faculty council for two semesters.
several years of experience as a chaperon at holiday camps for kids and teenagers.