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dr. e sommer -- CV english
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- Senior SAP variant configuration consultant with 12 years of experience and a series of successful implementations; PhD in artificial intelligence
- Leading expert on variant configuration and the IPC product configurator with almost exclusive focus on firms using product configurators for the last 12 years. Latest experience with SAP ECC 6, IPC 4.0 and ISA 4.0
- Strong project management skills with over 18 years of professional IT experience
- Deep hands-on experience with involved technologies and techniques: artificial intelligence, java, web, databases, client/server programming, XML, SAP SD MM PP PS CRM PLM
- Broad industry experience, ranging from automotive,
hi-tech and furniture manufacturing to consumer products, heavy industry and DNA synthesis.
- Multilingual English, German, French, basic Italian and Spanish, international experience with projects in North America and Europe; EU citizen.
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1965-1984
| Attended German, American & international schools in Germany, Switzerland, the United States, South Korea and Saudi Arabia. |
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1984
| Abitur (German baccalaureate after 13 years of primary education) in Bonn; ranking top 10% (grade 2 on a scale from 1 to 6) |
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1985-1991
| Computer Science, with a minor in Computational Linguistics and Communications Research, at Bonn University |
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1991
| Diplom-Informatiker (M.Sc. in Computer Science) Bonn University; ranking top 5% (grade 1 on a scale from 1 to 6) |
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| Dr. rer. nat. (PhD in natural sciences) in Computer Science/ Artificial Intelligence, Dortmund University (Prof. Dr. Katharina Morik) with honors (1 as above). |
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1988-1990
| Research assistantship at the German National Research Center for Information Technology (GMD), including publications and representation at conferences & trade fairs |
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since 1989
| Translation of scientific material, including (German to English) the book P. Wisskirchen: "Object-Oriented Graphics", Springer, Berlin, 1990 |
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1991-1996
| Research scientist at GMD (Artificial Intelligence Group, industrial applications) |
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1996-1998
| IT consultant in the Caribbean, Germany |
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1998 - 2002
| Senior Consultant, European operations of IntelliCorp, Mountain View, CA, USA |
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| independent consultant, knowledge engineer & systems architect, esp. product configuration (see Project List) |
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German
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(American) English
| native speaker (first language, nine years of primary education at American and British schools, 19 years of residence abroad, including six years in the US.) |
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French
| fluent (seven years school French, prolonged working and vacation visits to France, projects for french clients) |
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- Java
- Prolog
- Lisp
- Visual Basic
- SAP Variant Configuration: Dependency definition language
- Constraints
- Procedures
- Preconditions & Selection conditions
- scripting languages
- tcl/TK
- Perl
- Unix shell (sh, csh, bash, ksh, tcsh)
- awk
- Frontier (UserTalk)
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C(++), ABAP/4, Pascal, Ada, FORTH, FORTRAN
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assembly languages, COBOL, PL/1
| not my favorites, but some experience |
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Expertise (of varying depth ..)
| - Expert systems aka knowledge-based systems
- Knowledge & information management
- Data Mining aka Machine Learning
- SAP R/3 (SD, MM, PP), esp. Variant Configuration and e-commerce CRM, SCE/IPC
- Object-oriented design & programming
- Web tech / e-commerce
- java servlets & applets, JSP, struts, client/server, etc.
- cgi
- apache, IIS, PWS
- MS SQLServer, Oracle
- PHP/mySQL, Zope, Python
- Manila/Radio Userland/Frontier
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- Graphical user interfaces
- Lisp Machine Flavors
- HyperNews
- tcl/TK
- VB/ActiveX
- Java Swing, JSP
- javaScript
- HTML, DHTML
- Networking (LAN, WAN, VPN, P2P, Internet)
- Inter-process communication (RFC, RPC, XML-RPC, SOAP, COM/OLE/DCOM, Corba, ODBC/JDBC, Sockets, Pipes)
- Business process re-engineering (BPM, process diagrams, Workflow)
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Text processing etc.
| LaTex, Emacs, HTML, MS Office, Frontier, etc. |
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| Unix/Linux/Solaris, Mac, Windows NT/95/98/2000 |
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