Michael was working as a researcher and software engineer for the company "Knowledge Markets" for over a decade. In this context, he participated in the development of a modern system for the management of learning resources, which is used on one of the most intensively used e-learning platforms in Austria. In addition to that Michael contributed to e-learning related research activities of the company.

In the last quarter of 2016, Michael was temporarily released from Knowledge Markets in order to be able to support WU Vienna in the re-development of an important application of their learning management system "Learn@WU". In the course of this, he developed a prototype (data model and API) of an infrastructure for storage and analysis of (learning) indicators (including but not limited to grades). As concepts and techniques from the field of data warehousing (OLAP) influenced the… Show more In the last quarter of 2016, Michael was temporarily released from Knowledge Markets in order to be able to support WU Vienna in the re-development of an important application of their learning management system "Learn@WU". In the course of this, he developed a prototype (data model and API) of an infrastructure for storage and analysis of (learning) indicators (including but not limited to grades). As concepts and techniques from the field of data warehousing (OLAP) influenced the architectural design heavily, Michael was able to collect experience in the area of dimensional modeling. Eventually, the whole software development was conducted in a test-driven way. Show less

Michael had the chance to write his master thesis within a research project of SAP in the context of a student contract. Therefore, he had to familiarize himself with important techniques from the field of Information Retrieval, and he developed a Java Enterprise Edition 5-based application (EJB, JPA, NetWeaver Applikation Server Java).

For two years, Michael worked as a software developer and IT system manager for Learn@WU under the guidance of Univ.-Prof. Dr. Gustaf Neumann at the Institute for Information Systems and New Media at the WU Vienna. In this academic environment, Michael gained profound knowledge in areas such as object-oriented programming, databases, system administration, application servers and web programming.

Working for the Competence Center IT - System Integration of the Österreichischen Volksbanken AG allowed for deep insights in the IT infrastructure of big companies and proved rich in variety. As an independent contractor, Mr. Aram was challenged in various IT-related areas.

Administering a crawler component of a specialized software for Internet media monitoring for the e-clipping agency Astl PR allowed Michael first insights into web application programming.