Full-time consultantWork areas: Research & prototyping, system & software architecture, and software engineeringDomains: Vision & audio, automation & manufacturing, and Internet of Things (IoT)

Owner of a company focusing on freelancing and consulting servicesFormer legal company forms: 2007-2011 Sole trader company in Germany, 2011-2023 GbR partnership company in Germany

- Software Architect for the Data Integration Platform Team (about 25 people), responsible for system and data integrations in Tetra Pak’s own factories (about 45 locations)- Technical planning and coordination of system and data integrations, e.g., PLCs, Manufacturing Execution System (MES), and SAP- Designs of Azure solutions for various cloud-based software services (Azure, Azure IoT Edge, Azure Enterprise Scale,…)- Design of integration solutions for R&D projects for packaging production: prepress, printing, laminating, cutting,…- Creation of concepts, designs, and prototypes for innovation projects, e.g., cloud usage, new data integration approaches,…Expertise areas: system & software architecture, packaging machinery (prepress, printing, lamination, coating, slicing, spoolers), Open Source Software ComplianceMethods: Requirements analysis & engineering, architectural fits, Threat & Risk analysis, SCRUM, Software architecture workshopsTechnologies: arc42, AMQP, Azure Enterprise Scale, Azure IoT Edge, Azure DevOps, C# .NET Core, Git, EUROMAP, MQTT, OPC UA, RabbitMQ, Prometheus, ServiceNow, Sparkplug B, Unified Namespace

- Software architecture coordination at business unit "Assembly Technology"- Cross-departmental consulting and support for Software-related topics (Open Source Software, IT-Security, product development process, product quality,...)- Innovation & advanced development of business unit SW portfolio - Coordination of internal and external SW collaboration activities- Project leadExpertise areas: industrial domain, joining and tightening, mobile industrial robots (AGV/AMR), software architecture, system architecture, real-time, transfer systems, Software security, Open Source Software ComplianceMethods: ATAM, requirements engineering, SCRUM, software architecture workshopsTechnologies: Angular2+, arc42, Azure DevOps, C/C++, C# .NET Core, ctrlX Automation, Git, Java, Python, TypeScript

- Research in the areas Industry 4.0, Industrial Internet of Things (IIoT), and Software-defined Factory- Concept, design and implementation of cyber physical systems to increase ramp up times, flexibility and performance of industrial applications- Participation in the public-funded projects BaSys 4.0 (BMBF) and ReCaM (EU)- Committer/Contributor of the open source project Eclipse BaSyx- Participation in several Industry 4.0 activities at VDMA, VDI and Plattform I4.0, especially on the topic "Asset Administration Shell"Expertise areas: cyber physical systems, IIoT, manufacturing, process automation, real-time, roboticsMethods: requirements engineering, design of experiments, Google Ventures Design Sprint, project management, research, SCRUM, software architecture workshops, user studies Technologies: Angular2+, Asset Administration Shell, BPMN, C/C++, C# .NET Core, EtherCAT, Java, oneM2M, OPC UA, Python, SERCOS, Time-Sensitive Networking (TSN)

- Dissertation "Overall Listening Experience — A New Approach to Subjective Evaluation of Audio"- Design, implementation and result analysis of listening tests and experiments focusing on auditory perception- Realization and pushing of novel listening experiment methods, in particular web-based and Virtual Reality-based listening experiments- Implementations of prediction algorithms for audio qualityExpertise areas: auditory perception, digital signal processing, machine learning, quality perception, research, Virtual Reality, web technologiesMethods: academic writing, hypothesis testing, listening tests, Design of ExperimentsTechnologies: C/C++, HTML5, Java, JavaScript, JQuery Mobile, JQuery UI, Keras, Matlab, Python, UML

- Implementation of digital signal processor algorithms on CPUs and GPUs- Programming of web-based graphical user interfacesExpertise areas: CPU/GPU partitioning, digital signal processing, GPU programming, network protocols, parallel programmingTechnologies: C/C++, CUDA, HTML5, Intel Integrated Performance Primitives (IPP), JavaScript, VST

- Software development on DINAM, a wireless sensor network platform for rapid developmentExpertise areas: microcontrollers, (wireless) network protocols, sensor-actor-systemsTechnologies: C, HTML5, JavaScript

- Re-Implementation of existing algorithms on graphic processor units ("migrations from CPU to GPU")- Design and Development of a framework enabling the automatic generation of web-based user interfacesExpertise areas: digital signal processing, GPU programming, network protocols, parallel programmingTechnologies: C/C++, CUDA, OpenCL, HTML5, JavaScript, Intel Integrated Performance Primitives (IPP), WebSockets

- Bachelor thesis: "Frequency response individualization of virtual loudspeaker systems"- Listening tests and experiments on audio perception- Implementation of prediction algorithms for individually perceived frequency responsesExpertise areas: auditory perception, Design of Experiments, digital signal processing, neural networks, statisticsMethods: listening tests, user studies, hypothesis testingTechnologies: C/C++, Cubase, Intel Integrated Performance Primitives (IPP), Java, R, VST

- Design and implementation of graphical user interfaces used for visualizations and simulations in the area of materials research- Code refactoring to increase maintainability and performanceExpertise areas: materials research, version controlMethods: code reviewsTechnologies: C/C++, GLUT, Linux, OpenGL, SVN

- Software development on PREEvision, a tool for model-based development of distributed, embedded systems in the automotive industry and related fields- Implementation of an import/export interface for FIBEX (Field Bus Exchange Format), an XML-based standardized format used for representing the networks used in automobiles (FlexRay, MOST, CAN, TTCAN, LIN and Ethernet)- Design and implementation of automated software testsExpertise areas: automotive communication protocols, AUTOSAR, E/E architectures, model-to-model-transformationTechnologies: Eclipse SDK, Equinox, Java, JUnit, model-to-model transformation, XML