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Christof Meerwald

15 Applewood Court  Tel. +44-7757-188097
Swindon, SN5 7AH e-mail <cmeerw@cmeerw.org>
United Kingdom web http://cmeerw.org
 
Nationality: Austrian Languages German, English

Profile

Experienced developer specialising in server applications, backed by a master's degree in computer science. Versed in several programming languages (incl. C/C++, Python and Java) on Unix and Win32 platforms.

Work Experience

since 1/2008: Emnico Technologies Ltd./Emnico Services Ltd., Swindon, UK: Senior Software Engineer
12/2005 - 12/2007: Alcatel-Lucent (formerly Lucent Technologies), Swindon, UK: Senior Software Engineer
SBS Software Ges.m.b.H., Salzburg: Software Engineer
full time: 11/2001 - 01/2003; 02/2004 - 11/2005
part time: 10/1996 - 6/2000; 10/2000 - 10/2001; 04/2003 - 01/2004
summer internships: 18/07/1994 - 26/08/1994; 10/07/1995 - 01/09/1995; 22/07/1996 - 30/09/1996
02/2003 - 01/2004: Lebenshilfe Salzburg, Werkstätte Hallein: community service (as an alternative to Austria's compulsory military service), working with people with mental or multiple handicaps.
03/07/2000 - 22/09/2000: AT&T Laboratories Cambridge, UK: summer internship, omni project (automated and improved the omniORB regression testing suite; developed an omniidl and Python based black-box IDL testing tool)
09/1997 - 06/2000: HTBLA Salzburg: Linux system administrator (part time)

Emnico Technologies Ltd./Emnico Services Ltd.

  • Support and continuous development of an optical network management (SONET/SDH) system in a Unix environment (mostly C++ on HP-UX and Linux).
    key technologies used: CMISE
  • Native Win32 application development.
    key technologies used: C++, MFC/ATL, WTL, Win32

Alcatel-Lucent (formerly Lucent Technologies)

  • Worked in a global development team on telecom network management software for optical networks (SONET/SDH) in a Unix environment (mostly C++ on HP-UX and Linux).
    key technologies used: CMISE
  • Low-level architectural work: porting of the low-level networking code from HP-UX to Linux; developed a debugging memory management library to facilitate detecting and tracking down of memory management bugs.
    key technologies used: low-level networking API on Linux (packet sockets), accessing a program's call stack, reading ELF/SOM symbol table
  • Implemented new features according to requirements, tracking down and fixing bugs and crashes. Used programming language and external protocols depending on subsystem.
    key technologies used: C++, Java, SNMP, CMIP
  • Developed a scriptable test-client in Java/JavaScript.
    key technologies used: Java, Rhino, XML

SBS Software Ges.m.b.H.

  • Developed several Java/JNI libraries to access Win32 specific APIs: i.a. CEN XFS, shared access to the same RS-232 port by multiple processes.
    key technologies used: Java + JNI, C++, script-based automated code generation, multi-threading, Win32
  • Worked on a J2EE application for monitoring self-service banking terminals: SNMP integration, database maintenance scripts.
    key technologies used: Java + J2EE, WebSphere, SNMP, DB2 SQL
  • Prototyped a custom firmware for the Linksys WRT54G to build a cost-efficient, custom security appliance (firewall and VPN).
    key technologies used: Linux, gcc cross compiler, VPN
  • Developed a replacement for the standard Windows shell (explorer) for self-service terminals that takes care of starting and monitoring application processes and prevents unauthorized access to the operating system desktop.
    key technologies used: C++ using STL and Boost libraries; Win32 API for starting and monitoring processes; COM Automation for inter-process communication and JNI for the Java integration
  • Linux server and network administration: set up a centralised directory service, firewall and VPN (IPsec, OpenVPN) configuration.
    key technologies used: Linux, LDAP, Samba
  • Developed a highly scalable TCP/IP communication server for statement printers.
    key technologies used: C++ using STL and Boost libraries; multithreaded design using Windows NT's I/O completion ports for high scalability

Education

10/1996 - 10/2001: University of Salzburg, Department of Computer Science:
5-year course in Applied Computer Sciences leading to a Master's degree ("Dipl.-Ing.");
specialised in distributed systems and wrote master's thesis about distributed simulation: "CORBA-based Conservative Distributed Discrete Event Simulation"
09/1991 - 06/1996: HTBLA Salzburg (secondary technical school for electronics/informatics):
"Matura" (A-levels) with distinction

Skills and Interests

This CV is also available as PDF and Microsoft Word/RTF: cv-cmeerw.pdf, cv-cmeerw.doc.

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